Peggy Lee

Radio, Film, TV and Concert Recordings

The Complete Peggy Lee and June Christy Capitol Transcription Sessions – transcriptions
US, Mosaic (MD5-184), 1998, 99 tracks on 5 CDs
Peggy Lee tracks: Wherever There’s Me, There’s You / All the Cats Join In / A Nightingale Can Sing the Blues / Come Rain or Come Shine / The Best Man / If You Were the Only Boy / Love Doesn’t Grow on Trees / I Guess I’ll Get the Papers and Go Home / My Sugar Is So Refined / I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love with Me / Lonesome Road / Them There Eyes / You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me / The Glory of Love / Melancholy Lullaby / Takin’ a Chance on Love / A Cottage for Sale / Fools Rush In / Sometimes I’m Happy / The Way You Look Tonight / Love Is Just Around the Corner / Porgy / Blue Skies / I’ve Had My Moments / Blue Moon / Don’t Be So Mean to Baby / Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man / Mean to Me / I’m Confessin’ / Summertime / I Can’t Give You Anything but Love / Georgia on My Mind / Rockin’ Chair / Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / Just Like a Gypsy / Somebody Loves Me / Lullaby of Broadway / In My Solitude / I Get a Kick Out of You / Lover, Come Back to Me / I Don’t Know Enough About You / Oh, Look at Me Now / I’ve Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good) / Someday, Sweetheart / If I Could Be with You / Dancing with Tears in My Eyes / Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone / Birth of the Blues / Careless / Then I’ll Be Happy / I Only Have Eyes for You / Back in Your Own Backyard / How Long Has This Been Going On? / I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart / As Long As I’m Dreaming / Swingin’ on a Star / Aren’t You Glad You’re You / Travelin’ Light / Save Your Sorrow for Tomorrow / Oh! You Crazy Moon / ‘S Wonderful / Imagination / This Can’t Be Love / You’re Driving Me Crazy / Goody Goody / I Ain’t Got Nobody / Molly Malone / This Little Piggy / But Beautiful / Fine and Dandy / ‘T Ain’t So, Honey, ‘T Ain’t So / When a Woman Loves a Man (plus 27 tracks by June Christy)

Peggy Lee: Forever Classic – radio recordings and transcriptions
Holland, MCPS/Mastertone (0395), 1998, 18 tracks
September in the Rain / That Old Gang of Mine / Nice Work If You Can Get It / I’m Beginning to See the Light / Gone with the Wind / Don’t Blame Me / Riding High / My Last Affair / I’m Confessin’ / The Lady Is a Tramp / Let There Be Love / You Can Depend on Me / These Foolish Things / Just One More Chance / A Guy Is a Guy / Shanghai / It Never Happened to Me / Make the Man Love Me

Portrait of Peggy Lee – radio recordings and transcriptions
England, Penny/Newsound (148), 1998, 18 tracks – radio recordings and transcriptions, late-1940s and early-1950s
September in the Rain / That Old Gang of Mine / Nice Work If You Can Get It / I’m Beginning to See the Light / Gone with the Wind / Don’t Blame Me / Riding High / My Last Affair / I’m Confessin’ / The Lady Is a Tramp / Let There Be Love / You Can Depend On Me / These Foolish Things / Just One More Chance / A Guy Is a Guy / Shanghai / It Never Happened to Me / Make the Man Love Me

Lady and the Tramp – soundtrack
US, Disney (609517), 1997, with Peggy vocals on four tracks
What Is a Baby? / La La Lu / The Siamese Cat Song / He’s a Tramp

Let There Be Love – radio recordings/transcriptions
UK, Pulse (214), 1997, 20 tracks
I’ve Got a Right to Sing the Blues / Let There Be Love / If I Could Be with You / These Foolish Things / Shanghai / Make the Man Love Me / The Lady Is a Tramp / It’s All Over Now / It Takes a Long, Long Train with a Red Caboose / Golden Earrings / I Got Lucky in the Rain / He’s Just My Kind / What Is This Thing Called Love? / For Sentimental Reasons / My Last Affair / Just One More Chance / Love Is Just Around the Corner / Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere / Oh, What a Beautiful Morning / Linger in My Arms a Little Longer, Baby

