This article presents the discography of the jazz singer, songwriter, and composer Peggy Lee, covering her recording career from 1941 up to 1993.

Albums

Capitol Records

  • 1948 Rendezvous with Peggy Lee (3-disc 78rpm set: 6 songs)
  • 1950 Rendezvous with Peggy Lee (10-inch version: 8 songs)
  • 1950 My Best to You: Peggy Lee Sings (10-inch LP: 8 songs)
  • 1955 Rendezvous with Peggy Lee (12-inch version: 12 songs)

Decca Records

Harmony

Capitol

Post-Capitol albums

As guest vocalist

With Benny Carter

Singles

With Benny Goodman and His Orchestra

1 Denotes non-Peggy Lee, non-album B-sides

Year Single (A-side, B-side)
Both sides from same album except where indicated
Chart Positions [1] Album
US US
AC
UK[2] AU[3]
1941 "Elmer's Tune"
b/w "The Birth Of The Blues"1
Peggy Lee Sings With Benny Goodman
"I See A Million People"
b/w "The Count"1
Non-album tracks
"Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)"
b/w "The Earl"1
Benny Goodman, His Orchestra and Sextet
"I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)"
b/w "Pound Ridge"1
25 Non-album tracks
"Shady Lady Bird"
b/w "Buckle Down Winsocki"1
"Winter Weather" (with Art Lund)
b/w "Everything I Love"
24 Benny Goodman, His Orchestra and Sextet
"How Long Has This Been Going On"
b/w "Clarinet A La King"1
Peggy Lee Sings With Benny Goodman
"Blues In The Night"
b/w "Where Or When" (from Benny Goodman, His Orchestra and Sextet)
20 Non-album tracks
"Somebody Else Is Taking My Place"
b/w "That Did It, Marie" (from Peggy Lee Sings With Benny Goodman)
5
1942 "Somebody Nobody Loves"
b/w "Let's Give Love A Chance"1
Benny Goodman, His Orchestra and Sextet
"The Lamp Of Memory"
b/w "When The Roses Bloom Again"1
Non-album tracks
"My Little Cousin"
b/w "A Zoot Suit"1
14 Benny Goodman, His Orchestra and Sextet
"We'll Meet Again"
b/w "Before"1
16 Peggy Lee Sings With Benny Goodman
"Not Mine"
b/w "If You Build A Better Mousetrap" (with Art London, non-album track)
Benny Goodman, His Orchestra and Sextet
"Full Moon"
b/w "I Threw A Kiss In The Ocean"
22 Peggy Lee Sings With Benny Goodman
"The Way You Look Tonight"
b/w "The Wang Wang Blues" (Non-album track)
21 Benny Goodman, His Orchestra and Sextet
"On The Sunny Side Of The Street"
b/w "All I Need Is You" (from Peggy Lee Sings With Benny Goodman)
1943 "Why Don't You Do Right?"
b/w "Six Flats Unfurnished"1
4 12 Benny Goodman Dance Parade
1945 "My Old Flame"
b/w "How Deep Is The Ocean" (Non-album track)
Peggy Lee Sings With Benny Goodman
1947 "On The Sunny Side Of The Street"
b/w "Serenade In Blue"1
Benny Goodman, His Orchestra and Sextet
1948 "On The Sunny Side Of The Street"
b/w "There's A Small Hotel"1
"For Every Man, There's A Woman"
b/w "Beyond The Sea"1
25 Non-album tracks
"Somebody Else is Taking My Place"
b/w "Why Don't You Do Right" (from Benny Goodman Dance Parade)
(Reissues)
30
1950 "I See A Million People"
b/w "I See A Million People" (Cab Calloway)1

With Bob Crosby & His Orchestra

Both are non-charting, non-album tracks

Year Title
1945 "On The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe"
b/w "It's Anybody's Spring"

