Benny Goodman Golden Hits Album Covers Movie The Jazz

The Spanish EP under discussion combines two original 1954 US Decca singles, one by Peggy Lee (Johnny GuitarAutumn In Rome), the other by Kirk Douglas (A Whale Of A TaleAnd The Moon Grew Brighter).

The display has been chronologically arranged, by year of release.

Also included herein are her cassingles and CD singles, of which there are less than a handful.

The Lee EPs that this page aims at listing are those which qualify as stand-alone items -- as opposed to EPs which are mini-versions of LPs.

If you are looking for items of the latter type, check instead the Capitol and Decca album photo pages.

Furthermore, there are various EPs for which I have yet to succeed at locating an image; a list of them can be found at the bottom of the page.

Motion Picture The Jazz Singer Label: Decca Cat.

Num.: Ed 2003 Rel.

Benny Goodman Golden Hits Album Covers Movie The Jazz

Year: 1953 Note: This EP contains Decca treatments of the songs that Peggy Lee performed in the movie The Jazz Singer.

They are instead alternate versions, which Lee simply waxed for the record label to which she was signed at the time of the films release.

Ed 2003 was actually part of Deccas very first batch of EP releases, which came out around March of 1953.

The label was a belated newcomer in this configuration; all the other majors had already been issuing EPs for a while, with RCA Victor leading the way.

Victor Young, Tommy Dorsey, Dick Haymes, The Andrews Sisters, and The Mills Brothers are among the other artists featured in this first batch of 20 titles.

Ditto for the second title, in which Bing Crosby shares honors with his son Gary.

For her part, Peggy Lee is the only solo female vocalist in the entire batch.

I should clarify that none of the tracks included in this EP were being issued for the very time.

Decca had previously, originally issued them on 78-rpm and 45-rpm singles.

The same modus operandi applies to most of the other EPs from this initial Decca batch.

Essentially, the label felt safer treating these EPs as compilations of sorts, though without revealing their nature in the physical product or the promotion.) Title: Songs From The Jazz Singer Format: CD Label: Sepia Cat.

Num.: (United Kingdom) 1055 Rel.

Year: 2005 Tracks: 28 (total).

Lees Decca EP) 10 (bonus tracks by Peggy Lee) 8 (Danny Thomas tracks from the RCA Victor album Songs From The Jazz Singer ) 6 (bonus tracks by Danny Thomas).

Note: This above-average Public Domain CD can be deemed an expanded reissue of the above-described EP.

The CD collects all the songs from The Jazz Singer that were recorded by the movies co-stars Danny Thomas and Peggy Lee, on their respective labels.

Included as well are quite a few bonus tracks, all sung by either Lee or Thomas but none related to the movie.).

Year: possibly 1954 Note: The release date that I have assigned to this EP is tentative.

I do not know its actual date, but various details point to the mid-1950s.

Presumably, the preparation of this EP was triggered by the international success of the 1954 movie Johnny Guitar; hence a 1954 date would make sense.

The inclusion of two holiday numbers would further suggest a dating between October and December of that year.

Year: possibly 1954 Note: During the 1950s, Columbia was the label under which Deccas recordings were released in Spain.