by Peter Reilly Norma Delores Egstrom from Jamestown, North Dakota is the adroitly titled umpteenth album by that phenomenon of American pop music, Peggy Lee. It is adroit because it reminds us with startling economy that hers is a career that started somewhere back in the mists of the big-band[…]
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Peggy Lee Productions Presents Miss Peggy Lee in an Evening with Norma Egstrom
by Christina Kirk She is a one-woman production – singer, actress, temptress, musical director, impresario and star. She is Miss Peggy Lee, and she is currently using all the skills of a show business lifetime to mesmerize audiences in the Empire Room of the Waldorf-Astoria. The effect is cool and[…]
The Pleasures and Pains of Peggy Lee
by Leonard Feather It is hard to delve deep into the ongoing saga of Miss Peggy Lee without allowing it to take on the overtones of a soap opera. All the elements are there: the rags-to-riches background; the musical affinity that led to romance, and the death of the man[…]
Sing a Song of Peggy Lee, Producer
by A. H. Weiler It seems only yesterday that Peggy Lee was singing “Mañana – mañana is good enough for me.” Well, mañana has come and gone, and now – Women’s Lib will be happy to hear – Miss Lee has decided that today is a good enough time to[…]
Two Sides of a Love Affair – ‘Peggy Gives and Peggy Gets’
by Harriet Choice Peggy Lee padded into the living room of her Lake Geneva Playboy Hotel suite in a red, white and green robe, white ballet-like slippers and layers of rhinestone earrings that she had worn during the show she had finished 15 minutes earlier. “I’m not exhausted, I’m beat,”[…]
Miss Peggy Lee
Part Three by Alfred G. Aronowitz Peggy Lee spent Thanksgiving of 1961 in Polyclinic Hospital. Max, from over at the Stage, sent her a turkey, sliced, deboned and put back together again, but the doctors and the nurses ate it. Peggy was too close to her beyond to even know[…]