Jump for Joy (Peggy Lee album)

Jump for Joy
Studio album by Peggy Lee
Released 1959
Recorded March 1959
Genre Vocal jazz
Length 29:36
Label Capitol
Producer Milt Gabler
Peggy Lee chronology
Sea Shells
(1959)		 Jump for Joy
(1959)		 Things Are Swingin'
(1959)
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Allmusic[1]

Jump for Joy is a 1959 album by Peggy Lee, arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.[2]

The title track was originally written for a progressive 1941 revue, featuring the Ellington band, which tried to break down racial stereotypes. The rest of the selections are popular standards of the period.

Track listing

  1. "Jump for Joy" (Duke Ellington, Sid Kuller, Paul Francis Webster) - 2:07
  2. "Back in Your Own Backyard" (Dave Dreyer, Al Jolson, Billy Rose) - 2:26
  3. "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street" (Gene Austin, Jimmy McHugh, Irving Mills) - 1:58
  4. "I Hear Music" (Burton Lane, Frank Loesser) - 2:07
  5. "Just in Time" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne) - 2:50
  6. "Old Devil Moon" (Yip Harburg, Burton Lane) - 2:58
  7. "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Harry M. Woods) - 2:41
  8. "Four or Five Times" (Byron Gay, Marco H. Hellman) - 2:33
  9. "Music! Music! Music!" (Bernie Baum, Stephen Weiss) - 2:30
  10. "Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin) - 2:37
  11. "Glory of Love" (Billy Hill) - 2:37
  12. "Ain't We Got Fun?" (Richard A. Whiting, Gus Kahn, Raymond B. Egan) - 2:12

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Jump for Joy at AllMusic
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