Peggy Lee - Make It with You/ Where Did They Go?
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Canadian Music Store Music CD CoverArtist: Peggy LeeEdition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2008-05-27 Music Label: Collector's Choice Soundtracks:
Free Music Notes for Make It with You/ Where Did They Go?Free Music Review: Peggy Lee's Mastery of Pop Music Shines More Brightly Than EverAs a life-long Peggy Lee fan, I feel compelled to add my review to the generally condescending critical commentary these albums have received. After a lifetime of listening to Peggy's recordings, from the Benny Goodman sides to her final recorded appearances and to her live work over the years, I find that these,and the other, Capitol recordings from 1969-72 are among the ones I re-visit most often. In the rock and roll years, Peggy embraced the contemporary music of that time to the (temporary) exclusion of the standards fare she had built her career upon. Peggy kept up with new developments in all types of music with an insatiable curiosity and understanding. She believed in this music and wished to keep herself moving forward, never content to merely repeat what she had always done so well. (I know this from a number of conversations I had with her on the subject.) Her from-the-ground-up knowledge of how a pop hit was built, and of the devices most effective in reaching the largest possible audience, enabled her quickly to penetrate the essence of this material and discern its secrets. Far from being the palid covers many find, I believe she reached a remarkeable synthisis of the qualities of these hits of the day (and other contemporary songs with which she personally identified). With arrangers Mike Melvoin, Benny Golson, Phil Wright, Michel Legrand and a young Randy Newman, she developed a musical atmosphere of mystery and melancholy unique in all of her recorded output, one that suits the songs and brings them to that special place where she musically could dwell within them as she does with all of her best performances. I even feel that she gives many of them a classic stature that makes them better songs than they were in their original juke box incarnations. I promise that a deep, open-minded listen to these two albums, and her other work of the period, all in print now, will reward you with some stunning insights into the towering artistry-that-conceals-and-even-denys-art of this overlooked and misunderstood area of her great body of work. I call this her "Rock 'n'Roses" period and I earnestly hope that many will come to love and enjoy it as much I and many (but not all) of my friends do. Believe me, "Is That All There Is?" is by no means all there was. Freeman Gunter
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