by Judy Klemesrud Here is what there is: Miss Peggy Lee slinks into the living room of her Waldorf Towers suite, wearing a pair of turquoise silk movie star pajamas. Her blonde hair tumbles down past her shoulders now, and her figure is plump – but womanly. A youngish Mae[…]
Here’s Peggy
by Ernest Leogrande Some people have got upset over the fact that Peggy Lee’s latest hit, “Is That All There Is?,” is an uncredited musical version of a Thomas Mann story, “Disillusionment.” You’d think that she and the song’s lyricist, Jerry Leiber, had been caught shoplifting at the Metropolitan Museum.[…]
TV Soundings
by Leonard Feather Educational television sometimes has a tendency to examine music from a viewpoint slightly too scientific for comfort, as if the performers were under a microscope rather than a microphone. For this and other reasons, the NET special devoted to Peggy Lee and seen on many stations this[…]
Peggy Lee – Lyricist, Composer, and Singer
by Amy Lee Peggy Lee came into the sitting room of her Waldorf Towers suite in flowered pajamas, her blond-blond hair parted in the middle and tied in two pigtails with fat white cotton cord. It was the same beautiful face belonging to the sophisticated singer of “Fever,” “Hallelujah, I[…]
Peggy Lee: At Fever Pitch
by Bill Burrus The rushing sound of tap water came from the bedroom of Miss Peggy Lee’s suite in the Waldorf Towers. Her traveling hairdresser, a blonde in red lounging pajamas, traipsed through the living room and the comb dangling from her hand indicated Miss Lee was in the process[…]
An Artist Tunes Up for the Waldorf
by Eugene Boe Beverly Hills, California – She sits there at her desk in flowery lounging pajamas, looking so young-girlish with her blond hair combed tight across her heard and coiled into pink-ribboned pigtails. She sings softly into a mike held with one hand while the other makes jottings on[…]