Peggy Lee discography explained

This article presents the discography of the jazz singer, songwriter, and composer Peggy Lee, covering her recording career from 1941 up to 1993.

Albums

Capitol Records

Decca Records

Harmony

Capitol

Post-Capitol albums

As guest vocalist

With Benny Carter

Singles

With Benny Goodman and His Orchestra

1 Denotes non-Peggy Lee, non-album B-sides

YearSingle (A-side, B-side)
Both sides from same album except where indicated
Chart Positions [1] Album
USUS
AC
UK[2] AU[3]
1941"Elmer's Tune"
b/w "The Birth Of The Blues"1
Peggy Lee Sings With Benny Goodman
"I See A Million People"
b/w "The Count"1
Non-album tracks
"Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)"
b/w "The Earl"1
Benny Goodman, His Orchestra and Sextet
"I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)"
b/w "Pound Ridge"1
25Non-album tracks
"Shady Lady Bird"
b/w "Buckle Down Winsocki"1
"Winter Weather" (with Art Lund)
b/w "Everything I Love"
24Benny Goodman, His Orchestra and Sextet
"How Long Has This Been Going On"
b/w "Clarinet A La King"1
Peggy Lee Sings With Benny Goodman
"Blues In The Night"
b/w "Where Or When" (from Benny Goodman, His Orchestra and Sextet)
20Non-album tracks
"Somebody Else Is Taking My Place"
b/w "That Did It, Marie" (from Peggy Lee Sings With Benny Goodman)
5
1942"Somebody Nobody Loves"
b/w "Let's Give Love A Chance"1
Benny Goodman, His Orchestra and Sextet
"The Lamp Of Memory"
b/w "When The Roses Bloom Again"1
Non-album tracks
"My Little Cousin"
b/w "A Zoot Suit"1
14Benny Goodman, His Orchestra and Sextet
"We'll Meet Again"
b/w "Before"1
16Peggy Lee Sings With Benny Goodman
"Not Mine"
b/w "If You Build A Better Mousetrap" (with Art London, non-album track)
Benny Goodman, His Orchestra and Sextet
"Full Moon"
b/w "I Threw A Kiss In The Ocean"
22Peggy Lee Sings With Benny Goodman
"The Way You Look Tonight"
b/w "The Wang Wang Blues" (Non-album track)
21Benny Goodman, His Orchestra and Sextet
"On The Sunny Side Of The Street"
b/w "All I Need Is You" (from Peggy Lee Sings With Benny Goodman)
1943"Why Don't You Do Right?"
b/w "Six Flats Unfurnished"1
412Benny Goodman Dance Parade
1945"My Old Flame"
b/w "How Deep Is The Ocean" (Non-album track)
Peggy Lee Sings With Benny Goodman
1947"On The Sunny Side Of The Street"
b/w "Serenade In Blue"1
Benny Goodman, His Orchestra and Sextet
1948"On The Sunny Side Of The Street"
b/w "There's A Small Hotel"1
"For Every Man, There's A Woman"
b/w "Beyond The Sea"1
25Non-album tracks
"Somebody Else is Taking My Place"
b/w "Why Don't You Do Right" (from Benny Goodman Dance Parade)
(Reissues)
30
1950"I See A Million People"
b/w "I See A Million People" (Cab Calloway)1

