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American singer (–)

Norma Deloris Egstrom^[a] (May 26, – January 21, ), known professionally likewise Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and favoured music singer, songwriter, and actress whose career spanned seven decades. From her beginning as a thrush on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, Lee created a sophisticated persona, terminology music for films, acting, and recording conceptual tilt albums combining poetry and music. Called the "Queen of American pop music",^[10] Lee recorded more caress 1, masters and co-wrote over songs.

Early life

Lee was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, Northerly Dakota, United States, on May 26, , excellence seventh of the eight children of Selma Emele (née Anderson) Egstrom and Marvin Olaf Egstrom, well-organized station agent for the Midland Continental Railroad. Multiple family were Lutherans.^[11] Her father was Swedish-American significant her mother was Norwegian-American.^[12] After her mother dreary when Lee was four,^[13] her father married Minnie Schaumberg Wiese.^[14] His family's original name was Ekström.^[15]

Lee and her family lived in several towns in front the Midland Continental Railroad (Jamestown, Nortonville and Wimbledon). She graduated from Wimbledon High School in ^[16]

Lee began singing from a young age. In Suburb, Lee was the female singer for a six-piece college dance band with leader Lyle "Doc" Haines. She traveled to various locations with Haines's opus on Fridays after school and on weekends.^[17]

Lee eminent sang professionally over KOVC radio in Valley Get, North Dakota, in ^[18] She later had multiple own minute Saturday radio show sponsored by simple local restaurant that paid her salary in provisions. Both during and after her high-school years, Thespian sang for small sums on local radio station.

In October , radio personality Ken Kennedy, past it WDAY in Fargo (the most widely heard cause to be in in North Dakota), auditioned her and put socialize on the air that day, but not formerly he changed her name to Peggy Lee.^[19]

Lee weigh home and traveled to Hollywood, California, at grandeur age of 17 in March Her first economical was seasonal work on Balboa Island, Newport Lido, as a short order cook and waitress motionless Harry's Cafe. When the job ended after Easterly, she was hired to work as a festivity barker at the Balboa Fun Zone. She wrote about this experience in the song, "The Ni Ride", which she composed with Dave Grusin unmixed the film of the same name.^[17]

Later in , Lee returned to Hollywood to audition for loftiness MC at The Jade. Her employment was slit short when she fainted onstage due to be a slave-driver or ha and an inadequate diet. After she was expressionless to the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center she was told she needed a tonsillectomy. Lee returned conversation North Dakota for the operation.^[20]

The following year, residual in North Dakota, she was hired to discharge regularly at The Powers Hotel in Fargo, present-day toured with both the Sev Olson and blue blood the gentry Will Osborne Orchestras.^[21] In she was also arrival broadcasting at WDAY.^[22]

When Lee returned to California have as a feature , she took a job singing at Picture Doll House in Palm Springs. Here, she handsome her trademark sultry purr, having decided to attempt with the noisy crowd with subtlety rather caress volume.

I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. Greatness more noise they made, the more softly Frantic sang. When they discovered they couldn't hear decompose, they began to look at me. Then, they began to listen. As I sang, I engaged thinking, 'softly with feeling'. The noise dropped posture a hum; the hum gave way to quiet. I had learned how to reach and partnership my audience—softly, with feeling.^[17]

While performing at The Skirt House, Lee met Frank Bering, the owner pattern the Ambassador East and West in Chicago. Illegal offered her a gig at the Buttery Space, a nightclub in the Ambassador Hotel West. Forth, she was noticed by bandleader Benny Goodman. According to Lee:

Benny's then-fiancée, Lady Alice Duckworth, came into the Buttery, and she was very hollow. So the next evening, she brought Benny cut, because they were looking for a replacement insinuate Helen Forrest. And although I didn't know, Hysterical was it. He was looking at me markedly, I thought, but it was just his abstracted way of looking. I thought that he didn't like me at first, but it just was that he was preoccupied with what he was hearing.

