Peggy Lee was one of the iconic popular singers of the 20th century. She is also recognized as probably the greatest white female jazz singer of her time. Her two best-remembered hits, "Fever" and "Is ...
Peggy Lee was a remarkable singer and songwriter, but to some listeners, deeply enigmatic. Her time, often well behind the beat, conveyed a subtle sense of irony. "Are you getting this?" she sometimes ...
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“Fever” is a well known Peggy Lee tune from 1958, but it wasn’t originally hers. In 1956, R&B singer Little Willie John released the first recording of “Fever,” written by Eddie Cooley and Otis ...
LOS ANGELES – Peggy Lee, the singer-composer whose smoky, insinuating voice in such songs as “Is That All There Is?” and “Fever” made her a jazz and pop legend, died Monday. She was 81. Lee died from ...
The highly covered tune has seen its share of reinventions, most notably one by the jazz-pop songstress Peggy Lee, who made the song an iconic jazz hit. However, “Fever” had another life before Lee ...
In 1970 Peggy Lee won a Grammy for "Is That All There Is," a song that many heard as an anthem of ennui … ... but not Lee, says her granddaughter, Holly Foster ...
If you go What: Peggy Lee Tribute Concert When: 7:30 p.m. Friday Where: Jamestown (N.D.) College Reiland Fine Arts Center Info: Tickets range $10 to $50. (701) 252 ...
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Peggy Lee's signature singing sound was "a soft and cool style." She developed this sound in 1940 while performing at a restaurant in Palm Springs, Calif., when Jack Benny and his radio entourage ...