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Something Special
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 10/05/2008 : 08:35:56
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I watched a documentary on BBC4 last night on Peggy, she was great but I noticed she wore wigs & hair pieces a lot, infact some of her hairstyles were quite similar to Dusty's.
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Motown Diva
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 10/05/2008 : 12:30:33
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Isn't it true that Peggy was one of Dusty's major influences? Love the song 'Fever'. 
Emz- getting 'hayfever'
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Something Special
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10/05/2008 : 18:28:56
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| Yes she was, and Dusty included a Peggy Lee medley in her act at The Talk Of The Town. |
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jonathan
Wishing And Hoping
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10/05/2008 : 18:43:11
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Which was brilliant!
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Something Special
United Kingdom
1232 Posts |
Posted - 10/05/2008 : 19:06:51
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Originally posted by jonathan
Which was brilliant!
Love Jonathan
Were you there Jonathan? |
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jonathan
Wishing And Hoping
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10/05/2008 : 19:13:52
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I was there! I knew Lesley duncan who was one of the backing singers along with Madeline and Kiki. It was a fantastic performance too.
Love Jonathan |
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Something Special
United Kingdom
1232 Posts |
Posted - 10/05/2008 : 20:44:29
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You are SO fortunate to have seen that show.
The only time I booked to see Dusty at the Talk was the year she took ill opening night, we got to the Talk in time to see her name coming down, most unpleasant! |
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Carole R.
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10/05/2008 : 23:43:44
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Yes.. Dusty is on record as saying that Peggy Lee was one of her faves.
My fave Peggy Lee song is 'Til There Was You'. Its gorgeous and lovely.
Carole R xx |
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Sara
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10/05/2008 : 23:52:53
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I love Peggy Lee! She was such a natural talented singer. I only ended up checking her out because I read Dusty liked her, I hardly knew anything about her before then. Now I have loads of her albums
Sara x |
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treking
Wasn't Born To Follow
United Kingdom
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Posted - 11/05/2008 : 09:36:48
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Peggy Lee is great..she makes singing seem easy..the gift that good singer have.
Dusty once said that Peggy Lee was the reason she sang...so thank God for Miss Lee!
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TMAK
Wasn't Born To Follow
USA
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Posted - 11/05/2008 : 12:59:02
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..AND she was way ahead of her time. I have a DVD of a documentary about her and it left me even more impressed. Miss Peggy Lee was definitely calling the shots regarding her music, even in the recording studio.
I remember hearing and seeing her on TV when I was very young. She stuck in my mind as being different from all the other 'girl singers' of her time - like Dusty would a few years later.
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Something Special
United Kingdom
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Posted - 11/05/2008 : 14:04:15
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I never realised until I watched the documentary on Friday that Peggy was also a songwriter.
She had a "look" too - didn't she? |
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Brian
Something Special
United Kingdom
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Posted - 11/05/2008 : 18:24:41
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When I worked in a record shop we had a lady who would always ask for LEGGY PEE! ...she was a strange woman - 50 ish, with a blond boufant and flowers in her hair. We all thought she was slightly 'doolally'
For anyone considering buying a Peggy Lee cd - you can't go wrong with 'Beauty & the beat' with George Shearing --absolutely fabulous.
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Something Special
United Kingdom
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Posted - 11/05/2008 : 18:48:30
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Actually Brian the album is called Beauty & The Beat.
As for Leggy Pee, I used to help out in a friends record shop and just when Julio Iglesias was making a name for himself a woman came in and asked for that new record by Julian Inglis !!!!!! |
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TMAK
Wasn't Born To Follow
USA
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Posted - 11/05/2008 : 19:50:09
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I just watched the Peggy Lee DVD again. She made it all look so effortless, didn't she? She could sing them AND she could write them.
kd lang put it very well ~ "She was the whole thermometer. She was the coolest and she was the hottest."
One telling scene: In a recording studio, Peggy tells the musical director, "If the way I want to do it is so different from the way it is written, then WE have a problem!" The musicians were dismissed right then and there. (Wouldn't Dusty have appreciated THAT?!)
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