The Capitol Years, Part 6
The Peggy Lee Discography And Videography
by Iván Santiago

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Statistics: Total Number Of Masters
This discographical page shows a total of 123 masters and 5 alternate takes, all of them recorded for Capitol Records between 1963 and 1967. Of those 123 masters, 5 remain unissued as of March, 2009. Three of them are from Lee's own sessions: "Try A Little Tenderness" (January 3, 1963), "Since You Have Gone" (November 2, 1963), and "I Wound It Up" (June 6, 1967). The other two tracks are from a Bobby Darin session which featured Lee as guest vocalist (ca. early January, 1963. As explained under that session, Lee is likely to be in one of the two tracks listed, but the information at hand is too vague to allow for clearer identification of the track.) Also found in this page are three masters which, though available on vinyl, have yet to be issued on CD: "Lonesome Road" (June 6, 1967), "Happy Feet" and "Stay With Me" (both dated May 21, 1966). Moreover, one master has been released on a various-artists compact disc, but not on a Peggy Lee CD: "That Man" (February 1, 1966).

Personal Note
This is one of various pages that I have been updating during the first half of 2009. The update is nearly finished. A few minor additions --mostly general notes, to be placed at the bottom of the page-- will be made before June 1, 2009.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Richard "Dick" Hazard (con), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Justin Gordon (f), Emmanuel "Manny" Klein (t), Al Hendrickson, John Pisano (g), Max K. Bennett (b), Mike Melvoin (p), Stan Levey (d), Peggy Lee (v)

The I'm A Woman Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: November 14, 1962. January 2, 3, 4 and 5, 1963. March 29, 1962.


Issues

1. Bossa Nova Ala Lee
Around this time, various press announcements had indicated the forthcoming release of a Peggy Lee album titled Bossa Nova Ala Lee. An album with that title never materialized, for reasons unknown.

I find it likely that Bossa Nova Ala Lee was the working title for the LP that was ultimately release as I'm A Woman. If so, the change of title must have been dictated by the success of the song "I'm A Woman," on 45 single, and by a late-minute decision to make it part of this LP. (The 45 single was released on the same month as the LP, however. But perhaps Capitol was predicting that Lee's version of the song would be a success.)

Given the prospective album's title, its planned tracks might have been ultimately distributed over two albums which were released just five months apart: I'm A Woman (February, 1963) and Mink Jazz (June, 1963).


Musicians

1. Guitar
For the I'm A Woman sessions, only a collective album personnel is available. This session probably had only one guitarist -- either Al Hendrickson or John Pisano.

2. Flute
The identification of Justin Gordon on flute is tentative.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Emmanuel "Manny" Klein (t), Al Hendrickson, John Pisano (g), Max K. Bennett (b), Mike Melvoin (p), Stan Levey (d), Peggy Lee (v)

The I'm A Woman Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: November 14, 1962. January 2, 3, 4 and 5, 1963. March 29, 1962.


Masters And Takes

1. "Try A Little Kindness"
Peggy Lee's Capitol session files list the second song in this session as "Try A Little Kindness." I have received reliable information that identifies the song as "Try A Little Tenderness," instead.

2. "A Taste Of Honey"
The superior take of "A Taste Of Honey" is the one originally released on LP. A deeper sense of melancholy permeates it.


Musicians

1. Guitar
Two guitarists are listed herein because, for the I'm A Woman sessions, only a collective album personnel is available. In reality, only one guitarist -- either Al Hendrickson or John Pisano -- is likely to have played during this session.


Arrangers And Arrangements

1. Dick Hazard
2. "A Taste Of Honey"
The Hazard arranging credit is based on the existence of an arrangement of "A Taste Of Honey," credited to him in Peggy Lee's music sheet library.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Richard "Dick" Hazard (con), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Justin Gordon (f), Emmanuel "Manny" Klein (t), Al Hendrickson, John Pisano (g), Max K. Bennett (b), Mike Melvoin (p), Stan Levey (d), Peggy Lee (v)

The I'm A Woman Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: November 14, 1962. January 2, 3, 4 and 5, 1963. March 29, 1962.

Personnel And Instruments

1. Guitar
2. Al Hendrickson. John Pisano
Two guitarists are listed herein because, for the I'm A Woman sessions, only a collective album personnel is available. In reality, only one guitarist -- either Al Hendrickson or John Pisano -- is likely to have played during this session.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Richard "Dick" Hazard (con), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Paul Horn (r), unknown (f), Emmanuel "Manny" Klein (t), Dave Wells (tb), Al Hendrickson, John Pisano (g), Max K. Bennett (b), Mike Melvoin (p), Stan Levey (d), Francisco Aguabella (per), Peggy Lee (v)

The I'm A Woman Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: November 14, 1962. January 2, 3, 4 and 5, 1963. March 29, 1962.


Issues

1. The Album I'm A Woman In The Charts And At The Grammys
Peggy Lee's 11th album chart entry peaked at number 18. After debuting on the week of March 9, 1963, it spent 26 weeks in the chart.