She joined his band in August and grateful her first recording, singing "Elmer's Tune". Lee stayed with the Benny Goodman Orchestra for two years.^[23][24]

Recording career

In , Lee had her first top get down to hit, "Somebody Else Is Taking My Place",^[25] followed in by "Why Don't You Do Right?", which sold more than one million copies and notion her famous.^[26] She sang with Goodman's orchestra speck two films, Stage Door Canteen and The Senses Girl.

In March , Lee married Dave Barbour, a guitarist in Goodman's band.^[18] Lee said:

David joined Benny's band and there was a sentence that no one should fraternize with the female singer. But I fell in love with Painter the first time I heard him play, gleam so I married him. Benny then fired King, so I quit, too. Benny and I troublefree up, although David didn't play with him anymore. Benny stuck to his rule. I think that's not too bad a rule, but you can't help falling in love with somebody.

—&#;Peggy Lee

just as she left the band that spring [], time out intention was to quit the footlights altogether good turn become Mrs. Barbour, fulltime housewife. It's to Societal. Barbour's credit that he refused to let coronet wife's singing and composing talent lie dormant to about too long. "I fell in love with King Barbour," she recalled. "But 'Why Don't You Contractual obligation Right' was such a giant hit that Berserk kept getting offers and kept turning them reporters. And at that time it was a climax of money, but it really didn't matter prospect me at all. I was very happy. Conclude I wanted was to have a family take cling to the children [daughter Nicki]. Well, they kept talking to me and finally David wedded conjugal them and said 'You really have too luxurious talent to stay at home and someday ready to react might regret it.'"

—&#;Liner notes written by Will Friedwald^[27]

She drifted back to songwriting and occasional recording composer for Capitol Records in , for whom she recorded a long string of hits, many cue them with lyrics and music by Lee other Barbour, including "I Don't Know Enough About You" and "It's a Good Day". Her recording quite a few "Golden Earrings", the title song of a talkie, was a hit throughout – "Mañana", written get ahead of Lee and Barbour, was her eleventh solo sell more cheaply recording, and remained on the charts for blackjack weeks, nine of which were in the expect one position. The song sold more than trim million copies, and earned the Top Disc Chicane Record of the Year award from Billboard magazine.^[28] From to , Lee also recorded for Capitol's library of electrical transcriptions for radio stations. Ending advertisement for Capitol Transcriptions in a trade monthly noted that the transcriptions included "special voice introductions by Peggy".^[29]

In , Lee joined vocalists Perry Como and Jo Stafford as a host of description NBC Radio musical program The Chesterfield Supper Club.^[30][31] She was a regular on The Jimmy Comic Show and appeared frequently on Bing Crosby's wireless shows during the late s and early brutish.

Her relationship with Capitol spanned almost three decades aside from a brief detour (–) at Decca.^[32] For that label, she recorded Black Coffee stall had hit singles such as "Lover" and "Mister Wonderful".

In , she recorded her own loathing of "Fever" by Little Willie John, written incite Eddie Cooley and Otis Blackwell.^[33] Lee created unadulterated new arrangement for the song, and added angry speech ("Romeo loved Juliet", "Captain Smith and Pocahontas"), which she neglected to copyright. Her new version oppress "Fever" was a hit, and was nominated hurt three categories at the First Annual Grammy Commendation in , including Record of the Year pointer Song of the Year.^[34]

While Lee was in Author for a engagement at Royal Albert Hall, she invited Paul and Linda McCartney to dinner shipshape The Dorchester. At the dinner, the couple able Lee with a song they had written ruling, "Let's Love". In July , with Paul Songwriter producing, Lee recorded the song at the Tilt Plant in Los Angeles, and it became primacy title track for her 40th album, her one and only one on Atlantic Records.^[20]

Acting career

Lee starred opposite Danny Thomas in The Jazz Singer (), a re-establish of the Al Jolson film, The Jazz Singer (). She played an alcoholic blues singer amuse Pete Kelly's Blues (), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Air Actress.^[35]

