Peggy Lee

Peggy Lee Compositions Recorded by Other Singers

The following listing is merely a selection of the 700+ known recordings by other singers of songs written or co-written by Peggy Lee. These recordings date from the mid-1940s, when Peggy’s songs were recorded by such emerging singers as Sarah Vaughan and Doris Day, through the present day. Peggy’s songwriting collaborators are listed in parentheses after each song title. Where no collaborator is listed, the song features both words and music by Peggy.

Angels on Your Pillow (with Paul Horner)

Ann Hampton Callaway: Fever! A Peggy Lee Celebration (Palmetto)
Michael Feinstein: Pure Imagination (Elektra)
Paul Horner: I Gave It Everything I Had (Cypress Tree)
Stacy Sullivan: It’s a Good Day: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee (LML)
Carol Welsman: I Like Men: Reflections of Peggy Lee (Welcar)

Bella Notte (with Sonny Burke)

Kay Armen: MGM single
Barbara Hendricks: When You Wish Upon a Star (Angel)
Gordon MacRae: Capitol single
Steve Tyrell: The Disney Standards (Disney)

Boomerang (I’ll Come Back to You) (with John Chiodini)

Tish Oney: Dear Peg (Rhombus)

Boston Beans (with Milton Raskin, Bill Schluger)

Jessica Pilnäs: Norma Deloris Egstrom: A Tribute to Peggy Lee (ACT)

Burn It Slow (with Tish Oney)

Tish Oney: Dear Peg (Rhombus)

Christmas Lullaby (with Cy Coleman)

Petula Clark: This Is Christmas (Collectors’ Choice)
Dardanelle: We Wish You a Merry Christmas (Audiophile, Loonis McGlohon and Friends)
Cary Grant: Columbia single

Circle in the Sky (with Emil Palame)

Tish Oney: Dear Peg (Rhombus)

Clair de Lune (with Ann Hampton Callaway)

Ann Hampton Callaway:  Fever! A Peggy Lee Celebration (Palmetto)

Don’t Be So Mean to Baby (with Dave Barbour)

Al Hibbler: Columbia single with Duke Ellington; Al Hibbler Sings the Blues (Monday Every Day) (Reprise)
Kenny Martin: Dean Hudson and His Orchestra: Lang-Worth Recordings 1944-1950 Volume 3 (Circle)

Don’t Forget to Feed the Reindeer

The Lounge-O-Leers:  The Lounge-O-Leers Christmas Party Album (Lounge)

Don’t Smoke in Bed (Willard Robison; Peggy’s contribution uncredited)

Teresa Brewer: Moments to Remember|
Holly Cole: The Holly Cole Trio (Capitol)
Rita Coolidge: And So Is Love (Concord)
k.d. lang: Drag (Warner Bros.), Live by Request (Warner Bros.)
Barbara Lea: The Devil Is Afraid of Music (Audiophile)
Julie London: Around Midnight (Liberty)
Susannah McCorkle: The Beginning 1975 (A Records)
Rod McKuen: Stranger in Town (Kapp)
Liza Minnelli: Liza’s Back (J Records)
Connie Russell: Don’t Smoke in Bed (United Artists)
Carly Simon: Film Noir (Arista)
Nina Simone: Little Girl Blue (Bethlehem), In Concert (Philips)
Patti Smith: Ain’t Nuthin’ but a She Thing (London)
Jack Teagarden: Think Well of Me (Verve)
Josh White: The Josh White Stories Volume II (ABC-Paramount)

Easy Does It (with Richard Hazard)

Lisa Boray:  Miss Peggy Lee (Dee 2)

Everything’s Movin’ Too Fast (with Dave Barbour)

Jessica Molaskey: A Good Day (PS Classics)
Maria Muldaur: A Woman Alone with the Blues (Remembering Peggy Lee) (Telarc)
Laura Theodore: Golden Earrings (Whaling City Sound)

Fever (E. Cooley/J. Davenport; Peggy’s lyric contributions uncredited)