Peggy Lee solo, accompanied by various orchestras

Year Single (A-side, B-side)
Both sides from same album except where indicated
Chart Positions [1] Album
US US
AC
UK[2] AU[3]
1945 "What More Can a Woman Do?"
b/w "You Was Right, Baby"
Non-album tracks
"Waitin' for the Train to Come In" / 4
1946 "I'm Glad I Waited for You" 24
"I Don't Know Enough About You"
b/w "I Can See It Your Way" (Non-album track)
7 16 Rendezvous With Peggy Lee
"Linger in My Arms a Little Longer, Baby"
b/w "Baby You Can Count On Me"
16 Non-album tracks
"It's All Over Now"
b/w "Aren't You Kind of Glad We Did?"
10
1947 "It's a Good Day"
b/w "He's Just My Kind" (Non-album track)
16 Rendezvous With Peggy Lee
"Everything's Moving Too Fast"
b/w "It's Lovin' Time"
21 Non-album tracks
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
b/w "Speaking of Angels" (Non-album track)
My Best To You - Peggy Lee Sings
"Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)"
b/w "Ain'tcha Ever Comin' Back"
10 Non-album tracks
"It Takes a Long Long Train with a Red Caboose (To Carry My Blues Away)"
b/w "Just an Old Love of Mine"
"There'll Be Some Changes Made"
b/w "A Nightingale Can Sing the Blues" (from My Best to You - Peggy Lee Sings)
"Golden Earrings"
b/w "I'll Dance at Your Wedding" (Non-album track)
2 3 Rendezvous with Peggy Lee
1948 "Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)" / 1 3
"All Dressed Up with a Broken Heart" 21 Non-album tracks
"Laroo, Laroo, Lili Bolero" / 13
"Talking to Myself About You" 23
"Don't Smoke in Bed"
b/w "Everybody Loves Somebody" (Non-album track)
22 Rendezvous with Peggy Lee
"Caramba! It's the Samba" / 13 Non-album tracks
"Baby, Don't Be Mad at Me" 21
"Bubble Loo, Bubble Loo"
b/w "Why Don't You Do Right (Get Me Some Money Too)" (from My Best to You - Peggy Lee Sings)
23
"Just a Shade on the Blue Side"
b/w "Don't Be So Mean to Baby"
"So Dear to My Heart"
b/w "Love Your Spell Is Everywhere"
"Hold Me"
b/w "I Wanna Go Where You Go, Then I'll Be Happy" (Non-album track)
Rendezvous With Peggy Lee
1949 "You Was" (with Dean Martin)
b/w "Someone Like You"
Non-album tracks
"Blum Blum, I Wonder Who I Am"
b/w "If You Could See Me Now"
27
"Similau (See-Me-Lo)"
b/w "While We're Young" (from Rendezvous with Peggy Lee)
17
"Bali Ha'i"
b/w "There Is Nothin' Like a Dame"
(by Dave Barbour, his Orchestra and Male Chorus)
13 19
"Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)"
b/w "Please Love Me Tonight"
2 1
"You Can Have Him"
b/w "At the Cafe Rendezvous"
"Neon Signs"
b/w "Through a Long and Sleepless Night"
"A Man Wrote a Song"
b/w "Run for the Roundhouse, Nellie"
"The Christmas Spell"
b/w "Song at Midnight"
1950 "The Old Master Painter"
b/w "Bless You"
(Both tracks with Mel Tormé)
9 9
"My Small Senor"
b/w "When You Speak with Your Eyes"
"Save Your Sorrow for Tomorrow"
b/w "Sugar (That Sugar Baby O'Mine)"
"Goodbye, John"
b/w "Sunshine Cake"
"Crazy, He Calls Me"
b/w "Them There Eyes" (from Rendezvous with Peggy Lee)
"Once Around the Moon"
b/w "Cry, Cry, Cry"
"Show Me the Way to Get Out of This World"
b/w "Happy Music"
28
"Helpless"
b/w "Lover, Come Back to Me"
"Life Is So Peculiar"
b/w "Once in a Lifetime"
"Ay Ay Chug A Chug"
b/w "Where Are You?"
1951 "Climb Up the Mountain"
b/w "The Mill on the Floss"
"Yeah Yeah Yeah"
b/w "Rock Me to Sleep"
"The Cannonball Express"
b/w "That Ol' Devil (Won't Get Me)"
"He's Only Wonderful"
b/w "It Never Happen to Me"
"If You Turn Me Down"
b/w "Boulevard Cafe"
"(When I Dance With You) I Get Ideas"
b/w "Tonight You Belong to Me"
14 2
"That Old Feeling" (with The Capitol Jazzmen)
b/w "That Old Feeling" (Instrumental)
"I Can't Give You Anything but Love"
b/w "I Don't Know Enough About You"
