Peggy King

This, in my estimation, is one of the better pop vocal LPs of the 50s. And, as the cover will attest, it is by one of the best-looking pop vocalists of that or any other time.

So why isn't it better known? Many reasons, I suppose - changing tastes in music, the fact that Peggy King was never a jazz vocalist or worked with jazz musicians, and that she never had a major hit. It doesn't help that she was known as "pretty, perky Peggy King" at this time, and came to fame on the television show of Lonesome George Gobel, which was not overly sophisticated. I don't think she was taken seriously.

With Lonesome George

This album, her only LP for Imperial, was perhaps a pitch for a more mature image, starting with the extremely glamorous cover and extending into the elaborate arrangements by three talented practitioners of the art - Henri René, Jack Marshall and Pete King. Her singing - always quite sensual for someone with a gamine-like image - here takes on an even more charged aspect. Her rendition of the gorgeous title song by Jerome Moross and John Latouche is exceptionally fine.

After this, she made only two additional full albums, both for Stash in the mid-80s.

King could not have been too upset by being called "pretty, perky Peggy King" - it's the title of her official web site.

This is in response to a request. The mono sound on this LP is very good.