On the sixth Grammy awards ceremony, Peggy Lee was nominated for the sixth straight year. The nomination was for this album, in the category of Best Vocal Performance, Female. This time Ella Fitzgerald, the other perennial name (and perennial winner) in the category was not nominated. (She'd receive her next nomination in 1966, and would miss winning on that year, too.) A newcomer had arrived to stay in this category, and to win for the next three years: Barbra Streisand. Aside from newcomers Streisand and The Singing Nun, Lee's peers in this category were also repeat nominees (Eydie Gormé, Miriam Makeba). After this year, Lee would not be nominated again until 1969, when she finally broke from her bridesmaid status, becoming the category's winner. (See session dated January 24, 1969.)


Arrangements

1. "Come Rain Or Come Shine"
Peggy Lee's sheet music library contains three arrangements of this song. The arrangements by Yutaka Yokokura and Byron Olson probably date from the 1970s, when Lee worked with both men. The third arrangement, by Neal Hefti, could be the one used for this recording. (Hefti worked on and off with Lee during various periods of her career: in the late 1940s, during her Decca years, and in 1960 concerts. If not done for this session's performance, Hefti's arrangement of "Come Rain Or Come Shine" might have been for a version that Lee used to sing in the mid-1950's, both on television and radio.)


Musicians

1. Guitar
Two guitarists are listed herein because, for the I'm A Woman sessions, only a collective album personnel is available. In reality, only one guitarist -- either Al Hendrickson or John Pisano -- is likely to have played during this session.

Nik Venet (pdr), Others Unknown (acc), Bobby Darin, Peggy Lee (v)

Sources, Songs, Dating

This session is entirely based on hearsay and indirect sources. It should be thus be deemed highly tentative.

An oral source mentions a Capitol session tape, labeled as Bobby Darin with background singer, in which Darin does "I Still Get Jealous," while Peggy Lee sings wordless syllables ("do, dooby do") behind him. The tape also preserves a playful exchange between the singers. Lee chucklingly tells Darin that he is going to kill her career, and Darin responds that she is going to make his.

Another source is the book That's All: Bobby Darin on Record, Stage & Screen by Jeff Bleiel, from which the following quote comes: "Some material Darin recorded for Capitol remains in the can. An unreleased live album was recorded in Vegas in 1963. Also, Nik Venet reports that a studio album of standards, recorded with radically different arrangements than usual, remains unissued. One track from those sessions was a Darin-Peggy Lee duet on the song "Angry," which came about accidentally. While Tom Morgan was producing Lee in one Capitol studio, Venet was recording Darin in another. The two producers met in the men's room and decided to get the two superstar vocalists together for a track. It remains in the Capitol vaults.

It is possible that these two sources are referring to the same song, and that some of the specifics (including song title) have been confused with the passing of time. For one, I have no data indicating that Peggy Lee ever worked with producer Tom Morgan -- nor with Nik Venet, for that matter. (Both producers worked with Darin during his Capitol years, but Morgan did so chiefly during 1962, Venet in 1963.)

Until further verification is found, I have included both songs in this session, and have given a tentative January 1963 dating to the session. I have chosen the month of January because both singers held studio sessions from January 2 to January 4. (On January, Lee also held a session on the 5th, Darin on the 9, 10th, 11th, and 14th.)


Songwriters

For both songs, the songwriting credits are tentative.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Max K. Bennett (con, b), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), John Kraus (eng), Justin Gordon (f, ts), Jack Sheldon (t), John Pisano (g), Bob Corwin (p), Stan Levey (d), Francisco Aguabella (bo, cng), Peggy Lee (v)

The Mink Jazz Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: March 29 and 30, 1962. February 2, 5, 6 and 7, 1963.


Arrangers And Arrangements

1. "I Won't Dance"
2. Max Bennett
Capitol issues of the album Mink Jazz list Max Bennett as this session's arranger. However, Peggy Lee's sheet music library contains a Shorty Rogers arrangements of "I Won't Dance," and I have tentatively assumed it to be the same arrangement heard in the album. (Lee's music library has an arrangement for "The Lady Is A Tramp," but its author is not named.)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Max K. Bennett (con, b), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), John Kraus (eng), Justin Gordon (f, ts), Jack Sheldon (t), John Pisano (g), Bob Corwin (p), Stan Levey (d), Francisco Aguabella (bo, cng), Peggy Lee (v)

The Mink Jazz Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: March 29 and 30, 1962. February 2, 5, 6 and 7, 1963.


Arrangements

Capitol CD Mink Jazz gives a collective session personnel in which Max Bennett is listed as the arranger. Peggy Lee's sheet music library includes arrangements of all three songs from this session, but only in the case of "As Long As I Live" is an arranger's name given, and it is not Bennett. It's Shorty Rogers instead. In the absence of further information, I have not credited Bennett.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Max K. Bennett (con, b), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Justin Gordon (f), John Pisano (g), Bob Corwin (p), Stan Levey (d), Francisco Aguabella (bo, cng), Peggy Lee (v)

The Mink Jazz Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: March 29 and 30, 1962. February 2, 5, 6 and 7, 1963.


Dating And Personnel

Capitol Jazz CD Mink Jazz is my only source for this session's personnel. The CD's own source is probably AFM, whose files are deemed the most reliable of all personnel documentation.

