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  • The girl Erica Roane sings it amazing in the video response siriously take a listen then thumbs up.

  • Check out my chanell for covers of Miss Peggy Lee's great songs.

  • Hi honey... Could you help me? Im feeling a bit hexed up.

  • Who are the low-class bums who voted down on this one? Peggy is HOT!

  • You've all been bamboozled! For all of their creativity, someone told them that it was ok to re do Bo Diddley's song 'I'm A Man' while failing to properly credit the original author.

  • What a woman!

  • damn fuck yeaaaaaa

  • I can bring home bacon... I can even cook... I'll have your gorilla back, faster than you can make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich !!

    (Thumbs up if you get the reference.)

  • I thought this would have been better, but it sounds like she is way off beat.

    See - Smokey Joe's Cafe

  • @blackcrystal25

    you do realise that peggy Lee wrote the song, this is the original how it was created

    you do also realise that Smokey Joe's Cafe is a musical and that there are a million "i'm a woman" versions from the musical on youtube

    and finally

    do you listen to Jazz?

    Because singers in Jazz tend to not hold time, that was a technique a singer used to make a tune "Jazzier" many soloists do it as well

    which taken in context to when the song was released it was normal

  • @JJCranswick

    Yes, there are multiple versions of the musical Smokey Joe's Cafe which is the performance of multiple songs written by Lieber and Stroller who wrote this song for her.  Do you listen to blues?

  • @blackcrystal25

    Whats your point

    i was saying that this is the original when you said you liekd the original version

    and then when you said we should look at the smokey joe's cafe musical version you failed to specify which version coz there are millions of smokey Joe's cafe versions of every song on youtube

    and yes i listen to the blues

  • im singin this song in my concert choir(:

  • "that's all"... adorable :)

  • god lave ya, darlin'...so smooth and wonderful and those great facial expressions that go perfectly with the music...she was special...

  • she songs off tune

  • This is a nicely different way to interpret a song that is not a blues number anyway. By the way, it's not such a good idea to insult the singing of professionals when you have put your own amateur singing videos on YouTube. I went to listen to one of them, and ... well, no comment, except good luck with that.

  • @NoSuchThingAsTrinity No, it's not

  • i'v never see her singing with so much strong. i just love her

  • Is this a rip off of muddy waters i'm a man?

  • @bigbootyjudy51 I'm not sure--you will have to ask the Messrs. Leiber (sp) and Stoller--they wrote it.

  • Peggy Lee,cantas muy rico !

  • One of the classiest legendary singers to grace the music scene. This old clip loses nothing of the artist at work. Style grace, incredible timing. God bless you golden tones Miss Lee...you are missed.

  • Lee had far more than ability, she was a great musician,just as one can tell when listening to Chet Baker or Holiday sing a tune.They are Musicians who also happen to sing extremely well. This has more to do with Lee's talent, charisma, poise and magic.The other doesn't come close to her,in any of these,I doubt she'll approach it in her lifetime.I don't see this as anything bad, for folks like Lee, Holiday, Garland, Chet Baker are 'originals' not flash-in-the-pan, TV fake reality show creations.

  • the audio is terrible but love the song

  • plus, this clip lacks a bit in the audio department, listen to Lee's version on cd. Just as Madonna's tame attempt at a re-do of "Fever" fizzled, for Dolittle it's back to the drawlin' board.

  • lol...Once you hear soul voices sing this song, listening to this sounds kinda funny lol.

  • Yeah but Peggy wrote the lyrics to this song, and she pretty much only sang her own music, so i guess if she wrote it, she couls sing it any way she wanted...

  • Actually Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller wrote this song. They also wrote Is That All There Is? for her. I'm not familiar with too much of her other music but I know those two were Leiber and Stoller songs (Leiber and Stoller wrote hundreds of songs in the 60's such as Stand By Me, Poison Ivy, On Broadway, Jailhouse Rock, etc. Look em up. its interesting)

  • wow! she's amazing! her eye and eyebrow movements in this vidio are just like adam ants! strange but truew!!!

  • Agreed. Melinda totally owns this song - it is no longer Peggy Lee's.

  • ooooooooooh i love her!

  • Doolittle is 'greater' only in pounds.

  • Lainie48-This sure is her song. ?, anyone out there have Peggy Lee singing from Pete Kelly's Blues? Would enjoy seeing her sing. Thank you.

  • Who would compare anyone to Miss Lee singing this song? Her performance of this song is iconic in its status. They couldn't hold her a light. Purrleeezzzz

  • Peggy Lee is great but Melinda Doolittle's voice is far superior--no doubt about that!

  • Nope,...Doliittle's approach is only louder, and her treatment far overdone, as per most of her stuff. I guess that's what 'sells stuff' to todays 'Merkin Idol types. Sad. Let's just say before Donuthin' could come up with a better cover of ANY of Miss Lee's stuff,...it'll be a cold day in hell.

  • I'm a MAN :) koko taylor my number one

  • Absolutely fabulous! Peggy Lee is FANTASTIC!

  • I've been looking for the tabs for the duh nuh nuh nuh nuhhh part of this song for the harmonica for hours...anyone have any idea?

  • I just checked out Melinda's version. Oh my God- that was horrible! She oversang and yelled the song. I assume she didn't win American Idol....

    I've never heard anyone top Peggy Lee in any of her original hits.

  • Maria Mulduar's version is MUCH better. Little Willie John's original version of FEVER is much better than Ms Lee's talk through version. Her voice is so limited one wonders why she choose singing as a profession. I guess she was the Madonna of her era.

  • why would you even compare Melinda and Peg? This is Peg's song, and the two sang it completely different. Melinda is show=offy Mariah/Christina crap, and Peg's is the real jazz stuff. Melinda should be so grateful to sing Peg's stuff.

  • hell no KO KO Taylor is the best ...this sucks

  • Sorry all of you Melinda fans. Peggy is number one, and as for Melinda, she learned from the best.

  • Like what you want, Melinda will NEVER have the cultural significance Peggy Lee had.

  • I like Melinda's version a lot better. =)

  • I like Melinda's version better...Sorry..

  • melinda's version was based off the version in Smokey Joe's Cafe which is unreal

  • r u kidding me?????? melinda is sooooooo wayyyyy better than her!

  • she looks like drew barrymore...

  • I'm a W O M A M great song

  • My namesake. What a class act she was!

  • WE NEED MORE PEGGY LEE!!!!!!

  • OUCH!!!

  • Never heard this song sound this good! I love her voice, her style, everything!

  • Uhm....you should hear Melinda Doolittle from American Idol do it. Truly...one of the first times I've EVER said a REMAKE was BETTER than the original!

  • agreed!

  • I agree 100% with that! This version sucks!

  • You don't understand the beauty of Peggy Lee and her art... One can argue melinda did a better I'm a woman or that Paris Bennet did a better Fever but this was a song for the times... Very understated and cool (with a capital C)... This is a classic jazz act... I'd say among the four greatest Jazz vocalists with Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and Ray Charles.

  • You don't understand the beauty of Peggy Lee and her art... One can argue melinda did a better I'm a woman or that Paris Bennet did a better Fever but this was a song for the times... Very understated and cool (with a capital C)... This is a classic jazz act... I'd say among the four greatest Jazz vocalists with Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and Ray Charles.

  • Oh honey, I was NOT saying that Peggy Lee is not AWESOME. I just think Melinda REVIVED the song for "our" times. :D

  • Wow, Been a while since I heard Peggy, thanks.

  • she's so cool! love peggy lee!

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