by Kirtley Baskette Not long ago vivacious, husky-voiced Peggy Lee stood on the stage of a Baltimore theater singing her final number, a lively favorite called “Why Don’t You Do Right?” Halfway through, the spotlight failed. In the sudden black-out she had a wild thought: “Now I’ve killed myself.” Peggy[…]

Composer, songstress, actress, now she’s the voice of Lady, the pert pup in Walt Disney’s Lady and the Tramp Take two powder-blue eyes, a seductive shape, a short platinum-white haircut, and a husky voice designed for candlelight and late hours, and you have Miss Peggy Lee, the lady who helped[…]

by Ralph J. Gleason San Francisco – “Retire? I should say not!” declared Peggy Lee, in town for a three-week date in the Venetian Room of the Fairmont Hotel. Debunking retirement rumors, Peggy said, “That was a bad week. You have weeks like that along with the good ones.” “When[…]

by Ralph J. Gleason Don’t for a moment think those stories are true you’ve heard about Peggy Lee wanting to retire from singing and just write songs. The blonde Decca record star emphatically denies it. This week at the Fairmont Hotel, where she opened Tuesday for a three-week engagement at[…]

by Earl Wilson Look who used to be a “hired girl” on a farm in North Dakota…Peggy Lee! I was once a “hired man” or “hired hand” on a farm in Ohio – so I know about such things. In the big cities, they would call a hired girl a[…]

by Eckert Goodman Sometime in the unforeseeable future, Peggy Lee may put in an eight-hour stint and feel that she’s done a day’s work. But, judging from the actress-singer-songwriter-artist’s current behavior, that will be a banner day. Directors know that a session in front of the cameras can be as[…]