Ann-Margret: On the Way Up (RCA Victor)
Jim Bailey: Jim Bailey Sings (DCC)
The Bobs: Sing the Songs of the Bobs (Rhino)
Michael Buble: Michael Buble (Reprise)
Sam Butera (with Louis Prima): Hey Boy! Hey Girl! (Capitol)
Jeanie Bryson: Some Cats Know (Telarc)
Petula Clark: From Now On; Living for Today (BMG)
Frances Faye: Caught in the Act (GNP)
Buddy Greco: I Like It Swingin’ (Epic)
Lani Hall (with Herb Alpert): Fever (Concord)
Jeff Harnar: Because of You (Varese)
Shirley Horn: The Main Ingredient (Verve)
Kristin Korb: Introducing Kristin Korb (Telarc)
Frankie Laine: Somethin’ Old, Somethin’ New (Prestige)
Trini Lopez: Trini Lopez in London (Reprise)
Madonna: Erotica (Sire)
Kitty Margolis: Straight Up with a Twist (Mad Kat) Anne Murray: Croonin’ (Capitol)
Bette Midler: Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook (Columbia)
Maria Muldaur: A Woman Alone with the Blues (Remembering Peggy Lee) (Telarc)  
Esther Phillips: Atlantic single
Elvis Presley: Aloha from Hawaii (RCA)
Helen Shapiro: Columbia UK single
Tierney Sutton: Desire (Telarc)
Sarah Vaughan: Viva Vaughan! (Mercury)

The Folks Back Home (with Paul Horner)

Stacy Sullivan: It’s a Good Day: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee (LML)

Garnet (January) (with George H. Russell)

Andrea Baker: Candles in the Wind (Powerhousejazz)

The Gold Wedding Ring (with Harry Sukman)

Anne Lorne Giles: The Hills of Lorne (Lochshore)
Barry McGuire and Stars from the New Christy Minstrels: Star Folk (Surrey)
Jessica Pilnäs: Norma Deloris Egstrom: A Tribute to Peggy Lee (ACT)

Happy Feet (with Quincy Jones)

Bob Crane: Epic single

Happy with the Blues (with Harold Arlen)

Tish Oney: Dear Peg (Rhombus)
Ian Shaw: Soho Stories (Milestone)

He’ll Make Me Believe That He’s Mine (with Paul Horner)

Paul Horner: I Gave It Everything I Had (Cypress Tree)
K.T. Sullivan: Crazy World (DRG)

He’s a Tramp (with Sonny Burke)

The Chipmunks: When You Wish Upon a Chipmunk (Sony)
Melody Gardot: Jazz Loves Disney (Verve)
Anita Harris: Anita in Jumbleland (CBS)
Rebecca Kilgore: It’s Easy to Remember (Orb); I Like Men (Arbors)
The Marion Sisters: MGM single
Bette Midler: Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook (Columbia)
Liza Minnelli: Confessions (Decca)
Janelle Monáe: Lady and the Tramp 2019 (Disney)
Judith Owen: Come On and Get It (Twanky)
Dianne Reeves: Disney Jazz Volume I: Everybody Wants to Be a Cat (Disney)
Stacy Sullivan: It’s a Good Day: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee (LML)
Steve Tyrell: The Disney Standards (Disney)

Here’s to You (with Richard Hazard)

Cary Grant: Columbia single

I Didn’t Find Love

Michelle Wallis: Peg (Michelle Wallis)

I Don’t Know Enough About You (with Dave Barbour)

Susanna Bartilla: I Love Lee (Bandcamp)
Brook Benton: Songs I Love to Sing (Mercury)
Jeanie Bryson: Some Cats Know (Telarc)
Perry Como: At the Supper Club, Volume 1 (Sounds of Yesteryear)
Rita Coolidge: And So Is Love (Concord)
Peter “Snake Hips” Dean: Four or Five Times (Buddah)
Johnny Desmond: RCA Victor single
Banu Gibson: Steppin’ Out (Swing Out)
Earl “Fatha” Hines: The Definitive Black and Blue Sessions: ’65 Piano Solo (Black and Blue)
Jack Jones: In Love (Capitol)
Diana Krall: Love Scenes (GRP)
Art Lund (with Benny Goodman): Columbia single
Russell Malone: Russell Malone (Columbia)
The Mills Brothers: The Anthology (MCA)
Maria Muldaur: A Woman Alone with the Blues (Remembering Peggy Lee) (Telarc)
Della Reese: On Strings of Blue (ABC); Something Cool (Allegiance)
Jo Stafford: At the Supper Club, Volume 3 (Sounds of Yesteryear)
Stacy Sullivan: It’s a Good Day: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee (LML)

