by Glenn Collins The singer Peggy Lee filed suit in Los Angeles yesterday against the Walt Disney Company, charging breach of contract in the release of a videocassette version of the 1955 movie Lady and the Tramp without her consent. Miss Lee, who is suing Disney for $25 million in[…]
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Good Echoes of Bygone Sounds
by Frances Dickerson and Caz Gorham A spring afternoon in Bel Air… a time and a place as evocative as an English summer. Driving up into the hills of north Los Angeles, you glimpse (through the rainbows of the sprinklers that are everywhere), a world of ideal homes. Here great[…]
Thirty Years of Fever
by Gino Falzarano One song and one singer redefined the meaning of the word “cool” that summer of 1958. The singer was Peggy Lee. The song: “Fever.” At the height of the rock and roll era, Peggy pulled back, stripped away the non-essentials, and created a classic that epitomized the[…]
La Dolce Musto (excerpt)
weekly column by Michael Musto Peggy Lee hobbled into my life on a walker wearing a blonde, banged wing, dark bubble glasses, and a Miss Piggy-style, fur-trimmed peignoir, but no shoes. “Please don’t shoot my feet,” she begged the photographer. “They got squeezed tapping my toes, which caused an ingrown[…]
She’s Got the Fever
Stephen M. Silverman She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, on May 26, 1920, but since the summer of 1941 when she was signed to sing with the Benny Goodman Orchestra, the name’s been Peggy Lee. Five years ago it was simply Peg on the marquee of[…]
The Woman in White
by Patricia O’Haire She comes into the room, and she’s dressed all in white. Platinum hair, bangs straight cut across her forehead, white pantsuit – even white nail polish on her toes. The only bit of color – aside from the red and blue sparks the light makes as it[…]