Peggy Lee: At Her Best – television, live and studio recordings
UK, Pulse/Castle Communications (PDS CD 543), 1997, 40 tracks on 2 CDs
Come Back to Me / Moments Like This / Here, Now / I’m Not in Love / I Got to Rio / Unforgettable / Alright, Okay, You Win / I Can’t Stop Loving You / Big Bad Bill / Misty / The Train Song / Fisherman’s Wharf / St. Louis Blues / Kansas City / Goin’ to Chicago / Boston Beans / Basin Street Blues / New York City Blues / The Hungry Years / Switchin’ Channels / Dreams of Summer / Big Spender / What I Did for Love / Love for Sale / Misty / I’m Not in Love / Have a Good Time / Mr. Wonderful / Why Don’t You Do Right? / Sing a Rainbow / You Gotta Know How / Everything Must Change / Fever / I Don’t Want to Play in Your Yard / Rodgers and Hart Medley / Mack the Knife / The Folks who Live on the Hill / Lover / Here’s to You

Listen to the Magic – radio recordings and transcriptions
UK, President Records (PLCD 550), 1996, 28 tracks
It’s a Good Day / I Don’t Know Enough About You / As Long As I’m Dreaming / I’ll Close My Eyes / For Sentimental Reasons / You and I Passing By / He’s Just My Kind / Linger in My Arms a Little Longer, Baby / It’s All Over Now / What More Can a Woman Do? / A Nightingale Can Sing the Blues / Ain’t Cha Ever Comin’ Back? / It Takes a Long, Long Train with a Red Caboose / Just an Old Love of Mine / Golden Earrings / Ridin’ High / Let There Be Love / I’ve Got a Right to Sing the Blues / Oh, What a Beautiful Morning / What Is Thing Called Love? / Love Is Just Around the Corner / ‘Deed I Do / Do I Love You? / Just One of Those Things / You / I’ve Got the World On a String / Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere / I Got Lucky in the Rain

Peggy Lee: The Gold Collection – radio and TV, dates unknown
Italy, Retro (4034), 1996, 40 tracks on 2 CDs
That Old Black Magic / People Will Say We’re in Love / Lazy River / It Ain’t Necessarily So / On the Sunny Side of the Street / You Do Something to Me / Unforgettable / The Best Is Yet to Come / Bye-bye, Blackbird / From This Moment On / I Don’t Know Enough About You / Big Spender / Lover / The Surrey with the Fringe on Top / Somebody Loves Me / Moments Like This / Big Bad Bill / It’s a Good Day / Where Can I Go without You? / I Can’t Stop Loving You / Fever / Almost Like Being in Love / Almost Like Being in Love / So What’s New? / Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea / Speak Low / I Get a Kick out of You / Accentuate the Positive / Don’t Worry About Me / Fools Rush In / Just One of Those Things / I Feel a Song Coming On / Lonesome Road / The Train Blues / Then Was Then / Come Back to Me / Alright, Okay, You Win / Mañana / Making Whoopee / You’re Mine You

For Sentimental Reasons – radio recordings/transcriptions
UK, Prism (160), 1996, 16 tracks
The Lady Is a Tramp / Too Young / Just One More Chance / Shanghai / Let There Be Love / He’s Just My Kind / I’m Confessin’ / I’ve Got a Right to Sing the Blues / Oh, What a Beautiful Morning / Love Is Just Around the Corner / September in the Rain / I’m Beginning to See the Light / Nice Work If You Can Get It / These Foolish Things / That Old Gang of Mine / For Sentimental Reasons

Peggy Lee In Concert – live, New York, 1961 and 1967
UK, Promo Sound/The Entertainers, 1996, 23 tracks
Do I Hear a Waltz? / By the Time I Get to Phoenix / Reason to Believe / Didn’t Want to Have to Do It / My Personal Property / Hand on the Plow / Until It’s Time for You to Go / Something Stupid / What Is a Woman? / Alright, Okay, You Win / Here’s to You / Come Back to Me (…plus the “Basin Street East” tracks listed directly below, minus “Call Me Darling”)

These Foolish Things and Other Great Standards – radio recordings and transcriptions
UK, Hallmark (300862), 1995, 18 tracks
I’m Confessin’ / September in the Rain / That Old Gang of Mine / If I Could Be with You / Baby, Please Come Home / Make the Man Love Me / These Foolish Things / Yoo Young / Just One More Chance / Nice Work If You Can Get It / The Lady Is a Tramp / Don’t Blame Me / It Never Happened to Me / Shanghai / A Guy Is a Guy / I’m Beginning to See the Light / My Last Affair / Gone with the Wind

