My Old Flame - Peggy Lee and the Benny Goodman Orchestra

These are two songs by Peggy Lee and the Benny Goodman orchestra, recorded in the 1940s.

The first is My Old Flame, and the second is an alternate take. The two are very similar, but I thought I would include them both.

LYRICS:
My old flame
I can't even think of his name
But it's funny now and then
How my thoughts go flashing back again
To my old flame
My old flame
My new lovers all seem so tame
For I haven't met a gent

So innocent or elegant
As my old flame

I've met so many men
With fascinating ways
A fascinating gaze in their eyes
Som who sent me up to the skies
But their attempts at love
Were only imitations of
My old flame
I can't even think of his name
But I'll never be the same
Untill I discover what became
Of my old flame

I've met so many men
With fascinating ways
A fascinating gaze in their eyes
Som who sent me up to the skies
But their attempts at love
Were only imitations of
My old flame
I can't even think of his name
But I'll never be the same
Untill I discover what became
Of my old flame

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Peggy
• Lee
• Benny
• Goodman
• My
• Old
• Flame
• Jazz
• lyrics

[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!

[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.

[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!