ESSENTIAL WORKS 1941-1960

A1. How Deep is The Ocean A2. Elmer's Tune A3. I Got it Bad... A4. How Long Has This Been Going On A5. Somebody Nobody Loves A6. Somebody Else Is Taking My Place A7. Blues in the Night B1. Why Don't You Do Right B2. Waiting For The Train To Come In B3. Baby (Is What He Calls Me) B4. Someone Loves Me B5. There'll Be Some Changes Made B6. Them There Eyes B7. Everybody Loves Somebody C1. I'm Confessin' C2. Love Me or Leave Me C3. Sorry Baby You Let My Love Get Cold C4. Black Coffee C5. Johnny Guitar C6. Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me C7. Alright Okay You Win D1. Fever D2. You Are Mine You D3. Lullaby in Rhythm D4. My Man D5. You Came A Long Way From St Louis (live) D6. I Love Being Here With You D7. Fly Me To The Moon Peggy Lee had an unhappy childhood, which seems to be a necessary figure in the success stories of the show business world. Born Norma Doloris Egström, she lost her mother at the age of 4 and was brought up by a stepmother who treated her as a slave. At 7, she cooks, cleans the house, bakes bread, milks the cows, beats butter, does the laundry, at 8 she runs the house 7 days a week, and has to look after the newborn and between time she is beaten, because what she is doing is not good enough. But she has her happy moments, since as soon as she can, she joins her father at work, too drunk to work, she does her job. On another front, Roosevelt declares war on Germany. But now, this life builds a strength of character and a capacity for revolt which will be the weapons that will lead Peggy to the top. The 28 tracks on this album are simply 28 masterpieces that she performs with Benny Goodman, Dave Barbour, Pete Candoli and others.