I Gave It Everything I Had (with Paul Horner)

Paul Horner:  I Gave It Everything I Had (Cypress Tree)

I Like Men (with Jack Marshall)

Carol Welsman: I Like Men: Reflections of Peggy Lee (Welcar)

I Love Being Here with You (with Bill Schluger aka Dave Cavanaugh)

Ernestine Anderson: When the Sun Goes Down (Concord)
Jeanie Bryson: I Love Being Here With You (Telarc)
Ann Hampton Callaway: Fever! A Peggy Lee Celebration (Palmetto)
Chris Connor: Love Being Here With You (Stash), Three Pearls (Eastwood)
Ethel Ennis: Eyes for You (RCA)
Ella Fitzgerald: Ella at Juan-Les-Pins (Verve); Ella in Japan (Verve)
Buddy Greco: I Like It Swingin’ (Epic)
Diana Krall: Only Trust Your Heart (GRP)
Sue Matthews: When You’re Around (Sir)
Marjorie McCoy: I Am Marjorie McCoy (Viva)
Bette Midler and Barry Manilow: Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook (Columbia)
Barbara Morrison: Live at the 9:20 Special (Springboard)
Queen Latifah: Trav’lin’ Light (Verve)
David Silverman: I Have Dreamed (Chase)
Mary Stallings: Live at the Village Vanguard (MaxJazz)
Stacy Sullivan: It’s a Good Day: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee (LML)
Carol Welsman: I Like Men: Reflections of Peggy Lee (Welcar)

I Love You but I Don’t Like You (with Henry Beau)

Lisa Boray: Miss Peggy Lee (Dee 2)

I Want Some Man to Give Me Some

The Golddiggers: Today (RCA Victor)

I Wound It Up

Jessica Pilnäs: Norma Deloris Egstrom: A Tribute to Peggy Lee (ACT)

If I Had a Chance with You (with Dave Barbour)

Joe Alexander: Capitol single

I’m Gonna Go Fishin’ (with Duke Ellington)

Jeanie Bryson: Some Cats Know (Telarc)
Ray Charles: My Kind of Jazz Part 3 (Crossover)
Mary Foster Conklin: Crazy Eyes (Original Cast)
Chris Connor: Free Spirits (Atlantic)
Dr. John: Duke Elegant (Parlophone)
Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson Riddle (Verve)
The Four Freshmen: The Swingers (Capitol)
Jane Harvey: The Undiscovered Jane Harvey (Little Jazz Bird)
Lambert, Hendricks and Ross: Watermelon Man (Jazz Door)
Maria Muldaur: A Woman Alone with the Blues (Remembering Peggy Lee) (Telarc)
Jessica Pilnäs: Norma Deloris Egstrom: A Tribute to Peggy Lee (ACT)
Annie Ross: Sings a Handful of Songs (Everest); Short Cuts (Imago)
Maggi Scott: Together (Seaside)
Bobbi Sherron: Sharing the Dream (Jazz Portraits)
The Singers Unlimited: Friends (MPS)
Mel Torme: The Duke Ellington and Count Basie Songbooks (Verve); The Great American Songbook – Live at Michael’s Pub (Telarc); Live at the Playboy Jazz Festival (Playboy Jazz)
Carol Welsman: I Like Men: Reflections of Peggy Lee (Welcar)

(I’m) In Love Again (with Cy Coleman and Bill Schluger)

