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[Charles Suhor]

First Dinah, now Peggy Lee--jackpot! Two of my three favorite female jazz singers!--along with Billie Holiday. Peggy did mostly jazz--some pop material, but she often transformed it, and had a great sense of humor about a lot of the dumb stuff ("Who's A-Gonna Pay the Rent?"). Her finest album IMO is the 1952 (56?) "Black Coffee" LP--with Pete Condoli and a rhythm section that included Jimmy Rowles giving a clinic on sensitive accompaniment and Ed Shaughnessy showing perfection on drums. Forgive me, bassists--I forget who was on bass. And was Peggy drop dead beautiful? 

Charlie Suhor

On Oct 28, 2014, at 1:48 PM, Robert Ringwald wrote:

> Something of possibly general interest: over 50 guests came to the radio show(s)
> that Peggy Lee hosted in the early 1950s. A fair number of the names are relatively
> obscure or off the beaten path, though there are certainly well known names in the
> mix, too: Mary Lou Williams, Jack Haskell, Matt Dennis, Johnny Dugan, Louis Prima,
> Larry Douglas, Bill Lechner...
> There were actually two of these Peggy Lee radio shows, one that ran only during
> the summer of 1951, the other for most of 1952. I recently finished putting together
> a long discographical page about both of them. If curious about the guests or the
> songs, scroll all the way down to the end, near where you will find a song index,
> followed by a guest index:
> http://peggyleediscography.com/p/LeeRadioClub88.php
> Also included, throughout the page: photos of each guest. (Scroll through.)
> For fellow fans of Peggy, it is worth adding that, with a few exceptions, she sang
> a duet with each guest.
> 
> -Bob Ringwald
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