by Dick Williams Nobody knows the price of fame better than Peggy Lee, 26-year-old canary. But after twelve years of perseverance, the angel-faced moonbeam blonde has cleared the more formidable hurdles to crowd some of the best vocalists in the business for record honors. Her unique microphone personality produces a[…]
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‘I’d Never Make a Critic’
Preface In the world of popular singing, there is a very thin, vague borderline between what is considered by the pundits to be jazz singing (Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday) and what is dismissed as mere popular singing (Dinah Shore, Perry Como, Jo Stafford). Jazz critics, even those on[…]
Peggy Lee – A Cinderella Grows Up
(date unknown) Everyone wondered what had happened to Peggy Lee? In 1942, when she was Benny Goodman’s star vocalist, Look described her as the girl with the electric-blue voice, heard on every juke-box in America. She was a Cinderella girl who had worked her way up to be a top singer with[…]
Vine Street Divas
Capitol, United States, #72435-25543-2-4 Released June 6, 2000 Buy Various-artists collection with four songs by Peggy: I Don’t Know Enough About You It’s a Good Day Golden Earrings Everybody Loves Somebody This compilation, volume two of Capitol Records’ new “From the Vaults” series, features 25 tracks by female vocalists from[…]
‘S Wonderful: Society of Singers and Friends Galore Salute Jazzy Peggy Lee
by Jeannine Stein, Los Angeles Times She’s still got it. That was the overwhelming consensus of the 800 people who heard Peggy Lee sing at her tribute from Society of Singers on Monday night at the Beverly Hilton. A wheelchair-bound Lee sang two songs, “S’Wonderful” and “Here’s to You” for[…]