Jeanie Bryson: Some Cats Know (Telarc)
Tony Bennett: Here’s to the Ladies (Columbia)
Joyce Breach: Moments Like This (CD Baby)
Charles Cochran: Haunted Heart (Audiophile)
Blossom Dearie: May I Come In? (Capitol)
Linda Lavin: Possibilities (Ghostlight)
Claire Martin: Witchcraft (Linn)
Dianne Reeves: When You Know (Blue Note)
Marlene VerPlanck: Once There Was a Moon (Audiophile)
Ronny Whyte: Whyte Witchcraft – Songs of Cy Coleman (Audiophile)

In the Days of Our Love (with Marian McPartland)

Eden Atwood: There Again (Concord)
Buddy Barnes: The Magic Time (Audiophile)
Meredith D’Ambrosio: The Cove (Sunnyside)
Ethel Ennis: Ennis Anyone? Live at Montpelier (Jazzmont)
Cleo Laine: Woman to Woman (RCA)
Anne Phillips: Ballet Time (Conawago)

It Must Be So

Tish Oney: Dear Peg (Rhombus)

It’s a Good Day (with Dave Barbour)

Ann Hampton Callaway: Fever! A Peggy Lee Celebration (Palmetto)
Hoagy Carmichael: In Person (radio transcription)
Perry Como: So Smooth (RCA Victor)
Bing Crosby: Swingin’ with Bing (Shout Factory)
Vic Damone: Associated transcription
Billy Daniels: Songs at Midnight (Mercury)
Jane Froman: With a Song in My Heart (Capitol)
Judy Garland: Judy Garland Live (Capitol)
Carolyn Grey (with Gene Krupa): Columbia single
Phil Harris: His Original and Greatest Hits (Jasmine)
Dick Haymes: On the Air Volume 5
Jack Jones: Greatest Hits (Curb)
McKinney Sisters with Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys (9/6/47 Tiffany transcription)
Dean Martin: Sittin’ on Top of the World (Reprise)
Johnny Mercer and Bobby Sherwood: Out of Sherwood’s Forest (IAJRC)
Patti Page: On Camera: Patti Page (Mercury)
Mavis Rivers: It’s a Good Day (Delos)
Tommy Sands: Sands at the Sands (Capitol)
Kay Starr: Kay Starr in the ’40s (Hindsight)
Stacy Sullivan: It’s a Good Day: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee (LML)   

I’ve Been Too Lonely for Too Long (with John Chiodini)

Tish Oney: The Best Part (BluJazz)

I’ve Got a Brand New Baby (with John Chiodini)

Tish Oney: The Best Part (BluJazz)

Johnny Guitar (with Victor Young)

Susanna Bartilla: I Love Lee (Bandcamp)
Ann Hampton Callaway: Fever! A Peggy Lee Celebration (Palmetto)
Helen Merrill: Bossa Nova in Tokyo (Victor)
Stacy Sullivan: It’s a Good Day: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee (LML)
Laura Theodore: Golden Earrings (Whaling City Sound)
Kitty White: Newborn (Horizon)

Johnny Trouble

John Carroll: Prescott single

Just an Old Love of Mine (with Dave Barbour)

Toni Arden (with Shep Fields): Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm (Collectors’ Choice)
Bing Crosby: Philco Radio Time Starring Bing Crosby (Sepia)
Doris Day: Columbia single; It’s Magic (Bear Family)
Billy Eckstine: 1947 (Classics)
Dorothy Lamour: radio recording
Stuart Foster and Lucy Ann Polk (with Tommy Dorsey): Cool and Groovy (Jasmine)

King Size Lies (with Richard Hazard, Jeanne Taylor)

Dave Howard: I Love Everybody (Choreo)

La La Lu (with Sonny Burke)

Christine Ebersole: Strings Attached (Birdland/Motema)
Lu Ann Simms: Columbia single

Long Hard Road to Happiness (with David T. Shelton)

Jade Ell: Long Road to Happiness (Tröstlössa)

Mañana (with Dave Barbour)

