by Bob Thomas The indomitable Peggy Lee, recovered from double-bypass heart surgery, is back on the road again, posing her still unanswered inquiries, “Why Don’t You Do Right?” and “Is That All There Is?” Nothing, it seems, can stop the songstress, not diabetes, glandular deficiencies, double pneumonia, nor a near-fatal[…]

by Sherryl Connelly Peggy Lee is speaking of the view from her lofty home in Bel Air, California. “I can see the ocean. I can see the boats out there with my field glasses,” the 66-year-old singer says, then gently edits her own statement. “That is, I don’t see the[…]

by Ray Bennett LOS ANGELES – “I was prepared to go if it was necessary,” said Peggy Lee. “You know, ‘Is this trip really necessary?’” Fortunately for Lee and jazz lovers everywhere, the “trip” wasn’t necessary. Lee survived double-bypass heart surgery in New Orleans last October and the complications that[…]

by Phil Roura and Tom Poster Peggy Lee looked at her pretty blond granddaughter, Holly, and smiled: “Someday you’ll produce my life story on Broadway.” Peggy wasn’t kidding. Someday the Peggy Lee story will be back on Broadway. The indomitable Miss Peggy, the ultimate song stylist, never got over the[…]

by Bill Kaufman It has been just short of a decade since Peggy Lee has performed in an intimate cabaret setting, an absence that will be made up for Wednesday, when the silky-voiced singer opens at the Ballroom in Manhattan Chelsea district. She’ll be there for a four-week engagement through[…]

by Mary Campbell It’s a very happy show, Peggy Lee says about her July 10 to August 3 engagement at the Ballroom cabaret, and she’s happy to be in New York doing it. She says she certainly didn’t stamp angrily out of New York vowing never to return, when her[…]