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Peggy Lee

Born: May 26, 1920

Across a seven-decade career, Peggy Lee helped shape the sound of American popular music. With a voice marked by intimacy, subtlety, and a masterful sense of phrasing, she became one of the most distinctive vocalists of the twentieth century, moving effortlessly between jazz, popular song, blues, and the Great American Songbook. She recorded more than 1,100 masters, wrote over 270 songs, and charted more than 100 hits.

At a time when singers in popular music rarely wrote their own material, Peggy was one of the earliest and most successful contemporary singer-songwriters. She co-wrote many of her own hits, including “It’s a Good Day,” “Mañana,” and “Where Can I Go Without You?” and also composed for film, co-writing songs for Disney’s Lady and the Tramp, including “He’s a Tramp” and “La La Lu.”

Too Marvelous for Words

By Peggy Lee

Label: Peggy Lee
Released: 2026
Track listing: Too Marvelous for Words; My Ideal; My Future Just Passed; Somebody Loves Me; I Never Knew; Taking a Chance on Love; I May Be Wrong (But I Think You Are Wonderful); ’Deed I Do; Button Up Your Overcoat; You’re Mine, You; Mean to Me; What Can I Say After I Say I’m Sorry?; Try a Little Tenderness; I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good); I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues; Don’t Worry ’Bout Me; Let’s Call It a Day; It’s a Good Day; Oh, What a Beautiful Morning; Mountain Greenery; The Surrey with the Fringe on Top; People Will Say We’re in Love; Almost Like Being in Love; The Best Things in Life Are Free; Let There Be Love; Come Rain or Come Shine; Fools Rush In; My Romance; We Kiss in a Shadow; Speak Low; What’s New?; Bye Bye Blackbird; Autumn in New York; I Feel a Song Coming On; You; Me; From This Moment On; Them There Eyes; That Old Black Magic; You Do Something to Me; I Get a Kick Out of You; What Is This Thing Called Love?; Love Me or Leave Me; Just One of Those Things; Sans Souci; Hard-Hearted Hannah (The Vamp of Savannah); It Ain’t Necessarily So; Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea; Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive.

Peggy Lee, Kris Davis, Monty Alexander, Andy Sheppard, Liana Flores, Lisa B, Julian Davis Reid, Doug Webb & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
October 5, 2026

This broadcast includes new music from Emmaline, Joan Watson-Jones, Doug Webb, Peggy Lee, Kris Davis, Monty Alexander, Andy Sheppard, Liana Flores, Lisa B, Julian Davis Reid, with birthday shoutouts to Rosetta Reitz (founder of Rosetta Records), Marlena Shaw, Julie London (100!), Rebecca Kilgore, Norma Winstone, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see ...

Peggy Lee, Rosemary Clooney, and the Popular Singer

by Marshall Bowden
February 17, 2002

This article first appeared on All About Jazz in February 2002. Peggy Lee, the singer whose lightly husky voice sang “Why Don't You Do Right?" and many other saloon songs (as Frank Sinatra would no doubt call them) passed away January 21, 2002 at the age of 81. Born Norma Egstrom in Jamestown, North ...

Duchess: A Marvelous Party

by Pierre Giroux
July 13, 2026

A great party is never just an event. It is a sequence of emotions, encounters, expectations, surprises, fleeting romances, moments of reflection, and, ultimately, gratitude. On A Marvelous Party, Duchess (Amy Cervini, Hilary Gardner, Melissa Stylianou) transforms that universal experience into an irresistible jazz journey. More than a collection of standards and popular songs, this is ...

New Jazz Underground, Open Thread, Kalia Vandever, Micah Thomas, Immanuel Wilkins

by Ludovico Granvassu
July 1, 2026

A playlist about musical kinship: artists supporting, inspiring, and challenging one another as they bring their distinct voices to a web of interconnected projects.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 New Jazz Underground “Oney Ones One" Hoodies (Artwork) 0:16 Host talks 4:06 Open Thread feat. ...

Peggy Lee: Too Marvelous for Words

by C. Michael Bailey
June 30, 2026

“Every musician in town wanted that gig... She got whoever she wanted, because she was so good."  --pianist Lou Levy, as quoted by James Gavin in Is That All There Is?: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee (Atria Books, 2014) Born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, in 1920, Peggy Lee ...

Hannah Marks, Helen Sung, Eva Cortés, Lakecia Benjamin & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
June 8, 2026

This broadcast closes out the month with new music from Hannah Marks, Helen Sung, Eva Cortés and Lakecia Benjamin, with birthday shoutouts to Peggy Lee, Miles Davis (100!), Dee Dee Bridgewater, Alexa Tarantino, Samantha Boshnack, Theo Bleckmann, Yissy Garcia, Mala Waldron, Cathy Segal-Garcia, Ann Hampton Callaway and Lynne Arriale, among others. Happy listening and please support ...

The Myth of the Holy Trinity—It's Actually the Big Four

by Todd M. Carlsen
May 29, 2026

There is a received wisdom in jazz that goes unchallenged. The greatest female jazz vocalists are a fixed trio: Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Sarah Vaughan. Critics repeat it. Jazz education enshrines it. This is one of the great misreadings in American music history. Peggy Lee is the third seat. She also holds a ...

Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville 2026

by Mike Chamberlain
May 28, 2026

Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville Victoriaville, QC May 11-17 2026 The theme of the 42nd edition of the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville was change. This was the third edition of the festival under the artistic and general direction of Scott Thomson. The 40th edition in 2024 was ...