Sea Shells

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Sea Shells
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Studio album by
Released1958
RecordedFebruary 7 & March 31, 1956
Genre
Length40:20
Label Decca
Producer Milt Gabler
Peggy Lee chronology
The Man I Love
(1957)
Sea Shells
(1958)
Jump for Joy
(1958)
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Sea Shells is an album by jazz singer Peggy Lee that was released in 1958.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Sea Fever" (Friedrich Silcher, Eleanor Chaffee) – 2:03
  2. "Nine Thorny Thickets" (Rolfe Humphries, Johnny Mercer) – 4:59
  3. "Little Old Car" (Henry Beau, Peggy Lee) – 1:11
  4. "Greensleeves" (Traditional) – 1:58
  5. Chinese Love Poems: "The Fisherman"/"Autumn Evening" (Li Po)/(Po) – 2:18
  6. "The Happy Monks" (Lee) – 1:00
  7. "The White Birch and the Sycamore" (Lee, Willard Robison, Hubert Wheeler) – 4:00
  8. "Of Such Is the Kingdom of God" (Ernest Holmes, Irma Glenn) – 3:13
  9. "A Brown Bird Singing" (Royden Barrie, Haydn Wood) – 2:59
  10. "I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard" (Henry W. Petrie, Philip Wingate) – 2:32
  11. "The Maid With the Flaxen Hair" (Claude Debussy) – 1:00
  12. "The Wearing of the Green" (Traditional) – 2:32
  13. "Chaconde (Le Bon Petit Roi d' Yvetot)" (Marcel Grandjany) – 1:38
  14. Chinese Love Poems: "Going Rowing"/"Like the Moon"/"The Music" (Po)/(Po)/(Po) – 2:46
  15. "The Riddle Song" (Traditional) – 3:55
  16. "The Gold Wedding Ring" (Lee, Harry Sukman) – 2:16

Personnel

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References

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