The recording date is slightly problematic. Peggy Lee's Capitol session files give it as (Wednesday) February 6, 1963, where the Capitol Jazz CD has a February 7 dating. For the time being, I am putting more trust in Capitol's session files.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Max K. Bennett (con, b), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), John Kraus (eng), Justin Gordon (f, ts), Jack Sheldon (t), John Pisano (g), Bob Corwin (p), Stan Levey (d), Francisco Aguabella (bo, cng), Peggy Lee (v)

The Mink Jazz Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: March 29 and 30, 1962. February 2, 5, 6 and 7, 1963.


Issues

1. The Album Mink Jazz In The Charts
Peggy Lee's 12th album chart entry peaked at number 42. After debuting on the week of July 27, 1963, it spent 9 weeks in the chart.


Masters

1. "Close Your Eyes"
For an earlier and unissued version of "Close Your Eyes," see session dated November 14, 1963.


Arrangements

Capitol issues of the album Mink Jazz list Max Bennett as this session's arranger. I have abstained from trusting collective credits.

However, Peggy Lee's sheet music library contains a Shorty Rogers arrangement of "It's A Big, Wide Wonderful World," which I have tentatively assumed it to be the same arrangement heard in the album.

Lee's music library also contains two arrangements of her self-penned "Where Can I Go Without You?," one by Hal Mooney, and one by Sid Feller. The Mooney arrangement was probably for her earlier, Decca recording of the song. By process of elimination, I have thus tentatively credited Sid Feller with this session's arrangement.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Max K. Bennett (con), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Peggy Lee (v)

The In Love Again! Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: May 29, 1963. October 30, 1963. November 2, 1963. December 7, 1963.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Billy May (con), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Peggy Lee (v)

Songs

1. "This Could Be The Start Of Something Big"
This song's original title was "This Could Be The Start Of Something." Due to popular usage and preference, Steve Allen belatedly accepted the word "big" as part of the title.

Masters

1. Master 34416 - "Leave It To Love"
2. Master 39916 - "Leave It To Love"
Confusion surrounds these two masters, one of which does not seem to really exist. In Peggy Lee's Capitol session files, master 34416 is identified as the one included in original LP Then Was Then And Now Is Now!. Master 39916 is shown as unreleased. However, no such master (34416) has been found in the vaults, despite repeated search. The current, tentative assumption is that a mistake was made in the session files -- perhaps an inadvertent duplication of the number 3[99]16, as 3[44]16. I have thus re-assigned all issues of Then Was Then And Now Is Now! to this session's master 39916, and deleted from the discography the other master (dated September 1, 1960).


Personnel, Arrangers And Arrangements

1. Billy May
2. "Leave It To Love"
The inclusion of Billy May in this session's personnel is based on information culled from the liner notes of Capitol LP Then Was Then And Now Is Now!: "Billy May arranged and conducted Peggy's big band backing on "Leave It to Love".") Capitol's session files, on the other hand, do not credit May. Instead, they contain an interrogatory note: "cond. by ??Max Bennett." Given those interrogation marks, in this case I am trusting the information from the session file less, the information from the LP more. Presumably, the quizzical assumption made in the session files was due to the fact that Bennett conducted the previous (May 29) and ensuing (October 30) sessions.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Max K. Bennett (con), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Peggy Lee (v)

The In Love Again! Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: May 29, 1963. October 30, 1963. November 2, 1963. December 7, 1963.


Personnel

This date's musicians are unknown, but presumed to be mostly the same ones who participated in a later In Love Again! session, dated November 2, 1963.

Arrangements

All arranger credits come from Peggy Lee's sheet music library. Capitol's original LP In Love Again collectively credit Dick Hazard, Bill Holman, and Shorty Rogers for the album's arrangements.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Marion L. Klein (om), Max K. Bennett (con, b), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), unknown (f), James Decker, Vincent DeRosa, Richard Perissi (frh), Dennis Budimir, John Pisano (g), Lou Levy (p), Francisco Aguabella, Stan Levey (d), Victor Arno, Harry Bluestone, David Frisina, James Getzoff, Ben Gill, Stanley Plummer, Nathan Ross, Paul Shure, Marshall Sosson, William Weiss (vn), Justin Gordon (wds), Peggy Lee (v)

The In Love Again! Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: May 29, 1963. October 30, 1963. November 2, 1963. December 7, 1963.


Arrangements

1. "Since You Have Gone
2. Other Songs
The credit to Shorty Rogers for the arrangement of "Since You Have Gone" is tentative. It's based on the existence of a Rogers arrangement, which I have not inspected, at Peggy Lee's sheet music library. The arrangement is actually for a song titled "You Have Gone," which I presume to be "Since You Have Gone." All other arranger credits come from Peggy Lee's sheet music library. Capitol's original LP In Love Again collectively credit Dick Hazard, Bill Holman, and Shorty Rogers for the album's arrangements.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Max K. Bennett (con), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Peggy Lee (v)

The In Love Again! Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: May 29, 1963. October 30, 1963. November 2, 1963. December 7, 1963.


Personnel

This date's musicians are unknown, but presumed to be mostly the same ones who participated in an earlier In Love Again! session, dated November 2, 1963.


