Track Listing 1. Johnny Guitar 2. Why Don'T You Do Right? 3. Take a Little Time To Smile 4. Fever 5. My Small Señor 6. Don'T Smoke In Bed 7. I Get Along Without You Very Well 8. You Was Right Baby 9. I Can'T Believe That You'Re In Love With Me 10. Solitude 11. Everything is Moving Too Fast 12. When You Speak With Your Eyes 13. Golden Earrings 14. I Don'T Know Enough About You 15. What More Can a Woman Do? 16. Mañana
| Details | | Distributor: | Allegro Corporation (Dist | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel: Joe Beck (guitar); Laura Theodore (vocals). This was Joe Beck's last project -- an album of duets with the throaty-voiced Laura Theodore devoted to the repertoire of singer Peggy Lee and her onetime husband/guitarist Dave Barbour. It could have led to a much more ambitious project, a musical theatre production on the life of Lee featuring just Beck and Theodore. But shortly after this album was completed, Beck was diagnosed with lung cancer and had to drop out (the musical went on to open in Cleveland with a conventional full band in Oct. 2007). As it stands, the Lee-Barbour project finds Beck in terrific shape, darting around in several styles, always inventive, always supportive of Theodore. Beck divides his time equally between a Martin acoustic guitar and a custom-designed Martin Joe Beck alto guitar that effectively combines the characteristics of a bass and a guitar. Given the sometimes questionable commercial zigzags that Beck's career took, it's heartening to report that his final recordings were so classy.
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