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Correspondent Mo Rocca asked Lee biographer Peter Richmond, "Musically, how many different Peggy Lees were there?" "Oh God, dozens!" he laughed. "There's Latin. There's blues. There's jazz.
May 6, 2006 • Peggy Lee's most memorable tune was "Fever." A biography borrows the title of the 1958 hit, which encapsulated what many remember about the singer: her playful delivery ...
In 1970 Peggy Lee won a Grammy for "Is That All There Is," a song that many heard as an anthem of ennui … ... but not Lee, says her granddaughter, Holly Foster ...
Peggy Lee, the sultry-voiced singer-composer whose 60-year career of putting the cool in the blues and the heat in the fever placed her in the front rank of American jazz, blues and pop divas ...
In 1957, singer Peggy Lee recorded the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II tune “The Folks Who Live on the Hill.” Though others had performed the song too, Lee’s soulful interpretation of the ...
Here’s a look at some of the most interesting moments. By Elisabeth Vincentelli A biography of the singer Peggy Lee. By Anita Gates Mr. Hookstratten was an unapologetically aggressive lawyer and ...
She still is the pride of North Dakota. Peggy Lee would have turned 90 years old on Wednesday, and this small town where she went to high school remembered her with stories and songs. More than 80 ...