Peggy Lee is the Bomb

I haven’t heard the above album, but I have to say, Something Cool by June Christy is so special to me that it was the only full-length LP I had on my iPod when I still had an iPod

Awesome to see this thread revived as the chances of me getting to talk to anyone familiar with Lee's work in real life is pretty low right now. I have to agree with the prior comments about the Capitol Transcriptions Sessions boxset from Mosaic. Hearing tracks from that for the first time was an instant epiphany, like "Oh yes, THIS is how I've been wanting to hear her this whole time." I like <i>Black Coffee</i> for sure and enjoy others that are relatively small combos, but hearing her in that quartet/quintet setting is just about perfect.

(To me, the June Christy tracks are similar--I keep <i>wanting</i> to get into her albums on Capitol but the relatively larger arrangements don't quite situate her where I want to hear her...and these transcription tracks do. But I'm happy to entertain any album recommendations for her, especially beyond <i>Something Cool</i>.)

I agree with some other comments here--the Christmas album is lovely and unique, her version of "Where or When" with Benny Goodman stops time...I'm assuming the "difficult" album that posters wrote about at the start of the thread is <i>Sea Shells</i>? Could be wrong, but a 1958 album of poems and traditional folk songs accompanied only by harp and harpsichord is likely the one. I am pretty into that record, it can be remarkably gentle and almost proto-new age in places but not something I keep in regular rotation.

sorry for my formatting screw-ups...let's see if I embed the opener from Sea Shells correctly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVXm9AwwxGk

Bought a used copy of this today:

https://i.postimg.cc/hGP7GzKj/norma.jpg

I bought it because it was in perfect shape and only $5--honest to god, had no idea it was Peggy Lee. I didn't look all that closely at the photo; thought I was buying some obscure singer-songwriter from 1972. She covers "Superstar."

Ha, because it has her real name on the cover.

It would be funny if you went ahead and praised that album in the "ladies of the '60s/'70s that aren't receiving any hipster kisses" thread.

How many people on this thread actually saw Peggy Lee perform live?

*raises hand*

Where was that?