Sea Shells

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Field	Value
name	Sea Shells
type	compilation
artist	Peggy Lee
cover	seashellspeggylee.jpg
released	1958
recorded	February 7 & March 31, 1956
* folk<ref name	"Stanley 2022"
length	40:20
label	Decca
producer	Milt Gabler
prev_title	The Man I Love
prev_year	1957
next_title	Jump for Joy
next_year	1958
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| name = Sea Shells | type = compilation | artist = Peggy Lee | cover = seashellspeggylee.jpg | alt = | released = 1958 | recorded = February 7 & March 31, 1956 | venue = | studio = | genre =

• Jazz poetry
• folk | length = 40:20 | label = Decca | producer = Milt Gabler | prev_title = The Man I Love | prev_year = 1957 | next_title = Jump for Joy | next_year = 1958

| rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = | rev2 = Record Mirror | rev2Score = | noprose = yes

Sea Shells is an album by jazz singer Peggy Lee that was released in 1958.

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

• Peggy Lee – vocals
• Stella Castellucci – harp
• Gene DiNovi – harpsichord

References

References

1. Stanley, Bob. (2022). "Let's Do It - The Birth of Pop Music: A History". Pegasus Books.
2. "Sea Shells".
3. Jones, Peter. (18 September 1964). "Peggy Lee: ''Sea Shells''".

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