Peggy Lee & George Shearing—”Do I Love You?” (1959)

"Do I Love You?" is a song written by Indiana-born Cole Porter for the 1939 musical "DuBarry Was a Lady." Twenty years later, Peggy Lee and George Shearing performed it during their first performance together. The occasion was the 2nd Annual International Radio Programming Seminar and Pop Music Disc Jockey Convention at the Americana Hotel in Miami.

Vocalist Peggy Lee in the company of pianist George Shearing, vibraphonist Ray Alexander, bassist Carl Pruitt and drummer Ray Mosca.

Even though the liner notes of this classic Capitol LP "Beauty and the Beat!" suggest it is a "live" album recorded on May 29, 1959, it is actually a studio recording from the following month, with dubbed in announcements and applause.

While Peggy Lee was singing as if she hadn't a care in the world, the mike sound in the hotel's huge ballroom didn't carry beyond the first two rows of tables. In the rest of the auditorium, the only sounds were those of clinking whiskey glasses and the murmur of the 2500 guests assembled in the main ballroom. British pianist George Shearing recalled in his autobiography that "the whole music industry was there."

In the liner notes of the album's 1992 re-issue, Peggy Lee said she "didn't remember the performance too well. I just remember standing there." She and Shearing -- both Capitol artists produced by Dave Cavanaugh -- "rendezvoused in Florida to set the keys and figure out the arrangements." Because of Shearing's blindness, head arrangements were used for most numbers.