Published video “Peggy Lee ~ An Empty Glass”.
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Peggy Lee
Norma Deloris Egstrom, known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, and actress whose career spanned seven decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, Lee created a sophisticated persona, writing music for films, acting, and recording conceptual record albums combining poetry and music.
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Born 26 May 1920 · Died 21 January 2002 · Q229139
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2026· 11 entries
Published video “Peggy Lee ~ Call Me (1966)”.
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Published video “Peggy Lee ~ Big Spender (Girl Math Remix)”.
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Published video “Peggy Lee, Girl Math, VNSSA - Big $pender (Girl Math Remix) Official Visualizer”.
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Published video “Peggy Lee - Big Spender (Official Visualizer)”.
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Published video “Peggy Lee ~ People Will Say We're in Love”.
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Published video “Peggy Lee ~ Let There Be Love”.
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Published video “Peggy Lee ~ Big Spender (1967 TV Special Performance)”.
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Published video “Peggy Lee ~ We Kiss in a Shadow”.
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Published video “Peggy Lee ~ The Best Things in Life Are Free”.
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Released album “Too Marvelous For Words”.
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2020· 1 entry
The ASCAP Foundation, along with Lee's family, established the annual Peggy Lee Songwriter Award
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2014· 1 entry
“by the Maharishi personally and that was a great honor.”
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “These Foolish Things”.
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2004· 1 entry
Barone brought the event to a sold-out Hollywood Bowl, and then to Chicago's Ravinia Festival, with expanded casts including Maureen McGovern, Jack Jones, and Bea Arthur
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2003· 2 entries
Released album “Mirrors”.
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"There'll Be Another Spring: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee" was held at Carnegie Hall
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2002· 1 entry
Died 2002-01-21.
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Songwriters Hall of Fame (1999).
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1997· 6 entries
Released album “Black Coffee: Best of the Decca Years”.
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Released album “EMI Presents the Magic of Peggy Lee”.
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Released album “Latin ala Lee! / Olé ala Lee!”.
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Released album “Fever”.
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Released album “Let’s Do It”.
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Released album “A Touch of Class”.
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1996· 4 entries
Released album “Things Are Swingin’ / Jump for Joy”.
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Released album “Golden Hits”.
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Released album “I Like Men! / Sugar ’n’ Spice”.
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Released album “For Sentimental Reasons”.
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1995· 6 entries
Released album “I’ve Got a Crush on You”.
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Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1995).
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Released album “Great Ladies Of Song / Spotlight On Peggy Lee”.
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Was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
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Released album “The Lady Is a Tramp”.
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Released album “Great Ladies of Song Spotlight on ... Peggy Lee”.
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1994· 5 entries
Released album “Black Coffee and Other Delights: The Decca Anthology”.
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Released album “The Best of Peggy Lee, 1952-1956”.
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Released album “Why Don't You Do Right”.
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And the Presidents Award from the Songwriters Guild of America in 1999
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Released album “Very Special”.
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1993· 6 entries
Released album “Love Held Lightly: Rare Songs by Harold Arlen”.
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Released album “24 Great Songs: Fever”.
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Released album “Classics”.
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Released album “Moments Like This”.
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Released album “Gold”.
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Released album “You Give Me Fever”.
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1992· 4 entries
Released album “The Peggy Lee Songbook: There’ll Be Another Spring”.
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The Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1999, and the Songbook Hall of Fame from the Great American Songbook Foundation in 2020
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Released album “Fever: The Best of Peggy Lee”.
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Released album “Sings for You”.
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1991· 2 entries
Released album “My Greatest Songs”.
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Released album “Peggy Lee with the Dave Barbour Band”.
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1990· 3 entries
Released album “The Capitol Collectors Series (Volume 1, The Early Years)”.
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Released album “Fever and Other Hits”.
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Released album “All-Time Greatest Hits, Volume 1”.
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1989· 1 entry
Released album “Seductive”.
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1988· 4 entries
Lee sued the Walt Disney Company for breach of contract, claiming that she retained the rights to transcriptions of the music, arguing that videotape editions were transcriptions
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Released album “The Best of the Capitol Years”.
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Released album “The Best of Peggy Lee”.
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Released album “Peggy Sings the Blues”.
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1987· 3 entries
When Lady and the Tramp was released on VHS, Lee sought performance and song royalties on the video sales
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Released album “Why Don’t You Do Right”.
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Peggy Lee was asked to help promote the first VHS release of Lady and the Tramp, for which she was paid an honorarium of $500
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1985· 1 entry
Released album “The Uncollected”.
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1983· 1 entry
Lee had a hybrid tea rose named in her honor that was pink with a touch of peach
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1981· 1 entry
Released album “You Can Depend On Me”.
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Peggy”.
