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Photo of Peggy Lee and Danny Thomas from The Jazz Singer. Lee starred opposite Danny Thomas in The Jazz Singer (1952), a remake of the Al Jolson film, The Jazz Singer (1927). She played an alcoholic blues singer in Pete Kelly's Blues (1955), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. [35]
The singles discography of American singer-songwriter Peggy Lee contains 157 singles, 18 promotional singles and eight other charted songs. Lee's first singles were in collaboration with Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, beginning 1941's "Elmer's Tune". Its follow-up, "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)", was Lee's first to make the US chart ...
The 1961 compilation, The Best of Peggy Lee, Vol. 2, was Lee's first to make the UK Albums Chart, rising to number 18. The Brunswick, Decca and Capitol labels issued non-charting compilations of Lee's work in the 1960s and 1970s.
"I Love Being Here with You" became a central part of Peggy Lee's touring act, [11] and many other performers acts as well. The song was performed on The Ed Sullivan Show by Peggy Lee on October 6, 1960, and Ella Fitzgerald on February 2, 1964.
Born Marian Maud Runnells (she later changed the spelling of Marian to Marion) in Natchez, Mississippi, she began her career in Atlanta working clubs, and then in Chicago, where singer Peggy Lee heard her on an audition tape and suggested she should be signed up by Capitol Records, releasing three albums for them in the early and mid-1960s.
Peggy Lee's version reached number 11 on the U.S. pop singles chart, becoming her first Top 40 pop hit since "Fever" eleven years earlier, and topping the adult contemporary chart. It also reached number six in Canada. It won Lee the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and later was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues is an album by jazz singer Peggy Lee that contains songs from the film Pete Kelly's Blues (1955). Lee starred in the film and re-recorded some of the songs for this album. This album should not be confused with the soundtrack.
Jazz: Label: Blue Note: The Best of Peggy Lee: The Capitol Years is a 1997 (see 1997 in music) compilation album by Peggy Lee released on the Blue Note Records label.