Andrews Sisters: Club 15 Presents the Andrews Sisters (Sepia)
LaVern Baker: Saved (Atlantic)
Gary Crosby: The Happy Bachelor (Verve)
Bobby Darin: The Milk Shows (Edsel)
DeCastro Sisters: The DeCastro Sisters Sing (Capitol)
Dean Martin: Dino Latino (Reprise)
Mills Brothers: Straight Ahead (Jasmine)
Toni Tennille: Things Are Swingin’ (Purebred)

Mon Amour (My Love) (with Michel Legrand and Jean Brun)

Jerry Vale: Columbia single

Most of All I Love You (with John Chiodini)

Tish Oney: The Best Part (BluJazz)

My Dear Acquaintance (A Happy New Year) (with Paul Horner)
Kristin Chenoweth: Happiness Is… Christmas! (Concord)
Regina Spektor: My Dear Acquaintance (Sire)

My Small Señor (with Dave Barbour)

Laura Theodore: Golden Earrings (Whaling City Sound)

New York City Blues (with Quincy Jones)

Sammy Davis Jr. (with Count Basie): Our Shining Hour (Verve)
Rita Moreno: Rita Moreno (Varese Sarabande)

Oh, Baby Come Home (with Dave Barbour)

Barbara Lusch: Surprisingly Good for You (Blush)

The Other Part of Me (with Paul Horner)

Ann Hampton Callaway: Fever! A Peggy Lee Celebration (Palmetto)
Paul Horner: I Gave It Everything I Had (Cypress Tree)

Over the Wheel (with John Chiodini)

Tish Oney: Dear Peg (Rhombus)

Petite Chanson de Reves (with Paul Horner)

Paul Horner: I Gave It Everything I Had (Cypress Tree)

Please Don’t Rush Me

Barbara Lusch: Surprisingly Good for You (Blush)

Sans Souci (with Sonny Burke)

Lucy Woodward: Hooked! (Verve)

She’s Too Hip to Be Happy (with Cy Coleman)

The Mills Brothers: A Donut and a Dream (Paramount)

The Shining Sea (with Johnny Mandel)

David Allyn: Don’t Look Back (Xanadu)
Tony Bennett: A Time for Love (Columbia); Summer of ’42 (Columbia)
Jackie Cain and Roy Kral: The Beautiful Sea (DRG)
Chris Connor: Now (ABC)
Vic Damone: Stay with Me (RCA)
Eileen Farrell: It’s Over (Reference)
Jack Jones: Jack Jones Sings (Kapp)
Irene Kral: The Russians Are Coming! (United Artists)
Nancy Marano: You’re Nearer (Munich)
Sue Raney: Quietly There (Discovery)
Janis Siegel: Slow Hot Wind (Varese)
Pinky Winters: The Shadow of Your Smile (SSJ)

The Siamese Cat Song (with Sonny Burke)

The Coquettes: RCA-Victor single
Hilary Duff: Disneymania 2 (Disney)
The Marion Sisters: MGM single
Bobby McFerrin: Simply Mad About the Mouse (Columbia)
Lu Ann Simms: Columbia single

So What’s New? (with John Pisano)

Vic Dana: Dolton single
Caterina Valente: Live 1968 (Eraki)

Stay with Me (with Quincy Jones)

Vic Damone: Stay with Me (RCA)

Sugar, Don’t You Know? (with Louis Bellson and Jack Hayes)

Bing Crosby: Bing -n- Basie (Daybreak)
Eddie Hazell: Sugar, Don’t You Know? (Audiophile)

Take a Little Time to Smile (with Dave Barbour)

Freddy Cole: Merry Go Round (Telarc)
Shirley Horn: A Lazy Afternoon (Steeplechase)
Mary Ann McCall and Woody Herman: Columbia outtake (Mosaic)
Laura Theodore: Golden Earrings (Whaling City Sound)

That Old Piano (with Paul Horner)

Paul Horner: I Gave It Everything I Had (Cypress Tree)

That’s My Style (with Cy Coleman)

