The Best of Miss Peggy Lee

The Best of Miss Peggy Lee

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Reviewed by Kathleen Burian, 2010-02-01

Will do business with again - received the item as is in the time frame stated - my dad loves this cd!

A TERRIFIC CD!

Reviewed by Frank C. Taglieri, 2009-03-23

BEING A MUSICIAN MYSELF FOR A GREAT NUMBER OF YEARS, AND I ONCE HAD THE PLEASURE OF PLAYING PIANO AT HER HOUSE, I CAN TELL YOU IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS, SHE WAS A WONDER. IT WAS REALLY RECORDED AND MASTERED VERY WELL. AND ALSO THE SEQUENCING OF TUNES WAS EXCELLENT. I HIGHLY RECCOMEND IT. FRANK TAGLIERI.

The Best of Miss Peggy Lee

Reviewed by Joann Livingston, 2009-02-24

I bought the Music for dancing. I love it. Not all songs on this CD do I like for dancing but there is a couple I truly love. joann

"The Best" as determined by the Capitol balance sheets.

Reviewed by Samuel Chell, 2007-08-11

Better this were titled "Peggy Lee's Biggest Sellers for Capitol." It represents none of her activity for Decca, when she established herself as a class jazz act in the '50s, it omits some of her best things for Capitol, pre- and post-Decca (including "The Shining Sea"), and it passes over her career 1971-1991. If I had to go with just one, it would be the British import, "The Best of Peggy Lee." And if her creative accomplishments mean as much to you as her "hits," the "Best of the Decca Years" is more satisfying.

Recently, a biography of Norma Delores Egstrom ("Fever" by Peter Richmond) called her the greatest female pop/jazz singer of the 20th century. It's a debatable but defensible statement, but you wouldn't want to make the case based on this "flimsy" collection of hits remembered by thousands of listeners to AM, FM, television and 45 rpm collections during the '40s, '50s, and '60s. It's even questionable whether a single one of the songs on this anthology has earned (or deserves) admittance to that august collection referred to as "The Great American Songbook," of which Peggy (along with Sinatra, Ella, Billie and Bing) is one of the most definitive interpreters (no one "wastes" fewer notes than Peggy, who is more economical yet arguably as effective as Lady Day).

Let this be a preface, a mere taste of much more (and better) things to come.

Great Voice

Reviewed by R. Gagnon, 2007-07-21

Highly recommend this to anyone who thinks they may be a fan, or could be one.