Peggy Lee
For Kristiana: Peggy Lee, Sexpot Times Ten
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Album:Capitol Collectors Series, Vol 1 - The Early Years
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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 admir...
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an old-fashioned love song
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It isn't an I’m-so-happy-I-could-die love song; it isn't teen infatuation (not that there’s anything wrong with that) or tormented torch. It's a mellow, wistful, grow-old-with-me declaration, rendered in the tenderest manner. Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II wrote it in 1937; some of the usual suspects (Torme, Crosby, Grappelli, Hartman, Krall, Simone) have had a go at it. Here's Miss Peggy...
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"get outta here, get me some money too"
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what can i say? perfect.
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