Her sultry voice had emotional breadth by Richard Dyer Boston Globe, January 23, 2002 Nobody ever did more with less than Miss Peggy Lee, who used an art of indirection to reach her listeners where they live. Lee died of heart failure Monday night in her home in Los Angeles;[…]
Peggy Lee’s ‘Fever’ affected music fans
Her sultry voice and creative songwriting made lasting impressions in pop and jazz music. by Peter Goodman Baltimore Sun, January 23, 2002 Norma Deloris Egstrom was raised a tough North Dakota farm girl who shucked grain, pitched hay and drove the water wagon, yearned to escape her stepmother’s daily beatings,[…]
Peggy Lee’s ‘Fever’ affected music fans
Her sultry voice and creative songwriting made lasting impressions in pop and jazz music. by Peter Goodman Baltimore Sun, January 23, 2002 Norma Deloris Egstrom was raised a tough North Dakota farm girl who shucked grain, pitched hay and drove the water wagon, yearned to escape her stepmother’s daily beatings,[…]
She gave us fever
Peggy Lee cracked the Top 10 in three different decades and was wedded to her art until the end by Kevin Jones The Australian, January 23, 2002 Peggy Lee, like Frank Sinatra, had that almost uncanny ability to find and bring out the meaning of a song. Lee’s voice may[…]
Peggy Lee: 1920-2002 Fans mourn sultry singer who smoked with ‘Fever’
by Richard L. Eldredge Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 23, 2002 Her voice was the musical equivalent of a perfectly formed smoke ring wafting in the air. Fans around the globe are mourning the loss of singer Peggy Lee, who died Monday of a heart attack in her Bel Air, Calif., home.[…]
Singer Peggy Lee dead of heart attack at 81
Associated Press, January 22, 2002 LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Peggy Lee, the singer-composer whose smoky, insinuating voice in such songs as “Is That All There Is?” and “Fever” made her a jazz and pop legend, died Monday. She was 81. Lee died from a heart attack at her Bel[…]