Jazz Diva, Dead At 81, Left Indelible Memories With Her Sultry Sound by Owen McNally Hartford (Connecticut) Courant, January 23, 2002 You had only to hear Peggy Lee one time for her sultry sound, fluid phrasing and silken way with lyrics to become an indelible part of your musical memory[…]
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Letter to the editor
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[…]
Letter to the editor
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[…]
A whispery mistress of quiet cool
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,[…]
Miss Peggy Lee
‘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[…]
Peggy Lee, 1920-2002
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;[…]