Sea Shells

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{{Infobox album

| 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{{cite book|first= Bob |last= Stanley |year= 2022 |title= Let's Do It - The Birth of Pop Music: A History|chapter= Breaks A New Heart Every Day: Peggy Lee|publisher= Pegasus Books|location= New York|page= 429}}

| 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

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web |last1=Ruhlmann |first1=William |title=Sea Shells |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/sea-shells-mw0000479610 |website=AllMusic |accessdate=10 October 2018}}

| rev2 = Record Mirror

| rev2Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{Cite magazine |last=Jones |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Jones (journalist)|date=18 September 1964 |title=Peggy Lee: Sea Shells |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/64/Record-Mirror-1964-09-18-S-OCR.pdf |magazine=Record Mirror |issue=184 |page=10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401225237/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/64/Record-Mirror-1964-09-18-S-OCR.pdf |archive-date=1 April 2022|access-date=15 August 2022}}

| 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

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