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[…]

by Bill Kaufman It has been just short of a decade since Peggy Lee has performed in an intimate cabaret setting, an absence that will be made up for Wednesday, when the silky-voiced singer opens at the Ballroom in Manhattan Chelsea district. She’ll be there for a four-week engagement through[…]

by Mary Campbell It’s a very happy show, Peggy Lee says about her July 10 to August 3 engagement at the Ballroom cabaret, and she’s happy to be in New York doing it. She says she certainly didn’t stamp angrily out of New York vowing never to return, when her[…]

by George Christy Peggy Lee has recorded 631 songs and dozens upon dozens of albums, with many of her hits spawning gold records. Wherever she performs, legions of loyal admirers appear, fans of all ages, as they did recently at the Westwood Playhouse in Los Angeles, where her nightly concerts[…]

by Bob Thomas LOS ANGELES – One of the entertainment world’s ablest survivors, singer Peggy Lee, last winter suffered a blow that would send most stars to their psychiatrists. Her autobiographical show, Peg, was rejected by the Broadway critics and closed December 18 after 18 performances. “Self-pity is a waste[…]