# Sea Shells

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Sea Shells
| type       = compilation
| artist     = [Peggy Lee](/source/Peggy_Lee)
| cover      = seashellspeggylee.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 1958
| recorded   = February 7 & March 31, 1956
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = 
* [Jazz poetry](/source/Jazz_poetry)
* [folk](/source/Folk_music)<ref name="Stanley 2022">{{cite book|first= Bob |last= Stanley |year= 2022 |title= Let's Do It - The Birth of Pop Music: A History|chapter= Breaks A New Heart Every Day: Peggy Lee|publisher= Pegasus Books|location= New York|page= 429}}</ref>
| length     = 40:20
| label      = [Decca](/source/Decca_Records)
| producer   = [Milt Gabler](/source/Milt_Gabler)
| prev_title = [The Man I Love](/source/The_Man_I_Love_(album))
| prev_year  = 1957
| next_title = [Jump for Joy](/source/Jump_for_Joy_(Peggy_Lee_album))
| next_year  = 1958
}}

{{Music ratings
| rev1      = [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic)
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="Ruhlmann">{{cite web |last1=Ruhlmann |first1=William |title=Sea Shells |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/sea-shells-mw0000479610 |website=AllMusic |accessdate=10 October 2018}}</ref>
| rev2      = ''[Record Mirror](/source/Record_Mirror)''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Jones |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Jones (journalist)|date=18 September 1964 |title=Peggy Lee: ''Sea Shells'' |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/64/Record-Mirror-1964-09-18-S-OCR.pdf |magazine=[Record Mirror](/source/Record_Mirror) |issue=184 |page=10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401225237/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/64/Record-Mirror-1964-09-18-S-OCR.pdf |archive-date=1 April 2022|access-date=15 August 2022}}</ref> 
| noprose = yes
}}

'''''Sea Shells''''' is an album by jazz singer Peggy Lee that was released in 1958.

==Track listing==
#"Sea Fever" ([Friedrich Silcher](/source/Friedrich_Silcher), [Eleanor Chaffee](/source/Eleanor_Chaffee))  – 2:03
#"Nine Thorny Thickets" ([Rolfe Humphries](/source/Rolfe_Humphries), [Johnny Mercer](/source/Johnny_Mercer))  – 4:59
#"Little Old Car" ([Henry Beau](/source/Henry_Beau), [Peggy Lee](/source/Peggy_Lee))  – 1:11
#"[Greensleeves](/source/Greensleeves)" (Traditional)  – 1:58
#Chinese Love Poems: "The Fisherman"/"Autumn Evening" ([Li Po](/source/Li_Po))/(Po)  – 2:18
#"The Happy Monks" (Lee)  – 1:00
#"The White Birch and the Sycamore" (Lee, [Willard Robison](/source/Willard_Robison), [Hubert Wheeler](/source/Hubert_Wheeler))  – 4:00
#"Of Such Is the Kingdom of God" ([Ernest Holmes](/source/Ernest_Holmes), [Irma Glenn](/source/Irma_Glenn))  – 3:13
#"A Brown Bird Singing" ([Royden Barrie](/source/Royden_Barrie), [Haydn Wood](/source/Haydn_Wood))  – 2:59
#"I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard" ([Henry W. Petrie](/source/Henry_W._Petrie), [Philip Wingate](/source/Philip_Wingate))  – 2:32
#"The Maid With the Flaxen Hair" ([Claude Debussy](/source/Claude_Debussy))  – 1:00
#"[The Wearing of the Green](/source/The_Wearing_of_the_Green)" (Traditional)  – 2:32
#"Chaconde (Le Bon Petit Roi d' Yvetot)" ([Marcel Grandjany](/source/Marcel_Grandjany))  – 1:38
#Chinese Love Poems: "Going Rowing"/"Like the Moon"/"The Music" (Po)/(Po)/(Po)  – 2:46
#"[The Riddle Song](/source/The_Riddle_Song)" (Traditional)  – 3:55
#"The Gold Wedding Ring" (Lee, [Harry Sukman](/source/Harry_Sukman))  – 2:16

==Personnel==
* [Peggy Lee](/source/Peggy_Lee) – vocals
* [Stella Castellucci](/source/Stella_Castellucci) – harp
* [Gene DiNovi](/source/Gene_DiNovi) – harpsichord

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Peggy Lee|state=collapsed}}

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Category:1958 albums
Category:Peggy Lee albums
Category:Albums produced by Milt Gabler
Category:Decca Records albums

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