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Remembering Cy Coleman, 1929-2004.
London Independent, November 22, 2004
London Guardian, November 22, 2004
London Telegraph, November 22, 2004
New York Times, November 20, 2004
Washington Post, November 20, 2004
Chicago Tribune, November 20, 2004
Los Angeles Times, November 20, 2004
Philadelphia Inquirer, November 20, 2004
New York Daily News, November 20, 2004
Playbill, November 19, 2004
Variety, November 19, 2004
Associated Press, November 19, 2004
Museum of Television and Radio in Beverly Hills presents Peggy Lee: Something Special (1967) through Wednesday, August 11, 2004.
Museum of Television and Radio, July, 2004
Hollywood Bowl's Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee (July 14) reviewed.
Hollywood Reporter, July 16, 2004
Los Angeles Times, July 16, 2004
Los Angeles Daily News, July 16, 2004
Variety, July 16, 2004
Article on PBS special Fever: The Music of Peggy Lee praises "marvelous archival footage" and "poignant home movies."
Newark Star-Ledger, March 6, 2004 (second part of column)
The late Bart Howard wrote "Fly Me to the Moon," which Peggy helped popularize on The Ed Sullivan Show and on her 1960 recording, which was arranged and conducted by the late Billy May.
Burlington (Iowa) Hawk Eye, February 25, 2004
Los Angeles Times, February 24, 2004
All Things Considered (NPR audio segment), February 23, 2004
New York Times, February 23, 2004
The late Jack Paar played gracious and amusing host to Peggy and many other musical guests.
New York Times, January 27, 2004
Legendary arranger, conductor, composer and trumpeter Billy May, 87, dies. He arranged and conducted for Peggy on the albums Pretty Eyes and Christmas Carousel, plus many other recordings in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
London Independent, January 26, 2004
New York Daily News, January 27, 2004
London Guardian, January 27, 2004
Washington Post, January 26, 2004
New York Times, January 26, 2004
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 24, 2004
Associated Press, January 24, 2004
Orange County Register, January 25, 2004
Los Angeles Times, January 23, 2004
Trombonist Milt Bernhart, who played on numerous Peggy albums including Things Are Swingin', I Like Men!, Sugar 'N' Spice and In the Name of Love, dies at 77.
London Guardian, Febuary 4, 2004
Los Angeles Times, January 27, 2004
Critic Tom Shales reviews Dean Martin DVD collection that features Peggy and many other guests.
Washington Post, January 21, 2004
Sidney Miller, who co-wrote "I Can See It Your Way," recorded by Peggy in 1945, dies at 87.
London Independent, January 21, 2004
Peggy Lee: The Singles Collection nominated for Grammy awards in the categories of Album Notes and Historical Album.
Hollywood Reporter
National Public Radio's JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater broadcasts highlights from the June, 2003 Carnegie Hall tribute concert to Peggy.
NPR's JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater
New various-artists holiday CD, Under the Mistletoe, features Peggy's 1949 Capitol recording of "The Christmas Spell."
Amazon.com
Music critic Richard Harrington likes Peggy's "gauzy" performance of "The Christmas Spell" on Under the Mistletoe.
Washington Post, November 30, 2003
For the second consecutive month, KCRW, Southern California's NPR flagship station, chooses The Best of The Singles Collection as one of its "DJ Picks."
KCRW, October, 2003
KCRW, Southern California's NPR flagship station, chooses The Best of The Singles Collection as one of its September, 2003 "DJ Picks."
KCRW, September, 2003
Remembering Bob Hope, 1903-2003. Peggy cavorted with him on radio, television and the 1952 Decca record "Merry Go Runaround."
Los Angeles Times, July 29, 2003
New York Times, July 29, 2003
Washington Post, July 29, 2003
London Independent, July 29, 2003
New York Times (appreciation), July 29, 2003
Washington Post (appreciation), July 29, 2003
Jazz great Benny Carter, who played on, arranged and conducted numerous Peggy recordings, including the entire 1962 album Sugar and Spice, the single "I'm a Woman" and her final recording ("I See You") in 1995, dies at age 95.
London Independent, July 14, 2003
New York Times, July 14, 2003
Los Angeles Times, July 14, 2003
Washington Post (obituary), July 15, 2003
Washington Post (appreciation), July 15, 2003
London Guardian, July 15, 2003
Residents of Wimbledon, North Dakota restore one of Peggy's childhood homes.
Grand Forks Herald, July 5, 2003
Photo* from finale of There'll Be Another Spring: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee.
New York Times, June 25, 2003
* Photo by Richard Termine. Left to right: Dee Dee Bridgewater, Chris Connor, Jane Monheit, Deborah Harry, Petula Clark, Ann Hampton Callaway, Maria Muldaur, and Nancy Sinatra.
Reviews of There'll Be Another Spring: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee.
Newsday, June 26, 2003
New York Times, June 25, 2003
New York Post, June 25, 2003
Singer Maria Muldaur discusses her newly-released Peggy Lee tribute CD.
Santa Cruz Sentinel, June 26, 2003
Jazz Review, April, 2003
Troy Record, March 27, 2003
Jamestown College honors Peggy with a portrait.
Associated Press, May 16, 2003
Billboard on the upcoming Peggy Lee tribute concert at Carnegie Hall.
Billboard, April 25, 2003
Singer Maria Muldaur discusses her newly-released Peggy Lee tribute CD.
Jazz Review, April, 2003
Troy Record, March 27, 2003
Review of Classics & Collectibles says "Lee had a unique, caramelly voice which was infinitely expressive and full of mystery."
BBC, March 20, 2003
Maria Muldaur releases a tribute CD, A Woman Alone with the Blues... Remembering Peggy Lee.
Telarc Records, March, 2003
KCRW, Southern California's NPR flagship station, chooses The Singles Collection as one of its February, 2003 "DJ Picks."
KCRW, February, 2003
Review of The Singles Collection says Peggy "gets
inside her songs while standing outside her own image as a singer."
National Post (Canada), January 20, 2003
Review of The Quintessential Peggy Lee video/DVD describes a "memorable two-hour show" in Atlantic City in 1983.
Washington Post, January 19, 2003
Singer Shelley MacArthur recalls how Peggy "mesmerized the audience" at Chicago's Moulin Rouge in 1988.
Chicago Sun-Times, January 17, 2003
Composer Cy Coleman responds to the New York Times Magazine year-end tribute to Peggy.
New York Times, January 12, 2003 (access may require free registration)
An assortment of year-end tributes to Peggy:
Entertainment Weekly, December 23, 2002
Time, December 30, 2002
Newsweek, December 30, 2002
Hartford Courant, December 26, 2002
New York Times Magazine, December 29, 2002 (access may require free registration)
Review of The Singles Collection extols "Lee's warm misty voice, with its impeccable phrasing and aura of erotic mystery."
New York Times, December 15, 2002 (access may require free registration)
Peggy Lee's memorial
service, held February 2, 2002.
List
of obituaries and tributes published in late January and early February.
Judge clears proposed settlement between Universal Music Group and pre-1962 Decca recording artists, led by Peggy Lee.
National Edition, January 19, 2002 (View PDF of Steve Harvey's Comment on UMG settlement..)
Los Angeles Times, January 16, 2002 (View PDF of LA Times front page story.)
BBC, January 17, 2002
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