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1975· 2 entries
Lee received an honorary doctorate in music from North Dakota State University, and in 2000, she received another from Jamestown University
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The Pied Piper Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 1990, the Ella Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Society of Singers in 1994, the Living Legacy Award from the Women's Internati
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1974· 1 entry
Released album “Let’s Love”.
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1972· 3 entries
Released album “Norma Deloris Egstrom From Jamestown, North Dakota”.
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Lee produced a steady stream of two or three albums per year that usually included standards (often arranged quite differently from the original), her own compositions, and material from young artists
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Journalist Linda Deutsch described Lee as "the Queen" of pop music
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1971· 3 entries
Released album “The Sounds of the Seventies”.
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Lee sang the Lord's Prayer at the funeral of Louis Armstrong
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Released album “Where Did They Go”.
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1970· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for Is That All There Is (1970).
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Released album “Bridge Over Troubled Water”.
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1969· 3 entries
Released album “Is That All There Is?”.
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Released album “A Natural Woman”.
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Released album “Peggy Lee’s Greatest!”.
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1967· 2 entries
Released album “Somethin’ Groovy!”.
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Released album “Extra Special!”.
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1966· 2 entries
Released album “Guitars Alà Lee”.
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Released album “Big $pender”.
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1965· 7 entries
Released album “If You Go / Sugar ’n’ Spice”.
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Released album “Pass Me By”.
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Released album “Then Was Then – Now Is Now!”.
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Released album “Happy Holiday”.
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Released album “Then Was Then and Now Is Now! / Pass Me By”.
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Released album “I Like Men! / Things Are Swingin’”.
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Released album “Mink Jazz / I’m a Woman”.
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1964· 3 entries
Released album “The Fabulous Peggy Lee”.
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Released album “In the Name of Love”.
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Released album “In Love Again!”.
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1963· 2 entries
Released album “I’m a Woman”.
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Released album “Mink Jazz”.
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1962· 3 entries
Released album “Sugar ’n’ Spice”.
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Released album “Blues Cross Country”.
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Released album “Bewitching Lee!”.
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1961· 1 entry
Released album “If You Go”.
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1960· 5 entries
Released album “Christmas Carousel”.
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Released album “Pretty Eyes”.
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Released album “Olé Ala Lee!”.
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Released album “All Aglow Again!”.
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Released album “Latin ala Lee!”.
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1959· 4 entries
Released album “Beauty and the Beat!”.
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Released album “I Like Men!”.
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Released album “Miss Wonderful”.
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Including Record of the Year and Song of the Year
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1958· 4 entries
Released album “Things Are Swingin’”.
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Recorded her own version of "Fever" by Little Willie John, written by Eddie Cooley and Otis Blackwell
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Released album “Sea Shells”.
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Released album “Jump for Joy”.
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1957· 2 entries
Released album “The Man I Love”.
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Released album “Dream Street”.
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1956· 3 entries
Released album “Black Coffee With Peggy Lee”.
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Received an Academy Award nomination for her role in the 1955 film Pete Kelly's Blues
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Released album “Peggy Lee Sings With Benny Goodman”.
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1954· 2 entries
Released album “Selections from Irving Berlin’s White Christmas”.
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Released album “Songs in an Intimate Style”.
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1952· 1 entry
Released album “Road To Bali (Selections From The Paramount Picture)”.
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1950· 1 entry
Released album “My Best to You”.
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1949· 1 entry
Released album “South Pacific”.
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1948· 4 entries
Released album “Benny Goodman and His Orchestra and Sextet; Vocals by Peggy Lee”.
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After a trip to Mexico, she and her husband ventured into the Balinese Room in Galveston, Texas
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Released album “Rendezvous With Peggy Lee”.
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Lee joined vocalists Perry Como and Jo Stafford as a host of the NBC Radio musical program The Chesterfield Supper Club
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1944· 1 entry
Lee drifted back to songwriting and occasional recording sessions for Capitol Records, for which she recorded a long string of hits, many of them with lyrics and music by Lee and Barbour, including "I Don't Know Enough A
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1943· 1 entry
Lee gave birth to her only child, daughter Nicki Lee Foster (who died in 2014), in her marriage to Barbour
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1942· 1 entry
Lee had her first top ten hit, "Somebody Else Is Taking My Place", followed in 1943 by "Why Don't You Do Right
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1940· 1 entry
Took a job singing at The Doll House in Palm Springs
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1939· 1 entry
Lee was hired to perform regularly at The Powers Hotel in Fargo, and toured with both the Sev Olson and the Will Osborne Orchestras
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1938· 1 entry
Lee returned to Hollywood to audition for the MC at The Jade
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1920· 2 entries
The seventh of the eight children of Selma Emele (née Anderson) Egstrom and Marvin Olaf Egstrom, a station agent for the Midland Continental Railroad
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Born 1920-05-26.
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