{"id":280915,"date":"2024-03-27T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=280915"},"modified":"2024-03-29T16:42:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T21:42:35","slug":"peggy-lee-from-the-vaults-vol-1-is-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=280915","title":{"rendered":"Peggy Lee \u2018From the Vaults Vol. 1\u2019 is Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LOS ANGELES, CA \u2013 <\/strong>Capitol Records and Universal Music Enterprises (UMe), in conjunction with Peggy Lee Associates, announce the release of Pe<\/strong><\/a>ggy Lee From the Vaults (Vol. 1)<\/em><\/a>, <\/strong>the first in a digital series that collects Peggy Lee\u2019s performances not yet available on streaming platforms. With the launch of this series, her entire catalog of issued master recordings from the Universal family of labels \u2014 Capitol, Decca, A&M, and Polydor \u2014 will now be accessible via digital streaming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amid her national popularity as Benny Goodman\u2019s big band \u201ccanary\u201d (1941-1943), Peggy Lee left the band to get married, and she semi-retired to become a wife and mother. For almost two years, she juggled domestic duties with a gradual return to music, signing with Capitol Records in late 1944 when she was 24. Peggy Lee From the Vaults (Vol. 1)<\/em> <\/a>features 12 of her earliest tracks recorded between 1944 and 1948 for Capitol Records, including three songs written by Lee and her first husband, guitarist Dave Barbour: \u201cWhat More Can a Woman Do?,\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t Be So Mean to Baby,\u201d <\/strong>and \u201cJust an Old Love of Mine.\u201d  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing inspiration from being a newlywed and \u201cfeelings for David and our life,\u201d \u201cWhat More Can a Woman Do?<\/strong> was the first Peggy Lee composition ever recorded and one of the very first to be published. \u201cI was washing dishes and just sang out my love for him,\u201d she reminisced in Miss Peggy Lee, An Autobiography. <\/em>Originally recorded in December 1944 in Lee\u2019s second session for Capitol Records, Lee and Barbour revisited the song in 1950 in an early music video; watch here<\/strong><\/a>. Sarah Vaughan recorded the song in 1945 (five months after Lee\u2019s original recording), and it was the title track from Big Maybelle\u2019s 1962 album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lee-Barbour composition \u201cDon\u2019t Be So Mean to Baby\u201d<\/strong> was recorded three times in 1946.  The first version was exclusively for radio airplay, commonly known as a Capitol transcription; the second version, planned for commercial release by the label, went unreleased until 2008; and the third version, included here, was originally released in 1948. The song was also later recorded by Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, featuring singer Al Hibbler, in 1947.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJust an Old Love of Mine\u201d <\/strong>is a melancholy Lee-Barbour composition released by Capitol in 1947 as the B-side of a 78-rpm single. The song quickly found favor amongst Lee\u2019s peers, including Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Billy Eckstine, Dorothy Lamour, Tommy Dorsey with singers Lucy Ann Polk and Stuart Foster, and Shep Fields with singer Toni Arden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peggy Lee\u2019s recording of \u201cEverybody Loves Somebody\u201d <\/strong>has been featured on a multi-artist Capitol compilation release but has never been available on a Peggy Lee digital album. Widely associated with Dean Martin, who took the song to the top of the charts in 1964, Peggy Lee recorded it first in 1947, and Frank Sinatra was the first to release it in 1948.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another noteworthy highlight is \u201cJust a Shade on the Blue Side,\u201d<\/strong> enticingly phrased by Lee and imaginatively backed by a combo under Barbour\u2019s direction. Composed by the multi-talented master of American song Hoagy Carmichael, this rarely covered song remains obscure to this day. Dating back to the 1930s, the playfully coy \u201cShe Didn\u2019t Say Yes\u201d <\/strong>was first heard in the 1931 Jerome Kern-Otto Harbach Broadway musical The Cat and the Fiddle<\/em>. Lee\u2019s 1946 interpretation was originally included on the album Jerome Kern\u2019s Music<\/em>, a Capitol Records tribute to the composer, who passed away in late 1945.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Future volumes in the From the Vaults<\/em> series will move chronologically from 1949 to 1972, Peggy Lee\u2019s last year under contract with Capitol Records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From the Vaults (Vol.1<\/em>)<\/a> Track Listing<\/strong> (date in parenthesis denotes recording date)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. What More Can a Woman Do?  (12\/27\/44)<\/li>
  2. I Can See It Your Way, Baby (12\/26\/45)<\/li>
  3. Baby, You Can Count on Me (4\/11\/46)<\/li>
  4. He\u2019s Just My Kind (9\/23\/46)<\/li>
  5. She Didn\u2019t Say Yes (9\/23\/46)<\/li>
  6. Don\u2019t Be So Mean to Baby (10\/17\/46)<\/li>
  7. Speaking of Angels (1\/29\/47)<\/li>
  8. Just an Old Love of Mine (7\/3\/47)<\/li>
  9. Everybody Loves Somebody (11\/20\/47)<\/li>
  10. So Dear to My Heart (11\/26\/47)<\/li>
  11. Just a Shade on the Blue Side (12\/2\/47)<\/li>
  12. Someone Like You (12\/14\/48)<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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