Peggy Lee, The Folks Who Live on the Hill, 1981

[pigyob]

A voice like velvet

[kmort2691]

A beautiful and tender rendition from a gorgeous lady.

[havisham3]

This Lady owns this song

[callig11]

And when the kids grow up and leave us,brings a tear to many of us.We are lucky,they all live just around the corner.

[pigyob]

A vision in a feather boa

[toyne38]

beautiful song...very melancholy.I just lost my husband... a very gentle man, who fits into this song very well. Of course, who could sing it better than Peggy Lee.

[papabear725]

Thank you very much for posting this. After 36 years on our hill here in Chadds Ford, PA, we are empty nesters, with grandchildren. We await another winter and sledding down the hill with the 5 year old. Smiles to all.

[8269998]

wot a pity she never got into House Music

[sheenalett]

the only video I can find of this song and peggy lee, love it soo much

[SadAnorak]

best song ever no doubt

[56Packman]

A terrific Nelson Riddle arrangement. This was conducted by Frank Sinatra for the album.

[charade97]

@56Packman Thank you for that. I had no idea Frank Sinatra conducted anything.

[rlneesam]

Not as good as Richard Strauss's 4 last songs but close.

[globaleye8]

Thanks for posting this nostalgic clip. My parents married the year this song was wriiten, 1937, it was always one of their favourite melodies. My father died in 1983 and mum in 2004 - two lovely people much missed. Now I am just retired, child flown the nest abroad, and we are looking for "a place on the hill". The lyrics of this song show such a wonderful insight for the wheel of time and the effect it has on us all.

[Thorneycroft1937]

great

[grainofsandfan]

She's smooth and hot like molten glass. Incredible.

[PureSoapCleans]

One of the greatest singers ever!!!

[peterpanohno1]

An all time favourite - the original had Sinatra conducting. In my top 10 ballads.

[lonergan2468]

What a lovely version....I loved her, and she was also a very nice person, a real lady RIP

[4429mimi]

Great -will soon post my own tribute to Peggy lee!!!!!!!!

[defundthewar]

I saw Peggy perform at an outdoor venue in Concord CA, and she sang this, and it was as sweet and touching then as in this clip. Mel Tormé wheeled her out and she did her show from her wheelchair. She told the audience she had been in a vehicular accident earlier, and we didn't know it- or at least I didn't know it- but this was a lie she told us. In fact, she was already wheelchair-bound in 1993, but she didn't want us to worry. It was a great performance and we didn't want to let her go.

[omarory]

The Folks Who Live on the Hill is a 1937 ballad written by Oscar Hammerstein II and Rory Emerald.

♥ RIP Miss Peggy Lee ♥

[dw4720]

Incorrect... the music was written by the great JEROME KERN, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II....

[mert401]

Rory Emerald? RORY EMERALD? Is that a joke? I don't believe Rory Emerald existed! Of course, it was Jerome Kern, one of the great composers of the American Songbook.........

[Koalkracker]

The song was written by Oscar Hammerstein (w) and Jerome Kern (m) back in 1937. It was first heard in the movie musical "High, Wide, and Handsome" when Irene Dunne sang it. The first hit records of the tune were by Bing Crosby (Decca) and Ozzie Nelson, vocals by Harriet Hilliard (Bluebird)

[paddypoke]

A classic , pure and simple, nothing left to say

[4css]

After my wife & children numbering 2..now grown ..Sandy & I moved out of Illinois..flat lands. We settled our retirement years 1,500 feet up in the hills of Somerset kentucky. We are always having our feelings get in the way of our emotions in the later years of our life together..45) We both remembered this wonderful & warm song and placed it on our i POD. Each time we drive up our winding senic hill we have tears . We trully lived this life on Peggy's hill in her vivid song Cliff steele

[ghasgfhag]

@4css God bless you for fulfilling the dream of so many; and I really mean that. My ex-wife and I didn't work out (hence the "ex") but we're the best fo friends and, as I always say to her, all I wanted us to be was "the folks who live on the hill". Peace and love.

[1973nitram]

wonderful rendition but could please post the studio version cheers from ian smith Xxx pax

[BernardProfitendieu]

I wonder why she sings, "Baby and Joan" instead of "Darby and Joan?"

no matter, a great performance from a great lady

[tonka954]

It's weird, I wonder that too - if you listen to the other version on youtube she says exactly the same thing

[dw4720]

Not quite weird, just a bit of "artistic poetic license"... Not to be criticized, however, when you compare it to Frank Sinatra, who blatantly sang incorrect lyrics very frequently... I think he was trying to be "stylistic", however, there is a limit..!!! Peggy Lee can sing whatever she wishes. Period.

[debbiejohnson1]

Thank you so much.

[tallulahdarling]

This is just the most subtle, affecting song in the whole world. It's my favourite song after "Wichita Lineman". Peggy Lee was superlative in everything she did.

[bjmiceli]

I agree. This a marvelously subtle song. So romantic. Brings tears to my eyes every time I hear Ms. Lee sing it.

[pigyob]

Maida I agree with you,this song is so poignant for my Liverpool

[maida1982a]

used to great effect in "of time and the city".

[LY71142]

@maida1982a I just saw "Of Time and the City" last night with a friend - now a US citizen - who was born and raised in Wirral. The two of us were in tears at the end of this song: it sums up so much of the dreams and aspirations of the generation that came of age after WWII on both sides of the Atlantic, i.e. our parents: "Darby and Joan, who used to be known as Jack and Jill...and who will always be known as the folks who live on the hill." Magic, sheer magic.

[boxey24]

@LY71142 GREAT

[eaglestirreth]

No-one can quite do this song like Peggy Lee....It was as though this song was specially written for her....I know it wasn't but her version has to be the best in the whole universe and milky way !!!!

[MikeWilliamsonMusic]

Elegant lady, excellent singer and a great song-what else can there be?

[skitzitilby]

this is so beautiful---no one can sing this like this...they wish!!LOL

i always fill up whenever i hear it because it reminds me of my Mum and Dad --now in their 70's.

they have lived in the same house all their married life ,love each other like that very first day they met,deeper in fact,and they live in a house a hill.

I taught myself to play this on the piano,and it is just so special to them and me.Love them.....;-))

[ErictheJazzer]

The arrangment of this classic song is one of the most praised in popular music. Wonderful horn section.