I don’t think it’s simply about boredom, or else it wouldn’t be a classic. It’s about childish expectations and fears going up against cold experience, yet remaining open to it all: “Oh, no, not me. I’m not ready for that final disappointment.” Narrator remains open to life to the bitter end. Lieber and Stoller +Peggy Lee= heaven.
"...bored with life..." Yes, but sung by a great artist who demonstrates in her unforgettable performance, that she cares more about every detail of her work than most people care about anything...A great recording, no doubt.
I consider Peggy's version to be a cover. She is one of my favorite jazz singers. Check out the movie "Pete Kelly's Blues" which she kinda-starred in. Ella sang in the movie also.
Great jazz song. Would you believe she wrote and sang songs in Lady and the Tramp. In her later years she had a hit with "Is That All There Is". I recommend you play that. It's quite different, but worth hearing.
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Years ago on a whim I picked up a "Best of Peggy Lee" CD and it turned out to be one of my favorite CD's! Check out "Is That All There Is?" or "I Enjoy Being a Girl" or "I'm a Woman". She's very theatrical, if that's the right word - like she's playing a different character, giving each song the personality it needs.
Peggy Lee From North Dakota. Sang in a big band. Lee recorded over 1,100 masters and composed over 270 songs. Lee created a sophisticated persona, writing music for films, acting, and recording conceptual record albums combining poetry and music. SHE ISN'T THE ORIGINAL SINGER OF FEVER! She did her version of Fever sung by Little Willie John, written by Eddie Cooley and John Davenport & added a line. ("Romeo loved Juliet", "Captain Smith and Pocahontas") Her version is what many think of as the most popular. Paul McCartney (Beatles fame) wrote a song for her. Lee starred opposite Danny Thomas in The Jazz Singer (1952), a remake of the Al Jolson film, The Jazz Singer (1927). She played an alcoholic blues singer in Pete Kelly's Blues (1955), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Lee provided speaking and singing voices for several characters in the Disney movie Lady and the Tramp (1955), playing the human Darling, the dog Peg, and the two Siamese cats, Si and Am. She also co-wrote, with Sonny Burke all of the original songs for the film, including "He's A Tramp", "Bella Notte", "La La Lu", "The Siamese Cat Song", and "Peace on Earth". In 1987, when Lady and the Tramp was released to VHS, Lee sought performance and song royalties on the video sales. When Disney refused to pay, she filed a lawsuit in 1988. After a prolonged legal battle, in 1992, Lee was awarded $2.3 million for breach of contract, plus $500,000 for unjust enrichment, $600,000 for illegal use of Lee's voice and $400,000 for the use of her name.
Peggy Lee's real name was Norma Egstrom. She grew up about 20 miles from my Dad's home town. My father was a young jazz musician in a regional band in the late 1930's. Peggy Lee was the vocalist in the band, before she hit the "big time." Years later, when he would see Peggy Lee on television, he would say, "There's Norma." She was a great jazz singer. Note that her only accompaniment here was bass and drums.
Yeah, a lot of covers over the years... how can there not be with something like this? ;) But also yeah, the way others do it are to a different and more modern cadence. This re-inspires me to learn it back her way... can't touch the original, but I love the more jazzy, pause-before stepping of the lines....
Peggy Lee, mainly a jazz singer, was more an artist for our parents when we were growing up in the '60s. (I'm 67 and she was an artist for my parents.) But she had one hit that was on the top 40 charts for our generation, and that was a song called "Is That All There Is." Might be worth a listen. This one, "Fever," was a chart hit back in the '50s, I believe. I can't say for sure if she was the first to record "Fever," but she might have been, although I don't believe she wrote it. It's been covered a number of times by many of her generation's artists. There's also one rock 'n roll version of it that was a fairly big hit in about 1966 by the group The McCoys, who also had a big hit called "Hang On Sloopy." The McCoys' lead singer, Rick Derringer, would go on to have a solo hit in the '70s called "Rock 'n Roll Hoochie Koo." You'd have fun with all those. By the way, personally, my favorite version of Fever, by far, is by Sarah Vaughan, another jazz singer of my parents' generation. Sarah Vaughan (aka "Sassy") is an artist you should definitely check out. Look for her live performance of "Misty." Her original version of "Fever" is, I think, the best one of that song. I also like the dance remix that was made of it about ten years ago. Kinda made it a whole new song with a whole new, modern vibe.