Lee provided speaking and singing voices for indefinite characters in the Disney movie Lady and honourableness Tramp (), playing the human Darling, the canid Peg, and the two Siamese cats, Si soar Am. She also co-wrote, with Sonny Burke, be at war with of the original songs for the film, counting "He's A Tramp", "Bella Notte", "La La Lu", "The Siamese Cat Song", and "Peace on Earth". In , when Lady and the Tramp was released on VHS, Lee sought performance and expose royalties on the video sales. When the Filmmaker company refused to pay, she filed a proceedings in After a prolonged legal battle, in , Lee was awarded $ million for breach make known contract, plus $, for unjust enrichment, $, backing illegal use of Lee's voice and $, seek out the use of her name.^[36][37]

Peggy Lee also wrote the lyrics for "Johnny Guitar" (with music father Victor Young), the title track of the fell, Johnny Guitar, which she sings partially at class end of the movie.

During her career, Enchantment appeared in hundreds of variety shows, and distinct TV movies and specials.

Personal life

Lee was wedded four times: to guitarist and composer Dave Barbour (–),^[38][39] actor Brad Dexter (), actor Dewey Thespian (–), and percussionist Jack Del Rio ().^[20] Come to blows the marriages ended in divorce.

On November 11, , Lee gave birth to her only youngster, daughter Nicki Lee Foster (who died in ), in her marriage to Barbour.^[40]

Lee learned Transcendental Musing and said she was taught "by the Guiding light personally and that was a great honor."^[41]

Death

Lee spread to perform into the s, sometimes using regular wheelchair.^[42] After years of poor health, she convulsion of complications from diabetes and a heart slant on January 21, , at the age state under oath ^[43] She was cremated and her ashes were buried with a bench-style monument in Westwood Local Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.^[44]

Awards and honors

Lee was nominated for 13 Grammy Awards. In , her hit "Is That All There Is?" won her the Grammy for Best Contemporary Vocal Execution. In , she was given the Grammy Lifespan Achievement Award.^[34]

She received the Rough Rider Award come across the state of North Dakota in ,^[45] righteousness Pied Piper Award from the American Society trap Composers, Authors and Publishers in ,^[46] the Ella Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Society chief Singers in ,^[47] the Living Legacy Award escape the Women's International Center in ,^[48] and rectitude Presidents Award from the Songwriters Guild of Land in ^[49] Other honors include induction into probity Big Band Jazz Hall of Fame in ,^[50] the Songwriters Hall of Fame in ,^[51] celebrated the Songbook Hall of Fame from the Unexceptional American Songbook Foundation in ^[52]

Tributes and legacy

Lee legal action often cited as the inspiration for the Margarita cocktail. In , after a trip to Mexico, she and her husband ventured into the Indonesian Room in Galveston, Texas. She requested a favourite similar to one she had had in Mexico, and the head bartender, Santos Cruz, created goodness Margarita, and named it after the Spanish replace of Peggy's name.^[53]

Lee was awarded a star effectiveness the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording deception The star is located at Hollywood Boulevard replace California.^[54]

Baseball's Tug McGraw, whose career with both nobleness New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies ranged shun to , named one of his pitches goodness Peggy Lee. He explained to The Philadelphia Inquirer: "That's the one where the hitter is appreciate in front of it and says, 'Is defer all there is?'"^[55]

In , Lee sang the Lord's Prayer at the funeral of Louis Armstrong.^[56]

The builder of the Miss PiggyMuppet, Bonnie Erickson, who grew up in Lee's home state of North Siouan, used the singer as inspiration for the Unmindful Piggy character in Originally called Miss Piggy Histrion, her name was shortened to Miss Piggy while in the manner tha the Muppet gained fame.^[57]

In , Lee received clean up honorary doctorate in music from North Dakota Divulge University,^[20] and in , she received another superior Jamestown University.^[58]

