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May 14, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Peggy Lee At Last

When Mad Men returned to television on April 5 for the first of its final seven episodes, viewers saw a different Don Draper - perhaps ready, at last, to realize what he'd become.  To underscore his possible epiphany of disillusionment, the strains of Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?" recurred numerous times throughout the episode.  The song's placement underscored just how resonant Lee's music - mysterious, elegant, startling, bluesy, sensual, sly, hip, alternately hot and cool - continues to

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Peggy Lee

May 5, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Lady and the Tramp

UPDATED FROM ORIGINAL POST OF 4/28/15 [UPDATES IN BOLD]: Monday was a bella notte as Intrada began accepting orders for the long-awaited Legacy Collection reissue of the soundtrack to Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp.  The 1955 film, featuring an orchestral score by Oliver Wallace and songs by Sonny Burke and Peggy Lee (who also portrays Peg and other roles in the film), has been expanded to two CDs as the latest release in Walt Disney Records' series of deluxe soundtracks. Inspired by Ward

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Peggy Lee

April 28, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Lady and the Tramp

Monday was a bella notte as Intrada began accepting orders for the long-awaited Legacy Collection reissue of the soundtrack to Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp.  The 1955 film, featuring an orchestral score by Oliver Wallace and songs by Sonny Burke and Peggy Lee (who also portrays Peg and other roles in the film), has been expanded to two CDs as the latest release in Walt Disney Records' series of deluxe soundtracks. Inspired by Ward Greene's short story "Happy Dan, the Whistling Dog," Lady

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Peggy Lee

March 10, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Mathis Cover

This week brings a particularly impressive slate by any standard, but we're particularly proud to introduce the world to Second Disc Records with our first two releases, from Johnny Mathis and the late Bob Crewe! Johnny Mathis, Life is a Song Worth Singing: The Complete Thom Bell Sessions (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Here, on two CDs, we proudly present both of Johnny Mathis' album collaborations - including the never-on-CD Mathis Is... - with songwriter-producer

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, SACD Genre: Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Art Pepper, Bettye LaVette, Bob Crewe, Bread, Grace Slick, Grover Washington Jr., Jackie DeShannon, Johnny Mathis, Judas Priest, Julie Andrews, Peggy Lee, Perry Como, The Guess Who

January 15, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Peggy Lee At Last

We hope that nobody missed yesterday’s big news of The Second Disc’s partnership with Real Gone Music to create Second Disc Records, launching March 10 with a pair of releases from Johnny Mathis and Bob Crewe!  But that’s not all that Real Gone has on tap for March release.   With a total of eight titles ranging from psychedelia to standards, this may be one of the label’s most eclectic release batches yet! Real Gone is kicking off the month on March 3 with two iconic classic rock albums on

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Bettye LaVette, Bob Crewe, Foghat, Johnny Mathis, Peggy Lee, Perry Como, Shanti, The J. Geils Band

August 21, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

mid century minx

Bob Stanley’s Croydon Municipal label has carved out a niche as part of Cherry Red’s label roster with its eclectic compilations and album reissues from the 1950s and early 1960s focusing on dusty corners of classic American pop ripe for reevaluation.  Three of Stanley’s latest projects continue that mission with the compiler’s usual flair for the unexpected.  The anthology Mid Century Minx focuses on many of the lesser-known ladies of vocal jazz along with some still-beloved (if underrated)

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Anita O'Day, Dolores Gray, Jo Stafford, Peggy Lee

March 12, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

any which way you can

Varese Vintage is going any which way they can with an exciting trio of soundtrack releases from the library of Snuff Garrett’s Viva Records label.  Garrett, of course, was the producer behind major hits from Gary Lewis and the Playboys (“This Diamond Ring”), Cher (“Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves”) and future “Mama” Vicki Lawrence (“The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia”).  At Viva, he oversaw an eclectic array of releases from artists like the Midnight String Quartet, Alan O’Day, Ray Price and

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Chet Baker, Glen Campbell, Peggy Lee, Porter Wagoner, Ray Charles, Ray Price

January 5, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

pan am1

Following in the footsteps of Matthew Weiner’s 1960s drama Mad Men, Jack Orman’s Pan Am takes to the airwaves each week on ABC with a period-perfect recreation of the days when "the world's most experienced airline" ruled the skies.  Now, the show’s impeccably-selected music can be yours to keep - and perhaps used as the soundtrack to your very own swinging cocktail party! - on Verve’s Pan Am: Music From and Inspired by the Original Series, due to arrive on January 17.  How appropriate that one

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Categories: News Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Peggy Lee, Sergio Mendes, Stan Getz

July 29, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

where the boys are

Doo doo doo down doo be do down down/Come a come a down doo be do down down… One year before “Da Doo Ron Ron,” eleven before “Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)” and eighteen before “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da,” Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield taught the world that “Breakin’ Up is Hard to Do” with their immortal wordless refrain.  Sedaka went on to become the king of the “Tra-la-las” and “shoo-be-doos” with his early rock-and-roll records, and the Juilliard-trained musician was one of the

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Categories: News Tags: Neil Sedaka, Peggy Lee, The Monkees

May 27, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

peggy lee groovy

Norma Deloris Egstrom of Jamestown, North Dakota, was born in 1920, but as Peggy Lee she blazed a trail like few others in American popular music.  A triple threat singer/songwriter/actress, Lee had a long recording career spanning over fifty years.  Her first No. 1 was scored in 1942 and her final track was released in 1995, seven years before her death in 2002.  She was an Academy Award-nominated actress (Pete Kelly's Blues) and a talented songwriter whose collaborators included Harold Arlen,

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