Cool! Surprised to hear on your channel! My mom played piano for her at The Powers Hotel in Fargo North Dakota in the 1930s, when she was starting out. Norma Deloris Egstrom was Peggy Lee's birth name.
She wrote some of the songs for Disney's "Lady and the Tramp," and sang them also. You can view "We Are Siamese," and "He's A Tramp." You watch the special videos and you can see her moves in the animation.
You must be working on getting headphone by now. It'll help you hear the recordings and the quality of the audio at the same time. Time for Nat "King" Cole doing "Unforgettable" or "Nature Boy". Live versions of the these are available on RUclips.
There's a few other Peggy Lee tracks you should check out: 'It's a Good Day', 'Why Don't You Do Right', 'Is That All There Is?'. But you should also check out, Nancy Sinatra: 'These Boots Are Made For Walking' and 'Bang Bang'. I'm sure I could think of others, but 5 is good for now, lol.
Laura Nero. One of the underrated vocalist of the 70s, she wrote songs for others, and sang. She was inducted to the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame about four years ago, personally I think Should’ve been way before this but she did get in which she deserve to be
Peggy came from the mid west, when she came in the studio the african American artists were like what this little white mid west girl know then she sang and wrote songs and they were all right the girl knows her stuff they had respect. She is also one of the first talents that sued Disney for royalties for sons she wrote for lady and the tramp the original animation. You should listen to Leila James Melody Gardot , Billi Holiday, Rosemary Clooney
Ray Charles and Natalie Cole did a duet of Fever that's worth a listen. Also, both Ray Charles and Natalie Cole are great artists to check out themselves!
Over 10K now! Congratulations! Love your reactions. It’s always nice to see people react to some of these older songs. This is a great song she made famous.
Would love to see you cover her "Is that all there Is" To me, she seems like a great representative of the Beat generation - very cool, and very hot. There's always that distance, the snapping fingers, not a lot of emotion. But still a ton of heat. Very sexy stuff, which was breaking all kinds of barriers.
Try "Why Don't You Do Right" by Peggy also as well as "Black Coffee" although I'm not sure if she's the original artist on that one. Then there's another tempo... "Is that all there is", the song "He's a Tramp" from Lady and the Tramp. For a little more jazz, June Christy, Rosemary Clooney (not the same edge but sweet voiced). Of course, the greats, Ella, Billie, Nina. Check out Eva Cassidy for another treat, little different yet. Happy discovering!
Peggy Lee was a great female singer from the 60s or earlier whose voice was very sexy. No one else had her aura, no one else sang like her. Blues usual.
A few great songs ypu could check out: 2Pac "Dear Mama", Rolling Stones "Satisfaction", Bob Marley "No woman no cry", Metallica "Enter Sandman", Garth Brooks "Thunder rolls", Joan Jett "I love Rock and roll",
From her time period: Nat King Cole: "Unforgettable" ruclips.net/video/JFyuOEovTOE/видео.html Harry Belafonte: "Banana Boat Song" Live ruclips.net/video/9L9angh4KdQ/видео.html and "Jump In The Line" Live ruclips.net/video/lewrnLwCtok/видео.html
Fever - (ORIGINAL VERSION) LITTLE WILLIE JOHN Video Steven Bogarat One of US vinyl singles - Single by Little Willie John from the ALBUM FEVER May 1956 - Genre: Rhythm and blues - Length: 2:40 Label: King 4935 Songwriter:(s) Eddie Cooley John Davenport Producer(s): Henry Glover Little Willie John singles chronology ruclips.net/video/szz27BuDgeU/видео.html Little Willie John interview ruclips.net/video/0BxVOmBGTfo/видео.html
Peggy Lee, a set of drums, and a bass is all it takes.
drummer was no sicks, hand and elbows only.
