by Curt Morgan How does a singing legend stay a legend for almost 50 years? Is it luck, chance… the blind draw of fate? Is that all there is? “Musicians keep a song fresh. You never stop listening to them and hearing what they’re doing… “I’ve been working a lot[…]

by Robert Julian The Interview In the summer of 1957, I was stretched out across the front seat of my parents’ Oldsmobile ‘98’ with my head in my mother’s lap. My father drove. The final hours of our vacation were counted off by the thump-thump-thump of the tires as they[…]

by Robert Taylor Beneath the sterling silver hairstyle, rhinestone-rimmed glasses, flawless matte makeup and dusky pink nail enamel, there is a part of Peggy Lee that remains – as one of her album titles noted – “Norma Deloris Egstrom from Jamestown, North Dakota.” She was lunching with producers and reporters[…]

by Carolyn Drewes “I’ve been living a fairly reclusive life since the health problems; a lot of people don’t know whether I live on the East Coast or the West. But I had 70 for dinner Christmas Eve.” (Once she had a costume party and asked everyone to come as[…]

by Bob Thomas The indomitable Peggy Lee, recovered from double-bypass heart surgery, is back on the road again, posing her still unanswered inquiries, “Why Don’t You Do Right?” and “Is That All There Is?” Nothing, it seems, can stop the songstress, not diabetes, glandular deficiencies, double pneumonia, nor a near-fatal[…]

by Sherryl Connelly Peggy Lee is speaking of the view from her lofty home in Bel Air, California. “I can see the ocean. I can see the boats out there with my field glasses,” the 66-year-old singer says, then gently edits her own statement. “That is, I don’t see the[…]