Arrangements

All arranger credits come from Peggy Lee's sheet music library. In the case of "Little By Little," the library does not have an arrangement. Capitol's original LP In Love Again collectively credit Dick Hazard, Bill Holman, and Shorty Rogers for the album's arrangements.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Joe Polito (eng), Robert "Bob" Bain, John Pisano, Howard Roberts (g), Charles "Chuck" Berghofer (b), Lou Levy (p), Stan Levey (d), Francisco Aguabella (bo, cng), Peggy Lee (v)

The In The Name Of Love Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: June 26, 1964. July 1, 2 and 6, 1964.


Songs

1. "In The Name Of Love" In The Charts
Peggy Lee's version of this song made an appearance in Billboard's Bubbling Under The Hot 100 chart, with a number 132 position.

Lee's next chart entries will earn a higher score, thanks to a new development in Billboard's chart tabulation: the gathering and publication of airplay data from radio stations that played adult contemporary music. (See session dated December 9, 1964.)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Billy May (con), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Hugh Davies (eng), Billy May and his Orchestra (acc), Justin Gordon, Paul Horn, Theodore Nash aka Theodore Nash, Maury Stein (r), Conrad Gozzo, Emmanuel "Manny" Klein, Ray Triscari (t), Milt Bernhart, Ed Kusby aka Edward Kuczborski, Kenny Shroyer (tb), James Decker (frh), John Pisano (g), Charles "Chuck" Berghofer (b), Lou Levy (p), Stan Levey (d), Francisco Aguabella (bo, cng), Peggy Lee (v)

The In The Name Of Love Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: June 26, 1964. July 1, 2 and 6, 1964.


Arrangements

The credit for "Make Believe" is based on the existence of a Dave Grusin score in Peggy Lee's sheet music library. (A second score of the song, by another arranger, is presumed to be for the version of "Make Believe" that she performed in the 1970s, live.) As for the session's other songs, arranger credits are given in the back cover of the Capitol LP In The Name Of Love, and corroborated by the scores kept at the singer's music library.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Hugh Davies (eng), Justin Gordon, Paul Horn, Jules Jacobs (r), Milt Bernhart, Ed Kusby aka Edward Kuczborski (tb), James Decker (frh), John Pisano (g), Charles "Chuck" Berghofer (b), Lou Levy (p), Stan Levey (d), Francisco Aguabella (bo, cng), Peggy Lee (v)

The In The Name Of Love Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: June 26, 1964. July 1, 2 and 6, 1964.


Arrangements

1. "Again"
The credit for "Again" is based on the existence of a Billy May score in Peggy Lee's sheet music library. As for the session's other songs, arranger credit is given in the back cover of the Capitol LP In The Name Of Love, and also corroborated by the scores kept at the singer's music library.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Joe Polito (eng), Justin Gordon, Paul Horn (r), Robert "Bob" Bain, John Pisano, Howard Roberts (g), Charles "Chuck" Berghofer (b), Lou Levy (p), Stan Levey (d), Francisco Aguabella (bo, cng), Peggy Lee (v)

The In The Name Of Love Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: June 26, 1964. July 1, 2 and 6, 1964.


Songs And Songwriters

1. "Senza Fine"
2. Hoagy Carmichael
This song may contain some uncredited lyrics by Hoagy Carmichael, who was sent the completed, English version of the song in 1962, for suggestions or revision. (Song publisher Howie Richmond was the one who first heard the Italian original, during a trip to Italy, and who sent the Alec Wilder lyrics to Carmichael.) In Stardust Melody: The Life And Music Of Hoagy Carmichael, Richard M. Sudhalter states that Carmichael wrote back to Mr. Richmond, "stating his intention to improve upon the lyric." It is not clear if Carmichael carried oout his intention.

Sudhalter also explains that this song, originally published in 1964, was re-published again in 1966, when it was used for the soundtrack of the movie The Phoenix and was accordingly sub-titled "The Phoenix Love Theme."


Issues

1. The Album I'm A Woman In The Charts
Peggy Lee's 13th album chart entry took place on the week of September 26, 1964. The album spent six weeks in the chart, and peaked at number 97.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Cy Coleman, Lou Levy (con), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), unknown (oc), Peggy Lee (v)

The Pass Me By Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: December 9, 1964. February 17, 18 and 19, 1965.


Songs

1. "Pass Me By" In The Charts
Since the advent of rock'n'roll, singles by vintage pop-jazz artists such as Peggy Lee had been at a disavantage in Billboard's main chart: the Hot 10 did not gather data from the adult contemporary stations that played such singles, concentrating instead in the mainstream stations that played rock and rock'n'roll. This situation was finally rectified in 1965, when Billboard start to tabulate such data, and to publish it in a chart that over the years has been variously called Easy Listening, Pop-Standard, Middle-of-the-Road, or Adult Contemporary. (The chart has actually debuted in 1961, not in 1965, but in those earlier 4 four years the entries had consisted simply of a list of the Hot 100's non-rock'n'roll hits. For instance, if the highest-charting ballad in the Hot 100 was at #12 and the next ballad was at #17, those #12 and #17 ballads would be listed as #1 and #2 for that week in the Easy Listening chart.)

On the week of March 13, 1965, "Pass Me By" peaked at number 20 in the then-called Middle-Road Singles chart. (At this point in time, the chart did not have a fixed number of slots. It listed a maximum of 25, a minimum of 15 titles.)

"Pass Me By" also made the Hot 100 chart, debuting on February 27 and staying for 3 weeks, with a number 93 as its peak.


Musical Instruments

Ocarina on "Pass Me By" only.


Personnel

1. Full Personnel
The Capitol original LP Pass Me By gives a collective personnel for the four sessions that it comprises. Such personnel makes sense for the three sessions that were recorded over the month of February, 1965, but not necessarily for this session, since it was conducted three months earlier. Thus I have not listed the collective personnel under this session.

2. Conductors
Extant information about this session's personnel is very conflicting. Capitol single 5346 indicates that "Pass Me By" and "That's What It Takes" were conducted by Lou Levy. Capitol original LP Pass Me By indicates same. Peggy Lee's Capitol session files list instead Dave Grusin and Shorty Rogers as the conductors, without specifying which one was responsible for which song. Still further, Capitol original LP The Was Then And Now Is Now! gives a third conductor, Cy Coleman, for the song "Then Was Then."

My very tentative assumption is that the session's main arranger was Peggy Lee's regular musical director at the time, Lou Levy, and that Cy Coleman (present at the session as a friend of Lee) conducted the one number that he and Lee composed.

As for the credits to Grusin and Rogers in the session files, for the time being I'm considering those credits wrong. (Perhaps Grusin was wrongly credited with conducting because he arranged the first song. A rationale for the credit to Rogers is harder to find; although the session's "That's What It Takes" could pass as one of his arrangements, or even as another of Grusin's arrangements, Lou Levy is credited instead.)


Arrangements

1. "Then Was Then"
2. Cy Coleman
Two sources give Coleman credit for the arrangement of his own song: Peggy Lee's Capitol session files and the Capitol LP The Was Then And Now Is Now!. Notice that this session's "Pass Me By" is also a Coleman composition. The song originated in the 1964 movie Father Goose, whose score was composed and conducted by Coleman, too.


3. "That's What It Takes"
4. Dave Grusin
5. Lou Levy
6. Dave Grusin
The source for the Lou Levy credit is the original LP Pass Me By. For the possibility that this arrangement was instead by Shorty Rogers, see notes about conductors, above. (Peggy Lee's sheet music library contains an uncredited arrangement of this number.)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Lou Levy and His Orchestra (acc), Robert "Bob" Bain, Dennis Budimir, John Pisano, William "Bill" Pitman (g), Bob Whitlock (b), Lou Levy (p), John Guerin (d), Francisco Aguabella (bo, cng), Peggy Lee (v)

The Pass Me By Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: December 9, 1964. February 17, 18 and 19, 1965.


Arrangements

Acording to the notes in the back cover of the original LP Pass Me By, all songs "were under the direction of Lou Levy, whose expert musicians created most of the accompaniment without benefit of pre-scored arrangements."


Personnel

1. Guitars
2. Dennis Budimir
3. Bill Pitman
These two guitarists are listed as alternating in the Passs Me By sessions, without further specifics. The number of guitarists per session thus seems to have been three (in addition to Bain and Pisano, Pitman is probably in two sessions, Budimir in one).

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Lou Levy and His Orchestra (acc), Robert "Bob" Bain, Dennis Budimir, John Pisano, William "Bill" Pitman (g), Bob Whitlock (b), Lou Levy (p), John Guerin (d), Francisco Aguabella (bo, cng), Peggy Lee (v)

The Pass Me By Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: December 9, 1964. February 17, 18 and 19, 1965.


Issues

1. The Album Pass Me By In The Charts
Peggy Lee's 14th album chart entry peaked at number 145. After debuting on the week of May 22, 1965, it spent 4 weeks in the chart.


Arrangements And Personnel

All songs have head arrangements. See also notes under session dated February 17, 1965.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Lou Levy and His Orchestra (acc), Robert "Bob" Bain, Dennis Budimir, John Pisano, William "Bill" Pitman (g), Bob Whitlock (b), Lou Levy (p), John Guerin (d), Francisco Aguabella (bo, cng), Peggy Lee (v)

The Pass Me By Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: December 9, 1964. February 17, 18 and 19, 1965.


Arrangements And Personnel

All songs have head arrangements. See also notes under session dated February 17, 1965.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Marion L. Klein (om), Sid Feller (con), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Sid Feller and His Orchestra (acc), Robert "Bob" Bain, John Collins, Barney Kessel (g), Max K. Bennett (b), Lou Levy (p), Victor Feldman, John Guerin (d), Victor Arno, Edward Bergman, Harry Bluestone, Jacques Gasselin, Ben Gill, Dan Lube, Erno Neufeld, Lou Raderman, Nathan Ross, Marshall Sosson (vn), Alvin Dinkin, Paul Robyn (vl), Joseph Saxon, Eleanor Slatkin (vc), Theodore Nash aka Theodore Nash (wds), Peggy Lee (v)

The Then Was Then Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: June 18, 1965. July 7, 1965. September 21, 1965. Also, May 31, 1963.


