Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues

Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues
Soundtrack album by Peggy Lee
Released	1955
Recorded	April 6 and 10, 1955
Genre	Vocal jazz
Length	38:27
Label	Decca
Producer	Milt Gabler
Peggy Lee chronology
Songs in an Intimate Style (1954) Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) Black Coffee (1956)

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Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues is a 1955 (see 1955 in music) soundtrack album by Peggy Lee featuring tracks by Ella Fitzgerald, and several jazz instrumentals.

It is the soundtrack to the 1955 film Pete Kelly's Blues,^[2] which starred Lee and Fitzgerald.

Track listing

1. Opening: Narration by Jack Webb – 1:21
2. "Smiles" (J. Will Callahan, Lee Roberts) – 2:14
3. "(What Can I Say) After I Say I'm Sorry?" (Walter Donaldson, Abe Lyman) – 3:44
4. "Breezin' Along with the Breeze" (Haven Gillespie, Seymour Simons, Richard Whiting) – 2:45
5. "Oh! Didn't He Ramble" – 2:49
6. "I'm Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now" (Benny Davis, Jesse Greer) – 2:34
7. "Somebody Loves Me" (George Gershwin, Buddy DeSylva, Ballard MacDonald) – 3:39
8. "Sugar" (Maceo Pinkard, Sidney D. Mitchell, Edna Alexander) – 3:07
9. "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson) – 2:50
10. "He Needs Me" (Arthur Hamilton)
11. "I Never Knew" (Gus Kahn, Ted Fiorito)
12. "Sing a Rainbow" (Arthur Hamilton)
13. "I Never Knew" – 2:58
14. "Hard Hearted Hannah" (Milton Ager, Chas Bates, Bob Bigelow, Jack Yellen – 3:08
15. "Pete Kelly's Blues" (Ray Heindorf, Sammy Cahn) – 3:41

Personnel

Recorded April 6 and 10, 1955, Hollywood, Los Angeles:

• Ella Fitzgerald - Vocals on tracks 14 and 15 only.
• Peggy Lee

References

1. [link Allmusic review]
2. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048484/