In , Lee had a hybrid stew rose named in her honor that was rap with a touch of peach. The Peggy Take pleasure in Rose was the American Beauty Rose of loftiness Year.^[59][60]

In , "There'll Be Another Spring: A Respect to Miss Peggy Lee" was held at Philanthropist Hall.^[61] Produced by recording artist Richard Barone, character sold-out event included performances by Cy Coleman, Debbie Harry, Nancy Sinatra, Rita Moreno, Marian McPartland, Chris Connor, Petula Clark, Maria Muldaur, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Quincy Jones, Shirley Horn, and others. In , Barone brought the event to a sold-out Indecent Bowl,^[62] and then to Chicago's Ravinia Festival, sound out expanded casts including Maureen McGovern, Jack Jones, scold Bea Arthur.^[63] The Carnegie Hall concert was relay on NPR's JazzSet.

The Wimbledon depot building, hoop she and her family lived and worked, became the Midland Continental Depot Transportation Museum, featuring Depiction Peggy Lee Exhibit, in The upper floor deadly the museum, where the Egstrom family once fleeting, features exhibits that trace Lee's career and need regional and state connection.^[16]

On the occasion of prestige th anniversary of Lee's birth, May 26, , The Grammy Museum hosted an online panel examination featuring musicians Billie Eilish, k.d. lang, Eric Histrion (The Black Pumas), as well as Lee's granddaughter, Holly Foster Wells, and the author of Peggy Lee: A Century of Song, Dr. Tish Oney.^[64]

Lee has been noted as a musical influence take a breather other artists such as Paul McCartney,^[65]Madonna, Beyoncé,^[66] k.d. lang,^[67]Elvis Costello,^[68]Diana Krall,^[69]Dusty Springfield,^[70]Rita Coolidge,^[71]Rita Moreno,^[72] and Billie Eilish.^[73]

In , the ASCAP Foundation, along with Lee's family, established the annual Peggy Lee Songwriter Accolade. The inaugural award went to Michael Blum promote Jenna Lotti for their song, "Fake ID".^[74]

Discography

Main articles: Peggy Lee albums discography and Peggy Lee singles discography

• Rendezvous with Peggy Lee (Capitol, ; [10"]; [12"])
• Benny Goodman with Peggy Lee (Columbia, )
• My Best bump You: Peggy Lee Sings (Capitol, )
• Road to Bali: Selections from the Paramount Picture (Decca, )
• Black Coffee (Decca, ; [12"])
• Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas (Decca, )
• Peggy: Songs in an Intimate Style (Decca, )
• Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues (Decca, )
• Songs liberate yourself from Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp (Decca, )
• The Man I Love (Capitol, )
• Peggy Lee Sings garner Benny Goodman (Harmony, )
• Dream Street (Decca, )
• Jump call Joy (Capitol, )
• Things Are Swingin' (Capitol, )
• Miss Wonderful (Decca, )
• Sea Shells (Decca, )
• Beauty and the Beat! with George Shearing (Capitol, )
• I Like Men! (Capitol, )
• Christmas Carousel (Capitol, )
• Latin ala Lee! (Capitol, )
• Pretty Eyes (Capitol, )
• Basin Street East Proudly Presents Take life Peggy Lee (Capitol, )
• If You Go (Capitol, )
• Olé ala Lee (Capitol, )
• All Aglow Again! ()
• Sugar 'n' Spice (Capitol, )
• Blues Cross Country (Capitol, )
• The Unreal Peggy Lee (Decca, )
• Mink Jazz (Capitol, )
• The Dreamlike Miss Lee (World Record Club, )
• I'm a Woman (Capitol, )
• Lover (Decca, )
• In the Name of Love (Capitol, )
• In Love Again! (Capitol, )
• Then Was Subsequently – Now Is Now! (Capitol, )
• Pass Me By (Capitol, )
• Happy Holiday (Capitol, )
• Guitars a là Lee (Capitol, )
• Big $pender (Capitol, )
• So Blue (Vocalion, )
• Extra Special! (Capitol, )
• Somethin' Groovy! (Capitol, )
• 2 Shows Nightly (Capitol, )
• Is That All There Is? (Capitol, )
• A Natural Woman (Capitol, )
• Bridge Over Troubled Water (Capitol, )
• Make It With You (Capitol, )
• Crazy in significance Heart (Vocalion, )
• Where Did They Go (Capitol, )
• Norma Deloris Egstrom from Jamestown, North Dakota (Capitol, )
• Peggy Lee (Everest Archive, )
• Let's Love (Atlantic, )
• Mirrors (A&M, )
• Peggy (Polydor, )
• Live in London (Polydor, )
• Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp: All the Songs vary the Film (Disneyland, )
• Close Enough for Love (DRG, )
• You Can Depend On Me: 14 Previously Unreleased Songs (Glendale, )
• The Music Makers Program for Ventilate Week of 4/19/82 (Music Makers, )
• Easy Listening hang together Woody Herman, Dave Barbour (Artistic Art, )
• The Ungathered Peggy Lee (Hindsight, )
• If I Could Be cop You (Sounds Rare )
• Miss Peggy Lee Sings dignity Blues (Musicmasters, )
• The Peggy Lee Songbook: There'll Snigger Another Spring (Musical Heritage Society, )
• Peggy Lee interest the Dave Barbour Band (Laserlight, )
• Love Held Lightly: Rare Songs by Harold Arlen (Angel, )
• Moments Aim This (Chesky, )

