Black Coffee: Best of the Decca Years [Import]

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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.

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Black Coffee: Best of the Decca Years
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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 Black Coffee: Best of the Decca Years
Peggy Lee
Manufacturer: Umvd Import
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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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:

5 out of 5 stars 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.
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    Peggy Lee
    Manufacturer: Half Moon
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B0002536XQ
    Release Date: 2003-09-30

    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?

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