by Susan Heller Anderson Peggy Lee will join Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne and Ella Fitzgerald when she received the Pied Piper Award of ASCAP. The organization’s highest accolade, it goes to an entertainer for lifetime achievement. The award has been given nine times in the 28 years since it was[…]

by Harry Haun You don’t go to just anyone to write a song for a Sterling Hayden stalwart, but then Peggy Lee has never been accused of being just anyone. She is – above and beyond being one of our supreme song stylists – a songwriter of some note, both[…]

by Victor Davis Singing legend Peggy Lee opened the door for the cat… and almost ruined her forthcoming British tour. As she let the pet into her Beverly Hills bedroom she fell, injuring an arm and a leg. Now she will perform from a chair for the dates which start[…]

by Harold Niesen One thing has tied my entire life together: listening to Miss Peggy Lee sing. Mom supplied her 45s to me before I could read. Now the forever young at heart Miss Lee continues her not-to-be-missed engagement at the Venetian Room through April 30. She combines pop and[…]

by Neal Karlen Miss Peggy Lee glumly stares out of the smoked rear window of her limousine as it crawls through midtown at rush hour. She’s caught, she says, a nasty dose of the Second Night Blues. “You never heard of those blues?” the 68-year-old chanteuse asks, her voice one[…]

by Rex Reed New York after dark is being blasted out of its lull. Peggy Lee is at the Ballroom, Rosemary Clooney is at the elegant new Rainbow and Stars, Margaret Whiting is back at the Algonquin, Jim Bailey is doing his Judy Garland witchcraft at Michael’s Pub and the[…]