Another song of Peggy Lee's that you might enjoy "Why Don't You Do Right."
“Why Don’t You Do Right” is a re-write of “Weed Smoker’s Dream” by the Harlem Hamfats. Worth checking out.
Hi. Great Reaction. Please do Mack
The Knife by Darin. It’s about the fictional serial murderer Mac Heath.
Agreed.
@@bookwoman53 Love It. Also, "Dream Lover" and "Beyond the Sea".
Your selections are becoming very diverse, with different genres, eras, etc. It exposes a lot of your viewers to this as well which is a good thing.
This is one of those songs that stay with you forever, so I'm not surprised that you like it so much. Peggy ruled. Cool jazz.
Wow that took me back my dad had quite a few Peggy Lee records when I was a child. This was 1958. She won a Grammy for this .
Bobby Darin - “Mack the Knife”
"Beyond The Sea", "Simple Song of Freedom"
@@jimfrederick3907 "Dream Lover"
Woot! All great requests!
Peggy Lee is one of my absolute favorites, not usual for a 15 year old I know.
I understand. I'm sixty now, but I fell in love with her when I was eight ☮️
As you liked this one, you might like to listen to Julie London's rendition of 'Cry Me a River'.
Yes!!
Here's a great live version ruclips.net/video/DXg6UB9Qk0o/видео.html
I absolutely love that rendition. I remember it from the movie "The Girl Can't Help It".
Another good Julie London one is "Dark": ruclips.net/video/bnTCuGoL9mQ/видео.html
Julie London’s version of Cry me a River is one of my all time favorite songs.
Totally different song by her, "Is That All There Is?" which is really the song of a person bored with most of life.
Genuinely one of my favorite songs!
Great song!
I don’t think it’s simply about boredom, or else it wouldn’t be a classic. It’s about childish expectations and fears going up against cold experience, yet remaining open to it all: “Oh, no, not me. I’m not ready for that final disappointment.”
Narrator remains open to life to the bitter end. Lieber and Stoller +Peggy Lee= heaven.
"...bored with life..." Yes, but sung by a great artist who demonstrates in her unforgettable performance, that she cares more about every detail of her work than most people care about anything...A great recording, no doubt.
You can't help but bop to this bass line as soon as it starts. Such a sultry voice, gives you feeva.
Peggy Lee was a Legend! "I'm A Woman"
Thanks for this, one of my favourites. Both Madonna and Elvis did covers....don't begin to compare to Peggy Lee. She's ace!
I consider Peggy's version to be a cover. She is one of my favorite jazz singers. Check out the movie "Pete Kelly's Blues" which she kinda-starred in. Ella sang in the movie also.
@@sereneamani1713 thank you for that. Who did original Fever? Can't imagine anyone better than Peggy!
@@alexjohnson2068 The original version was performed by Little Willie John.
@@AColonelPanic thank you so much for this info. I must try and track him down...
Huge respect for listening to such diverse music. Listen to Peggy Lee and Benny Goodman
That would be some smoooooth Jazz.
You should watch the video of her live performance.
Her voice is the epitome of cool and smooth!
Steamy!
Great jazz song. Would you believe she wrote and sang songs in Lady and the Tramp. In her later years she had a hit with "Is That All There Is". I recommend you play that. It's quite different, but worth hearing.
Isn't it crazy a year ago,you wouldn't consider ANY of the music you are absolutely loving it all.We won't steer you wrong.Thank you for trusting us all to help you on your musical journey
Check out Keeley Smith. Awesome voice. Another singer from the same time period. She was married to Louie Prima.
