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  WIC Biography - Peggy Lee
Peggy Lee's contributions to American music - not only as a singer but also as a lyricist, composer and musical innovator - exemplify popular music at its best through the eras of jazz, blues, swing, Latin and rock.
Besides her many musical talents, Peggy Lee is a poet, screenwriter, author, fabric and greeting card designer, painter and humanitarian.
Peggy Lee presented a benefit concert for Women's International Center, raising sufficient funds for WIC to establish the Peggy Lee Music Scholarship to help musicians in time of need and for education.
www.wic.org /bio/plee.htm   (335 words)

  
  Peggy Lee | Obituaries | Guardian Unlimited
Lee's ironic side is what has distanced her from all the torch singers who pop buttons with the effort of proving how deeply they empathise with the emotions of a song, and how urgently they desire to share it.
Peggy Lee could suggest the girl down the street, but - as has often been remarked of her - the one who moved up from the country, learned a thing or two hard and fast, but just got wiser on the knowledge rather than resigned to staring into the bottom of a glass.
Peggy Lee was born Norma Delores Egstrom in the North Dakota farm town of Jamestown, the daughter of Marvin and Selma Egstrom, the former a Scandinavian immigrant railroad worker.
www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,637504,00.html   (1746 words)

  
 Peggy Lee MP3 Downloads - Peggy Lee Music Downloads - Peggy Lee Music Videos
She made the jump to Fargo (where she was christened Peggy Lee), then to Minneapolis and St. Louis to sing with a regional band.
Lee also used many different settings, like an orchestra conducted by none other than Frank Sinatra for 1957's The Man I Love, the George Shearing Quintet for 1959's live appearance Beauty and the Beat, Quincey Jones as arranger and conductor for 1961's If You Go, and arrangements by Benny Carter on 1963's Mink Jazz.
Peggy Lee was an early advocate of rock and made a quick transition into rock-oriented material.
www.mp3.com /artist/peggy-lee/summary   (1207 words)

  
 Peggy Lee - Music Downloads - Online
She made the jump to Fargo (where she was christened Peggy Lee), then to Minneapolis and St. Louis to sing with a regional band.
Lee also used many different settings, like an orchestra conducted by none other than Frank Sinatra for 1957's The Man I Love, the George Shearing Quintet for 1959's live appearance Beauty and the Beat, Quincey Jones as arranger and conductor for 1961's If You Go, and arrangements by Benny Carter on 1963's Mink Jazz.
Peggy Lee was an early advocate of rock and made a quick transition into rock-oriented material.
musicstore.connect.com /artist/449/Peggy-Lee/1030084.html   (580 words)

  
 CNN.com - Singer Peggy Lee dead of heart attack at 81 - January 22, 2002
Lee, who was 81, was a composer and a singer; she recorded hundreds of songs, wrote many others and was hailed by audiences throughout the country and world.
Lee joined Benny Goodman's band -- the most famous swing band of the era -- in July 1941, when the band was at the height of its popularity, and for over two years she toured the United States with it.
Lee was married four times and is survived by her daughter, three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/22/peggy.lee.obit   (748 words)

  
 Peggy Lee (I)
Peggy Lee was Born Norma Dolores Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, on May 26...
Peggy Lee Singing at Her Best (2004) (V)....
In 1959, she starred in an unsold television pilot called "The Peggy Lee Show" where she played a music teacher.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0498007   (1449 words)

  
 BBC - Radio 3 Jazz Profiles - Peggy Lee
From the time of her early 1940s hit 'Why Don't You Do Right?' Lee managed to create an individual approach to each and every song.
She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom but changed her name to Peggy Lee whilst working as a teenage singer on a local radio station in Fargo, North Dakota.
She married Goodman's guitarist, Dave Barbour, and after a temporary retirement from music, Lee began to produce a sequence of impressive and popular songs, including 'Golden Earrings', 'It's a Good Day' and 'Manana'.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/jazz/profiles/peggy_lee.shtml   (374 words)

  
 The Peggy Lee Band
Peggy Lee delivers a series of finely crafted compositions of rich and sonorous beauty, played by a crew of musicians blessed with unusual depth and empathy.
And Lee's tunes are as distinctive as her own rich cello sound: drawing on the jazz avant garde, contemporary chamber sounds, folk music, and even rock, they ebb and flow with an almost oceanic grace...
Lee's playing is always both sensitive and passionate, and she's aligned herself here with some of the best musicians in Vancouver… A definite festival highlight.
www.spoolmusic.com /spl105info.htm   (737 words)

