Peggy Lee (1920 - 2002)

Norwegian - Mother and Swedish Father.

Famous Singer and Songwriter. Awards and honors Lee was nominated for twelve Grammy Awards, winning Best Contemporary Vocal Performance for her 1969 hit "Is That All There Is?" In 1995 she was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. She received the Rough Rider Award from the state of North Dakota, the Pied Piper Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the Presidents Award from the Songwriters Guild of America, the Ella Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Society of Singers, and the Living Legacy Award from the Women's International Center. In 1999 she was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Discography Main article: Peggy Lee discography Rendezvous with Peggy Lee (Capitol, 1948) Benny Goodman and Peggy Lee (Columbia, 1949) My Best to You: Peggy Lee Sings (Capitol, 1950) Road to Bali: Selections from the Paramount Picture (Decca, 1952) Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas (Decca, 1954) Peggy: Songs in an Intimate Style (Decca, 1954) Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues (Decca, 1955) Songs from Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp (Decca, 1955) Black Coffee (Decca, 1956) The Man I Love (Capitol, 1957) Peggy Lee Sings with Benny Goodman (Harmony, 1957) Dream Street (Decca, 1957) Rendezvous with Peggy Lee (Capitol, 1957) Jump for Joy (Capitol, 1958) Things Are Swingin' (Capitol, 1958) Miss Wonderful (Decca, 1958) Sea Shells (Decca, 1958) Beauty and the Beat! with George Shearing (Capitol, 1959) I Like Men! (Capitol, 1959) Christmas Carousel (Capitol, 1960) Latin ala Lee! (Capitol, 1960) Pretty Eyes (Capitol, 1960) Basin Street East Proudly Presents Miss Peggy Lee (Capitol, 1961) If You Go (Capitol, 1961) Olé ala Lee (Capitol, 1960) All Aglow Again! (1960) Sugar 'n' Spice (Capitol, 1962) Blues Cross Country (Capitol, 1962) The Fabulous Peggy Lee (Decca, 1963) Mink Jazz (Capitol, 1963) The Fabulous Miss Lee (World Record Club, 1963) I'm a Woman (Capitol, 1963) Lover (Decca, 1963) In the Name of Love (Capitol, 1964) In Love Again! (Capitol, 1964) Then Was Then – Now Is Now! (Capitol, 1965) Pass Me By (Capitol, 1965) Guitars a là Lee (Capitol, 1966) Big $pender (Capitol, 1966) So Blue (Vocalion, 1966) Extra Special! (Capitol, 1967) Somethin' Groovy! (Capitol, 1967) 2 Shows Nightly (Capitol, 1968) Is That All There Is? (Capitol, 1969) A Natural Woman (Capitol, 1969) Bridge Over Troubled Water (Capitol, 1970) Make It With You (Capitol, 1970) Crazy in the Heart (Vocalion, 1970) Where Did They Go (Capitol, 1971) Norma Deloris Egstrom from Jamestown, North Dakota (Capitol, 1972) Peggy Lee (Everest Archive, 1974) Let's Love (Atlantic, 1974) Mirrors (A&M, 1975) Peggy (Polydor, 1977) Live in London (Polydor, 1977) Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp: All the Songs from the Film (Disneyland, 1979) Close Enough for Love (DRG, 1979) You Can Depend On Me: 14 Previously Unreleased Songs (Glendale, 1981) The Music Makers Program 116 for Broadcast Week of 4/19/82 (Music Makers, 1982) Easy Listening with Woody Herman, Dave Barbour (Artistic Art, 1984) The Uncollected Peggy Lee (Hindsight, 1985) If I Could Be with You (Sounds Rare 1986) Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues (Musicmasters, 1988) The Peggy Lee Songbook: There'll Be Another Spring (Musical Heritage Society, 1990) Peggy Lee with the Dave Barbour Band (Laserlight, 1991) Love Held Lightly: Rare Songs by Harold Arlen (Angel, 1993) Moments Like This (Chesky, 1993) Live 1947 & 1952 (Jazz Band, 1993) Black Coffee and Other Delights (MCA/Decca, 1994) The Complete Peggy Lee & June Christy Capitol Transcription Sessions (Mosaic, 1998) Peggy Lee and Benny Goodman: The Complete Recordings (Columbia, 1999) The Lost '40s and '50s Capitol Masters (EMI, 2008) Taking a Chance On Love (Flare, 2008) At Last: The Lost Radio Recordings (Real Gone Music, 2015) Songwriting Lee was a successful songwriter, with songs from the Disney movie Lady and the Tramp, for which she supplied the singing and speaking voices of four characters.[27] Her collaborators included Laurindo Almeida, Harold Arlen, Sonny Burke, Cy Coleman, Duke Ellington, Dave Grusin, Quincy Jones, Francis Lai, Jack Marshall, Johnny Mandel, Marian McPartland, Willard Robison, Lalo Schifrin, and Victor Young. Her first published song was in 1941, "Little Fool". "What More Can a Woman Do?" was recorded by Sarah Vaughan with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. "Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)" was number one on the Billboard singles chart for nine weeks in 1948, from the week of March 13 to May 8. Lee was a mainstay of Capitol Records when rock and roll came onto the American music scene. She was among the first of the "old guard" to recognize this new genre, as seen by her recording music from The Beatles, Randy Newman, Carole King, James Taylor, and other up-and-coming songwriters. From 1957 until her final disc for the company in 1972, she 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. She wrote the lyrics for the following songs: "I Don't Know Enough About You" "It's a Good Day", composed by Dave Barbour "I'm Gonna Go Fishin'", composed with Duke Ellington "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" "Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)" "Bless You (For the Good That's in You)", composed with Mel Tormé "What More Can a Woman Do?" "Don't Be Mean to Baby" "New York City Ghost", composed with Victor Young "You Was Right, Baby" "Just an Old Love of Mine" "Everything's Movin' Too Fast" "The Shining Sea" "He's a Tramp" "The Siamese Cat Song" "There Will Be Another Spring" "Johnny Guitar", composed with Victor Young "Sans Souci", composed with Sonny Burke "So What's New?" "Don't Smoke in Bed" "I Love Being Here with You" "Happy with the Blues" with Harold Arlen "Where Can I Go Without You?", composed with Victor Young "Things Are Swingin'" "Then Was Then" with Cy Coleman