Basin Street East Proudly Presents: Peggy Lee – live, New York, 1961
US, Capitol (7243832774420), 1995, 13 tracks
Day In, Day Out / Moments Like This / Fever / The Second Time Around / Medley: One Kiss, My Romance, The Vagabond King Waltz / I Got a Man / Call Me Darling / I Love Being Here with You / But Beautiful / Them There Eyes / A Tribute to Ray Charles: Just for a Thrill, Yes Indeed

The Lady Is a Tramp – radio recordings and transcriptions
UK, Pickwick (300862), 1995, 18 tracks
I’m Confessin’ / September in the Rain / That Old Gang of Mine / If I Could Be with You / Baby, Please Come Home / Make the Man Love Me / These Foolish Things / Too Young / Just One More Chance / Nice Work If You Can Get It / The Lady Is a Tramp / Don’t Blame Me / It Never Happened to Me / Shanghai / A Guy Is a Guy / I’m Beginning to See the Light / My Last Affair / Gone with the Wind

I’ve Got a Crush on You – radio, dates unknown
UK, Avid (549), 1995, 25 tracks
A Wonderful Guy / You Go to My Head / Just One of Those Things / Trouble Is a Man / Golden Earrings / Just Squeeze Me / Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe / It Takes a Long, Long Train with a Red Caboose / So Dear to My Heart / Louisa from Lake Louise / When You Speak with Your Eyes / Lover / You and the Night and the Music / It’s Lovin’ Time / Then I’ll Be Happy / Linger in My Arms a Little Longer, Baby / Orange-Colored Sky / I’ve Got a Crush on You / I’m Sweet, Shy Ophelia / A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes / Bali H’ai / Speaking of Angels / What Is This Thing Called Love? / When Is Sometime? / For Just the Chance to Love You

Why Don’t You Do Right? Peggy Lee, 1947-1948 – radio
US, Viper’s Nest (158), 1995, 21 tracks
Why Don’t You Do Right? / It’s the Sentimental Thing to Do / I May Be Wrong / All of Me / I’ll Dance at Your Wedding / There’ll Be Some Changes Made / You Don’t Have to Know the Language / The Christmas Song / I Can’t Give You Anything But Love / Lone Star Moon / Mañana / But Beautiful / Golden Earrings / How Lucky You Are / The Secretary Song / Laroo, Laroo, Lilli Bolero / You Turned the Tables on Me / I Went Down to Virginia / Nature Boy / Baby, Don’t Be Mad at Me / Wish You Were Here

Let There Be Love – radio recordings and transcriptions
UK, Castle Communications (257), 1994, 20 tracks
I’ve Got a Right to Sing the Blues / Let There Be Love / If I Could Be with You / These Foolish Things / Shanghai / Make the Man Love Me / The Lady Is a Tramp / It’s All Over Now / It Takes a Long, Long Train with a Red Caboose / Golden Earrings / I Got Lucky in the Rain / He’s Just My Kind / What Is This Thing Called Love? / For Sentimental Reasons / My Last Affair / Just One More Chance / Love Is Just Around the Corner / Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere / Oh, What a Beautiful Morning / Linger in My Arms a Little Longer, Baby

Peggy Lee Sings for You –radio recordings and transcriptions
UK, Avid Records (AVC 514), 1994, 20 tracks
You Do Something to Me / Almost Like Being in Love / Just One of Those Things / That Old Black Magic / Sans Souci / It’s a Good Day / You’re Mine You / Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea / I Feel a Song Coming On / From This Moment On / The Surrey with the Fringe on Top / People Will Say We’re in Love / Speak Low / Bye, Bye Blackbird / I Get a Kick out of You / Accentuate the Positive / What’s New? / Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me / It Ain’t Necessarily So / Fools Rush In

Peggy Lee: Live, 1947 and 1952 – radio
UK, Jazz Band/Compact Classic (21152), 1993, 25 tracks
The Lady from 29 Palms / I Can’t Give You Anything but Love / Ask Anyone who Knows / Cecilia / Beside the Zeiderze / Half As Much / Alone Together / It Never Happened to Me / For Me and My Gal / Just One of Those Things / Perfidia / Jump Through the Rain / Mañana / Accentuate the Positive / Frenisi / Bermudan Waters / That Old Black Magic / We’re One / Slumming on Park Avenue / It’s a Good Day (…plus vocals by Johnny Desmond, Jeff Chandler and Desi Arnaz and instrumentals)

You Give Me Fever – live, London, 1977
UK, Spectrum/Karussell (5500882), 1993, 14 tracks
Misty / What I Did for Love / Every Little Movement / Mr. Wonderful / Is That All There Is? / The Folks who Live on the Hill / Love for Sale / Fever / Mack the Knife / Sing a Rainbow / I’m Not in Love / Hungry Years / Lover / Star Sounds (Note: not all tracks are live, but were recorded in a studio around the same time)

