Close Enough for Love (Peggy Lee album)

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Close Enough for Love
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Studio album by
Released1979
RecordedMay 30-31, 1979
Genre Jazz, disco
Length36:39
Label DRG SL5190
Producer Hugh Fordin
Peggy Lee chronology
Peggy
(1977)
Close Enough for Love
(1979)
Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues
(1988)

Close Enough for Love is a 1979 studio album by jazz singer Peggy Lee. [1]

Contents

The album was Lee's first recording in the United States since her 1975 album Mirrors . The album was Lee's only recording for DRG Records, and featured Lee with her regular quartet. [2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Reviewing the album for AllMusic, JT Griffith said that "Peggy Lee's voice sounds a bit depressed on this album, indicating, perhaps, an unfamiliarity with the new musical trappings. But that quality also gives the album's more straightforward numbers, like "Rain Sometimes" and "Come in From the Rain" (sounding like Wings), a moving, somber tone. An example of a dated album, but one that is a ripe for a rediscovery." [1]

Track listing

  1. "You" (Tom Snow) – 4:04
  2. "Easy Does It" (Richard P. Hazard, Peggy Lee) – 3:28
  3. "Close Enough for Love" (Johnny Mandel, Paul Williams) – 3:55
  4. "A Robinsong" (Michael Franks) – 3:18
  5. "Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter) – 2:48
  6. "I Can't Resist You" (Walter Donaldson, Will Donaldson, Ned Wever) – 4:33
  7. "Come in from the Rain" (Melissa Manchester, Carole Bayer Sager) – 3:07
  8. "In the Days of Our Love" (Lee, Marian McPartland) – 3:18
  9. "Through the Eyes of Love" (Marvin Hamlisch, Sager) – 3:11
  10. "Rain Sometimes" (Arthur Hamilton) – 3:55

Personnel

Performance
Production

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Close Enough for Love at AllMusic
  2. James Gavin (11 November 2014). Is That All There Is?: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee. Simon and Schuster. p. 398. ISBN   978-1-4516-4168-4.