With Bob Crosby & His Orchestra

Both are non-charting, non-album tracks

Peggy Lee solo, accompanied by various orchestras

YearSingle (A-side, B-side)
Both sides from same album except where indicated
Chart Positions Album
USUS
AC
UK[4] AU
1945"What More Can a Woman Do?"
b/w "You Was Right, Baby"
Non-album tracks
"Waitin' for the Train to Come In" /4
1946"I'm Glad I Waited for You"24
"I Don't Know Enough About You"
b/w "I Can See It Your Way" (Non-album track)
716Rendezvous With Peggy Lee
"Linger in My Arms a Little Longer, Baby"
b/w "Baby You Can Count On Me"
16Non-album tracks
"It's All Over Now"
b/w "Aren't You Kind of Glad We Did?"
10
1947"It's a Good Day"
b/w "He's Just My Kind" (Non-album track)
16Rendezvous With Peggy Lee
"Everything's Moving Too Fast"
b/w "It's Lovin' Time"
21Non-album tracks
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
b/w "Speaking of Angels" (Non-album track)
My Best To You - Peggy Lee Sings
"Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)"
b/w "Ain'tcha Ever Comin' Back"
10Non-album tracks
"It Takes a Long Long Train with a Red Caboose (To Carry My Blues Away)"
b/w "Just an Old Love of Mine"
"There'll Be Some Changes Made"
b/w "A Nightingale Can Sing the Blues" (from My Best to You - Peggy Lee Sings)
"Golden Earrings"
b/w "I'll Dance at Your Wedding" (Non-album track)
23Rendezvous with Peggy Lee
1948"Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)" /13
"All Dressed Up with a Broken Heart"21Non-album tracks
"Laroo, Laroo, Lili Bolero" /13
"Talking to Myself About You"23
"Don't Smoke in Bed"
b/w "Everybody Loves Somebody" (Non-album track)
22Rendezvous with Peggy Lee
"Caramba! It's the Samba" /13Non-album tracks
"Baby, Don't Be Mad at Me"21
"Bubble Loo, Bubble Loo"
b/w "Why Don't You Do Right (Get Me Some Money Too)" (from My Best to You - Peggy Lee Sings)
23
"Just a Shade on the Blue Side"
b/w "Don't Be So Mean to Baby"
"So Dear to My Heart"
b/w "Love Your Spell Is Everywhere"
"Hold Me"
b/w "I Wanna Go Where You Go, Then I'll Be Happy" (Non-album track)
Rendezvous With Peggy Lee
1949"You Was" (with Dean Martin)
b/w "Someone Like You"
Non-album tracks
"Blum Blum, I Wonder Who I Am"
b/w "If You Could See Me Now"
27
"Similau (See-Me-Lo)"
b/w "While We're Young" (from Rendezvous with Peggy Lee)
17
"Bali Ha'i"
b/w "There Is Nothin' Like a Dame"
(by Dave Barbour, his Orchestra and Male Chorus)
1319
"Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)"
b/w "Please Love Me Tonight"
21
"You Can Have Him"
b/w "At the Cafe Rendezvous"
"Neon Signs"
b/w "Through a Long and Sleepless Night"
"A Man Wrote a Song"
b/w "Run for the Roundhouse, Nellie"
"The Christmas Spell"
b/w "Song at Midnight"
1950"The Old Master Painter"
b/w "Bless You"
(Both tracks with Mel Tormé)
99
"My Small Senor"
b/w "When You Speak with Your Eyes"
"Save Your Sorrow for Tomorrow"
b/w "Sugar (That Sugar Baby O'Mine)"
"Goodbye, John"
b/w "Sunshine Cake"
"Crazy, He Calls Me"
b/w "Them There Eyes" (from Rendezvous with Peggy Lee)
"Once Around the Moon"
b/w "Cry, Cry, Cry"
"Show Me the Way to Get Out of This World"
b/w "Happy Music"
28
"Helpless"
b/w "Lover, Come Back to Me"
"Life Is So Peculiar"
b/w "Once in a Lifetime"
"Ay Ay Chug A Chug"
b/w "Where Are You?"
1951"Climb Up the Mountain"
b/w "The Mill on the Floss"
"Yeah Yeah Yeah"
b/w "Rock Me to Sleep"
"The Cannonball Express"
b/w "That Ol' Devil (Won't Get Me)"
"He's Only Wonderful"
b/w "It Never Happen to Me"
"If You Turn Me Down"
b/w "Boulevard Cafe"
"(When I Dance With You) I Get Ideas"
b/w "Tonight You Belong to Me"
142
"That Old Feeling" (with The Capitol Jazzmen)
b/w "That Old Feeling" (Instrumental)
"I Can't Give You Anything but Love"
