She wrote the lyrics for:
"I Don't Know Enough About You"
"It's A Good Day", composed by Dave Barbour
"I'm Gonna Go Fishin'", composed with Duke Ellington
"The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter"
"Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)"
"Bless You (For The Good That's In You)", composed with Mel Tormé
"What More Can a Woman Do?"
"Don't Be Mean to Baby"
"New York City Ghost", composed with Victor Young
"You Was Right, Baby"
"Just an Old Love of Mine"
"Everything's Movin' Too Fast"
"The Shining Sea"
"He's A Tramp"
"The Siamese Cat Song"
"There Will Be Another Spring"
"Johnny Guitar", composed with Victor Young
"Sans Souci", composed with Sonny Burke
"So What's New?"
"Don't Smoke in Bed"
"I Love Being Here With You"
"Happy With the Blues" with Harold Arlen
"Where Can I Go Without You?", composed with Victor Young
"Things Are Swingin'"
"Then Was Then" with Cy Coleman
Her first published song was in 1941, "Little Fool". "What More Can a Woman Do?" was recorded by Sarah Vaughan with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. "Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)" was no.1 for 9 weeks on the Billboard singles chart in 1948, from the week of March 13 to May 8.
Lee was a mainstay of Capitol Records when rock and roll came onto the American music scene. She was among the first of the "old guard" to recognize this new genre, as seen by her recording music from The Beatles, Randy Newman, Carole King, James Taylor and other up-and-coming songwriters. From 1957 until her final disc for the company in 1972, she produced a steady stream of two or three albums per year which usually included standards (often arranged quite different from the original), her own compositions, and material from young artists.
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