its a bop piggie ate here

Billie's worst song being first out is correct. 

Went on such a spree downvoting Edge of Glory haters that I've run out of reactions for the day.  Will have to come back and catch up on some tomorrow.

1 minute ago, makeawish said:

🎶 my negging valentiiiine, my toxic valentiiiine...🎶

I know you and Achilles were writing blogs in 2015 about how “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” promotes rape culture

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A toe-tapping ode to love, "Hallelujah, I Love Him So" was first written and released as "Hallelujah, I Love Her So" by Ray Charles in 1956. Peggy's gender-swapped version first appeared on her 1960 album All Aglow Again! with arrangement by Jack Marshall.

Why did she change the pronouns? Kind of homophobic of her...

 

 

 

#55. "He's a Tramp"

"He's a tramp, but they love him

Breaks a new heart every day…"

Average: 7.268181818

Highest score: 10 (@Curaga, @HarajukuPrincess, @Taylor fanboy)

Lowest score: 4 (@Achilles., @Atlantis)

 

One of three songs written with Sonny Burke and performed by Peggy for the soundtrack of the 1955 Disney film Lady and the Tramp, "He's a Tramp" quickly became a staple not only in the Disney canon, but also in Peggy's discography. In Lady and the Tramp, Peggy not only provided songs for the soundtrack, but also has a quadruple role, voicing not only the Brooklyn-accented Pekingese Peg that the titular Lady meets at the pound, but also Lady's owner, Darling, and being the voice behind Aunt Sarah's two Siamese cats, Si and Am. Though the less said about that last one the better.

 

What the GP had to say:

 

@Achilles.

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Genuinely just so funny for this to exist. Hiring Peggy Lee to write jazz songs about tramps for a movie about dogs. Disney would never be so bold or weird these days. So funny how many different insults she calls that dog in this song. So funny how many words in this song are practically obsolete these days—even "tramp" itself.

@Curaga

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I feel basic giving a Disney song a 10, but this one strikes me as unique among this selection, and it's satisfying (that's probably the familiarity )

Just now, supaspaz said:

I know you and Achilles were writing blogs in 2015 about how "Baby, It's Cold Outside" promotes rape culture

And I still don't put it in my Christmas playlist!

Wow. Here I am being tagged often... And come to find out it's because y'all raggedy fellow voters keep voting my songs off the island. 

4 minutes ago, pearlmercury said:

its a bop piggie ate here

not Piggie  ahguiadf

One of the only somewhat decent tracks she made fr. And it was still like a 6.5 at best.

 

Well, as long as it's not Johnny Guitar

 

no idea y'all were OPLHs, she had my third highest average 

 

Edited August 10, 20251 yr by John Slayne

 

#54. "Whatever Lola Wants"

"I always get what I aim for

And your heart and soul is what I came for…"

Average: 7.275454545

Highest score: 10 ( @Achilles., @Album Leak, @MP2K, @trainsskyscrapers)

Lowest score: 1 (@Taylor fanboy)

 

Perhaps there's no song out there that better exemplifies why Sarah Vaughan earned the nickname of "Sassy." Recorded and released in 1955, Sarah puts her own spin on the song, which had been introduced that year in the stage musical Damn Yankees. The song's lyrics drew inspiration from the story of Lola Montez, an Irish-born Spanish dancer and courtesan who became the mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria before leaving to become a touring performer, entertaining gold miners in San Francisco and Australia. Funnily enough, also from 1955, there's a great Max Ophüls film about her, simply titled Lola Montès. Highly recommend!

 

What the GP had to say:

 

@Meloetta Carey

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her tone actually suits this one really well

 

@Achilles.

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Those horns! Super iconic! I hum that bit to myself quite frequently. I know I've joked in the thread about not knowing who Lola is or what she wants—"and I hope I never find out"—but I'm reading the ancient texts now and goodness the lore is so much better than I could have imagined. Lola comes from the musical Damn Yankees, and she is a seductress and the Devil's assistant! I am imagining Meg from Hercules, who one can easily imagine singing this song. On top of that, the titular saying was inspired by a mistress of King Ludwig of Bavaria (sadly not the chaotic queer one immortalized in a massive biopic by Luchino Visconti that I've been meaning to watch, just his boring heterosexual grandfather); she later became a "gold rush vamp," which I would hazard a guess is how she ended up inspiring the role of the Devil's assistant. Apparently Chiwetel Ejiofor performs this in Kinky Boots, but I have no memory of that despite seeing it more than once. I love the male backing vocals on Sarah's rendition, and her performance is fantastic. Ella also recorded this with even more horns!

@John Slayne

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The way this rate started with a 10 (All of Me) and ended with… this.

not this classic 

My least favourite of her songs

 

Not cutting the only Sarah songs I liked already. Do y'all like elevator music? I know you do...

I feel like this is the first true classic leaving. This melody has been all over TV for most of my life on various occasions.

 

Think I gave it a 7. Kinda should have been an 8. It's a tiny bit boring but it's so cool and easy on the ears

Sarah is taking a few too many hits... Let's whack Dinah next

 

 

Wtfff

Julie London is gone. Peggy Lee is gone. Sarah Vaughan is gone. But Dinah Washington is still standing. 

 

 

#53. "Body and Soul"

"You know I'm yours just for the taking…"

Average: 7.277575758

Highest score: 10 (@HarajukuPrincess, @StonedSoulPicnic)

Lowest score: 3 (@Meloetta Carey)

 

Despite instant popularity, "Body and Soul" and its "racy" lyrics were deemed controversial when first introduced to the public in 1930 through a performance by Gertrude Lawrence, with the song eventually earning a radio ban for a while. Perhaps this controversy was what made it so appealing to musicians, as the 1930s and 1940s saw numerous releases of it by a variety of artists, and this has continued to this day, with "Body and Soul" being called one of the most recorded jazz standards. Billie herself recorded and released it several times: for a 1940 single release, on her 1954 live album Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic, and the version we rated here, her 1957 recording, far and away her longest and most striking rendition of it.

 

What the GP had to say:

 

@Vixen Eyes

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its way too ******* long 

 

@Meloetta Carey

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a little too monotonous, no eartha

 

@Achilles.

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"My life a wreck you're making" is such a LINE. Ella makes this song so BIG. Sarah's arrangement takes the song on a whole journey, from a pensive ballad to a peppy bop before slowing down again to slip in an acappella moment. Billie, whew. I'm always down for a six minute rendition of most any of these songs, especially with a nice instrumental break for that something extra.

@pearlmercury

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too long. EDIT.

wtf, Body and Soul is an 8 at least... these results being the exact opposite of my rankings 

My lowest score for her

the complaints about a 6 minutes track... oh Sinnerman