b/w "I Don't Know Enough About You"
Rendezvous With Peggy Lee
"Don't Fan the Flame"
b/w "Telling Me Yes, Telling Me No"
(Both sides with Mel Tormé)
Non-album tracks
"Wandering Swallow"
b/w "I Love You But I Don't Like You"
"While We're Young"
b/w "Birmingham Jail" (Non-album track)
Rendezvous With Peggy Lee
1952"Shame on You"
b/w "Would You Dance with a Stranger"
Non-album tracks
"Goin' on a Hayride"
b/w "Ev'rytime"
"Be Anything (But Be Mine)" /2113Lover
"Forgive Me"12
"Lover"
b/w "You Go to My Head"
3
"Watermelon Weather"
b/w "The Moon Came Up with a Great Idea Last Night"
(Both sides with Bing Crosby)
2815Non-album tracks
"Just One of Those Things"
b/w "I'm Glad There Is You"
14Lover
"River, River"
b/w "Sans Souci"
23
"Little Jack Frost Get Lost" (with Bing Crosby)
b/w "Sleigh Ride" (Bing Crosby solo)
Non-album tracks
1953"I Hear the Music Now"
b/w "This Is a Very Special Day"
Lover
"Who's Gonna Pay the Check"
b/w "Sorry Baby, You Let Me Love Get Cold" (from The Fabulous Peggy Lee)
22Non-album track
"My Heart Belongs to Daddy"
b/w "I've Got You Under My Skin"
Black Coffee With Peggy Lee
"The Night Holds No Fear"
b/w "Apples, Peaches and Cherries" (from The Best of Peggy Lee)
So Blue
"Baubles, Bangles, & Beads"
b/w "Love You So" (Non-album track)
309The Best Of Peggy Lee
"Ring Those Christmas Bells"
b/w "It's Christmas Time Again"
Non-album tracks
1954"Where Can I Go Without You"
b/w "Go You Go Where You Go" (from Lover)
28The Best Of Peggy Lee
"Johnny Guitar"
b/w "Autumn in Rome"
The Fabulous Peggy Lee
"Summer Vacation"
b/w "That's What a Woman Is For" (from The Best of Peggy Lee)
Non-album track
"Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me"
b/w "Sisters"
Selections from Irving Berlin's "White Christmas"
"White Christmas"
b/w "Snow"
(Both sides with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Trudy Stevens)
"Let Me Go, Lover"
b/w "Bouquet of Blues"
26Non-album tracks
1955"Straight Ahead"
b/w "It Must Be So"
"He's a Tramp"
b/w "The Siamese Cat Song"
Songs from Walt Disney's "Lady and the Tramp"
"I Belong to You"
b/w "How Bitter My Sweet" (from The Best of Peggy Lee)
The Fabulous Peggy Lee
"Bella Notte"
b/w "La La Lu"
Songs from Walt Disney's "Lady and The Tramp"
"Ooh That Kiss"
b/w "Oh! No
(Please Don't Go)" (from The Fabulous Peggy Lee)The Best Of Peggy Lee
"He Needs Me"
b/w "Sing a Rainbow"
Songs from "Pete Kelly's Blues"
"Sugar (That Sugar Baby of Mine)"
b/w "What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry?"
"Pablo Pasablo"
b/w "Me" (from The Fabulous Peggy Lee)
Non-album track
1956"Mr. Wonderful"
b/w "Crazy in the Heart"
14510Miss Wonderful
"The Come Back"
b/w "You've Got to See Mamma Every Night"
"Joey, Joey, Joey"
b/w "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (from Miss Wonderful)
76Crazy In The Heart
"We Laughed at Love"
b/w "That's Alright, Honey"
Miss Wonderful
"You Oughtta Be Mine"
b/w "I Don't Know Enough About You" (from Rendezvous with Peggy Lee)
1957"Where Flamingos Fly"
b/w "The Gypsy with Fire in His Shoes" (from The Fabulous Peggy Lee)
"Every Night"
b/w "Baby, Baby Wait for Me"
Non-album tracks
"Listen to the Rockin' Bird"
b/w "Uninvited Dream"
1958"Fever"
b/w "You Don't Know"
852All Aglow Again!
"Never Mind"
b/w "Wrong, Wrong, Wrong" (from Miss Wonderful)
The Best Of Peggy Lee
"Light of Love" /6355Non-album tracks
"Sweetheart"98
1959"Alright, Okay, You Win" /68Things Are Swingin
"My Man"81All Aglow Again
"Hallelujah, I Love Him So"
b/w "I'm Lookin' Out the Window"
77
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
b/w "It Ain't Necessarily So" (from Black Coffee with Peggy Lee)
The Best Of Peggy Lee
