The Singles Collection (2002)

About this title: Peggy Lee was a renaissance woman, a multi-talented singer and composer who achieved popular as well as critical success. Short of a complete recordings box set, The Singles Collection is the best Peggy Lee career anthology yet, and a big improvement over the oddly compiled and sequenced 1998 box set Miss Peggy Lee. The Singles Collection isn't complete -- Lee released hundreds of singles -- and it doesn't come close to compiling all of her hits (in fact, it doesn't even compile all of her Top Ten hits), but it does offer a chronological journey through her catalog from her early days with ... read more

Tracks:

1. Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) [Porter]
2. Somebody Nobody Loves [Miller]
3. Why Don't You Do Right? [McCoy]
4. On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe [Mercer/Warren]
5. It's Anybody's Spring [Burke/VanHeusen]
6. What More Can a Woman Do [Barbour/Lee]
7. You Was Right, Baby [Barbour/Lee]
8. Waiting for the Train to Come In [Block/Skylar]
9. I Don't Know Enough About You [Barbour/Lee]
10. I Can See It Your Way [James/Miller]
11. Baby, You Can Count on Me [Stewart]
12. It's a Good Day [Barbour/Lee]
13. A Nightingale Can Sing the Blues [Charles/Marks]
14. He's Just My Kind [Huddleston/McIntyre]
15. She Did'nt Say Yes [Harbach/Kern]
16. Birmingham Jail [Traditional]
17. Don't Be So Mean to Baby [Barbour/Lee]
18. Bluest Kind of Blues (Nuages) [Reinhardt/Williams]
19. Everything's Movin' Too Fast [Barbour/Lee]
20. Speaking of Angels [Benjamin/Weiss]
21. Chi-Baba Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep) [David/Hoffman/Livin]
22. Just an Old Love of Mine [Barbour/Lee]
23. Sugar [Alexander/Mitchell/]
24. Golden Earrings [Evans/Livingston/Yo]
25. Why Don't You Do Right? [McCoy]
26. Hold Me [Little/Oppenheim/Sc]
27. Them There Eyes [Pinkard/Tauber/Trac]
28. Everybody Loves Somebody [Coslow/Lane/Taylor]
29. Caramba! It's the Samba [Pola/Taylor/Wyle]
30. Maņana [Barbour/Lee]
31. So Dear to My Heart [Freman/Taylor]
32. While We're Young [Engvick/Palitz/Wild]
33. Don't Smoke in Bed [Robinson]
34. Just a Shade on the Blue Side [Carmichael/Adamson]
35. You Was [Burke/Webster]
36. Someone Like You [Blane/Warren]
37. Please, Love Me Tonight [Watkins]
38. If You Could See Me Now [Dameron/Sigman]
39. Similau (See-Me-Lo) [Clar/Coleman/Gonz-l]
40. You Can Have Him [Berlin]
41. At the Cafe Rendezvous [Cahn/Styne]
42. Goodbye John [Eager/Wilder]
43. Through a Long and Sleepless Night [Gordon/Newman]
44. Save Your Sorrow for Tomorrow [DeSylva/Sherman]
45. The Old Master Painter [Smith/Gillespie]
46. Bless You (For the Good That's in You) [Lee/Torme]
47. When You Speak With Your Eyes [Barbour/Lee/Touzet]
48. My Small Senor (With the Sonriente Eyes) [Barbour/Lee]
49. Cry, Cry, Cry [Monroe/Skylar]
50. Once Around the Moon [Hilliard/Sigman]
51. Helpless [Wells]
52. They Can't Take That Away from Me [Gershwin/Gershwin]
53. Happy Music [Barbour/Lee]
54. Life Is So Peculiar [Burke/Van Heusen]
55. Where Are You? [Adamson/McHugh]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.