Years ago on a whim I picked up a "Best of Peggy Lee" CD and it turned out to be one of my favorite CD's! Check out "Is That All There Is?" or "I Enjoy Being a Girl" or "I'm a Woman". She's very theatrical, if that's the right word - like she's playing a different character, giving each song the personality it needs.
Such a great song🥰
James, you are adorable. Elvis did a great job on this song, too.
Nancy Sinatra "These boots are made for walking" and Bonnie Raitt "Love Letter" a couple song for you to listen to.
Absolutely second *Love Letter* and
*I will not be Denied* by Bonnie Raitt!
She could have sang the phone directory!
3:02 She is not the original artist. Little Willie John released it two years before Peggy Lee.
ThisMyCollection 2 RIGHT!
She added lyrics and made it a jazz standard.
Try some Nat King Cole.
I second this recommendation, and qualify: not the Christmas song, it's nice, but nowhere near his best.
Agreed!
Sooooo good!!!
Peggy Lee
From North Dakota. Sang in a big band. Lee recorded over 1,100 masters and composed over 270 songs.
Lee created a sophisticated persona, writing music for films, acting, and recording conceptual record albums combining poetry and music.
SHE ISN'T THE ORIGINAL SINGER OF FEVER!
She did her version of Fever sung by Little Willie John, written by Eddie Cooley and John Davenport & added a line. ("Romeo loved Juliet", "Captain Smith and Pocahontas")
Her version is what many think of as the most popular.
Paul McCartney (Beatles fame) wrote a song for her.
Lee starred opposite Danny Thomas in The Jazz Singer (1952), a remake of the Al Jolson film, The Jazz Singer (1927). She played an alcoholic blues singer in Pete Kelly's Blues (1955), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Lee provided speaking and singing voices for several characters in the Disney movie Lady and the Tramp (1955), playing the human Darling, the dog Peg, and the two Siamese cats, Si and Am. She also co-wrote, with Sonny Burke all of the original songs for the film, including "He's A Tramp", "Bella Notte", "La La Lu", "The Siamese Cat Song", and "Peace on Earth".
In 1987, when Lady and the Tramp was released to VHS, Lee sought performance and song royalties on the video sales. When Disney refused to pay, she filed a lawsuit in 1988. After a prolonged legal battle, in 1992, Lee was awarded $2.3 million for breach of contract, plus $500,000 for unjust enrichment, $600,000 for illegal use of Lee's voice and $400,000 for the use of her name.
Yeah, she's too cool for school.
Peggy Lee's real name was Norma Egstrom. She grew up about 20 miles from my Dad's home town. My father was a young jazz musician in a regional band in the late 1930's. Peggy Lee was the vocalist in the band, before she hit the "big time." Years later, when he would see Peggy Lee on television, he would say, "There's Norma." She was a great jazz singer. Note that her only accompaniment here was bass and drums.
You haven't been missing out on anything, it's all there waiting for you to discover it. So nice to see your reaction to this song.
Peggy Lee The song lyrics are great but she sings it like no other
Yeah, a lot of covers over the years... how can there not be with something like this? ;) But also yeah, the way others do it are to a different and more modern cadence. This re-inspires me to learn it back her way... can't touch the original, but I love the more jazzy, pause-before stepping of the lines....
Peggy Lee, mainly a jazz singer, was more an artist for our parents when we were growing up in the '60s. (I'm 67 and she was an artist for my parents.) But she had one hit that was on the top 40 charts for our generation, and that was a song called "Is That All There Is." Might be worth a listen. This one, "Fever," was a chart hit back in the '50s, I believe. I can't say for sure if she was the first to record "Fever," but she might have been, although I don't believe she wrote it. It's been covered a number of times by many of her generation's artists. There's also one rock 'n roll version of it that was a fairly big hit in about 1966 by the group The McCoys, who also had a big hit called "Hang On Sloopy." The McCoys' lead singer, Rick Derringer, would go on to have a solo hit in the '70s called "Rock 'n Roll Hoochie Koo." You'd have fun with all those. By the way, personally, my favorite version of Fever, by far, is by Sarah Vaughan, another jazz singer of my parents' generation. Sarah Vaughan (aka "Sassy") is an artist you should definitely check out. Look for her live performance of "Misty." Her original version of "Fever" is, I think, the best one of that song. I also like the dance remix that was made of it about ten years ago. Kinda made it a whole new song with a whole new, modern vibe.
