Black Coffee [Import]

1. My First Wife Left Me

2. Down To The City

3. Pack It Up

4. Snapshots Of Memories

5. Reap What I've Sowed

6. Doggone Day

7. Rio De Janeiro

8. Goin' Down

9. Can You Get Another Man -

10. Outta Town

11. Roll'em Pete

12. Time Does Tell

13. Black Coffee

Black Coffee,Big Allanbik,Eldor,World Music

Average customer rating: Contrasting Pearls: One String Black, One Strand White Two very different albums from Peggy A jazz vocal masterpiece!!!

Black Coffee/Sea Shells Peggy Lee Manufacturer: Mca Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Broadway & Vocalists | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Pass Me By/Big $pender I'm a Woman/Norma Deloris Egstrom from Jamestown, North Dakota Man I Love/If You Go Natural Woman/Is That All There Is? Mink Jazz ASIN: B000024XRR Release Date: 1997-05-17

Tracks:

1. Black Coffee
2. I've Got You Under My Ski
3. Easy Living
4. My Heart Belongs To Daddy
5. Woman Alone With The Blue
6. I Didn't Know What Time I
7. When The World Was Young
8. Love Me Or Leave Me
9. It Ain't Necessarily So
10. Gee Baby (Ain't I Good To
11. You're My Thrill
12. There's A Small Hotel
13. Sea Fever
14. Nine Thorny Thickets
15. Little Old Car
16. Greensleeves
17. Chinese Love Poems(Fisher
18. Happy Monks
19. White Birch & The Sycamor
20. Of Such Is The Kingdom Of
21. Brown Bird Singing
22. I Don't Want To Play In Y
23. Maid Wuth The Flaxen Hair
24. Wearing Of The Green
25. Chaconde
26. Chinese Love Poems (Going
27. Riddle Song
28. Golden Wedding Ring

Album Details

Two Classic Peggy Albums on One.

Customer Reviews:

Contrasting Pearls: One String Black, One Strand White.......2006-07-05

The first album here, BLACK COFFEE, is representative of the Peggy Lee most listeners are familiar with, and it is available as a CD by itself, at a more affordable price. One of her very best albums, it is also one of her most purely jazz oriented efforts. Featuring Peggy's understated vocals in a small combo setting, I consider these performances to be "Essential Peggy Lee." There isn't a throwaway in the pack, including the four songs that were later added to the original BLACK COFFEE album.

SEA SHELLS is a little-known album of folk music. Strange to hear "the female Sinatra," as she's been called, do folk songs, and this is not an easy record to love, even for folk fans like me. It does, with patience (because there are no uptempo tracks here), reward repeated listening. Some of these musty old songs benefit from Lee's hushed reading. "White Birch And The Sycamore" and "Nine Thorny Thickets" are especially lovely. The arrangements are sparse; a couple of the "songs" are spoken (there are a couple of Chinese poems), and some are brief instrumentals. This record created a mood that stuck with me for a long time after I first listened to the entire album; my SEA SHELLS record was originally bought used, and is fairly beat up, so the pristine sound quality of this CD is most welcome. Of all Lee's records, this one sounds the most like Peggy singing to me in my living room, with her soft, intimate tones complimented by harp strums and delicate flourishes of harpsichord. Most unusual.

Because the first album is a 5-star essential, I can't give this collection anything less than that. Honestly, though, because of its limited appeal and its glacial pace, SEA SHELLS by itself would only get two, or three stars at most. If you are a major Peggy Lee fan who has somehow managed to get through life without hearing BLACK COFFEE, and you are curious about SEA SHELLS, by all means buy this collection!

Two very different albums from Peggy.......2003-08-17

The first album making up this twofer, Black coffee, is typical of Peggy's music - a jazz-pop collection featuring both famous and obscure songs from the Great American Songbook. The first eight tracks were originally released on an LP in 1953 and featured Peggy backed by trumpet, piano, bass and drums. Later, the LP was re-issued with four additional tracks - these are tracks 9 to 12 on this CD. Those four tracks were recorded at a later date and featured similar backing but with vibes and celeste instead of trumpet.

Among the songs on Black coffee, the title track remains one of Peggy's most famous songs despite never having been released as a single, while There's a small hotel i. Perhaps, the best of the other tracks on what can only be described as an outstanding collection - one of Peggy's finest albums. There are several classic songs here, usually associated with other singers, including I've got you under my skin, My heart belongs to Daddy, Love me or leave me, It ain't necessarily so and You're my thrill.

As a total contrast, the other album, Sea shells, is far removed from Peggy's normal style. A harp and a harpsichord provide the musical backing and most of the songs are folk songs. Furthermore, all the songs are slow - no upbeat songs to break the tempo. Some of the tracks are instrumental while the two tracks featuring Chinese love poems are narrated, not sung. The liner notes describe Sea shells as an intensely personal album.

