The Composer Who Tested Fighter Planes And Partied With Sinatra You’ve never heard of Jimmy Van Heusen? Well, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers has. You certainly know many of his songs, says Brook Babcock, Van Heusen’s grandnephew and president of his publishing company. “There’s 330,000 songwriters listed[…]
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Peggy Lee’s Fever ranks at #10 on a list of 50 Great Jazz Vocals
The Mix: 50 Great Jazz Vocals 50 Great Jazz Vocals is a crowdsourced list of the 50 most popular jazz vocal recordings of all time, as determined by the listeners of NPR Music, Jazz24.org and KPLU in Seattle. We asked jazz lovers all over the world to vote for their[…]
Articles about the Peggy Lee Movie
Articles about the upcoming Peggy Lee bio-pic, starring Reese Witherspoon: Pamela McClintock, Variety Patrick Goldstein, Los Angeles Times Jay A. Fernandez, Hollywood Reporter Ben Child, Guardian Monika Bartyzel, Cinematical Awards Daily Billboard Reuters / New York Daily News Peggy on Billboard album charts once again with Come Rain or Come Shine CD: Mike Cidoni, Associated Press
Peggy Lee, the jazz doyenne who bridged gap with pop, dies at 81
by David Millward Wall Street Journal, January 23, 2002 Peggy Lee, the husky-voiced jazz singer who oozed sex appeal and artistry in equal measure, has died aged 81. Lee, who had a stroke three years ago, suffered a heart attack at her home in Bel Air, California, Nicki Lee Foster,[…]
Sultry songstress Lee dead at 81
Singer-composer known for hits, film scores, B’way by Richard Natale Variety, January 23, 2002 Peggy Lee, the singer-composer whose husky, seductive voice brought a distinctive touch to such pop hits as “Why Don’t You Do Right,” “Fever” and “Is That All There Is?,” died Monday at her Bel Air home.[…]
Letter to the editor
by Bill Smith USA Today, January 24, 2002 As a devotee of the big-band era, I was saddened to read about the death of Peggy Lee (“Peggy Lee’s smoky voice falls silent, but endures,” Life, Wednesday). After leaving North Dakota at age 17, Lee had her first big break in[…]