In 1970 Peggy Lee won a Grammy for "Is That All There Is," a song that many heard as an anthem of ennui … ... but not Lee, says her granddaughter, Holly Foster ...
As the granddaughter of singer/songwriter Peggy Lee, Holly Foster Wells had a colorful childhood. Though her home base was in Sun Valley, Idaho, Holly spent each summer, spring and holiday break with ...
... but not Lee, says her granddaughter, Holly Foster-Wells: "She saw it as absolutely life-affirming and hopeful, that bad things are gonna happen and that you can ...
Peggy Lee had four failed marriages during her life, but her first romance with a NDSU student showed young observers in 1930s Fargo that "true love was possible." A page from the little booklet that ...
Michelle Williams is attached to star in the biopic “Fever” about the life of singer Peggy Lee. The film will now be directed by Todd Haynes, and MGM is in talks to acquire it, two individuals told ...
Peggy Lee, the sultry-voiced singer-composer whose 60-year career of putting the cool in the blues and the heat in the fever placed her in the front rank of American jazz, blues and pop divas, died ...
Born Norma Doloris Egstrom, the legends surrounding Peggy Lee's historic music career are still fondly remembered in her home state. Peggy Lee's long and noteworthy music career has inspired several ...
In 1967 the songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller already had a string of hits in their book, from Big Mama Thornton and Elvis Presley‘s hit “Hound Dog,” the chart-topping “Kansas City,” ...
Watch out — this show will give you fever. Peggy Lee lives again in a Bay Ridge cabaret that will have men and women impersonating the blonde, smoky-voiced legend. On April 3, the Scandinavian East ...
Tish Oney was a doctoral student in search of a dissertation when she met the daughter of singer Peggy Lee at a jazz conference in 2004. “Nicki Lee Foster was in a room full of 600 jazz singers and ...
Peggy Lee's most memorable tune was "Fever," slinky and inimitable. The 1958 hit encapsulates what many remember about the singer: her playful delivery, charisma and sexuality. Peter Richmond tells ...
In 1957, singer Peggy Lee recorded the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II tune “The Folks Who Live on the Hill.” Though others had performed the song too, Lee’s soulful interpretation of the dreamy ...