Since March, Peggy Lee and Capitol Records/Universal Music Enterprises have been releasing a digital series that shares rare tracks from the iconic singer-songwriter not yet available on streaming platforms. Now, Vol. 3 of the series is available, featuring 13 selections recorded for Capitol between 1951 and 1972.
Listen to Peggy Lee’s From The Vaults (Vol.3) now.
Some of the selected tracks were written by emerging songwriting giants Burt Bacharach and Jimmy Webb, and one was co-written by Peggy Lee herself. The collection also features a popular song by television pioneer Steve Allen, Tin Pan Alley and jazz standards, alternate versions of four songs, and another three songs that remained unreleased in Lee’s lifetime (1920-2002.)
The song co-penned by Lee is “I Love You But I Don’t Like You,” co-written with Heinie Beau, the saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, and conductor who regularly worked in the 1940s with Lee and her first husband, guitarist and hit songwriting partner Dave Barbour (“It’s a Good Day,” “Mañana.”) The track was recorded in 1951.
The four alternate takes featured in From the Vaults (Vol. 3) show notable differences from their released versions. “Uninvited Dream,” a 1957 single, was significantly rearranged when released. We’ll also hear different versions of “A Taste of Honey” from Lee’s Grammy-nominated 1963 album I’m a Woman, “Me and My Shadow,” the B-side of Lee’s Grammy-winning 1969 single “Is That All There Is?”, and “I’ll Be Seeing You,” the final track on Lee’s final album for Capitol, 1972’s Norma Deloris Egstrom from Jamestown, North Dakota.
With the release of the four-volume From the Vaults digital series, Lee’s entire catalog of issued master recordings from the Universal family of labels — Capitol, Decca, A&M, and Polydor — will be accessible via digital streaming. The fourth volume will compile duets and other musical collaborations recorded between 1947 and 1972, Lee’s last year under contract with Capitol Records.
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