Lover

song by Rodgers and Hart

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recording by Lee

  • The young Peggy Lee
    In Peggy Lee: Vocal career of the 1950s and ’60s

    …Rodgers and Moss Hart’s “Lover” (1952), with an audacious mambo-style arrangement by Gordon Jenkins, and “Fever” (1958), featuring one of her most seductive vocal performances and a musical backing of only drums, bass, and finger snaps. “Fever” garnered Lee her first Grammy Award nominations, for record of the year…

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