  
 The Peggy Lee & June Christy Capitol Transcriptions (#184)
The fact is, Peggy Lee got her start singing with the Benny Goodman Orchestra; June Christy with Stan Kenton.
You'll hear Peggy Lee backed by the Frank DeVol orchestra on some tunes, but accompanied on most by an intimate quartet led by her husband, guitarist Dave Barbour (they met working for Goodman).
The Peggy Lee small group back-up with her husband Dave Barbour is especially good.
www.mosaicrecords.com /prodinfo.asp?number=184-MD-CD   (1178 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Best of Miss Peggy Lee: Music: Peggy Lee   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Peggy possessed such a rare talent that she was able to move people with her fantastic voice and acting for quite a few decades nonstop; and this CD is just the beginning of the proof of that.
(Peggy spent the early 1950s at Decca Records so her work from that time is not found here.) There's not a dud in the entire set; the CD is so hot I almost shouted "Fire!" as I listened to Peggy's vocal range and fantastic voice.
Peggy Lee has a smooth, rich voice, and her sultry style pairs beautifully with the lyrics.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000DCI5/upsideout60-20   (1053 words)

  
 Peggy Lee Summary
Lee was nominated for twelve Grammy Awards, winning Best Contemporary Vocal Performance for her 1969 hit "Is That All There Is?" In 1995 she was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Lee's lawsuit claimed that she was due royalties for video tapes, a technology that did not exist when she agreed to write and perform for Disney.
"Peggy Lee" is also a character in Victory Gundam, one of the five (of the six) original members of the Shrike Team named in homage to famous 20th century female singers.
www.bookrags.com /Peggy_Lee   (1277 words)

  
 Jazz: Lee P.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Peggy Lee only had a small voice and she never improvised much but her singing often crossed over into jazz and she always swung.
Lee appeared in the Dixieland movie Pete Kelly's Blues and recorded Beauty and the Beat (1959) with the George Shearing Quintet but then moved farther away from jazz in the 1960s.
Peggy Lee's often-atmospheric records from her prime years can be easily enjoyed by jazz fans.
www.ddg.com /LIS/InfoDesignF96/Ismael/jazz/1940/lee.html   (98 words)

  
 Channel4.com - SlashMusic - Peggy Lee   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Peggy Lee started out as the vocalist for the Benny Goodman Orchestra in the early 1940s, and shortly thereafter became a star in her own right.
Though she had numerous pop hits, she constantly crossed back and forth across the line between pop and jazz, and was hailed by numerous critics as one of America's finest singers in either genre.
In addition, Lee was involved in the film world as both actress and composer, most actively in the '50s (she received an Oscar nomination for her role in PETE KELLY'S BLUES).
www.channel4.com /music/music-core/artist.jsp?artistId=50211   (127 words)

  
 Peggy Lee : Oldies.com
One of the most popular female vocalists during her prime, Peggy Lee (1920-2002) was known for her very personal voice and the atmospheric quality of her recordings.
Even if the range of her tone was somewhat limited, Peggy Lee always managed to convey emotion and depth in her singing, and that's why her cool, light swinging appealed to millions and turned her into a household name throughout the...
Now, in this fabulous DVD entitled Peggy Lee Singing at Her Best, you'll see and hear why "Miss Peggy Lee" (as she was always introduced) remains one of the best-loved and most-admired vocalists of all time.
www.oldies.com /performer-view/Peggy-Lee.html   (320 words)

  
 Peggy Lee at the Copacabana, 1958
A new hairdo called the "Chrysanthemum Cut." In addition, Peggy was gowned in a $12,000 wardrobe made exclusively for her by such famed couturiers as Princess Mariosa and Don Loper, and a $15,000 new Champagne mink coat.
You could hear the proverbial pins dropping all over the Copacabana last night as the well-behaved customers paid tribute to Peggy Lee at one of her greatest triumphs.
Peggy opened with "Just In Time," "My Heart Stood Still" and "What A Little Moonlight Can Do" before issuing this well-put ode to the married gal, and she continued with "Jump For Joy"(a hand-clapping audience prompter) and "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street."
www.bigbandsandbignames.com /PeggyLee.html   (618 words)

  
 PEGGY LEE / 1920-2002   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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, died Monday night at her Bel- Air home.
Peggy Lee was born Norma Dolores (some references say Norma Jean) Egstrom in the windswept prairie town of Jamestown, N.D., on May 26, 1920.
In addition to her daughter, Lee is survived by grandchildren Davis and Michael Foster and Holly Foster-Wells, and three great-grandchildren.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/01/23/MN201420.DTL   (1273 words)

  
 PeggyLee.com - The official web site of Miss Peggy Lee
PeggyLee.com - The official web site of Miss Peggy Lee
If you only know Peggy Lee from records, or radio and TV and theaters, catch her some time in an intimate nightclub like this.
If you don’t get a genuine thrill — Jack, you must be dead.
www.peggylee.com /live/live.html   (55 words)

