Peggy Lee - Black Coffee - Acoustic Sounds Series LP

180g Vinyl, Acoustic Sounds Series — Mastered from the Original Analog Tapes

One of the great late-night records. Originally issued by Decca as a 10-inch album in 1953 and expanded to the now-classic 12-inch edition in 1956, Black Coffee is Peggy Lee's sultry, smoky masterpiece — an intimate after-hours song cycle that trades big-band gloss for mood, nuance and pure seduction. Lee is in peerless form throughout, her cool, knowing phrasing wrapping around the title track, "I've Got You Under My Skin" and a definitive "Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You."

Features

• 180g vinyl
• Acoustic Sounds Series reissue from Verve / Universal Music Enterprises
• Mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the original analog tapes
• Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
• Stoughton Printing old-style tip-on gatefold jacket
• Label: Verve / Universal Music Enterprises

Track Listing

Side A:

1. Black Coffee
2. I've Got You Under My Skin
3. Easy Living
4. My Heart Belongs to Daddy
5. It Ain't Necessarily So
6. Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You

Side B:

1. A Woman Alone with the Blues
2. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
3. (Ah, the Apple Trees) When the World Was Young
4. Love Me or Leave Me
5. You're My Thrill
6. There's a Small Hotel

Musicians

• Peggy Lee — vocals
• 1953 sessions: Pete Candoli (trumpet), Jimmy Rowles (piano), Max Wayne (bass), Ed Shaughnessy (drums)
• 1956 sessions: Lou Levy (piano), Bill Pitman (guitar), Buddy Clark (bass), Larry Bunker (drums, vibraphone), Stella Castellucci (harp)