I’m already trying to figure out what illness I’m going to fake to get out of work this week so I can sit and home and listen.

The Buddies Lounge blog has complete track listings and some great album art. I recommend you check it out. Podcast #100 is embedded below. It’s certainly made laundry, dishes and vacuuming a lot groovier to accomplish than I might have otherwise expected. Highlights include Frank Sinatra and the Billy May Orchestra with “Come Fly with Me, Miss Peggy Lee’s “Baby Baby, Wait for Me” and a Petula Clark extended Coca-Cola jingle, plus Allan Sherman’s parody of “That Old Black Magic” In the Big W’s regular “Strange and Bizarre” feature of the podcast!

Great, great stuff for a weekend afternoon.  The Big W has has a new big fan.

An Evening At The Buddies Lounge – Show 100

 

Buddies Lounge

 

Show 100 (6/4/10) playlist:

• I Ain’t Got Nobody – Lean Horne
• The “In” Crowd – Erine Heckscher
• Roses of Picardy – Buddy Greco
• Camelot – Les & Larry Elgart
• I Walk The Line – Eydie Gormé
• 77 Sunset Strip – Ralph Marterie
• Baby-O – Dean Martin
• The Best Is Yet To Come – David Carrol
• Two Ladies In de Shade of de Banana Tree – Sammy Davis, Jr.
• Come Fly With Me – Frank Sinatra
• Up, Up And Away – Dick Hyman
• Me And My Shadow – Lou Rawls
• Up A Lazy River – Si Zentner
• The Lady Is A Tramp – Della Reese
• Dragnet – Buddy Morrow
• Let There Be Love – Steve Lawrence
• Anna – Hugo Montenego
• Baby, Baby Wait For Me – Peggy Lee
• That Old Back Scratcher – Allan Sherman
• String Of Trumpets – Billy Mure
• On The Sunny Side Of The Street – Keely Smith

“An Evening At The Buddies Lounge” can be heard every Friday, in Living Stereo, direct from STUDIO 67 in Hollywood, CA. The show is produced by National-International Broadcasting.

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I didn’t figure it out until I randomly snagged up a Peggy Lee Greatest Hits compilation simply because I knew her as the voice of the Siamese cat duo in the film Lady and the Tramp, and remembered a famous mini-documentary shown on The Wonderful World of Disney where Miss Lee demonstrates how she recorded the voices of both “Si” and “Am.” It’s genius, you see!

“All you need is a home tape recorder, and another one you can borrow from a neighbor.”

Of course… because who would ever need TWO home tape recorders? (Peggy also explains in person after the jump below)

Peggy had a slew of hits in her career: Fever, Is That All There Is? and Black Coffee, among others. Later generations may remember her as the woman who sued the pants of Disney for royalties due on videotape rights, which of course didn’t exist when she contributed her talents to Tramp.  Incidentally, she won.

I personally consider hers to be one of the most memorable voices of the Decca and platinum Capitol Records era. It may not be the strongest, but she always had the perfect material, and more importantly, she always delivered more than just the lyrics. With every line, she’s sending you the definite message that she’s in on some salacious secret you clearly know NOTHING about…. you fools!

Click on the Mp3 link below to hear the voice in action.  Video clips follow.
im_a_woman.mp3

Here’s the video for that certain perfume… known as Enjoli. TV viewers of a certain age are sure to recall it. And what a nod to women’s lib. This chick’s doing it all… on her own terms. And how about that little feisty bit at the end, where she sprays it right at the camera! Oh, snap!