Stevie Ray Vaughan Texas Flood amazing guitarist at the inauguration 1989. Will make your jaw drop can't say why.
Cool! Surprised to hear on your channel! My mom played piano for her at The Powers Hotel in Fargo North Dakota in the 1930s, when she was starting out. Norma Deloris Egstrom was Peggy Lee's birth name.
My favourite PL song is 'Somebody loves me'.
Very cool groove!
She wrote some of the songs for Disney's "Lady and the Tramp," and sang them also. You can view "We Are Siamese," and "He's A Tramp." You watch the special videos and you can see her moves in the animation.
You must be working on getting headphone by now. It'll help you hear the recordings and the quality of the audio at the same time. Time for Nat "King" Cole doing "Unforgettable" or "Nature Boy". Live versions of the these are available on RUclips.
Hey I love your channel but the sound quality of the songs are really poor when you don't use headphones. Can you fix this please.
SHE'S SO CALM...
Check out the original recording of this song sung by Little Willie John for a contrast. They're both very good, just different.
Another great hit of Peggy Lee is im a woman.
Lee's "Is That All There Is?"
There's a few other Peggy Lee tracks you should check out: 'It's a Good Day', 'Why Don't You Do Right', 'Is That All There Is?'. But you should also check out, Nancy Sinatra: 'These Boots Are Made For Walking' and 'Bang Bang'. I'm sure I could think of others, but 5 is good for now, lol.
That was a pretty steamy song for the times.
This song was first done by Little Willie John. Rhythm and blues. And Elvis gives it the same treatment as Peggy Lee.
She is probably the best jazz girl singer of all.
Laura Nero. One of the underrated vocalist of the 70s, she wrote songs for others, and sang. She was inducted to the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame about four years ago, personally I think Should’ve been way before this but she did get in which she deserve to be
Laura Nyro.
She wrote it too😊
Peggy Lee recorded a TON of great material. I recommend "Days of Wine and Roses."
Would love to see you react to "Birdy - People Help The People"
You really have to check out Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?"
Norma Deloris Egstrom was Peggy Lee's birth name. Ken Kennedy at WDAY Radio in Fargo gave her the name Peggy Lee in the 30s...
She did original "Why don't you do right" from "Who framed Roger Rabbit", the Jessica Rabbit sexy song!
nelda blanco NO. The original "Why Don't You Do Right" was sung by Lil Green in 1941
Peggy came from the mid west, when she came in the studio the african American artists were like what this little white mid west girl know then she sang and wrote songs and they were all right the girl knows her stuff they had respect. She is also one of the first talents that sued Disney for royalties for sons she wrote for lady and the tramp the original animation. You should listen to Leila James Melody Gardot , Billi Holiday, Rosemary Clooney
Animal, from The Muppets does the best version of this cool classic! 🤣
Is That All There Is?...great song!
Try Patsy Cline "Crazy"
Yes.
Good music is timeless..
I love this!!!
Give the live version a listen. Pitch perfect.
Ray Charles and Natalie Cole did a duet of Fever that's worth a listen. Also, both Ray Charles and Natalie Cole are great artists to check out themselves!
i remember it from the 50;s and it's still a great song by her
She was way cool!
A smokin’ song and a smokin’ performance. Not bad for 1958.
she was a jazz singer and a torch singer
Love Peggy Lee 🌹💃🌹
Try "do right"
She was a female coroner, called a 'torch singer'.
