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I have always thought that "Trouble Is a Man" is a superior song, musically and
lyrically, and should have become a standard. Somewhat surprisingly, at least
to me, one of the better recorded versions is by Judy Holliday, she of the less
than perfect but, nonetheless, perfectly wonderful voice. I read someplace that
Wilder wrote the song for his friend Peggy Lee but that she never recorded it.
Any of you know the facts?

Roger Crane



Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:32 am

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I have always thought that "Trouble Is a Man" is a superior song, musically and lyrically, and should have become a standard. Somewhat surprisingly, at least...
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Nov 2, 2008
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Wilder wrote the song for Ethel Waters, not Peggy Lee. Wilder admired Waters and in a note in the song folio Alec Wilder Songs Were Made To Sing, Wilder said...
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Nov 3, 2008
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Roger Crane wrote: "I read someplace that Wilder wrote the song for his friend Peggy Lee but that she never recorded it. Any of you know the facts?" Judy Bell...
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