PEGGY KING - Columbia Singles (From Hans Brinker CD 1955)
01 - The Gentleman In The Next Apartment
02 - Make Yourself Comfortable
03 - Any Questions
04 - You Never Gave It A Try
05 - You Did, You Did
06 - Please Wait For Me
07 - The Test Of Time
08 - Tall Boy
09 - He Never Looks My Way
10 - Love Sick
11 - Miracle Man
12 - In My Own Little Corner
13 - C'mon Over
14 - If You Don't Love Me (D'ginja)
15 - Zero Hour
16 - No Sleep Till Dawn
17 - Don't Blame Me (Bad and the Beautiful) 1952 bonus
That's what Tim says:
(Tim) These are bonus tracks on that CD, released by Sepia in 2008, and comprise a fair chunk of her Columbia singles from 1954-55. There is discographical data in a text file and in the CD scans which were in good resolution on her website. Cool deal - Most of the music is of the lush, romantic variety; two of the tunes C'mon Over, and If You Don't Love Me are considerably more peppy and poppy, not bad though. Also included is a "bonus bonus" track, Don't Blame Me (from the film Bad and the Beautiful) 1952. Too much.....
The sound is excellent - no use of fake stereo, all I did was a few very minor tweaks - just how it should be.
Excerpt from CD booklet :
This CD has sixteen cuts by the wonderful Peggy King who seemingly retired from show business in 1959 after getting married. In 1955, King was nominated for an Emmy award as “Best Female Singer," and she had quite a career going up until she stopped. Two of the tracks here performed by King also come from television musicals. He Never Looks My Way was one of her songs in the 1956 Producer’s Showcase television production of Jack and the Beanstalk, and ln My Own Little Comer came from Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s television musical Cinderella. Any
Questions came from a 1955 episode of the television series Dragnet entitled The Big Underground. For fans of film music, King also performs the theme song from Zero Hour. By listening to her work here, it’s easy to understand why she was such a popular performer. In the 1980s, Peggy King returned to the studios to make more recordings.
01. I've Told Ev'ry Little Star
02. Till The Clouds Roll By
03. Nobody Else But Me
04. Long Ago And Far Away
05. The Land Where The Good Songs Go
06. Dearly Beloved
07. Who
08. Don't Ever Leave Me
09. You Couldn't Be Cuter
10. They Didn't Believe Me
Peggy King - vocal
Bob Zottola - trumpet & fluegelhorn
Jerry Dodgion - reeds
Lamar Alsop - viola
Charles McCrackern - cello
John Pintavelle & Gerald Tarack - violins
Mike Renzi - piano & rhythm charts
Gene Bertoncini- guitar
Jay Leonhart - bass
Richards Crooks - drums
Hale Rood - arranger
November 21-22, 1984
PEGGY KING - PEGGY + bonus
01 - (This Is My) Lucky Day
02 - Happiness Is Just A Thing Called Joe
03 - Love Walked In
04 - Let's Get Away From It All
05 - These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
06 - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
07 - It All Depends On You
08 - Lover
09 - It's All Right With Me
10 - They Can't Take That Away From Me
SINGLES & MORE
01 - Burn 'em Up
02 - Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe (With The Dave Pell Octet)
03 - I'm Beginning To See The Light (With The Dave Pell Octet)
04 - Learning To Love
05 - Up-Up-Up
06 - Kiss And Run 1956
07 - Angel Pie 1956
08 - Make Yourself Comfortable
09 - I'm Gonna Put Some Glue 'round The Christmas Tree (So Santa Claus Will Stick Around)
10 - I Happen To Love You
11 - Clop, Clop, Clop
12 - That's All I Want From You (George Gobel TV 1954)
"Pretty Perky Peggy King" - http://www.peggyking.org/
Rhapsody had an album featuring her (along with some other singers) called Radio & Recording Rarities Vol. 26. Little did I realize it was her album "Peggy", Anyway, that is here, and though information on that album is a bit scarce, I believe it was released for the first time (?) on Candlelight in 2000. So, that's what we have, along with just about everything else I could find. In the Singles & More folder, the first track is a true rarity, I actually recorded it from a website and restored it, it's a swinger of teen romantic intrigue called "Burn 'em Up", one of her very first singles for Columbia, backed with "The Hottentot", which though it was shown on the same site, was not available. Too bad. The next two are from a sessions live album that are excellent. Learning To Love is a rockin' pop romp - some hot guitar pickin' - Up-Up-Up is a cool bluesy tune, it's a goodie! I think it was a pretty big hit.. Kiss And Run is a swinging, jazzy pop number. It's followed by Angel Pie, sort of a western pop track with clippity-clop percussion. Make Yourself Comfortable is a slow romantic thing with some overdub vocals by the Perky Pretty one. Then a Christmas tune, and two from Hans Brinker Or The Silver Skates, a TV production with Tab Hunter sharing vocals on a couple of tunes with Peggy. Last up, an appearance on George Gobels TV show, (she was a regular), and performs That's All I Want From You - a lovely ballad, and in which you can easily detect her charming personable ways.
Private studio recording made by Peggy especially for her mother; it was not intended for public distribution.
PEGGY KING - GIRL MEETS BOY/WISH UPON A STAR (1955)
2. Would You Like to Take a Walk
3. All I Do Is Dream of You
4. Let's Fall in Love
5. You Better Go Now
6. Goodnight, My Love
7. I Wanna Be Loved
8. Temptation
9. Conflict
10. It's Easy to Remember
11. Just One More Chance
12. Love Is Here to Stay -
13. Part I: When I Was Ten (Beginning)
14. When You Wish Upon a Star
15. When I Was Ten (Conclusion)
16. Part II: A Girl With a Band
17. Let There Be Love
18. Part III: New York
19. Little Girl Blue
20. Hooray For Hollywood
21. Part IV: Screen Test / Long Ago (And Far Away)
22. Part V: Nobody Asked Me to Sing
23. Ev'ry Time
24. Part VI: Discovery / Hunts Tomato Sauce Jingle
25. When You Wish Upon a Star (Reprise)
The Collectables reissue of two mid-'50s LPs by Peggy King reveals a singer who possessed a cute soprano voice with the character and subtle strength of Debbie Reynolds. The first of two concept LPs, 1955's Girl Meets Boy pairs King with Jerry Vale for a musical dissection of a love affair, beginning with King's sweetly innocent "The Boy Next Door" and continuing through "Would You Like to Take a Walk?" and "Let's Fall in Love." Felicia Sanders briefly catches the eyes of Vale with "I Wanna Be Loved" and "Temptation," but King of course wins the boy back and they celebrate with the closer, "Love Is Here to Stay." In similar company to Mel Tormé's Prelude to a Kiss and several other story-in-song LPs of the time, Girl Meets Boy leans less on jazz (or even jazz interpretation) than the musical scores that were lighting up the charts during the mid-'50s. Still, King carries the LP well, and Percy Faith's orchestration is appropriately grand, sweeping along at the pace of a promenade. The second record, 1956's Wish Upon a Star, finds King on the long road to fame, encompassing "When I Was Ten," "When You Wish Upon a Star," and "Hooray for Hollywood." Just before the title song is reprised at the end, King's character is discovered by an A&R executive while she sings a radio jingle for Hunt's Tomato Sauce, in the exact circumstances King is said to have been discovered by Mitch Miller. Between the theme of the LP and King's voice, listeners can barely stop thinking about Reynolds' role in the 1952 film smash Singin' in the Rain. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide
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