Masters And Issues

1. "Maybe This Summer" In Stereo
2. "Stop Living In The Past" In Stereo
3. Collectors' Choice CD Then Was Then And Now Is Now / Bridge Over Troubles Water
For the Collectors' Choice CD, the two above-listed songs were released on stereo for the first time. In both cases, stereo mixes had been done back in 1965, and kept until now in the vaults.


Arrengers And Arrangements

1. Sid Feller
I have abstained from trusting collective arranger credits that are given in the back cover of original albums. However, I have made an exception in the case of the LP Then Was Then And Now Is Now. Since its annotator makes a point of identifying two songs as not arranged by Feller, I feel safer trusting his assertion that "[a]rrangements for all other selections and the musical direction for the album, are by Sid Feller." This session's two non-album numbers are strings-laden enough to also be deemed Feller arrangements, and corroboration for such an assumption is found, in Peggy Lee's sheet music library, for one of them ("Stop Living In The Past").

2. "The Shadow Of Your Smile"
In addition to Sid Feller's arrangement, Peggy Lee kept another one, by Mickey Ingalls, in her sheet music library.


Personnel

1. Victor Feldman
2. Ted Nash
Feldman and Nash are believed to have played more than one instrument during these sessions. Unfortunately, in both cases I have corroboration only for the one instrument listed.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Sid Feller (con), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Sid Feller and His Orchestra (acc), Peggy Lee (v)

The Then Was Then Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: June 18, 1965. July 7, 1965. September 21, 1965. Also, May 31, 1963.


Songs

1. "Free Spirits" In The Charts
Peggy Lee's treatment of this song entered Billboard's Easy Listening chart on the week of October 23, 1965, staying for seven weeks and peaking at number 29.


Personnel

This date's musicians are unknown, but presumed to be mostly the same ones who participated in an earlier Then Was Then And Now Is Now! session, dated June 18, 1965.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Sid Feller (con), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Sid Feller and His Orchestra (acc), Peggy Lee (v)

The Happy Holiday Album Sessions (Cross-references)

This is actually the album's only new session. The rest of its songs were culled from the earlier Christmas Carousel album. Dates: June 15 and 19, 1960, plus October 10, 1959.


Issues

1. Compleat Little Drummer Boy (Pro 4470 DJ)
This various-artists EP contains versions of the same song ("Little Drummer Boy") by members of the Capitol roster: Tennessee Ernie Ford, Sonny James, The Lettermen, Lou Rawls, Peggy Lee, Al Martino, Marlene Dietrich. It was not a commercial but a promotional item, probably distributed to radio stations only. (As with most other various-artists compilations, I have not incorporated this issue in the sessionography. Instead, it is listed it in a separate discographical page, dedicated to such compilations.)

2. The Album Happy Holiday In The Charts
Curiously, Joel Whitburn lists this album as entering Billboard's album chart on December 30, 1967, which is over two years after its original release. It peaked at number 115, and became Peggy Lee's 16th album chart entry, following the singer's Big Spender LP.


Personnel

This date's musicians are unknown. They may be, for the most part, the same ones who participated in the Then Was Then And Now Is Now! dates that preceded this one. See personnel under session dated June 18, 1965.


Arrangers And Arrangements

1. Sid Feller
2. "Little Drummer Boy"
The credit to Feller for this song's arrangement is based on the existence of a copy in Peggy Lee's sheet music library.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Sid Feller (con), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Sid Feller and His Orchestra (acc), Peggy Lee (v)

The Then Was Then Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: June 18, 1965. July 7, 1965. September 21, 1965. Also, May 31, 1963.


Arrangers And Arrangements

1. Sid Feller
In the album Then Was Then And Now Is Now Feller is credited with arranging all songs from this session. With the exception of "Losers Weepers," copies of all the listed Sid Feller arrangements exist in Peggy Lee's music sheet library.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Bill Holman (con), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), John Kraus (eng), Bill Holman and His Orchestra (acc), Peggy Lee (v)

The Big Spender Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: October 27 and 29, 1965. February 1, 1966.


Songs

1. "Big Spender" In The Charts
This song was a top 10 for Peggy Lee. After debuting on the week of January 29, 1966, it spent nine weeks in the Easy Listening chart, peaking at number 9. At the top of the chart that week was Al Martino's "Spanish Eyes."


Personnel

This date's musicians are unknown, but presumed to be mostly the same ones who participated in a later Big Spender session, dated July 18, 1966.


Arrangements

The liner notes in the back cover of Capitol's original LP Big Spender give arranging credits for the album's songs.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Marion L. Klein (om), Bill Holman (con), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), John Kraus (eng), Conte Candoli, Walter "Pete" Candoli, Al Porcino, Clarence "Shorty" Sherock (t), Vernon "Vern" Friley, Urban "Urbie" Green, Robert Knight (tb), Aubrey Bouch, unknown (frh), John Gray, Alfred "Al" Viola (g), Max K. Bennett (b), Lou Levy (p), Francisco Aguabella, Stan Levey, Chester Ricord (d), Bernard Fleischer, Arthur C. Smith (wds), Peggy Lee (v)

The Big Spender Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: October 27 and 29, 1965. February 1, 1966.