  
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Bette's Tribute To Peggy Lee Is Now Available!
Ready to sing along to all those great Peggy Lee tunes?
In celebration of Bette's new album honoring Peggy Lee, we take a listen to Peggy Lee's take on a song that is more widely associated with Bette.
www.bettelyrics.com   (278 words)

  
 Peggy Lee
Peggy Lee cowrote the songs and provides the voice of the Siamese cats in one of the film's best-known musical sequences.
This is a piece of artistic history that every Peggy Lee fan should have.
Every clip makes one remember that this is one of the sexiest and most accomplished artists of our time - or any other time.
www.dvd-today.com /actor/Peggy-Lee/dvd.html   (422 words)

  
 BBC News | MUSIC | Jazz legend Peggy Lee dies
Soulful singing legend Peggy Lee has died of a heart attack at the age of 81.
Peggy Lee was nominated for an Oscar in 1955
Lee was launched onto the music scene in 1941 when she joined the line-up of the Benny Goodman Band, going on to marry the group's guitarist David Barbour.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/1774877.stm   (371 words)

  
 Peggy Lee | Peggy Lee | Pop Culture Commentary | News + Notes | Entertainment Weekly
I first heard Peggy Lee when I was about 20, and I instantly became a total junkie.
''Latin ala Lee!,'' which had her singing Broadway songs, was my first big Peggy Lee record.
She came up in the big-band era, but then crossed over into the pop charts with songs like ''Fever'' and ''Is That All There Is?'' and really helped define the jazz-pop world.
www.ew.com /ew/article/commentary/0,6115,402102~7~0~,00.html   (483 words)

  
 YouTube - Fever - Peggy Lee
Miss Peggy Lee: An Autobiography is a really good read for all big band fans.
The late great Peggy Lee, a favorite of mine (I'm a huge Jazz fan).
Peggy was a singer in The Benny Goodman Orchestra before going solo.
www.youtube.com /watch?v=JGb5IweiYG8   (269 words)

  
 Peggy Lee - Fever: The Music of Peggy Lee
Peggy Lee is extensively profiled in this look at her life and music.
Twenty performances are included, spanning Lee's entire career, and offering indisputable proof of her incredible singing talents.
Nancy Sinatra, K.D. Lang, and Quincy Jones all offer warm testimonials to Peggy, making this a comprehensive overview on her time in the spotlight.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/peggy_lee_fever_the_music_of_peggy_lee   (417 words)

  
 Peggy Lee Ringtones | Peggy Lee Polyphonic Ringtones | Peggy Lee Stereo Tones
Peggy Lee - All I Need Is You - Polyphonic Ringtones;
Peggy Lee - Sugar (That Sugar Baby O'Mine) - Polyphonic Ringtones;
Peggy Lee - Fever (v2) - Stereo Tones;
www.mobilepda.com /tones_Peggy_Lee.php   (30 words)

  
 Peggy Lee Roundhill - Scientology Service Completions
TAS : Scientology Statistics : Individual Completions : P : Peggy Lee Roundhill
The older a list, the more likely that a person listed on it is no longer involved in Scientology.
Peggy Lee Roundhill in Scientology's Published Service Completion Lists
www.truthaboutscientology.com /stats/by-name/p/peggy-lee-roundhill.html   (306 words)

  
 Peggy Lee : Rolling Stone
In attempting to enhance Peggy Lee's legend, which needs no enhancement, writers/producers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who provided Lee with her 1969 hit, "Is That All There Is," and her biggest ever, "Fever," have cowed themselves.
Their ten original songs on Lee's AandM debut are, for the most...
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www.rollingstone.com /artists/peggylee   (81 words)

  
 Ananova - Paltrow to play Peggy Lee
Gwyneth Paltrow is set to play Peggy Lee in a biopic about Truman Capote.
Variety reports she'll join Mark Wahlberg, Sandra Bullock and Sigourney Weaver in the cast of Every Word Is True.
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www.ananova.com /entertainment/story/sm_1055981.html?menu=entertainment.films   (89 words)

  
 Peggy Lee: The Christmas Album de Peggy Lee
Peggy Lee: The Christmas Album de Peggy Lee
Les personnes qui téléchargent Peggy Lee téléchargent aussi: Frank Sinatra, Céline Dion, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong et Fatboy Slim
La musique de Peggy Lee: The Christmas Album
www.musicarium.com /telecharger/peggy-lee/peggy-lee-the-christmas-album-16031684.html   (231 words)

  
 YouTube - Peggy Lee - I Don't Know Enough About You
Peggy really got turned-on by the sight of Dave's bare ankles.
this is one of the Telescriptions Peggy made for the Snader Corporation -- sort of like an eary music video, obviously...
Peggy delivers the goods (and how!) once Peggy delivers the goods (and how!) once again with another great Lee/Barbour composition.
youtube.com /watch?v=Vz-g7_RV21Y   (223 words)

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