Mirrors (Peggy Lee album)

1975 studio album by Peggy Lee

Mirrors

Studio album by

Peggy Lee

Released| October 17, 1975 (1975-10-17)[1]
Genre| Vocal jazz
Length| 42:57
Label| A&M
Producer| Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
Peggy Lee chronology
| Let's Love
(1974)  | Mirrors
(1975)  | Live in London
(1977)

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Allmusic| [2]

Mirrors is a 1975 album by Peggy Lee on A&M Records. The album is made up of neo-cabaret "art songs" sung by Peggy, written and produced by rock & roll pioneers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and mostly arranged & conducted by Johnny Mandel.

## Track listing

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All lyrics by Jerry Leiber; all music by Mike Stoller

1. "Is That All There Is?" – 4:21 (see notes)
2. "Ready to Begin Again (Manya's Song)" – 3:26
3. "Some Cats Know" – 4:18
4. "I've Got Them Feelin' Too Good Today Blues" – 2:20
5. "A Little White Ship" – 3:10
6. "Tango" – 5:21
7. "Professor Hauptmann's Performing Dogs" – 5:40
8. "The Case of M. J." – 2:54
9. "I Remember" – 2:51
10. "Say It" – 3:58
11. "Longings for a Simpler Time" – 3:54

## Notes

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"Is That All There Is?" was recorded in January 1969 and originally released as a single on Capitol Records the following September. It reached #11 on the Billboard Pop charts and #1 on the Adult Contemporary charts, and Peggy Lee won a Grammy Award for her performance in March, 1970.

This unexpected success provided the impetus for an entire album of similar material. However, instead of recording a fully realized follow-up album, Capitol's November 1969 Is That All There Is? LP was hastily assembled from one new October recording date and a variety of sessions going back to June 1967, while Miss Lee toured on the strength of the hit.

Six years would lapse before Mirrors was recorded, by which time Miss Lee had changed record labels. "Is That All There Is?" was not part of the original Mirrors LP; it was first added as a bonus track for the 1989 A&M CD reissue.

All the tracks from Mirrors, including two previously unreleased outtakes, were remixed and included in the limited edition CD, Peggy Lee Sings Leiber & Stoller (Hip-O Select, 2005.)

"Is That All There Is?" was arranged and conducted by Randy Newman. "Ready to Begin Again (Manya's Song)" was arranged and conducted by Perry Botkin, Jr.

## References

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1. ^ "Is That All There Is?: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee".
2. ^ Mirrors at AllMusic

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Albums|

* Rendezvous with Peggy Lee
* Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas
* Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues
* Black Coffee
* Dream Street
* Peggy Lee Sings with Benny Goodman
* Sea Shells
* Miss Wonderful
* The Man I Love
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* I Like Men!
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* Pretty Eyes
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* If You Go
* Blues Cross Country
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* I'm a Woman
* In Love Again!
* Pass Me By
* Then Was Then – Now Is Now!
* Guitars a là Lee
* Big $pender
* Extra Special!
* Somethin' Groovy!
* 2 Shows Nightly
* A Natural Woman
* Is That All There Is?
* Bridge Over Troubled Water
* Make It with You
* Where Did They Go
* Norma Deloris Egstrom from Jamestown, North Dakota
* Let's Love
* Mirrors
* Live in London
* Peggy
* Close Enough for Love
* Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues
* The Peggy Lee Songbook: There'll Be Another Spring
* Love Held Lightly: Rare Songs by Harold Arlen
* Moments Like This
* The Best of Peggy Lee: The Capitol Years

Singles|

* "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)"
* "Blues in the Night"
* "We'll Meet Again"
* "The Way You Look Tonight"
* "Why Don't You Do Right?"
* "It's a Good Day"
* "Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)"
* "Bali Ha'i"
* "Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)"
* "The Old Master Painter"
* "Lover"
* "Just One of Those Things"
* "Baubles, Bangles, & Beads"
* "Let Me Go, Lover"
* "Fever"
* "Hallelujah, I Love Him So"
* "I'm a Woman"
* "I Go to Sleep"
* "Big Spender"
* "Spinning Wheel"
* "Is That All There Is?"

Other songs|

* "Black Coffee"
* "The Folks Who Live on the Hill"
* "Kansas City"
* "I Love Being Here with You"

Radio|

* The Chesterfield Supper Club

Television|

* The Guy Mitchell Show
* What's My Line?

Films|

* Stage Door Canteen
* Jasper in a Jam
* The Jazz Singer
* Lady and the Tramp
* Pete Kelly's Blues

Related|

* Benny Goodman
* Dave Barbour (first husband)
* Brad Dexter (second husband)
* Dewey Martin (third husband)

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