Rendezvous With Peggy Lee
"Don't Fan the Flame"
b/w "Telling Me Yes, Telling Me No"
(Both sides with Mel Tormé)
Non-album tracks
"Wandering Swallow"
b/w "I Love You But I Don't Like You"
"While We're Young"
b/w "Birmingham Jail" (Non-album track)
Rendezvous With Peggy Lee
1952 "Shame on You"
b/w "Would You Dance with a Stranger"
Non-album tracks
"Goin' on a Hayride"
b/w "Ev'rytime"
"Be Anything (But Be Mine)" / 21 13 Lover
"Forgive Me" 12
"Lover"
b/w "You Go to My Head"
3
"Watermelon Weather"
b/w "The Moon Came Up with a Great Idea Last Night"
(Both sides with Bing Crosby)
28 15 Non-album tracks
"Just One of Those Things"
b/w "I'm Glad There Is You"
14 Lover
"River, River"
b/w "Sans Souci"
23
"Little Jack Frost Get Lost" (with Bing Crosby)
b/w "Sleigh Ride" (Bing Crosby solo)
Non-album tracks
1953 "I Hear the Music Now"
b/w "This Is a Very Special Day"
Lover
"Who's Gonna Pay the Check"
b/w "Sorry Baby, You Let Me Love Get Cold" (from The Fabulous Peggy Lee)
22 Non-album track
"My Heart Belongs to Daddy"
b/w "I've Got You Under My Skin"
Black Coffee With Peggy Lee
"The Night Holds No Fear"
b/w "Apples, Peaches and Cherries" (from The Best of Peggy Lee)
So Blue
"Baubles, Bangles, & Beads"
b/w "Love You So" (Non-album track)
30 9 The Best Of Peggy Lee
"Ring Those Christmas Bells"
b/w "It's Christmas Time Again"
Non-album tracks
1954 "Where Can I Go Without You"
b/w "Go You Go Where You Go" (from Lover)
28 The Best Of Peggy Lee
"Johnny Guitar"
b/w "Autumn in Rome"
The Fabulous Peggy Lee
"Summer Vacation"
b/w "That's What a Woman Is For" (from The Best of Peggy Lee)
Non-album track
"Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me"
b/w "Sisters"
Selections from Irving Berlin's "White Christmas"
"White Christmas"
b/w "Snow"
(Both sides with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Trudy Stevens)
"Let Me Go, Lover"
b/w "Bouquet of Blues"
26 Non-album tracks
1955 "Straight Ahead"
b/w "It Must Be So"
"He's a Tramp"
b/w "The Siamese Cat Song"
Songs from Walt Disney's "Lady and the Tramp"
"I Belong to You"
b/w "How Bitter My Sweet" (from The Best of Peggy Lee)
The Fabulous Peggy Lee
"Bella Notte"
b/w "La La Lu"
Songs from Walt Disney's "Lady and The Tramp"
"Ooh That Kiss"
b/w "Oh! No! (Please Don't Go)" (from The Fabulous Peggy Lee)
The Best Of Peggy Lee
"He Needs Me"
b/w "Sing a Rainbow"
Songs from "Pete Kelly's Blues"
"Sugar (That Sugar Baby of Mine)"
b/w "What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry?"
"Pablo Pasablo"
b/w "Me" (from The Fabulous Peggy Lee)
Non-album track
1956 "Mr. Wonderful"
b/w "Crazy in the Heart"
14 5 10 Miss Wonderful
"The Come Back"
b/w "You've Got to See Mamma Every Night"
"Joey, Joey, Joey"
b/w "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (from Miss Wonderful)
76 Crazy In The Heart
"We Laughed at Love"
b/w "That's Alright, Honey"
Miss Wonderful
"You Oughtta Be Mine"
b/w "I Don't Know Enough About You" (from Rendezvous with Peggy Lee)
1957 "Where Flamingos Fly"
b/w "The Gypsy with Fire in His Shoes" (from The Fabulous Peggy Lee)
"Every Night"
b/w "Baby, Baby Wait for Me"
Non-album tracks
"Listen to the Rockin' Bird"
b/w "Uninvited Dream"
1958 "Fever"
b/w "You Don't Know"
8 5 2 All Aglow Again!
"Never Mind"
b/w "Wrong, Wrong, Wrong" (from Miss Wonderful)
The Best Of Peggy Lee
"Light of Love" / 63 55 Non-album tracks
"Sweetheart" 98
1959 "Alright, Okay, You Win" / 68 Things Are Swingin'
"My Man" 81 All Aglow Again!
"Hallelujah, I Love Him So"
b/w "I'm Lookin' Out the Window"
77
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
b/w "It Ain't Necessarily So" (from Black Coffee with Peggy Lee)
The Best Of Peggy Lee
"You Came a Long Way from St. Louis"
