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For Kristiana: Peggy Lee, Sexpot Times Ten

Posted about 4 years ago
Well, K., it's not that I have anything against "Fever," apart from having heard it a trillion times or so. It's just that to my ears, it doesn't compare with this 1946 nugget, from not long after she left Benny Goodman. Singing doesn't get much more post-coital than this - for the time, particularly. Any woman who could pull off this song the way Peggy does will never be wanting for male admirers - call them groupies if you must....
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  1. Lyrikhan
    Lyrikhan says cue the wolf....awooooooooooooooooo!
    Permalink posted 01/29/2008
  2. deedee
    deedee says That's MISS Peggy Lee to you, sir. And that is a pretty hotsy-totsy performance of a very cool song.
    Permalink posted 01/29/2008
  3. kristiana
    kristiana says Oi, Bill! This is really hurting me - for some reason it keeps cutting out on me, so I get tiny glimpses of lusciousness, and then it's gone again. Life can be so cruel. I'll just go ahead and have that cigarette anyway. I know - you don't condone smoking. Lyrikhan, very very funny. ;)
    Permalink posted 01/29/2008
  4. dermahrk
    dermahrk says It probably says something about my tastes that my favorite version of "Fever" is by the McCoys. This sounds great, though - loved it. No Peggy pix? Would that spoil the ambience? Lyrikan, that clip demonstrates the genius of cartoonist Tex Avery. It's from a cartoon that takes off on Little Red Riding Hood.
    Permalink posted 01/30/2008
  5. ivylander
    ivylander says Lyrikhan: Hubba and, indeed, hubba.
    Permalink posted 01/30/2008
  6. deadmandeadman
    deadmandeadman says Yeah, this is great. But _not_ something to listen to before leaving for work, thanks, I think..
    Permalink posted 01/30/2008
  7. kristiana
    kristiana says Ahhhh, there we go! That was a great choice, I agree. I think I could pull it off, yes. But I think it's gonna have to be Fever. I feel like there has been a mean shortage of hot damnedness, and fever, in the local scene. Just a bunch of guys with guitars playing music for other guys with guitars. Heck, even when there has been a woman playing, it ends up sounding just like the stuff the boys are playing. I came to slow things down a bit, bring back the groove. Chicks were born to give ya fever. ;)
    Permalink posted 01/30/2008
  8. ivylander
    ivylander says Ain't that the truth.....
    Permalink posted 01/30/2008
  9. extraordinarypoems
    extraordinarypoems says Fabulous song. I'm feeling all groovy and stuff.
    Permalink posted 01/30/2008
  10. scotfree
    scotfree says What a very nice midday treat. leaned back, closed my eyes while Ms Lee crooned. And, uh, now I'm dizzzzzyyy!!!!!!
    Permalink posted 01/30/2008
  11. Spike
    Spike says Last night when I saw Kristiana’s post about Peggy Lee’s “Fever,” I went to the same Peggy Lee album (cassette, in my case) you did, to see if there was a song I could include in my comment. “Them There Eyes” was a candidate, but I ran out of time or energy to digitize it. Today I’m thinking, why not offer a somehow even better version by Kay Starr from 1947? ~b0jly3LyXK2.mp3~
    Permalink posted 01/30/2008
  12. kristiana
    kristiana says That was fun, Spike! A bit cutesy wootsey for my mood though. Everyone's gettin' the fever! Could you ask for much else on hump day? :)
    Permalink posted 01/30/2008
  13. Spike
    Spike says kristiana, you're right; you deserve something sultrier. Oh well, there's alway a next time.
    Permalink posted 01/30/2008
  14. ivylander
    ivylander says The odd thing is, Spike, the CD that was listed as the source for this song was not the one from which this Peggy Lee song came. I was listening to a capitol Capitol collection called "Vine Street Divas." Rhapsody misidentified it. That said, Kay Starr sure is a cure for the blahs, isn't she?
    Permalink posted 01/30/2008
  15. kristiana
    kristiana says haha, indeed!
    Permalink posted 01/30/2008
  16. Bartleby
    Bartleby says You're spoiling us, Ivy. That is a sensuous cut. (My father loves Peggy Lee and I grew up listening to her...) @Spike: That Kay Starr's rendition of "Them There Eyes" makes me swoon.
    Permalink posted 01/30/2008
  17. Jonh Ingham
    Jonh Ingham says The band certainly make a nice (ahem) bed for her to lie on. This track probably helped the baby boom. Around '82 I was helping an LA punk band on a TV special charting the history of pop music. Naturally, Peggy Lee was there to do 'Fever' - she sat (posed?) on a red sofa, all in pink, while men of a certain age kept coming over to her to genuflect and receive the Lee gaze. Hearing this I now understand why.
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008
  18. ivylander
    ivylander says Jonh, I suspect a number of those men could be described as "confirmed bachelors"? That was a big constituency for her....
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008
  19. Jonh Ingham
    Jonh Ingham says Bill, it was a TV studio in Hollywood! Need i say more?
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008
  20. ivylander
    ivylander says Completely unnecessary....
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008

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