"You Came a Long Way from St. Louis"
b/w "I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City"
(Both sides with George Shearing, recorded live at 1959 Miami DJ Convention)
Beauty and The Beat!
"You Deserve"
b/w "Where Do I Go from Here"
All Aglow Again!
"The Tree"
b/w "The Christmas List"
Christmas Carousel
1960"Heart"
b/w "C'est Magnifique"
41Latin Ala Lee!
"I'm Gonna Go Fishin'"
b/w "My Gentle Young Johnny" (Non-album track)
Extra Special!
"Christmas Carousel"
b/w "I Like a Sleighride (Jingle Bells)"
Christmas Carousel
"Bucket of Tears"
b/w "I Love Being Here with You" (Non-album track)
Extra Special!
1961"Till There Was You"
b/w "Bucket of Tears" (from Extra Special!)
30Latin Ala Lee!
"Yes Indeed!"
b/w "Boston Beans" (Non-album track)
The Hits Of Peggy Lee
"Hey, Look Me Over"
b/w "When He Makes Music"
Extra Special!
1962"Loads of Love"
b/w "The Sweetest Sounds" (from Sugar 'N' Spice)
Non-album track
"Tell All the World About You"
b/w "Amazing" (from Extra Special!)
Sugar 'N' Spice
"I'm a Woman"
b/w "Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)" (from Sugar 'N' Spice)
5479I'm A Woman
1963"The Alley Cat Song"
b/w "Little Boat" (Non-album track)
"A Doodlin' Song"
b/w "Got That Magic" (from In Love Again!)
88Extra Special!
1964"A Lot of Livin' to Do"
b/w "I Can't Stop Loving You"
In Love Again!
"In the Name of Love"
b/w "My Sin"
132In The Name Of Love
"After You've Gone"
b/w "Talk to Me Baby"
"You've Got to See Mamma Every Night"
b/w "Black Coffee" (from Black Coffee with Peggy Lee)
Miss Wonderful
1965"Pass Me By"
b/w "That's What It Takes"
9320Pass Me By
"Bewitched"
b/w "Sneakin' Up on You"
"The Shadow of Your Smile"
b/w "Maybe This Summer" (Non-album track)
That Was Then and Now Is Now
"I Go to Sleep"
b/w "Stop Living in the Past" (Non-album track)
"Free Spirits"
b/w "Ev'rybody Has the Right to Be Wrong"
29
1966"Big Spender"
b/w "Trapped (In the Web of Love)" (from That Was Then and Now Is Now)
9Big Spender
"That Man"
b/w "You Don't Know" (from Big Spender)
31Non-album track
"Come Back to Me"
b/w "You've Got Possibilities"
36Big Spender
"Happy Feet"
b/w "Stay with Me"
Non-album tracks
"So, What's New" /20Extra Special
"Walking Happy"14
1967"I Feel It"
b/w "The Lonesome Road"
8Non-album tracks
1968"Reason to Believe"
b/w "Didn't Want to Have to Do It"
"It'll Never Happen Again"
b/w "Misty Roses"
1969"Spinning Wheel"
b/w "Lean on Me"
24A Natural Woman
"Is That All There Is?"
b/w "Me and My Shadow" (first pressings)
"I'm a Woman" (later pressings, from I'm a Woman)
11162Is That All There Is?
"Whistle for Happiness"
b/w "Something"
13
1970"Love Story"
b/w "My Old Flame"
10526
"You'll Remember Me"
b/w "Have You Seen My Baby"
16Bridge Over Troubled Water
"One More Ride on the Merry-Go-Round"
b/w "Pieces of Dreams" (from Raindrops)
21Make It With You
1971"Where Did They Go"
b/w "All I Want"
Where Did They Go
1972"Love Song"
b/w "Someone Who Cares"
34Norma Deloris Egstrom From Jamestown, North Dakota
1974"Let's Love"
b/w "Always"
22Let's Love
1975"Some Cats Know"
b/w "I Remember"
Mirrors
1992"Fever" (Reissue)
b/w "I'm a Woman"
75Fever: The Best of Peggy Lee

Notes and References

  1. Web site: David Torresen (content) and David Uy (design) . The official web site of Miss Peggy Lee . PeggyLee.com . December 15, 2012.
  2. Book: Betts, Graham. 2004. Complete UK Hit Singles 1952–2004. 1st. Collins. London. 0-00-717931-6. 444.
  3. Web site: Steffen Hung . Forum – Chart Positions Pre 1989 Part 3 (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts) . australian-charts.com . 2014-08-20.
  4. Book: Betts, Graham. 2004. Complete UK Hit Singles 1952–2004. 1st. Collins. London. 0-00-717931-6. 444.