SATURDAY'S SINGLES : SPICE GIRLS and PEGGY LEE

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Good morning gang and welcome to the return of Saturday's Singles. Today in 1976, Emma Lee Bunton, known professionally as Baby Spice was born in Finchley, London, and is celebrating her 47th Birthday today. Happy Birthday Baby ! Along with Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm, Geri Halliwell  and Victoria Beckham , they make up the British girl group, the Spice Girls. Today we have their cassette single for "2 Become 1" playing in our tape deck. The track, written by the Spice Girls,  Matt Rowe, Richard Stannard and then produced by the latter two, was released December 16, 1996 on the Virgin label. It hailed from their debut album Spice, and reached #27 on the  Adult Top 40, #24 on the Dance Singles Sales, #18 on the Canada Dance/Urban, #13 in Germany and Iceland, #9 in Austria, Finland, Hungary, and Italy, #8 in Lithuania and on the Adult Contemporary, #7 in the Czech Republic, Denmark, and Sweden, #5 in Belgium, #4 on the Canada Adult Contemporary, the Billboard Hot 100, the Mainstream Top 40, and the Rhythmic, #3 on the Canada Top Singles chart, the European Hot 100, New Zealand, Norway, #2 in Australia, the  Netherlands, and #1 in Ireland, Israel, Scotland, Spain, and the UK. It's flip side is "One of These Girls".

Spice Girls – lyrics, vocals

Matt Rowe – lyrics, producer, keyboards and programming

Richard Stannard – lyrics, producer, keyboards and programming

Andy Bradfield – additional production and audio mixing

Adrian Bushby – recording engineer

Patrick McGovern – assistant

Pete Davis, Paul Waller and Statik – additional programming

Greg Lester – guitar

Craig Armstrong – string arrangement

Isobel Griffiths – orchestral contractor

Perry Montague-Masson – orchestral leader

Mark "Spike" Stent – audio mixing

Dave Way – remixing

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Also on this day in 2002, Jamestown, North Dakota native,  jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress,  Peggy Lee (Norma Deloris Egstrom) passed away from complications from diabetes and a heart attack, age 81. She was born May 26, 1920 to parents Selma Emele Egstrom and Marvin Olaf Egstrom. She got her start as a vocaist for the Benny Goodman's band and over the course of her 7 decade career, she recorded over 1,100 masters and composed over 270 songs, earning her the title of "Queen of American pop music." One of those recordings is our subject of sound today. "I'm A Woman" was written by  Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and was originally recorded by in 1962 by Christine Kittrell. Peggy's version was released as the title track to her 17th studio album in November 1962 on Capitol Records and produced by Dave Cavanaugh. It peaked at #75 on the cash Box and #54 on the Hot 100. It is b/w "Big Bad Bill (is Sweet William Now)".

Peggy Lee - vocals

Stan Levey - drums

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