by Robert Taylor Beneath the sterling silver hairstyle, rhinestone-rimmed glasses, flawless matte makeup and dusky pink nail enamel, there is a part of Peggy Lee that remains – as one of her album titles noted – “Norma Deloris Egstrom from Jamestown, North Dakota.” She was lunching with producers and reporters[…]

by Carolyn Drewes “I’ve been living a fairly reclusive life since the health problems; a lot of people don’t know whether I live on the East Coast or the West. But I had 70 for dinner Christmas Eve.” (Once she had a costume party and asked everyone to come as[…]

by Bob Thomas The indomitable Peggy Lee, recovered from double-bypass heart surgery, is back on the road again, posing her still unanswered inquiries, “Why Don’t You Do Right?” and “Is That All There Is?” Nothing, it seems, can stop the songstress, not diabetes, glandular deficiencies, double pneumonia, nor a near-fatal[…]

by Sherryl Connelly Peggy Lee is speaking of the view from her lofty home in Bel Air, California. “I can see the ocean. I can see the boats out there with my field glasses,” the 66-year-old singer says, then gently edits her own statement. “That is, I don’t see the[…]

by Ray Bennett LOS ANGELES – “I was prepared to go if it was necessary,” said Peggy Lee. “You know, ‘Is this trip really necessary?’” Fortunately for Lee and jazz lovers everywhere, the “trip” wasn’t necessary. Lee survived double-bypass heart surgery in New Orleans last October and the complications that[…]

by Phil Roura and Tom Poster Peggy Lee looked at her pretty blond granddaughter, Holly, and smiled: “Someday you’ll produce my life story on Broadway.” Peggy wasn’t kidding. Someday the Peggy Lee story will be back on Broadway. The indomitable Miss Peggy, the ultimate song stylist, never got over the[…]