Hello in there! My next Peggy album is going to be "Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues" but I don't know which CD version is better. The blue one or the b/w one? What's the difference between these two editions? And could you please tell me what the booklets contain? http://www.peggylee.com/pegleebb/read.php?3,14044,14044#msg-14044 Wed, 22 May 2013 22:09:41 -0600 Phorum 5.2.7 http://www.peggylee.com/pegleebb/read.php?3,14044,14061#msg-14061 http://www.peggylee.com/pegleebb/read.php?3,14044,14061#msg-14061
In 1989, the album was issued in Europe for the first time. That's the one with the black and white cover. The label which released it in Europe was Limelight -- presumably because MusicMasters licensed the album to them, or because the two labels had some sort of arrangement for distribution abroad.

Aside from the different front cover, I do not believe that there are any major, significant differences between those two editions. They just feature the same mastering in a different packaging.

If a choice is to be made, the blue cover should qualify as the likeliest best, because it is the original one. The B&W version is probably fine, too, but one should always bear in mind that foreign companies often work not with original master tapes but with copies of them. So, if you are an audiophile and listen to both editions, there is a chance that you could detect a tiny diminution in the sound quality of the B&W edition. (If not of the audiophile persuasion, never mind -- just minutia.)

An additional clarification has to be made. In the case of the original edition, the color of the front cover is a very light blue, different from the dark blue (nearly violet) seen in the first photo that you posted above. That "violet" version is actually a later American pressing of the original. Does that matter? Unless you are an audiophile, I don't think so. I mean: I suspect that this pressing will sound just about as fine as the others. (Then again, I'm only speculating, because I do not have it.)

After having said all of that, guess what else is there to add: none of the above-mentioned editions or pressings is the best one!

The very best edition is yet another one, remastered and released in the United States in 2002. Superficially, the front cover of this 2002 edition might look identical to the blue-violet cover, but upon closer inspection you will easily notice a few differences, including the words "K2 laser cutting." When I first heard it, I was so surprised: in this 2002 edition, the entire album sounds sooo much better to me!

In order to see the aforementioned CD covers side by side (+ a few others), or to get a better sense of what I am talking about, you can also check the following page of my discography:

[peggyleediscography.com] [scroll down to part VII]

Ivan]]> Iv Peggy Lee Bulletin Board Mon, 25 Apr 2011 02:27:18 -0600 http://www.peggylee.com/pegleebb/read.php?3,14044,14060#msg-14060 http://www.peggylee.com/pegleebb/read.php?3,14044,14060#msg-14060 not have been that they were bad... One of his flaws was a tendency to recycle comments and even full paragraphs that he had already used elsewhere. Such might have been the case with these notes, at least in parts.

Recycling aside, during his lifetime Gene Lees gave us some fantastic insights. He indeed referred to Frank and Peggy as the apex of a certain school of singing that he variously called naturalistic, Stanislavskian, or "method" -- thus equating Sinatra and Lee to certain styles of Hollywood acting. That comparison alone would be enough to impress me, but then there's also his often-quoted comment about Peggy being, at the time he made this remark, "the most mature, the most authoritative, the most sensitive, and the most consistently intelligent female singer of popular music in America." (Seems that he echoed that comment in these notes, or so I gather from your comment.)

Ivan]]> Iv Peggy Lee Bulletin Board Mon, 25 Apr 2011 02:25:21 -0600 http://www.peggylee.com/pegleebb/read.php?3,14044,14050#msg-14050 http://www.peggylee.com/pegleebb/read.php?3,14044,14050#msg-14050
Hej Jarl,

tack för svaret! Jag skall komma igen på facebook snart.]]> Mr.N Peggy Lee Bulletin Board Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:15:58 -0600 http://www.peggylee.com/pegleebb/read.php?3,14044,14047#msg-14047 http://www.peggylee.com/pegleebb/read.php?3,14044,14047#msg-14047
Take the B&W it is a new release as sounds better. Even it exist a third release as I also like very much even in B&W from Jazz Heritage.

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Spring greetings from Jarl]]> Jarl Ingves Peggy Lee Bulletin Board Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:40:58 -0600 http://www.peggylee.com/pegleebb/read.php?3,14044,14045#msg-14045 http://www.peggylee.com/pegleebb/read.php?3,14044,14045#msg-14045
I've not seen the "black" booklet.

But really what matters is the music and the musicianship exhibited on the CD. And much of the work here, coupled with half the songs from the Love Held Lightly CD -- specifically, Come On Midnight, Happy With The Blues, Bad For Each Other, Love's No Stranger To Me, Got To Wear You Off My Weary Mind, Love's A Necessary Thing and My Shining Hour -- are an excellent summation of Peggy's interpretive skill at a particular time.]]> Kevin Peggy Lee Bulletin Board Sat, 16 Apr 2011 10:45:50 -0600 http://www.peggylee.com/pegleebb/read.php?3,14044,14044#msg-14044 http://www.peggylee.com/pegleebb/read.php?3,14044,14044#msg-14044
My next Peggy album is going to be "Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues" but I don't know which CD version is better. The blue one or the b/w one? What's the difference between these two editions? And could you please tell me what the booklets contain?



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