EW's GRADE
B+

Details Lead Performance: Peggy Lee; Genre: Jazz

The care that Peggy Lee -- and producers Bill Rudman, Ken Bloom, and Keith Ingham -- invested in this unusual new Harold Arlen songbook is clear. Two bittersweet ''unknowns'' from failed musicals, ''Come On, Midnight'' and ''I Had a Love Once,'' will likely live on once other singers hear Lee's darkly moving readings. Here, her age is an asset.

Originally posted Jun 25, 1993 Published in issue #176-177 Jun 25, 1993 Order article reprints

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