# PEGGY LEE’S ‘I’m A Woman Turns 60’ Out Today

- Link: https://www.nyrdcast.com/peggy-lees-im-a-woman-turns-60-out-today/
- Published: 2023-03-31T13:30:00-05:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

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### 󠀁[󠀁[**PEGGY LEE**⏎ _**I’M A WOMAN **_**TURNS 60**

### **CAPITOL RECORDS AND UNIVERSAL MUSIC ENTERPRISES CELEBRATE THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF_ I’M A WOMAN_ WITH DIGITAL EXPANDED EDITION OUT TODAY**

#### **FEATURES NEWLY REMASTERED AUDIO AND EIGHT BONUS TRACKS FIVE OF WHICH ARE PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED INCLUDING A COLLABORATION WITH BOBBY DARIN**

#### **“100 Years Of Peggy Lee” GRAMMY Museum Exhibit Runs Through May 2023**

#### **New Edition Of Miss Peggy Lee: An Autobiography Now Available**

**MARCH 31, 2023 (LOS ANGELES**) – In celebration of its 60th anniversary, Capitol
Records and Universal Music Enterprises (UMe), in conjunction with Peggy Lee Associates,
announces the release of a digital expanded edition of **Peggy Lee’s**_** I’m A 
Woman**_**.**

Available at all digital service providers, the newly remastered digital expanded
edition features the 12 original album tracks, including the Leiber and Stoller-
penned title track, plus “Come Rain or Come Shine” and “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.”
Culled from the Capitol vaults, five of the eight bonus tracks are previously unreleased
alternate recordings and session outtakes. Liner notes for the 60th-anniversary 
release, written by archivist Iván Santiago, will be available at PeggyLee.com on
release date.

The bonus tracks include the first take of “I’m A Woman” with a never-before-heard
verse; “Jealous,” a previously unreleased collaboration with Bobby Darin with Lee
singing backup and a playful exchange between the vocalists; “Please Don’t Rush 
Me, “Little Boat (O Barquinho)” and “Try A Little Tenderness” not included in the
album’s original release; a session outtake of “Close Your Eyes”; and alternate 
takes of “I’m Walkin’” and “A Taste of Honey.”  

Peggy Lee "I'm A Woman" on The Ed Sullivan Show

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**PEGGY LEE’S “I’m A Woman” on The Ed Sullivan Show”**

Originally released in March 1963, **_I’m A Woman_** spent 26 weeks on the Billboard
album chart. Now perennially associated with Peggy Lee, the title track and album’s
first single, “I’m A Woman,” spent nine weeks on Billboard’s Hot 100 and garnered
Lee a 1962 GRAMMY nomination for Best Solo Vocal Performance, Female. A second GRAMMY
nomination followed in 1963 for Best Vocal Performance, Female

First published in 1989, a new edition of **_Miss Peggy Lee: An Autobiography_**
was published in 2022 and featured her never-before-released book of poetry, Softly
With Feeling; a new cover; an epilogue by jazz and music writer Will Friedwald; 
a comprehensive discography and recommended listening section compiled by archivist
Iván Santiago; and a new foreword by Peggy’s granddaughter, Holly Foster Wells.

Following Lee’s 2020 centennial, the celebrations for this extraordinary jazz legend
continue, including a GRAMMY Museum exhibit,** “100 Years of Peggy Lee,”** which
runs through May 2023; a CBS Sunday Morning profile tracing “Peggy Lee and her cool
power” back to her beginnings in North Dakota; and a Hollywood Bowl tribute to [Peggy Lee](https://www.nyrdcast.com/2022/11/peggy-lees-fan-favorite-gets-deluxe-edition-out-today/)
and Frank Sinatra with the Count Basie Orchestra, featuring special guests Billie
Eilish, Debbie Harry, Dianne Reeves, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Seth MacFarlane,
among others.

Coined “the female Frank Sinatra” by Tony Bennett, Lee did something few of her 
male counterparts attempted: she wrote songs. As one of the first contemporary singer-
songwriters, Lee ranks among the most successful female singer-songwriters in the
annals of American popular music. Over her remarkable seven-decade career, she wrote
over 270 songs and recorded over 1,100 masters.

Born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, she was christened [Peggy Lee](https://www.nyrdcast.com/2022/11/peggy-lees-fan-favorite-gets-deluxe-edition-out-today/)
in 1937 by a local North Dakota DJ, Ken Kennedy. With her captivating voice and 
sultry style, Lee helped redefine what it meant to be a female singer and artist,
breaking barriers and blazing trails for generations of artists who have followed.

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**Peggy Lee
_I’m A Woman_60th Anniversary Edition [Digital Expanded Version]

**Tracklisting**
1. The Alley Cat Song2. Mama’s Gone, Goodbye3. I’m Walkin’4. Come
Rain Or Come Shine5. There Ain’t No Sweet Man That’s Worth The Salt Of My Tears6.
I’m A Woman7. Mack The Knife8. You’re Nobody Till Somebody Love You9. I’ll Get By10.
I Left My Heart In San Francisco11. A Taste of Honey12. One Note Samba

**Bonus Tracks:**
13. Little Boat (O Barquinho)14. Please Don’t Rush Me15. Close
Your Eyes (session outtake)*16. A Taste Of Honey (alternate take)*17. Try A Little
Tenderness18. I’m Walkin’ (alternate take)*19. Jealous – Bobby Darin feat. Peggy
Lee (alternate take)*20. I’m A Woman (alternate take)*

*previously unreleased

**About Peggy Lee**
One of the most important musical influences of the 20th century,
Peggy Lee wrote over 270 songs, recorded over 1,100 masters, and had over 100 chart
hits throughout her seven-decade career. As one of the world’s first female contemporary
singer-songwriters, she co-wrote and sang many of her own hits, most notably “He’s
A Tramp” for Disney’s Lady and the Tramp, as well as “Mañana” and “It’s A Good Day.”
She’s best known for hits “Why Don’t You Do Right?” “Fever,” “I’m A Woman,” and “
Is That All There Is?” for which she won the GRAMMY® for Best Contemporary Female
Vocal Performance. A 13-time GRAMMY® nominee, she received Lifetime Achievement 
Awards from NARAS, ASCAP, and the Society of Singers. Lee was inducted into the 
Songwriters Hall of Fame and earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting
Actress in _Pete Kelly’s Blues_. For more information about Peggy Lee, visit [peggylee.com](http://peggylee.com/)

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