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<DIV>Peggy Lee: Live in London (Universal) </DIV>
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<DIV>by Christopher Loudon</DIV>
<DIV>Jazz Times, April 2016</DIV>
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<DIV>Peggy Lee claimed London was her favorite city. She traveled there often,
first in 1961, regularly throughout the 1980s and for a final appearance at
Royal Albert Hall in 1990. Most significant was a 1977 visit, resulting in
back-to-back albums for Polydor, supervised by British composer, arranger and
conductor Pete Moore. The first was captured in the studio, the second live at
the Palladium. On CD for the first time, they form the backbone of this graceful
four-disc set.</DIV>
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<DIV>In 1972, Lee had ended her two-part quarter-century tenure with Capitol.
She jumped to Atlantic Records for two albums before heading to England for the
only offshore recordings of her career. The studio release, entitled simply
Peggy, finds her in superb voice. Lee was among the first singers of her
generation to incorporate contemporary songwriters -- Carole King, Randy Newman,
James Taylor -- into her programs. She successfully adds Neil Sedaka’s “The
Hungry Years,” Peter Allen’s “I Got to Rio,” the 10cc hit “I’m Not in Love” and,
from A Chorus Line, Marvin Hamlisch’s “What I Did for Love” to her repertoire,
and unearths the Johnny Mercer rarity “Star Sounds.” She also includes one
original, written with Moore, the achingly introspective “Courage,
Madame.”</DIV>
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<DIV>She is in equally top form on Live From London, focusing on her classic
hits while further widening her net with a peppy reading of Paul Simon’s “Have a
Good Time” and a “Touch Me in the Morning” far more moving than the Diana Ross
version. Lee, notoriously picky about live albums, wasn’t fully satisfied with
the results and asked that another Palladium concert also be recorded a week
later. But Polydor rushed the album’s release, only using material from the
first date.</DIV>
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<DIV>Disc three of this set at last unveils that second, longer performance in
its entirely. It features a wider assortment of her hits and is highlighted by a
silken, 10-minute Rodgers and Hart medley. Also included is a brief rehearsal
snippet with Lee recalling Billie Holiday. Disc four, a DVD, is from four years
later, the 46-minute BBC TV special Peggy Lee Entertains. Lee’s late-career
placidity has started to gel (her face barely moves a muscle), yet she remains
dazzling. Again the focus is on her hits, but she revisits the Allen
songbook for a tender “Don’t Cry Out Loud” and delightfully conquers Stephen
Sondheim and Mary Rodgers’ “The Boy From...,” their witty, tongue-twisting
sendup of “The Girl From Ipanema.”</DIV>
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