Time: 34:41
Size: 79.4 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 1957/1992/2007
Art: Front
[3:18] 1. Street Of Dreams
[2:56] 2. What's New
[2:48] 3. You're Blase
[2:21] 4. It's All Right With Me
[2:35] 5. My Old Flame
[3:37] 6. Dancing On The Ceiling
[2:58] 7. It Never Entered My Mind
[3:46] 8. Too Late Now
[2:44] 9. I've Grown Accustomed To His Face
[2:26] 10. Something I Dreamed Last Night
[2:53] 11. Last Night When We Were Young
[2:13] 12. So Blue
Dream Street captures Peggy Lee at her most intimate and melancholy -- a song cycle exploring love and loss in uncompromisingly frank terms, it strips away the saccharine and schmaltz so common among the singer's Decca sessions to effectively create the first truly adult music of her career. Lee occupies the same harrowing emotional territory staked out by Frank Sinatra via the landmark In the Wee Small Hours, investing the material with the kind of heartbreak and longing that belies the whole "easy listening" tag -- this is music shorn of pretense and artifice, as intense as a primal scream yet beautiful in the way only art of this magnitude can be. ~Jason Ankeny
Recording Date: June 5, 1956 - June 7, 1956
Recording Date: June 5, 1956 - June 7, 1956
Dream Street
Never been wild for that kind of singer, because of the strings, big bands, orchestrations. But here, 10 of the 12 songs are delicate slow songs. Beautiful voice in that setting.
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