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Capitol Records · in the Kissa Kissa racks

Latin Ala Lee!

Peggy Lee

Latin Ala Lee! cover
RecordedAug 1959
LabelCapitol Records
Released1959
Discogsmaster 196840

The record

Capitol sends her into the era's Latin-jazz vogue here, cool phrasing settling comfortably into rhumba and mambo rhythms. Cut just before bossa nova's American breakthrough, it's a singer at ease in borrowed idioms.

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 43 pressings on file.

1960Capitol Records · T 1290 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file
1960Capitol Records — STEREO
1960Capitol Records · T 1290 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1960Capitol Records · T-1290 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1960Capitol Records · ST 1290 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Flipback Sleeve
1960Capitol Records · EAP7-1290 — Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, EP
1960Capitol Records · SEP6-1290 — Vinyl, 7", EP, Stereo
1960Capitol Records · EAP6-1290 — Vinyl, 7", EP, Mono
1960Capitol Records · T 1290 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1960Capitol Records · K 83 429 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1960Capitol Records · T 1290 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1960Capitol Records · T 1290 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Los Angeles Pressing
1960Capitol Records · T 1290 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1960Capitol Records · ST-1290 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo