Bob Newhart recalls: “When I was starting out (doing stand-up), in my first year I was opening for Peggy Lee at Harrah’s in Lake Tahoe. I did 18 minutes on stage and then watched her show. I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. I was getting laughs for 18[…]

Recorded across three sessions – held on 30 April, and 1 and 4 May 1953 – with [producer Milt] Gabler at the helm, Lee was accompanied by pianist Jimmy Rowles, bassist Max Wayne and drummer Ed Shaughnessy, plus a horn player, trumpeter Pete Candoli, who became a stalwart of the[…]

The ASCAP Foundation Peggy Lee Songwriter Award… consists of a cash award and the opportunity to engage with a music executive who would provide general career advice and a perspective of the music business. The Peggy Lee Songwriter Award is presented to an ASCAP or unaffiliated songwriter who demonstrates intelligent[…]

Most people think, with very good reason, that Frank Sinatra was the best popular singer, as well as the best interpreter of the Great American Songbook, who ever lived. Save for a few voice lessons, he was also self-taught and had no musical training of any kind, which makes it[…]