by Thomas W. Evans Chicago Sun-Times, January 25, 2002 A sad item in the news brought back high school days, staying up later than I probably should have listening to Dave Garroway playing classic jazz records on late-night radio. The show always closed around midnight with Peggy Lee seductively intoning[…]

by Randy Schnell Chicago Tribune, January 29, 2002 Thank you for Howard Reich’s fine tribute to the late singer Peggy Lee (“A hit, and that’s all there is to say,” News, Jan. 23). It was not only meaningful to her legions of longtime fans, but hopefully it may have caught[…]

by Lloyd Sachs Chicago Sun-Times, January 23, 2002 In a field dominated by singers with big or flashy styles, Peggy Lee became a sotto voce legend. The platinum-blond North Dakota native, who died Monday at age 81 from a heart attack, was popular music’s ultimate embodiment of less is more,[…]

‘Is That All There Is?’ was quite a lot when she sang it. Editorial Charlotte (North Carolina) Observer, January 24, 2002 A critic once described her as “Billie Holiday meets Mae West,” but that wasn’t quite right. Billie Holiday sang with a soul no one else possessed. Mae West performed[…]

Her sultry voice had emotional breadth by Richard Dyer Boston Globe, January 23, 2002 Nobody ever did more with less than Miss Peggy Lee, who used an art of indirection to reach her listeners where they live. Lee died of heart failure Monday night in her home in Los Angeles;[…]

Her sultry voice and creative songwriting made lasting impressions in pop and jazz music. by Peter Goodman Baltimore Sun, January 23, 2002 Norma Deloris Egstrom was raised a tough North Dakota farm girl who shucked grain, pitched hay and drove the water wagon, yearned to escape her stepmother’s daily beatings,[…]