Peggy Lee’s granddaughter, Holly Foster Wells, has teamed up with the Nice American Songbook Basis to create a video paying tribute to Lee’s singular fashion.
Wells showcases a robe that Lee designed herself within the 80s, explaining: “When she liked a design, she designed several in multiple colors.”
Wells added: “When my grandmother first got started in the business, she was very young, she didn’t have a lot of money, she had to borrow dresses from friends, from local people in town in North Dakota. So, as she got older and more successful, she was able to really create the look she wanted, not the look she had to borrow.”
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The video comes at an thrilling time on the earth of Peggy Lee. Final month, the fourth version of the Peggy Lee sequence From The Vaults was launched, highlighting uncommon jazz collaborations and vocal duets from the enduring singer-songwriter’s profession.
Vol. 4 options 13 tracks recorded between 1947 and 1967, together with duets with then-emerging vocalists Dean Martin and Mel Tormé, homages to TV characters Batman and Mr. Magoo, and a few of Lee’s personal compositions. This fourth quantity marks the ultimate installment of the From the Vaults digital sequence. With its launch, Lee’s whole catalog of grasp recordings from the Common household of labels (Capitol, Decca, A&M, and Polydor) at the moment are out there by way of streaming.
From the Vaults (Vol. 4) options a wide range of fascinating moments in Lee’s profession, together with collaborations with celebrated jazz artists George Shearing and Toots Thielemans. Lee’s 1948 duet with Dean Martin, “You Was” had been beforehand launched, however it’s up to date right here with improved sound high quality. There are additionally a variety of songs the place Lee is backed by vocal teams (a rarity in Lee’s prolonged profession). You possibly can hear Lee with the Guadalajara Boys on “When You Speak With Your Eyes,” a track co-written by Lee. (Six of the gathering’s 13 tracks had been written or co-written by Lee in an period when standard and jazz vocalists hardly ever wrote the songs they recorded.)
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