LOS ANGELES, CA , October 17, 2025 – In celebration of its 50th anniversary, Universal Music Enterprises (UMe), in collaboration with Peggy Lee Associates and Leiber/Stoller Productions, announces today’s release of an expanded digital edition of Peggy Lee’s cult masterpiece Mirrors.

Available at all digital service providers, the newly remastered expanded edition adds seven bonus tracks to the original album’s 10-song tracklist. Featuring five previously unreleased tracks, the new 17-track edition now features Peggy Lee’s entire A&M Records song catalog.

Conceived by the legendary songwriting and producing team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Mirrors presents a series of dramatic vignettes and character studies, all of them vividly brought to life by the combined superpower of Peggy Lee’s superb interpretations and Johnny Mandel’s sumptuous arrangements.

The original ten tracks range in tone from sensual and humorous — “Some Cats Know,” “I’ve Got Them Feelin’ Too Good Today Blues” — to ominous and eerie — “Tango,” “The Case of M.J.” Love and longing, memory and mimesis, self-deception and self-reflection are among the all-too-human themes most prominently showcased throughout. A meditative, mellow mood is conjured by the more somber songs, while the more upbeat tunes burst with playful exuberance. Of Mirrors, Peggy Lee noted that it “reflects on people — their experience, memories, happiness, sadness — and takes you on a cruise: a voyage of the mind.”

The bonus tracks offer a rich potpourri of musical genres, running the gamut from R&B — “Daddy What I Do (The Climb),” “I Ain’t Here” — to shout-style gospel and smooth jazz — “Saved,” “The Best Thing.” Each of these tracks was gamely tackled by the team of Lee, Leiber and Stoller while they were exploring the option of crafting a more mainstream album before they fully settled into making the conceptual Mirrors.

Among the exploratory sessions was Peggy Lee’s interpretation of “Love Me or Leave Me,” a standard she first recorded for her acclaimed 1953 album Black Coffee. Perennially committed to proving that the American songbook shall forever stand the test of new musical trends, she requested the recasting of this old familiar tune (1928) to the effervescent disco beat which, at the time, was just beginning to take hold over the American radio airwaves.

Bold, genre-blurring, and well ahead of its time, Mirrors did not enjoy a roundly auspicious reception in the 1970s, but over ensuing decades it has gone on to become a cult favorite and a critic’s choice. This century’s accolades have included raves from industry insiders such as Jazz Bakery’s president and artistic director Ruth Price (2014), and from publications like the well-respected UK magazine Mojo. The editors of that long-running rock and jazz magazine bestowed their ultimate seal of approval of Mirrors when they granted the album its own entry on their Mojo Collection: The Greatest Albums of All Time (2001).

Further confirmation of the album’s reverential standing comes from Mike Stoller himself, who on some of his more recent travels around the globe discovered that “certain cults had formed around Mirrors. In many countries I visited, I was known as half of the Leiber and Stoller team celebrated not for the Robins or the Coasters or the Drifters, nor for Big Mama Thornton or Elvis or Ben E. King, but for having coauthored Peggy Lee’s Mirrors. That acknowledgement meant a lot to me.” Updated liner notes by Peter Stoller are available here.

Originally released October 17, 1975, Mirrors earned a Grammy® nomination for Best Album Package in 1976.

Track Listing

1. Ready to Begin Again
2. Some Cats Know
3. I’ve Got Them Feelin’ Too Good Today Blues
4. A Little White Ship
5. Tango
6. Professor Hauptmann’s Performing Dogs
7. The Case of M.J.
8. I Remember
9. Say It
10. Longings for a Simpler Time

Bonus Tracks

11. I Ain’t Here***
12. The Best Thing*
13. Love Me or Leave Me*
14. Crazy Life*
15. Daddy, What I Do (The Climb)**
16. Saved*
17. Don Juan***

*previously unreleased
**previously unreleased rough mix
***previously available only on Peggy Lee Sings Leiber & Stoller (2005)

All songs written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, except for track #13 written by Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn and track #14 written by Gino Vannelli. Track #12 was co-written by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Ralph Dino, and John Sembello.