A new Peggy Lee compilation features dozens of never-before-released performances by the famed singer in the early 1950s.
The two-CD, 40-song set is titled Something Wonderful: Peggy Lee Sings The Great American Songbook.
A new Peggy Lee compilation features dozens of never-before-released performances by the famed singer in the early 1950s.
The two-CD, 40-song set is titled Something Wonderful: Peggy Lee Sings The Great American Songbook.
Michelle Williams is on board to portray another entertainment icon, in the Peggy Lee biopic “Fever” for director Todd Haynes, Variety has confirmed. MGM is in talks to back the film. Marc Platt, Reese Witherspoon, and Killer Films’ Pamela Koffler and Christine Vachon are producing. Doug Wright (“Quills”) is writing[…]
The long-in-development Peggy Lee biopic Fever not only looks to have found a new studio to call home, but also a new star to play the legendary singer. Sources tell Deadline that MGM is in talks to come aboard the Peggy Lee biopic, with Academy Award nominee Todd Haynes[…]
Three further seminal releases are today (29) added to Verve Records/UMe’s acclaimed Acoustic Sounds audiophile vinyl reissue series. They include titles by Clifford Brown & Max Roach, George Russell, and the Decca debut of Peggy Lee… Lee’s 1953 LP Black Coffee marked her arrival at Decca from Capitol, after her[…]
Peggy Lee wasn’t the first to record Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller’s “I’m a Woman,” but when she did, she owned it entirely. A classic example of the writing duo’s smart and sassy narratives, its bold and liberated lyrics depicted a woman who could take care of herself, and of[…]
Holly Foster Wells of the Peggy Lee Estate: “‘Happy Holiday’ is one of my favorite Christmas songs of my grandmother’s, not only because of its beautiful message about connecting with loved ones at holiday time, but also because of the joy that I hear in my grandmother’s voice. I can[…]