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Beauty and the Beat! [Original recording remastered]

~ Peggy Lee, George Shearing
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  • Audio CD (2 Jun 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: Blue Note
  • ASIN: B000093U3Y
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Do I Love You?Peggy Lee With George Shearing 3:03£0.69
Listen  2. I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake CityPeggy Lee With George Shearing 2:27£0.69
Listen  3. If Dreams Come TruePeggy Lee With George Shearing 2:19£0.69
Listen  4. All Too SoonPeggy Lee With George Shearing 2:34£0.69
Listen  5. Mambo In MiamiGeorge Shearing 1:42£0.69
Listen  6. Isn't It Romantic?George Shearing 2:54£0.69
Listen  7. Blue PreludePeggy Lee With George Shearing 2:05£0.69
Listen  8. You Came A Long Way From St. LouisPeggy Lee With George Shearing 2:51£0.69
Listen  9. Always True To You In My FashionPeggy Lee With George Shearing 1:57£0.69
Listen10. There'll Be Another SpringPeggy Lee With George Shearing 2:24£0.69
Listen11. Get Out Of TownPeggy Lee With George Shearing 1:57£0.69
Listen12. Satin DollGeorge Shearing 2:47£0.69
Listen13. Nobody's HeartPeggy Lee With George Shearing 2:31£0.69
Listen14. Don't Ever Leave MePeggy Lee With George Shearing 2:56£0.69

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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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars First live album for Lee and Shearing and only one together., 14 Nov 2005
By Mary Whipple (New England) - See all my reviews
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Originally recorded in 1959 and re-released in 1992, this landmark CD features all new arrangements developed during in an intense three days of rehearsal before this live performance. Shearing was relatively new to the US and its audiences, but Lee became a fan the minute she heard him and was thrilled to make an album with him. A saloon-singer/composer/jazz artist, and always a professional, she was known for her attention to the smallest detail, not a trait that lends itself naturally to albums recorded "live," but with Shearing at the keyboard and his quintet in the background, Lee sounds relaxed, swingy, and light-hearted here.

Featuring songs from the Great American Songbook--by Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Duke Ellington, and Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern--with some Afro-Cuban, blues, and the debut recording of her own romantic ballad, "There'll Be Another Spring," the CD offers variety, at the same time that it maintains its mellow approach and overall lightness.

Shearing is the consummate accompanist on the songs the two do together. Her voice is always out front, with his chords, runs, key changes, and playfulness on piano remaining in the background to enhance her voice and songs. The bluesy "I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City" and "Blue Prelude," a blues song given an upbeat treatment here, are among the most exciting and interesting on the CD. "There'll Be Another Spring," a beautiful, romantic ballad written by Lee, is recorded for the first time on this album, taking advantage of her restrained passion and dramatic, whispery voice.

Shearing, whose quintet was famous for his early adoption of Afro-Cuban rhythms and the fine blending of piano and vibes, solos with Armando Peraza's "Mambo in Miami," in which Peraza himself supplies the unusual percussion and syncopated beat. In his second solo, "Isn't It Romantic," he matches his arrangement with the lyrics, creating one of the most romantic songs on the album.

Two bonus tracks, including "Don't Ever Leave Me," a dramatic and passionate plea by Lee, and "Nobody's Heart," both recorded earlier and not part of the live performance, are added to this CD. Fine music by two fine musicians make this an album for romance—if one can ignore the fact that the intros to all the songs were added after the fact when the album was edited. Mary Whipple

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5.0 out of 5 stars Bacon and egg, 23 Oct 2006
By bugrit (North Yorks) - See all my reviews
Connery and Bond, peaches and cream, Peggy Lee and George Shearing! They are marriages made in heaven.

I owned this album on vinyl when it had the canned applause and faux intros and I have to admit that I was a little bit disappointed to discover that the CD lacks those particular, er, enhancements. I soon got over it, though.

This is a wonderful album, packed with magical performances of superb arrangements of great songs. I have my own favourite tracks but I won't bore you by listing those. Instead, let me say that I get a sort of musical hard-on, just anticipating the delights that will follow a look at the track-list. Note, here that 'Mambo in Miami' and 'Satin Doll' are instrumentals but don't feel cheated - they fit in well with the album's original concert concept and 'Satin Doll' in particular is wonderful stuff.

Every track is a gem and it's my all-time favourite Peggy Lee set. Buy this album. Now!
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18 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant semi-live album, 17 Sep 2005
By Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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Peggy Lee would have liked to record more music with George Shearing but this is all that they managed. It is based on a live concert for which preparations and rehearsals were done intensively at short notice. During the concert, it seems that neither Peggy nor George said very much to the audience. When the time came to prepare the album for release, Peggy and George recorded spoken introductions for every song as well as two extra songs not performed at the concert. This is particularly interesting as audience interplay is normally reduced from live concerts when albums are released - here the opposite is the case.

As ever, Peggy is in top form. The songs, including three by Cole Porter (Do I love you, Always true to you in my fashion, Get out of town) and two by Rodgers and Hart (Isn't it romantic, Nobody's heart), are exactly the kind of songs you expect Peggy to sing. Peggy contributes one song of her own (There'll be another spring), which is a very romantic ballad. A couple of slow blues songs (I lost my sugar in Salt Lake City, You came a long way from St Louis) add variety to the album. Studio recordings of some but not all of the songs can be found on Peggy's other albums, but they often sound very different to the arrangements here.

If you are a Peggy Lee fan - or a George Shearing fan - you'll love this album. It may not be the best album with which to begin a collection of Peggy's music but it is certainly a worthy addition to such a collection.

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