Issues

1. Routine Jazz! (CD)
I have not been able to listen to this disc, which is presumed to contain a dj-remixed version of "I Must Know." (Johnny Hartman, Duke Pearson, Marlena Shaw, and Horace Silver are among the other singers whose tracks are included.)

Personnel

1. Al Porcino
2. Arthur C. Smith
3. Bernard Fleischer
These three musicians played more than one instrument during this session. Porcino played two instruments, Smith played three, and Fleischer played four. Unfortunately, the paperwork that I consulted lists only one of the instruments that each of these musicians played.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), John Kraus (eng), Peggy Lee (v)

The Big Spender Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: October 27 and 29, 1965. February 1, 1966.


Songs And Masters

1. "That Man" In The Charts
This humorous novelty spent five weeks in the Easy Listening chart. After debuting on the week of April 9, 1966, it peaked at number 31. It became Lee's ninth self-penned number to enter Billboard's charts. The number was originally considered for inclusion in the album Big Spender, in a mix that excluded overdubbed parts heard in the 45 issue.

2. "You've Got Possibilities" In The Charts
This Broadway musical number reached a number 36 peak in the Easy Listening chart. Its four weeks in that chart began on June 18, 1966, when Frank Sinatra's "Strangers In The Night" was at number one.


Issues

1. The Album Big Spender In The Charts
Peggy Lee's 15th album chart entry peaked at number 130. After debuting on the week of July 30, 1966, it spent three weeks in the chart.


Arrangements

1. Head Arrangements
2. Mundell Lowe
3. "You Don't Know"
The annotator of the Capitol album Big Spender states that both "You Don't Know" and "You've Got Possibiities" have head arrangements. However, Peggy Lee's sheet music contains a Mundell Lowe arrangement of "You've Got Possibilities;" I'm tentatively assuming that it is not heard in this session's version. About "You Don't Know," the annotator states that it is a "little band blues treatment that features guitars .... cooked up during this session."

Peggy Lee (ldr), Quincy Jones (con), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Bob Cooper, Harry Klee, Jack Nimitz, Bud Shank (r), Aubrey Bouch, Bill Henshaw, Sinclair Lott, Henry Sigismonti (frh), Robert "Bob" Bain, Dennis Budimir, John Pisano, Toots Thielemans (g), Max K. Bennett (b), unknown (str), Lou Levy (p), Artie Kane (org), Earl Palmer (d), Larry Bunker, Emil Richards, aka Emil Radocchia (per), Peggy Lee (v)

Albums

1. Peggy Lee Sings Peggy Lee (LP)
This session of all-Peggy Lee compositions compels me to mention a LP release that, in 1965, Capitol announced as upcoming. This prospective LP, titled Peggy Lee Sings Peggy Lee, never materialized. (Perhaps some of this session's song were considered for inclusion?)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Marion L. Klein (om), Dave Grusin (con), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Laurindo Almeida, Robert "Bob" Bain, Dennis Budimir, John Collins, Herb Ellis, Al Hendrickson, Louis "Lou" Morell (g), Max K. Bennett (b), Lou Levy (p), Francisco Aguabella, Larry Bunker, John Guerin (d), Peggy Lee (v)

The Guitars Ala Lee Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: July 18, 22 and 26, 1966.


Issues

1. S&P CD Latin Ala Lee! An "Sweet Happy Life"
The digitally remastered version of "Sweet Happy Life" from the S&P CD Latin Ala Lee! has taken out the echo that was heard in the orginal LP version.


Cross-references

1. "My Guitar"
For earlier and unissued versions of this song, see sessions dated June 22 and 24, 1961.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Peggy Lee (v)

The Guitars Ala Lee Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: July 18, 22 and 26, 1966.


Masters

1."Good Times"
The most noticeable difference between the mono and stereo takes of "Good Times" is the manner in which Peggy Lee sings the word "passed" in the song's closing line ("and the good times passed me by"): as one note in the mono version, three notes in the stereo version. My thanks to Yvan Tarbouriech for alerting me to the existence of two takes, and for pointing out this specific difference.


Songrwiters

1. "An Empty Glass"
2. Branco
In original Capitol Guitars Ala Lee, a person by the last name of "Branco" receives credit for co-writing "An Empty Glass." Branco is not credited in various the other sources available to me: ASCAP, the EMI CD Pretty Eyes / Guitars Ala Lee, and the Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme album Bonfa & Brazil, which features guitar playing by songwriter Bonfá himself.


Personnel

This date's musicians are unknown, but presumed to be mostly the same ones who participated in an earlier Guitars Ala Lee session, dated July 18, 1966.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Peggy Lee (v)

The Guitars Ala Lee Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: July 18, 22 and 26, 1966.


Personnel

This date's musicians are unknown, but presumed to be mostly the same ones who participated in an earlier Guitars Ala Lee session, dated July 18, 1966.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Peggy Lee (v)

The Guitars Ala Lee Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: July 18, 22 and 26, 1966.


