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If You Go(1961)
Bewitching-Lee(1962)
Blues Cross Country is a 1962 studio album by Peggy Lee, principally arranged by
Quincy Jones, with some arrangements by Benny Carter. The album can be described as
a concept album, consisting of a musical journey across the United States through
swinging blues songs, many of which were written by Lee with other contributors.[1]
Blues Cross Country was the second of Lee's two albums featuring arrangements by
Jones. He had also arranged her previous studio album, If You Go (1961).
Reception[edit]
Professional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingAllmusic[2]
Blues Cross Country received good reviews at the time of its release from both
Billboard magazine in March 1962, and Time magazine in May 1962.[citation needed]
Billboard wrote that "Peggy's back, and this time in a blues mood - with sad blues,
happy blues and swinging blues. She sings them in her own delightful style aided
muchly by the fine arrangements of ork [sic] leader Quincy Jones. .. The album's a
gas".[3]
The Allmusic review by William Ruhlmann awarded the album four stars and commented
that "Though Jones' arrangements are often a touch brassier than the blues
standards can handle, Lee contributes just the right blend of vigor and feeling to
the songs"[1]
Track listing[edit]
"Kansas City" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) - 2:29
"Basin Street Blues" (Spencer Williams) - 3:04
"Los Angeles Blues" (Peggy Lee, Quincy Jones) - 2:38
"I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City" (Johnny Lange, Leon Rene) - 2:53
"The Grain Belt Blues" (Lee, Milt Raskin, Bill Schugler) - 1:52
"New York City Blues" (Jones, Lee) - 3:21
"Goin' to Chicago Blues" (Count Basie, Jimmy Rushing) - 2:37
"San Francisco Blues" (Lee, Raskin) - 2:37
"Fisherman's Wharf" (Lee, Raskin) - 3:11
"Boston Beans" (Lee, Raskin, Schugler) - 2:05
"The Train Blues" (Jones, Lee) - 2:42
"Saint Louis Blues" (W. C. Handy) - 2:15
Bonus tracks issued on the 1999 CD release
"Hey, Look Me Over!" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) - 1:55
"The Shining Sea" (Lee, Johnny Mandel) - 2:45
Personnel[edit]
Peggy Lee - vocals
Quincy Jones - arranger, conductor
Benny Carter - arranger, alto saxophone, tuba
Stan Levey, Earl Palmer - drums
Max Bennett - bass guitar
Chico Guerrero - congas, percussion
Aubrey Bouck, Bill Henshaw, Sinclair Lott, Henry Sigismonti - French horn
Frank Strazzeri - piano
Toots Thielemans - guitar
Jimmy Rowles - piano
Bob Cooper, Harry Klee, Bud Shank - woodwind
Bill Green, Plas Johnson, Bill Perkins - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Jack Sheldon - trumpet
Dennis Budimir - guitar
Bob Bain, John Pisano, Howard Roberts - guitar
Artie Kane - electronic organ
Larry Bunker, Emil Richards - percussion
Lou Levy - piano
Jack Nimitz - baritone saxophone
Buddy Collette - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Justin Gordon - tenor saxophone
Hoyt Bohannon, Vern Friley, Bobby Knight, Lew McCreary, Dick Nash, George Roberts,
Frank Rosolino, Tommy Shepard - trombone
Pete Candoli, Bob Fowler, Conrad Gozzo, Joe Graves, Al Porcino, Ray Triscari -
trumpet
References[edit]
^ a b Ruhlmann, William. "Blues Cross Country". Allmusic. Retrieved March 18, 2011.
^ Allmusic review
^ "Blues Cross Country". Billboard Music Week. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. March
17, 1962. ISSN 0006-2510.
vtePeggy LeeAlbums
Rendezvous with Peggy Lee
Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas
Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues
Black Coffee
Dream Street
Peggy Lee Sings with Benny Goodman
Sea Shells
Miss Wonderful
The Man I Love
Jump for Joy
Things Are Swingin'
I Like Men!
Beauty and the Beat!
Latin ala Lee!
All Aglow Again!
Pretty Eyes
Christmas Carousel
Olé ala Lee
Basin Street East Proudly Presents Miss Peggy Lee
If You Go
Blues Cross Country
Sugar 'n' Spice
Mink Jazz
I'm a Woman
In Love Again!
Pass Me By
Then Was Then – Now Is Now!
Guitars a là Lee
Big $pender
Extra Special!
Somethin' Groovy!
2 Shows Nightly
A Natural Woman
Make It with You
Where Did They Go
Norma Deloris Egstrom from Jamestown, North Dakota
Let's Love
Mirrors
Live in London
Peggy
Close Enough for Love
Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues
The Peggy Lee Songbook: There'll Be Another Spring
Love Held Lightly: Rare Songs by Harold Arlen
Moments Like This
The Best of Peggy Lee: The Capitol Years
Singles
"I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)"
"Blues in the Night"
"We'll Meet Again"
"The Way You Look Tonight"
"Why Don't You Do Right?"
"It's a Good Day"
"Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)"
"Bali Ha'i"
"Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)"
"The Old Master Painter"
"Lover"
"Just One of Those Things"
"Baubles, Bangles, & Beads"
"Let Me Go, Lover"
"Fever"
"Hallelujah, I Love Him So"
"I'm a Woman"
"I Go to Sleep"
"Big Spender"
"Spinning Wheel"
"Is That All There Is?"
Other songs
"Black Coffee"
"The Folks Who Live on the Hill"
"Kansas City"
"I Love Being Here with You"
Radio
The Chesterfield Supper Club
Television
The Guy Mitchell Show
What's My Line?
Films
Stage Door Canteen
Jasper in a Jam
The Jazz Singer
Lady and the Tramp
Pete Kelly's Blues
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Discography
Benny Goodman
Dave Barbour (first husband)
Brad Dexter (second husband)
Dewey Martin (third husband)
Jo Stafford
Patti Page
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vteBenny CarterYears given are for the recording(s), not first release.As leaderor
co-leader
Alone Together (1952)
Cosmopolite (1952–54)
Benny Carter Plays Pretty (1954)
New Jazz Sounds (and Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Harris, 1954)
Urbane Jazz (and Roy Eldridge, 1955)
Jazz Giant (1957–58)
Swingin' the '20s (and Earl Hines, 1958)
Further Definitions/Additions to Further Definitions (1961/1966)
Carter, Gillespie Inc. (and Dizzy Gillespie]], 1976)
Benny Carter Meets Oscar Peterson (1986)
Billy Eckstine Sings with Benny Carter (1986)
Songs
"Cow-Cow Boogie" (1942)
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