Over 10K now! Congratulations! Love your reactions. It’s always nice to see people react to some of these older songs. This is a great song she made famous.
My favorite song of Peggy is called is that all there is
Would love to see you cover her "Is that all there Is" To me, she seems like a great representative of the Beat generation - very cool, and very hot. There's always that distance, the snapping fingers, not a lot of emotion. But still a ton of heat. Very sexy stuff, which was breaking all kinds of barriers.
Bow wow wow did a cover.
Bravo...
Check out her version or “Lover”.
Goosebumps! Love it!
I think it is only fair you listen to the originator of this song. His name is Little Willie John.
This is a great original.
Not the original
Try "Why Don't You Do Right" by Peggy also as well as "Black Coffee" although I'm not sure if she's the original artist on that one. Then there's another tempo... "Is that all there is", the song "He's a Tramp" from Lady and the Tramp. For a little more jazz, June Christy, Rosemary Clooney (not the same edge but sweet voiced). Of course, the greats, Ella, Billie, Nina. Check out Eva Cassidy for another treat, little different yet. Happy discovering!
Check out her singing "Pass me by".
This song was in an episode of a show called Married with Children and it was hilarious
Peggy Lee was a great female singer from the 60s or earlier whose voice was very sexy. No one else had her aura, no one else sang like her. Blues usual.
She made this song her own.
She was what was known as a "torch" singer.
Taking your age into consideration, you may have heard her sing Fever on the Muppet Show, Animal on the drums.
Rita Moreno sang it on the muppet show
Another one for your phone. THE BEST.
A few great songs ypu could check out: 2Pac "Dear Mama", Rolling Stones "Satisfaction", Bob Marley "No woman no cry", Metallica "Enter Sandman", Garth Brooks "Thunder rolls", Joan Jett "I love Rock and roll",
First time I ever heard this song I think he was Rose McGowan playing Paige in Charmed that she did her own on the show and it was pretty good
We going WAY BACK!!
Please react to the original "Fever" by Little Willie John which was a BIG R&B hit in the African-American community of the early 50s.
Cool jazz. She was a Ella Fitzgerald disciple.
Check out Peggy Lee 'Mr Wonderful'
Both Elvis & Michael Buble did covers of this song
You want to listen to "Is that all there is?" by Miss Peggy Lee.
That's "beat" music... the jazz of the _beatnik generation._
From her time period:
Nat King Cole: "Unforgettable" ruclips.net/video/JFyuOEovTOE/видео.html
Harry Belafonte: "Banana Boat Song" Live ruclips.net/video/9L9angh4KdQ/видео.html and "Jump In The Line" Live ruclips.net/video/lewrnLwCtok/видео.html
Fever - (ORIGINAL VERSION) LITTLE WILLIE JOHN Video Steven Bogarat
One of US vinyl singles - Single by Little Willie John from the ALBUM FEVER
May 1956 - Genre: Rhythm and blues - Length: 2:40 Label: King 4935 Songwriter:(s) Eddie Cooley John Davenport Producer(s): Henry Glover Little Willie John singles chronology ruclips.net/video/szz27BuDgeU/видео.html
Little Willie John interview ruclips.net/video/0BxVOmBGTfo/видео.html
Madonna also did a cover. Try some Doris Day "Que Sera, Sera" (Whatever will be will be)
Have you ever heard Sly & the Family Stone's version of "Que Sera, Sera"? BIg difference lol
@@sereneamani1713 No I haven't. But I will. Thanks for the rec.
Nat King Cole...unforgettable!
Please react to Peggy’s song, I’m a Woman. I think you’ll like that one!
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Would love to hear Angelina Jordan do a cover of this. Her sultry voice would be perfect!
Jim Frederick you think a little kid is sultry?
@@Mainecoonlady. Angelina has any voice she wants. Anyone who can sing Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone etc. can turn on sultry at will.