Beauty and the Beat: Peggy Lee with George Shearing – live, Miami, 1959
US, Capitol (7984542), 1992, 14 tracks
Do I Love You? / I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City / If Dreams Come True / All Too Soon / Blue Prelude / You Came a Long Way from St. Louis / Always True to You (in My Fashion) / There’ll Be Another Spring / Get Out of Town / Don’t Ever Leave Me / Nobody’s Heart (…plus 3 instrumental tracks)

It’s a Good Day – radio recordings with Bing Crosby and special guest Fred Astaire
UK, Parrot (001), 1991, 36 tracks (* indicates duet/trio with Bing and Fred)
It’s a Good Day* / He’s Just My Kind / Everything’s Moving Too Fast* / Linger in My Arms a Little Longer, Baby / Baby, You Can Count on Me* / What More Can a Woman Do? / The Best Man* / For Sentimental Reasons / I Still Suits Me* / It’s All Over Now / You Came a Long Way from St. Louis* / A Nightingale Can Sing the Blues / Exactly Like You* / I’ll Close My Eyes / I Got Rhythm* / It Takes a Long, Long Train with a Red Caboose / A Little Bird Told Me* / Just an Old Love of Mine / On a Slow Boat to China* / Golden Earrings / Cuanto le Gusta* / Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere / What Is This Thing Called Love? / Medley* (10 songs, many associated with Astaire) / Then I’ll Be Happy / I Got Lucky in the Rain / Maybe You’ll Be There*

Peggy Lee with the Dave Barbour Band – radio transcriptions
US, Laserlight (15742), 1991, 14 tracks
You Can Depend on Me / I’ve Had My Moments / Sugar / I Should Care / Someday, Sweetheart / September in the Rain / That Old Gang of Mine / Nice Work If You Can Get It / I’m Beginning to See the Light / Gone with the Wind / Don’t Blame Me / Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home / My Last Affair / I’m Confessin’

The Uncollected Peggy Lee – radio transcriptions, 1940s-1950s
US, Hindsight (R28J-3117), CD release date unknown, 12 tracks
Ridin’ High / Let There Be Love / I’ve Got a Right to Sing the Blues / Oh, What a Beautiful Morning / It’s a Good Day / What Is This Thing Called Love? / Love Is Just Around the Corner / ‘Deed I Do / Do I Love You? / Just One of Those Things / You / I’ve Got the World on a String

Peggy Lee: If I Could Be with You – radio, 1951-1952
UK, Jasmine (2534), CD release date unknown, 15 tracks
If I Could Be with You / Too Young / Clarinade / Make the Man Love Me / Toodle-lee-oo-doo / It Never Happened to Me / Goodbye / Shanghai / A Guy is a Guy / These Foolish Things / Just One More Chance / Dorsey Medley / The Lady Is a Tramp

Golden Hits – radio transcriptions
Germany, Masters Music (610782), CD release date unknown, 10 tracks
Just One of Those Things / I’ve Got the World on a String / Oh, What a Beautiful Morning / It’s a Good Day / What Is This Thing Called Love? / I’m Beginning to See the Light / Don’t Blame Me / Let There Be Love / ‘Deed I Do / That Old Gang of Mine

Old Favorites – radio transcriptions
US, Music International (6002), CD release date unknown, 13 tracks
Just One of Those Things / You / I’ve Got the World on a String / It’s a Good Day / What Is This Thing Called Love? / I’m Beginning to See the Light / Gone with the Wind / Don’t Blame Me / Baby Won’t You Please Come Home? / September in the Rain / That Old Gang of Mine / Night Life

The Peggy Lee Story – radio and television, 1950s and 1960s
Deja Vu (57), CD release date unknown, 24 tracks
Somebody Loves Me / I Don’t Know Enough About You / Big Spender / Lazy River / Fever / Moments Like This / The Best Is Yet to Come / Big, Bad Bill / It’s a Good Day / Where Can I Go Without You? / I Love Being Here with You / Lonesome Road / Lover / Medley (Things, Funny Man, What Kind of Fool Am I?) / Blues Cross-Country Suite / Then Was Then and Now Is Now / Come Back to Me / So What’s New? / On the Sunny Side of the Street / Alright, Okay, You Win / Mañana / Makin’ Whoopee / Unforgettable / I Can’t Stop Loving You