Artist: Peggy Lee

Norma Deloris Egstrom,known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American  jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress, over a career spanning seven decades. Lee recorded over 1,100 masters and composed over 270 songs. 

In 1942, Lee had her first top ten hit, "Somebody Else Is Taking My Place", followed in 1943 by "Why Don't You Do Right?", which sold more than one million copies and made her famous. She sang with Goodman's orchestra in two 1943 films, Stage Door Canteen and The Powers Girl. 

In 1948, Lee joined vocalists Perry Como and Jo Stafford as a host of the NBC Radio musical program The Chesterfield Supper Club. She was a regular on The Jimmy Durante Show and appeared frequently on Bing Crosby's radio shows during the late 1940s and early 1950s. 

In 1958, she recorded her own version of "Fever" by Little Willie John, written by Eddie Cooley and John Davenport. Lee created a new arrangement for the song, and added lyrics ("Romeo loved Juliet", "Captain Smith and Pocahontas"0. Her new version of "Fever" was a hit and was nominated in three categories at the First Annual Grammy Awards in 1959, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year. 

While Lee was in London for a 1970 engagement at Royal Albert Hall, she invited Paul and Linda McCartney to dinner at The Dorchester. At the dinner, the couple gifted Lee with a song they had written entitled, "Let's Love". In July 1974, with Paul McCartney producing, Lee recorded the song at the Record Plant in Los Angeles, and it became the title track for her 40th album.

Further information about Peggy Lee is found at PeggyLee.com.

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