Personnel

This date's musicians are unknown, but presumed to be mostly the same ones who participated in an earlier Guitars Ala Lee session, dated July 18, 1966.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Robert "Bob" Bain, Dave Grusin (con), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Peggy Lee (v)

The Extra Special! Pick-up Album Sessions (Cross-references)

This 1967 album actually picked up songs mostly from singles, all of them recorded in the 1960's. Three songs came from the earliest of those sessions, dated July 26, 1960. Others: 1960 (September 1), 1961 (May 19), 1962 (April 2), 1963 (May 29), 1965 (February 19), and 1966 (May 21 and September 13).


Songs

1. "So What's New?" In The Charts
2. "Walking Happy" In The Charts
The 45 Capitol 5758 was a double-charting single that gave Peggy Lee the 60th and 61st Billboard song chart entries of her career.

"So What's New?" was also her 10th (and last) self-penned to make the charts. It entered the Easy Listening list on the week of October 15, 1966, when Frank Sinatra's "Summer Wind" occupied the top spot. It peaked at number 20, and stayed for seven weeks.

"Walking Happy" debuted a week later, and scored higher: at number 14. It stayed in the chart for eleven weeks.


Arrangers And Arrangements

1. "So What's New?"
2. Mundell Lowe
In addition to Robert Bain's arrangement, Peggy Lee's sheet music library also contains a Mundell Lowe arrangement of this song.


Issues

Musicbank CD 1183 (Peggy Lee: Greatest Hits) incorrectly lists "So What's New" among its tracks. The disc contains instead another song, "What's New," in the version that Lee recorded for the World Transcription Service.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Ralph Carmichael (con), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Justin Gordon, John "Plas" Johnson (r), Anthony Terran, James C. "Jimmy" Zito (t), Robert "Bob" Bain, Dennis Budimir, John Pisano (g), Max K. Bennett (b), Harry Bluestone, Arnold Delnick, Bonnie Douglas, David Frisina, Jacques Gasselin, Nat Kaproff, Erno Neufeld, Paul Shure, Gerald Vinci (str), Lou Levy (p), Toots Thielemans (h), Nick Ceroli (d), Peggy Lee (v)

The Somethin' Groovy Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: June 6, 8, 9 and 10, 1967.


Songs

1. "I Feel It" In The Charts
A top 10 for Peggy Lee, her "I Feel It" entered the Easy Listening chart on the week of September 30, 1967, stayed for ten weeks, and peaked at number 8. Frank Sinatra's "The World We Knew" was on the top spot at this time.


Arrangements

1. "Lonesome Road"
The reason for the arranging credit to Billy May is the existence of a May arrangement of this song in Peggy Lee's sheet music library. This is a tentative credit, because I do not know if the library's arrangement truly is the same one used for this session. In Gene Lees' essay for the Peggy Lee album that is part of Time-Life's "Legendary Singers" series, Ralph Carmichael is actually credited, but I am not sure if Lee's credit is merely based on specific knowledge, or on the fact that Carmichael is the album's conductor or, per the album's credits, its musical director.


Personnel

1. Toots Thielemans
The identification of Toots Thielemans as part of this personnel also comes from information given on Time Life Music LP/CS LGD07.


Masters

1. Master 57769
2. "I Wound It Up"
Master 57769 appears twice in Peggy Lee's session files, the second time in a session dated June 29, 1967, which does not list any other songs. It's actually an overdub, as clearly stated in the session file: "Peggy Lee overdubbed on band tracks by Orchestra arr. by Shorty Rogers."

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Peggy Lee (v)

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), Toots Thielemans (g, h), Peggy Lee (v)

The Somethin' Groovy Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: June 6, 8, 9 and 10, 1967.


Personnel

1. Toots Thielemans
2. Harmonica And Guitar
Toots Thielemans' harmonica on "Release Me." Thielemans might also be the guitar player on "You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby" and "No Fool Like An Old Fool."

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), unknown (r, b, str, d), Dennis Budimir, Mundell Lowe (g), Toots Thielemans (g, h), Max K. Bennett (b), Lou Levy (p), John Guerin (per), Peggy Lee (v)

The Somethin' Groovy Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: June 6, 8, 9 and 10, 1967.


Songs

1. "(Our) Love Is Here To Stay"
"Love Is Here To Stay" is this song's official title (that is, the title that The Gershwins originally gave to their song). The possessive our has become unofficial part of the title as a result of popular preference.


Masters And Issues

1. "(Our) Love Is Here To Stay"
2. Capitol CD 0777 7 97826 2 8
The Capitol box Miss Peggy Lee uses a different mix of this song. The differences are most noticeable toward the middle of the song, when a brass section is heard. The original album version is the superior mix.


Arrangements

1. "Two For The Road"
2. "(Our) Love Is Here To Stay"
The credits to Johnny Mandel and Ted Nichols are tentative -- based on the existence of arrangements by them in Peggy Lee's sheet music library.

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Cavanaugh (pdr), unknown (r, b, str, d), Toots Thielemans (g), Peggy Lee (v)

The Somethin' Groovy Album Sessions (Cross-references)

Dates: June 6, 8, 9 and 10, 1967.


Arrangements

1. "It Might As Well Be Spring"
The Ted Nichols arrangement credit is tentative; it's based on the existence of an arrangement of this song at Peggy Lee's sheet music library.

GENERAL NOTES

Peggy Lee At Capitol Records, 1957-1962

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