Tuesday, 20 November 2007

Is that all there is?


I'm sitting here, drinking red wine, eating an avocado and listening to Peggy Lee.
How's that for class then?
You can keep your Billy Holliday. Peggy's for me when it comes to fifties girl vocalists. With Julie London and Doris Day (yes, Doris Day!) not far behind. Love it!

Peggy Lee was doing concept albums long before your prog rock navel gazers of the seventies, (though I'm getting into the, erm, mighty Tull these days too). . But anyway. You can pick Miss Lee's Capitol albums up on two on one CDs, and they are sublime. Six quid each, too, so you get a Peggy Lee fifties album for three quid and if that's not a bargain then I dunno.
I recommend Things Are Swingin/Jump For Joy as a starter, moving on to Black Coffee/Sea Shells once you're in the Peggy way.

I've also bought the Nick Drake Fruit Tree set, because my Drake discs have been played in Van, bedroom, lounge and kitchen and skip and pop like a skippy poppy thing. So I've bought the box set that contains all three of his albums and a DVD (for twenty quid mind, so there's a another bargain!).
Such great music! What else can I say?
Welll. . just google proper music and find the cool cats that bought you this release pictured below. I've been playing it weekly since I bought it over a year ago.
Honest, it'll be right on the top! google it daddy-O!

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