“Did a clergyman in the Fargo area once refer to Peggy Lee as ‘the singer of a thousand songs?’ Yes, and it turns out that this man of the cloth was not exaggerating. During her long and illustrious career, Peggy Lee recorded more than 1,100 songs.” [Source: Timothy J. Kloberdanz,[…]

Capitol Records and Universal Music Enterprises Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of ‘I’m a Woman’ with Digital Expanded Edition Out March 31, 2023 Features Newly Remastered Audio and Eight Bonus Tracks, Five of Which Are Previously Unreleased Including a Collaboration with Bobby Darin LOS ANGELES, CA – March 31, 2023 –[…]

New music just in time for Valentine’s Day: a previously unreleased Peggy Lee recording! “Be Anything (But Be Mine)” is from Peggy’s 1952 radio show and is premiering with a new lyric video on February 14, 2023. The song is by Irving Gordon, who is best remembered for another love[…]

“Singer and songwriter Ann Hampton Callaway has been listening to the songs and music of Peggy Lee for as long as she can remember. ‘She was playing on the turntable when I was born,’ she said. ‘There was a lot of Peggy Lee going on there.’ In 2003 she was[…]

“[Producer Tom] Catalano and [Peggy] Lee selected songs of current vintage, including two from Leon Russell. One of them, ‘Superstar,’ was already a huge Carpenters hit. Lee put a world-weary, lost-love twist on it and made it hers. She stamped her mature, worldly-wise brand on the then-modern songs, replacing youthful[…]

With her artist legacy series, pop/jazz vocalist and songwriter Ann Hampton Callaway paid homage to Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan on two critically acclaimed CDs while staying true to her artistic aesthetic. Callaway continues that series with Fever: A Peggy Lee Celebration!, which highlights the songwriting talents of Lee, who wrote[…]