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Sat Feb 3, 2024, 04:03 PM Feb 3

Peggy Lee - 'Fever' - Queen of American Pop Music 🎙


1958. - Norma Deloris Engstrom (May 26, 1920 – Jan. 21, 2002), known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress, over a career spanning 7 decades.
From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio 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. Called the "Queen of American pop music," Lee recorded over 1,100 masters and composed over 270 songs...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Lee

- 1943. Lee's "Why Don't You Do Right?"with Benny Goodman's Orchestra sold more than one million copies, and made her famous. She sang with Goodman's orchestra in two 1943 films, Stage Door Canteen and The Powers Girl...
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