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The Lost 40s and 50s Capitol Masters | 
 enlarge | Artist: Peggy Lee
Label: Collector's Choice
Category: Music
List Price: $27.98
Buy New: $11.25
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 58130
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 15.6 x 5.5 x 0.4
MPN: 917
UPC: 617742091724
EAN: 0617742091724
ASIN: B0015I2Q1M
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | A Cottage For Sale | | • | Don't Be So Mean To Baby (Alternate Version) | | • | I've Had My Moments | | • | Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Alternate Version) | | • | Music, Maestro, Please! | | • | Golden Earrings (Alternate Version) | | • | A Hundred Years From Today | | • | Love Ye | | • | I Don't Know What To Do Without You, Baby | | • | Don't Give Me A Ring On The Telephone | | • | If I Could Steal You From Somebody Else | | • | Something To Remember You By | | • | Pick Up Your Marbles And Go Home | | • | Ain't Goin' No Place | | • | Aren't You Kind Of Glad We Did? | | • | Trouble Is A Man | | • | It's Lovin' Time | | • | Ain't Cha Ever Comin' Back | | • | It Takes A Long, Long Train With A Red Caboose | | • | The Freedom Train | | • | Keep Me In Mind | | • | Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere | | • | I Wanna Go Where You Go (Then I'll Be Happy) | | • | Neon Signs | | • | A Man Wrote A Song | | • | Sunshine Cake | | • | Run For The Roundhouse, Nellie | | • | The Cannonball Express | | • | Ay, Ay Chug A Chug | | • | Climb Up The Mountain | | • | That Ol' Devil Won't Get Me | | • | If You Turn Me Down | | • | Boulevard Cafe | | • | It Never Happened To Me | | • | So Far, So Good | | • | My Magic Heart | | • | Telling Me Yes And Telling Me No (with Mel Torme) | | • | Shame On You | | • | Goin' On A Hayride |
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Product Description
39 tracks of Peggy Lee from the Capitol vaults, not one of which has ever been on CD and 13 of which have never been released! All mastered from the original tapes in original mono. Detailed annotation and fabulous period pictures straight from the estate accompany.
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| Customer Reviews:
Even the Dregs Beat Most of the Competition! June 27, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Now, with so much of Peggy Lee's back catalog finally seeing reissue on CDs over the past few years, it would seem that the bottom of the barrel is being scraped for the last remaining morsels.
Or is it? So, these aren't the hits, but Peggy seems to have been incapable of giving anything less than her best effort, as most of these tunes make clear. Fans will all have their favorites; mine are "Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere," "The Devil Won't Get Me," the duets with Mel Torme, who was one of her best singing partners, and "Please Don't Call Me On the Telephone," a voice-altered reference to the novelty songs of the 1920's.
Anyway, if you are new to Peggy Lee, I wouldn't recommend that you start collecting with this disc. But if you're a loyal fan, you shouldn't be disappointed in this delightful compilation.
 Excellent Overview of Rare Recordings June 12, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This issue is not advertised as Peggy's Greatest Hits or as "The Best of Peggy", so the reviewer who scorns it because it is not the "Best" is off mark. There are dozens of "Best of" compilations of Peggy Lee available. After years and years of fans wishing to obtain those rare, never re-issued singles of Peggy (and of many other singers, for that matter), Collector's Choice should be applauded for bringing these together. Recordings from the 40's and 50's have a special quality, even if they aren't all Gershwin, Porter and Berlin. This is a very fine collection, and the cover photo and essay alone are worth the price. Pick it up, and encourage Collector's Choice to keep up their excellent reissue series.
 OK, But Not Among Peggy's Finest June 6, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Peggy made a lot of really wonderful recordings over the two different time periods that she recorded for Capital in the 40's and 50's, and I'm a big fan of those. Unfortunately, these weren't among them. They're not awful, they're just not her best recordings. Several of them are either novelty stuff or just pop pap that posterity doesn't really need to remember. The rest of them are just OK. Some of these numbers she made better recordings of at different times. Unless you are a completist or have almost everything else that Peggy has ever recorded, you probably wouldn't miss not having these.
It is nice when people like Collector's Choice sponser dredging up recordings that nobody else has taken the effort to pull out and remaster, it's just more appreciated when the effort is more deserving.
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