Best Of Peggy Lee, The - Peggy Lee

Advantages: A few really good song; Great singing; Amazing piano solos
Disadvantages: Some boring songs; A lot of intrumental songs

...This was the first album I'd bought by Peggy Lee, after hearing a few of her songs from the internet, and I was quite impressed. It may just be my taste, but in my opinion quite a lot of the songs are dull, and I almost always skip the instrumentals. Peggy Lee is brilliant, as usual, and George Shearing is enough to make you want to take up Piano. The album's best songs have to be - 2: I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City 7: Blue Prelude 8. You Came A Long Way From St Louis 9: Always True To You In My Fashion 11: Get Out Of Town (has an AMAZING piano solo) 13: Nobody's Heart Some of the songs take a while to get into, but you probably won't regret buying this album.... Read review

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Advantages: Class Acts
Disadvantages: None

...and made an appearance on Jules Holland's 'Later...' show on BBC2 earlier this year. Dusty Springfield's contributionhere is perhaps her best known hit, 'You Don't Have to Say You LOve Me', (Track 13). This was a monster smash in teh Swingin Sixties - Dusty wore loads of mascara, sounded like a Motown girl but in fact was a white girl from the UK. In the closing tracks of this first CD you may recognise the voice of Eva Cassidy, a singer-songwriter who shot to fame, partly through being put on the Radio 2 playlist a few years ago, with her powerful cover of 'Over the Rainbow'. Here she duets with one of the (very) few men to feature, Chuck Brown, with whom she also made an LP 'The Other Side' in 2001, although this track does not appear on it. ~~~ CD 2 has more Billie Holiday and Peggy Lee, and also some more artistes with whom I... Read review

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Advantages: Wonderful singer
Disadvantages: None come to mind

...The perfect marriage of Rhythm & Rhyme… When this album was released in the March of 1992, I personally had never heard of K.D. Lang. All this was about to change with the release of “Constant Craving” as a single from the album I was completely blown away what a performance, I had never heard anything like it before. On one hand the vocals reminded me of an old torch singer like Peggy Lee or Patsy Cline but on the other hand there was an element in her voice that give me the feel of Elvis or Roy Oribson, this was enough of a reason for me to go and buy the album. As the album opened with the track “Save me” I held my breath this was heart stopping stuff, as I checked the sleeve notes I saw not only was she a voice to die for but she co-wrote all the tracks, all with her producers Greg Penny and Ben... Read review

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