Name: Beauty and the Beat!
Brand: Capitol
SKU: 338396
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Beauty and the Beat!

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Album: Beauty and the Beat!
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Do I Love You?
2)	I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City
3)	If Dreams Come True
4)	All Too Soon
5)	Mambo in Miami
6)	Isn't It Romantic?
7)	Blue Prelude
8)	You Came a Long Way from St. Louis
9)	Always True to You in My Fashion
10)	There'll Be Another Spring
11)	Get Out of Town
12)	Satin Doll
13)	Don't Ever Leave Me
14)	Nobody's Heart

Album: Beauty and the Beat!
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Do I Love You?
2)	I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City
3)	If Dreams Come True
4)	All Too Soon
5)	Mambo in Miami
6)	Isn't It Romantic?
7)	Blue Prelude
8)	You Came a Long Way from St. Louis
9)	Always True to You in My Fashion
10)	There'll Be Another Spring
11)	Get Out of Town
12)	Satin Doll
13)	Don't Ever Leave Me
14)	Nobody's Heart

Performer Notes

This reissue presents the original studio recording without any live audience ambience and applause overdubs.
Personnel: Peggy Lee (vocals); George Shearing (piano); Toots Thielmans (guitar); Ray Alexander (vibraphone); Carl Pruitt (bass); Ray Mosca (drums); Armando Peraza (congas, percussion).
Recorded on May 28-30, 1959. Includes liner notes by Will Friedwald.
Personnel: Peggy Lee (vocals); Toots Thielemans (guitar); George Shearing (piano); Ray Alexander, Warren Chiasson (vibraphone); Ray Mosca, Roy Haynes (drums); Armando Peraza (congas).
Audio Remasterer: Ron McMaster.
Liner Note Author: Will Friedwald.
Recording information: National Disc Jockey Convention, Americana Hotel, Miami (04/28/1959).
Peggy Lee is heard here singing before a live audience, accompanied by the top-drawer piano of George Shearing. Cole Porter's "Do I Love You?" is transformed by Lee's relaxed voice and the Shearing quintet's delicate bounce. The music seems to become a multi-sensory experience; "If Dreams Come True" could fool you into thinking you were running through a field of clover on a sunny spring day.
Lee has impeccable taste in material; "All Too Soon," an engaging piece of Ellingtonia, is a typical example. Her performance of "I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City" is a stirring blues predating her studio recording by three years while Shearing's piano and quintet mirror Lee's gentle emotions on "There'll Be Another Spring"; the sensitive backing is perfect.