Peggy Lee - Man I Love / If You Go
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Artist: Peggy LeeEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1997-02-26
Music Label: EMI
Soundtracks:
- The Man I Love
- Please Be Kind
- Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe
- Just One Way To Say I Love You
- That's All
- Something Wonderful
- He's My Guy
- Then I'll Be Tired Of You
- My Heart Stood Still
- If I Should Love You
- There Is No Greater Love
- The Folks Who Live On The Hill
- As Time Goes By
- If You Go
- Oh Love Hast Thou Forsaken Me
- Say It Isn't So
- I Wish I Didn't Love You So
- Maybe It's Because (I Love You Too Much)
- I'm Gonna Laugh You Out Of My Life
- I Get Along Without You Very Well
- (I Love Your) Gypsy Heart
- When I Was A Child
- Here's That Rainy Day
- Smile
Music reviews of Man I Love / If You Go
Music Review: Pure Protein: No More Perfect Singer
Rating: 5 Stars
It may not exactly be ominous, but it's far from encouraging to see that this "two-fer" of blue ribbon Peggy Lee LPs is not only an import but ranks no higher than #26 in sales among the Peggy Lee recordings currently on Amazon. Granted, there are a few worthy items ahead of it, but for the most part, your choices among the 25 posted in front of this double-album come down to just two: a "Best of" collection of Peggy's "hit" singles, which are primarily pop ephemera made for Capitol; and, "Black Coffee," her undeniably satisfying if not indispensable jazz session with a quartet led by pianist Jimmy Rowles and trumpeter Pete Candoli. But to the extent people are still buying Peggy Lee, it comes down to "Manana," "Fever," "Big Spender," "Is That All There Is?," "Alley Cat Song," "I'm a Woman," etc.--palatable tunes, certainly, but so narrow and limiting that, far from a good representation, they frankly do a disservice to Peggy Lee, the artist. (Duke Ellington suffers a similar fate, his compositional genius and even band ignored in favor of his pop tunes and a "quickie" date with John Coltrane.)
Appreciating Peggy Lee's place among the giants (Peter Richmond, in his recent biography, calls her the greatest female jazz/pop singer of the 20th century) requires attending to her interpretations of the classic and timeless repertory that she laid down on LPs for both Decca and Capitol. These two Capitol albums--the first with orchestrations tended to by Nelson Riddle and Frank Sinatra; the second, with Quincy Jones responsible for the settings--represent a good start on a project of collecting that, providing the recording companies cooperate, will require a few years to complete. But the reward is considerable. There are few, if any other, singers one can listen to for four or more hours without the least bit of "listener fatigue."
None of the giants among American singers is as "economical" as Peggy. Pick out a standard that's been done by several or more vocalists and just compare. Peggy's is bound to be the briefest, yet there's never a sense of incompleteness, of anything missed or left undone. She gets the story told without an extra chorus of Gordon Jenkins' strings or needless reprises of the same lyric. And she's not afraid of fast tempos (her mental drummer is closer to Art Blakey than to Sinatra's "in the pocket" Basie-style time-keeper). And apparently she had no use for the "3-minute rule" of most commercial recordings: if the final result is less than 2 minutes, so be it. No fat or meat-extenders, just the protein.
In collecting Lee, it's good to remember that the intimate, "breathy" Lee sound required focus, strength and control. The sound is practically unfailingly perfect from 1950-1970, after which Peggy doesn't have the breath support and physical reserves to sustain it consistently (though some of her recordings from the 1980s still pay dividends despite the undeniably tired sound of the voice and the critical sniping). And despite the presence of Quincy Jones on the second half of this double feature, this package does not include what for some of us is Peggy's single most beautiful recording, a song written by Peggy with Johnny Mandel and said to be inspired by Q: "The Shining Sea" (it's well worth the research required to hunt it down. Last I saw, it was on the oop album, "Blues Cross Country").
[Good heavens--now I see this one is no longer available. Don't count on finding these songs in any of those "Best of... " anthologies. Maybe we're doomed as a civilization, after all.]
Description of Man I Love / If You Go
1997 EMI Centenary release, a two-on-one featuring two of the legendary female vocalist's Capitol albums digitally remastered: 1957's mono 'The Man I Love' (conducted by FrankSinatra & arranged by Nelson Riddle) and 1961's stereo 'If You Go' (arranged & conducted by Quincy Jones). 24 tracks total, including 'The Man I Love', 'Please Be Kind', 'As Time Goes By' and 'If You Go'.Broadway & Vocalists CDs
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