My Old Flame - Peggy Lee and the Benny Goodman Orchestra

[newellgirl]

Totally awesome..reminds one of the "golden generation" the folks from WW2 who protected us from tyranny and left a world to enjoy in relative peace for Christmas..i wont forgot those who sleep eternally in the Pacific for our freedom.

[rickricardo94]

Both takes are simply wonderful, but I actually prefer the second. It sounds a bit cleaner. Peggy also toys with her vocal abilities a bit more. Trumpet solo in the second take is hot, even if it's only a few measures.

[FelixPheonix]

I tried singing this song , before listening to it , by looking at the lyrics. I've never heard it before and I got it pretty close. Woohoo! :D

[ENACODNOM]

Delightful! It really deserves the two takes.

[JoeSzilagy]

There's something so cool, hip, warm and heartfelt, not to mention "classy" about the big band /swing music of the '30s and '40s. My dad used to be a bouncer or doorman at the Palais Royale in Toronto back then, and he got to see and hear most of these people live- LUCKY!!

[parisel313]

no one needed to see her , her voice said everything.........

[chepe5025]

PAX DOMINUS POR SEMPER.

[richardhenessy37]

love ella,love billy,and have done so for a  long time,but make way for the best, the sublime,miss peggy lee.

[0001943]

Great!  I love these big band girl singers!

[pinkieldred]

Peggy Lee...

Oh Peggy how you could sing! Wouldn't it be wonderful to have you around to give these so called rock singers of today...a few lessons!

[fanwuren]

Damn! what an incredibly sexy voice!

[wjv4me]

She was an amazing song writer, singer and person. Just finished her biography. Came from being a child who was abused. She really made herself into a

great human being, and singer/writer!

Thanks for the upload!

[CarlHalling]

It was the late 1960s. I was a Pop/Rock kid, weaned on the Beat since Beatlemania and the Stones. But being driven back as a dreamer of a teenager to nautical college by my parents of a Sunday night after a solitary day's leave, I'd listen on a cassette player to Peggy singing this song and others with Benny Goodman, and I loved what I heard. I still love it, and I'm 53 now.

[Metusaleh]

Oh, by the way, Mae West also sings "magnificent" in the original movie recording, from the 1930's.

[Metusaleh]

I prefer magnificent to innocent ... I find more bite in the implications behind the ways in which he was "magnificent." Innocent is, well, too tame a word for the way in which this man is described in the rest of the song! ... :)

[fedtrooper]

Peggy sings "so magnificent or elegant" but the printed lyrics say "innocent or elegant." I like "innocent"; it adds more of a bite to the story she's singing. I suppose that's the song writer's Art--finding the exact perfect word in a song lyric.