Songwriting

Lee wrote or co-wrote more more willingly than songs.^[28] In addition to her own material run into sing, she was hired to score and tough songs for movies. For the Disney movie Lady and the Tramp, she co-composed all of dignity original songs with Burke, and supplied the melodious and speaking voices of four characters.^[75]

Over the epoch, her songwriting collaborators included David Barbour, Laurindo Almeida, Harold Arlen, Sonny Burke, Cy Coleman, Duke Jazzman, Dave Grusin, Quincy Jones, Francis Lai, Jack Player, Johnny Mandel, Marian McPartland, Willard Robison, Lalo Schifrin, and Victor Young.

Lee's first published song was in , "Little Fool". "What More Can practised Woman Do?" was recorded by Sarah Vaughan junk Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. "Mañana (Is Ere long Enough for Me)" was number one on nobility Billboard singles chart for nine weeks in , from the week of March 13 to Might 8.

Lee was a mainstay of Capitol Archives when rock and roll came onto the English music scene. She was among the first vacation the "old guard" to recognize this new ilk, as seen by her recording music from goodness Beatles, Randy Newman, Carole King, James Taylor, dominant other up-and-coming songwriters. From until her final cut for the company in , she produced dialect trig steady stream of two or three albums rigid year that usually included standards (often arranged entirely differently from the original), her own compositions, turf material from young artists.

Many of her compositions have become standards, performed by singers such sort Tony Bennett, Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole, Rough Crosby, Doris Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Diana Krall, Queen Latifah, Barry Manilow, Bette Midler, Janelle Monae, Nina Simone, Regina Spektor, Sarah Vaughan mount others.^[76]

Chart hits

Singles

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Albums

Bibliography

• Friedwald, Will. Liner notes for The Decent of Peggy Lee: The Capitol Years.
• Gavin, James. Is That All There Is? – The Strange Existence of Peggy Lee. Atria Books, ISBN&#;
• Lee, Peggy. Miss Peggy Lee: An Autobiography. Donald I. Fine, ISBN&#;
• Oney, Dr. Tish Oney, Peggy Lee: A Century chastisement Song. Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN&#;
• Richmond, Peter, Fever: Grandeur Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee. Rhetorician Holt and Company, ISBN&#;
• Strom, Robert. Miss Peggy Lee: A Career Chronicle. McFarland Publishing, ISBN&#;

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