by Joseph Roddy She still has the sensuously fragile voice, the flowing platinum hair, the beauty mark, the feline smile. But it is all packaged in such a sleek form these days that people are asking “Is that all there is to Peggy Lee?” Thanks to willpower and a weight-loss[…]

by David Taylor As is the custom in visiting celebrated chanteuses, we are invited to sit, wait, and show interest in the furnishings in order that we may straightway be obliged to stand up again and witness the party make an entrance. “If I can’t get it, I feel I[…]

by Victor Davis She’s been in this country only three times – and on her first visit we almost killed her. So Miss Peggy Lee arrived in London this week treading very warily. Here to record a Christmas show with Julie Andrews, Peggy recalled the first time she dropped in[…]

by Peter Reilly Norma Delores Egstrom from Jamestown, North Dakota is the adroitly titled umpteenth album by that phenomenon of American pop music, Peggy Lee. It is adroit because it reminds us with startling economy that hers is a career that started somewhere back in the mists of the big-band[…]

by Christina Kirk She is a one-woman production – singer, actress, temptress, musical director, impresario and star. She is Miss Peggy Lee, and she is currently using all the skills of a show business lifetime to mesmerize audiences in the Empire Room of the Waldorf-Astoria. The effect is cool and[…]

by Leonard Feather It is hard to delve deep into the ongoing saga of Miss Peggy Lee without allowing it to take on the overtones of a soap opera. All the elements are there: the rags-to-riches background; the musical affinity that led to romance, and the death of the man[…]