b/w "I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City"
(Both sides with George Shearing, recorded live at 1959 Miami DJ Convention)
Beauty and The Beat!
"You Deserve"
b/w "Where Do I Go from Here"
All Aglow Again!
"The Tree"
b/w "The Christmas List"
Christmas Carousel
1960 "Heart"
b/w "C'est Magnifique"
41 Latin Ala Lee!
"I'm Gonna Go Fishin'"
b/w "My Gentle Young Johnny" (Non-album track)
Extra Special!
"Christmas Carousel"
b/w "I Like a Sleighride (Jingle Bells)"
Christmas Carousel
"Bucket of Tears"
b/w "I Love Being Here with You" (Non-album track)
Extra Special!
1961 "Till There Was You"
b/w "Bucket of Tears" (from Extra Special!)
30 Latin Ala Lee!
"Yes Indeed!"
b/w "Boston Beans" (Non-album track)
The Hits Of Peggy Lee
"Hey, Look Me Over"
b/w "When He Makes Music"
Extra Special!
1962 "Loads of Love"
b/w "The Sweetest Sounds" (from Sugar 'N' Spice)
Non-album track
"Tell All the World About You"
b/w "Amazing" (from Extra Special!)
Sugar 'N' Spice
"I'm a Woman"
b/w "Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)" (from Sugar 'N' Spice)
54 79 I'm A Woman
1963 "The Alley Cat Song"
b/w "Little Boat" (Non-album track)
"A Doodlin' Song"
b/w "Got That Magic" (from In Love Again!)
88 Extra Special!
1964 "A Lot of Livin' to Do"
b/w "I Can't Stop Loving You"
In Love Again!
"In the Name of Love"
b/w "My Sin"
132 In The Name Of Love
"After You've Gone"
b/w "Talk to Me Baby"
"You've Got to See Mamma Every Night"
b/w "Black Coffee" (from Black Coffee with Peggy Lee)
Miss Wonderful
1965 "Pass Me By"
b/w "That's What It Takes"
93 20 Pass Me By
"Bewitched"
b/w "Sneakin' Up on You"
"The Shadow of Your Smile"
b/w "Maybe This Summer" (Non-album track)
That Was Then and Now Is Now
"I Go to Sleep"
b/w "Stop Living in the Past" (Non-album track)
"Free Spirits"
b/w "Ev'rybody Has the Right to Be Wrong"
29
1966 "Big Spender"
b/w "Trapped (In the Web of Love)" (from That Was Then and Now Is Now)
9 Big Spender
"That Man"
b/w "You Don't Know" (from Big Spender)
31 Non-album track
"Come Back to Me"
b/w "You've Got Possibilities"
36 Big Spender
"Happy Feet"
b/w "Stay with Me"
Non-album tracks
"So, What's New" / 20 Extra Special!
"Walking Happy" 14
1967 "I Feel It"
b/w "The Lonesome Road"
8 Non-album tracks
1968 "Reason to Believe"
b/w "Didn't Want to Have to Do It"
"It'll Never Happen Again"
b/w "Misty Roses"
1969 "Spinning Wheel"
b/w "Lean on Me"
24 A Natural Woman
"Is That All There Is?"
b/w "Me and My Shadow" (first pressings)
"I'm a Woman" (later pressings, from I'm a Woman)
11 1 62 Is That All There Is?
"Whistle for Happiness"
b/w "Something"
13
1970 "Love Story"
b/w "My Old Flame"
105 26
"You'll Remember Me"
b/w "Have You Seen My Baby"
16 Bridge Over Troubled Water
"One More Ride on the Merry-Go-Round"
b/w "Pieces of Dreams" (from Raindrops)
21 Make It With You
1971 "Where Did They Go"
b/w "All I Want"
Where Did They Go
1972 "Love Song"
b/w "Someone Who Cares"
34 Norma Deloris Egstrom From Jamestown, North Dakota
1974 "Let's Love"
b/w "Always"
22 Let's Love
1975 "Some Cats Know"
b/w "I Remember"
Mirrors
1992 "Fever" (Reissue)
b/w "I'm a Woman"
75 Fever: The Best of Peggy Lee

References

  1. 1 2 David Torresen (content) and David Uy (design). "The official web site of Miss Peggy Lee". PeggyLee.com. Retrieved December 15, 2012.
  2. 1 2 Betts, Graham (2004). Complete UK Hit Singles 1952–2004 (1st ed.). London: Collins. p. 444. ISBN 0-00-717931-6.
  3. 1 2 Steffen Hung. "Forum – Chart Positions Pre 1989 Part 3 (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts)". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 2014-08-20.
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