Richard Rodney Bennett: Witchcraft (Linn)
Dardanelle: That’s My Style (Audiophile)
Mark Murphy: Sings Dorothy Fields and Cy Coleman (Audiophile)
Janis Siegel: The Colors of My Life (Club 44)

Then Was Then and Now Is Now (with Cy Coleman)

Tony Bennett: Let’s Fall in Love (Columbia)
Randy Graff: Doing Something Right – The Songs of Cy Coleman (Varese Sarabande)
Jack Jones: The Impossible Dream (Kapp)

There’ll Be Another Spring (with Hubie Wheeler)

Seth MacFarlane: Once in a While (Republic/Verve)
Tish Oney: Dear Peg (Rhombus)
Jessica Pilnäs: Norma Deloris Egstrom: A Tribute to Peggy Lee (ACT)
Dianne Reeves: Good Night, and Good Luck (Concord)
Monica Zetterlund: The Lost Tapes (RCA)

Things Are Swinging (with Jack Marshall)

Cheryl Bentyne and Mark Winkler: Eastern Standard Time (Café Pacific)
Chris Connor: Free Spirits (Atlantic); Chris Connor Live (Applause); Sweet and Swinging (Progressive); The London Connection (Audiophile)
Susan Maughan: Swingin’ Susan (Philips)
Kirby Stone Four: Things Are Swingin’ (Warner Bros.)
Toni Tennille: Things Are Swingin’ (Purebred)

This Is a Very Special Day

Ann Hampton Callaway: Fever! A Peggy Lee Celebration (Palmetto)
Jessica Pilnäs: Norma Deloris Egstrom: A Tribute to Peggy Lee (ACT)
Danny Thomas: The Jazz Singer (RCA Victor)

Tom Thumb’s Tune

Patience and Prudence: Liberty single
Russ Tamblyn: MGM single

What More Can a Woman Do? (with Dave Barbour)

Mildred Anderson: No More in Life (Bluesville)
Big Maybelle: What More Can a Woman Do? (Brunswick)
Georgia Carr: Rocks in My Bed (VeeJay)
Anna Marie Genovese: Interludes with Anna Marie (Vesta)
Ruby Johnson: I’ll Run Your Hurt Away (Stax)
Audrey Morris: The Voice of Audrey Morris (Bethlehem)
Sarah Vaughan: Continental single; The Chronological Sarah Vaughan (Mercury Classics)

Whee, Baby! (with Alice Larson)

June Christy: This Is June Christy (Capitol)
Nellie Lutcher: Nellie Lutcher and Her Rhythm (Bear Family)

When It Rains It Pours (with Woody Herman)

Woody Herman: Capitol single

When You Speak with Your Eyes (with Dave Barbour, Rene Touzet)

Laura Theodore: Golden Earrings (Whaling City Sound)

Where Can I Go Without You? (with Victor Young)

Joyce Breach: Moments Like This (CD Baby)
Ann Hampton Callaway: Fever! A Peggy Lee Celebration (Palmetto)
Freddy Cole: It’s Crazy but I’m in Love (After 9)
Nat King Cole: Love Is the Thing (Capitol)
Natalie Cole: Stardust (Elektra)
Vic Damone: Lover, Come Back to Me (Mercury)
Connie Francis: New Kind of Connie (MGM)
Joni James: MGM single
Jack Jones: This Love of Mine (Capitol)
Beverly Kenney: Born to Be Blue (Decca)
Dean Martin: Memories Are Made of This (Bear Family)
Catherine Russell: Cat (World Village)
Nina Simone: Forbidden Fruit (Colpix)
Mel Torme: Torme (Verve)
Dionne Warwick: The Sensitive Sounds of Dionne Warwick (Specter)

You Was Right, Baby (with Dave Barbour)

Spade Cooley (with vocal group)
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
Liza Morrow (with Benny Goodman)
Stacy Sullivan: It’s a Good Day: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee (LML)
Laura Theodore: Golden Earrings (Whaling City Sound)

Many thanks to: Steve Albin, Steven Blaski, Sean Connors, Alec Marran, Frank Minor, Mark Mulkeen, Stefano Nuzzo, Ivan Santiago