I enjoy many different kinds of music including folk, but even I find that Sea shells is a difficult album to get into. Nevertheless, it is a fascinating album and if you can give it the dedicated attention that it demands, you may find it to be a very rewarding experience.

I notice that the Black coffee album has been made available on a CD by itself. You may find that to be a more suitable purchase, especially if you don't like folk music. For those who can appreciate both albums, this twofer shows just how versatile Peggy Lee was.

A jazz vocal masterpiece!!!.......1999-10-01

Simply one of the best jazz vocal albums ever recorded. Highly recommended!

Average customer rating: The Decca years

Black Coffee: Best of the Decca Years Peggy Lee Manufacturer: Umvd Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Broadway & Vocalists | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Best of Peggy Lee - The Capitol Years The Complete Recordings 1941-1947 The Best of Miss Peggy Lee The Best of the Singles Collection Black Coffee ASIN: B000024VSS Release Date: 1997-10-31

Tracks:

1. Black Coffee
2. Lover
3. Mr Wonderful
4. Johnny Guitar
5. You Go to My Head
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
8. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
9. I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard
10. Love Letters
11. Apples, Peaches and Cherries
12. Sisters
13. Bye Bye Blackbird
14. He Needs Me
15. Sing a Rainbow
16. How Bitter My Sweet
17. They Can't Take That Away from Me
18. My Heart Belongs to Daddy
19. Love, You Didn't Do Right by Me
20. Sabs Souci - Peggy Lee
21. I Never Knew
22. I've Grown Accustomed to His Face [From My Fair Lady]
23. What's New?

Album Description

Full title - Black Coffee - Best Of The Decca Years. Budget price collection from Spectrum of undoubtably one of the great female vocalist's most creative periods between 1952 and 1958. 23 tracks. 1997.

Album Details

Budget Collection of Hits from her Decca Years.

Customer Reviews:

The Decca years.......2005-03-29

For most of her career, Peggy recorded for Capitol but there was a five-year spell during which Peggy recorded for Decca because Peggy had a major disagreement with Capitol (over the song Lover, which Capitol didn't want her to record) and switched labels in 1952 although she switched back in 1957. Thus, this compilation focuses on Peggy's recordings between 1952 and 1956.

Peggy's career on Decca began with Lover, originally written as a waltz but re-arranged as a dramatic up-tempo song. Upon hearing it, composer Richard Rodgers expressed his displeasure at the arrangement. Nevertheless, it got Peggy's Decca career off to a great start, making the top three in the American charts.

Despite this start, Peggy's years on Decca were not very successful on the singles charts. Nevertheless, Peggy recorded a lot of great music during those years including the albums Black coffee, Pete Kelly's blues, Sea shells and Dream Street. The title track of her first Decca album (Black coffee, a melancholy ballad about loneliness) is now regarded as one of Peggy's most memorable recordings (hence its use as the title of this compilation) although it was never released as a single. It is yet another reminder that singles charts, however useful or interesting, do not tell the whole story.

You will surely recognize Love letters, which Peggy recorded several years before Ketty Lester made the song much more popular in the sixties. Peggy's version of this 1940's song is more intimately romantic than most other versions I've heard. Of course, it is just one of many classic covers that Peggy recorded for Decca and they are always among the best versions of those songs.

Apart from the songs already mentioned, this compilation contains many outstanding examples of Peggy's artistry. Many of the songs are ballads at which Peggy excels though there are several brilliant mid-tempo and up-tempo songs to prove Peggy's versatility.

While not the strongest compilation of Peggy's music for Decca, this budget compilation contains all the essential tracks from the period cover and will be enough for most people.

Average customer rating:

Cowboys Are My Weakness / Black Coffee / Lamas Fay Chris Difford Manufacturer: Import [Generic] ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music Alternative Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00007FCZD Release Date: 2003-01-14

Tracks:

1. Cowboys Are My Weakness
2. Black Coffee
3. Lamas Fayre

Album Description

The first single off 'I Didn't Get Where I Am', the 2002 debut solo album for one of Britain's greatest songwriter's, best known for co-writing all the Squeeze hits. The title track is backed with two non-LP tracks, 'Black Coffee' & 'Lamas Fayre' (Acoustic versions recorded in November 2002 featuring Chris Difford, Francis Dunnery & Dorie Jackson). Adventure Records. 2002.

Album Details

An Elegy to Cowboys in all Quarters from One of their Greatest Admirers, the Former Half of the Difford-tillbrook Songwriting Team.

International Music:

1. Boleros [Import]
2. Boleros V.2 [Import]
3. Bons Amigos [Import]
4. Bopper En Larmes
5. Ca Fait Pleurer Le Bon Dieu [Original recording remastered] [Import]
6. Canoas [Import]
7. Cantoria 2 [Import]
8. Chillout Fado [Import]
9. Colecao Luar Do Sertao [Import]
10. Concerto D'amore [Import]

International Music

International Music