Peg O' My Heart - Robert Maxwell

 

What Is This Thing Called Love

Peg O' My Heart
Robert Heart
His Harp And Orchestra
Produced by Harry Meyerson
Decca STEREO DL 74563
1964

From the back cover: Hard on the heels of his first smash album, Robert Maxwell now offers you an exciting new album that incorporates all of the same solid appeal of "Shangri-La" and much more.

This is your assurance of the most distinctive and stimulating music being heard today; music with a unique flavor all its own. This can be credited to Robert Maxwell's artistry on the harp and his distinctive arrangements.

Robert Maxwell is a member of that distinguished group of musicians whose names have become synonymous with the instrument they play. It is his virtuosos ability to adapt the staid harp to all tempos and moods of popular music that created the special Maxwell sound.

That sound comes through strong and clear in this, his latest album triumph Peg O' My Heart is calculated to raise the Maxwell reputation yet another peg... even amongst those who already respect his great musicianship.

A top composer with two of the greatest hits ever – "Ebb Tide" and "Shangri-La" – maestro Maxwell has included in this collection an extra dividend of his newest composition: Little Dipper and Lonely Love. In addition, he has selected a group of lovely standards – and given each one of his own special handling... a languorous tempo for What Is This Thing Called Love and Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Lady... a slow bluesy feel on "Don't Get Around Much Anymore... the striking rock/waltz arrangement of Tammy... and of course the strong insistent beat of the title song Peg O' My Heart.

These songs, and other, are guaranteed to provide untold hours of the most pleasurable listening, and that promise has strings attached... the strings of Robert Maxwell's inimitable harp.

From Billboard - August 8, 1964: Few musicians have done more to popularize the harp than Robert Maxwell. Now on his second pop single hit, harpist Maxwell is being "dug" by many who thought the harp was used only by guys named Marx and Gabriel. Backed by orchestra, Maxwell offers "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," "Adios," "Peg O' My Heart," Sophisticated Lady" and others.

Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Manha De Carnaval
As Time Goes By
Adios
Lonely Love
Peg O' My Heart
Tammy
You Belong To My Heart
What Is This Thing Called Love
Little Dipper
Sophisticated Lady
One O'Clock Jump