by James Gavin
“Nobody could be”: “Life of a Canary,” Louis Berg, New York Herald Tribune, Nov. 4, 1951.
“had these séances”: Hal Schaefer to JG, Feb. 11, 2011.
“rays of love”: Dick LaPalm to JG, Oct. 21, 2010.
“stay here forever”: “Where’s That Car I Wasn’t Driving?,” High Point (NC) Enterprise, May 21, 1952.
“Here is a guy”: Leonard Feather, “Feather’s Nest,” Down Beat, Nov. 19, 1952.
“I also decided”: Alan Jackson, “That’s Not All There Is, Says Miss Lee,” Times (U.K.), June 15, 1994.
“They just . . . went crazy”: PL to Alan Dell, BBC Radio 2 interview, rec. 1992.
CHAPTER SIX
“years of romance”: Miss Peggy Lee, p. 159.
“He said he didn’t”: “Peggy Lee Wins Divorce,” New York Times, May 16, 1951.
“He did say”: Kirtley Baskette, “Peggy Lee: She Can’t Stop Giving,” Redbook, Apr. 1955.
“easily one of”: PL, notes to William Luce for musical Peg, 1982.
“She was always”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“I tried to bury”: Liz Nichols, “Old-Fashioned Girl in Sequins,” TV Show, Aug. 1953.
“She was restless”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“It could be Billie”: Leonard Feather, “More ‘Yeas’ Than ‘Nays’ from Dick,” Down Beat, June 17, 1953.
“I even went”: Edward (Sonny) Murrain, “Front and Center,” New York Age, Aug. 9, 1952.
“They couldn’t hear”: Aida Pavletich, “Thrushing with PL,” Los Angeles Free Press, May 10, 1974.
“Oh, it’s just”: PL to Alan Dell, BBC Radio 2 interview, rec. 1992.
“What time?”: Recorded interview, U.K., source unknown, c. 1982.
“orgiastic”: Philip K. Scheuer, “Peggy Lee’s Heart Lies in Song Writing,” Los Angeles Times, May 9, 1954.
“I suppose”: Ralph J. Gleason, “Take It Easier on Our Tunes, Fellas, Richard Rodgers Asks of Arrangers,” Down Beat, July 15, 1953.
“I don’t know”: David Lehman, A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, New York: Schocken, p. 140.
“By the way”: Phoebe Jacobs to JG, Feb. 11, 1999.
“In the years”: Recording, “The Heyday of Rodgers and Hart,” Philharmonic Hall, New York, Nov. 16, 1969.
“I do not remember”: Mary Rodgers Guettel to JG, May 11, 2011.
“Peggy is not”: Eddie Gallaher, “On Records,” Washington Post, May 25, 1952.
“Chesterfield”: Radio-TV Mirror, June 1953.
“My beer is Rheingold”: unknown magazine, c. 1953.
“Peggy puts more sex”: Warner Brothers press release, 1955.
“They were intrigued . . . her anymore”: Arthur Hamilton to JG, Mar. 11, 1999.
“I’ve tried”: Tape, Peggy Lee, The Ballroom, New York, Mar. 25, 1990.
“People say”: Whitney Balliett, “Still There,” New Yorker, Aug. 5, 1985.
“I start”: Martin Burden, “Peggy Lee Gives It All That There Is,” New York Post, Dec. 7, 1983.
“It was a very”: Gene DiNovi to JG, Dec. 19, 2010.
“You’d have two . . . she got”: George Schlatter to JG, Apr. 20, 2011.
“It seemed to me”: “Peggy Lee’s Progress Shows Flair of Ferrer,” Down Beat, Jan. 28, 1953.
“She is in”: Sidney Skolsky, “Hollywood Is My Beat,” New York Post, Oct. 12, 1952.
“I sometimes like”: Doris Day with A.E. Hotchner, Doris Day—Her Own Story, New York: Bantam Books, 1975, p. 102.
“wasn’t up to”: Gwynn, New York Daily Mirror, June 26, 1952.
“I felt that”: Gene Handsaker, The Associated Press, Sept. 12, 1952.
“scared to death”: James Bacon, “ ‘Refrain from Acting,’ Says Mike Curtiz, ‘That’s Best Way to Become Movie Star,’ ” Boston Globe, Oct. 19, 1952.
“great actress . . . biggest stars”: “Mike Curtiz Says Peggy Lee Will Be ‘One of Biggest Stars,’ ” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 28, 1953.
“He’s still mad”: Graham, Variety, Oct. 2, 1952.
“When I saw”: Hedda Hopper, “Doris Day ‘Grows Up’ in Etting Role,” Chicago Tribune, June 12, 1955.
“Peggy Lee is gonna”: Hollywood Reporter, Connelly, Aug. 1, 1952.
“Doris is”: Warner Bros. press release for The Jazz Singer, 1952.
“I thanked him”: “Lee Surrenders; Thus Peggy Begins Singing Film Career,” Los Angeles Times, Sept. 7, 1952.
“inner sadness”: Miss Peggy Lee, p. 156.
“Peggy was typical”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“She’s so wise”: Peggy Lee, Softly—with Feeling, Los Angeles: private publication, 1953.
“Whenever I go”: Jack Smith, “Peggy Lee Tells How She Reached Heights,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 16, 1959.
“a charming man”: PL to Alan Dell, BBC Radio 2 interview, rec. 1992.
“He liked”: Ibid.
“sudden glandular illness”: Erskine Johnson, New York Daily News, Sept. 29, 1952.
“She moves”: “Capitol, Wash.,” Variety, Dec. 10, 1952.
“Papa”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“He wasn’t a great”: Betty Jungheim to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“Brad’s wonderfully kind”: Liz Nichols, “Old-Fashioned Girl in Sequins,” TV Show, Aug. 1953.
“modernized”: Jesse Zinser, “New Films,” Cue, Jan. 24, 1953.
“Peggy Lee performed”: Redelings, Citizen, Jan. 6, 1953.
“one of the handsomest”: Betty Craig, “Life Singing Love Song for Peggy Lee,” Denver Post, Feb. 12, 1953.
“says his mother”: Louella Parsons, newspaper unknown, Dec. 1952.
“I think I”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, May 17, 2011.
“It was a storybook”: Unidentified newspaper, Jan. 1953.
“Either that”: Nicki Lee Foster to JG, Jan. 30, 1999.
“sometimes tense”: Unidentified newspaper, Jan. 1953.
“Brad said”: Betty Jungheim to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“I write in”: Gene Handsaker, The Associated Press, Sept. 12, 1952.
“We have a new . . . breathe upon me”: Peggy Lee, Softly—with Feeling, Los Angeles: private publication, 1953.
“Oh, my God . . . pages for me”: Lea Sullivan to JG, July 7, 2012.
“I’ll be a ghost”: Recording, Peggy Lee, “New York City Ghost,” Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, Sept. 5, 1953.
“It came up”: Ibid.
“successfully established”: Albert Goldman, “ ‘Pop’ Concert Writes Bowl Season Finish,” Los Angeles Times, Sept. 7, 1953.
“hypnotizing”: Mark Murphy to JG, Mar. 7, 1999.
“She was dressed”: Susan Sherman, America’s Child: A Woman’s Journey Through the Radical Sixties, Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 2007, pp. 95–96.
“Warner’s decided”: Connolly, Hollywood Reporter, Mar. 13, 1953.
“Of course!”: Dick LaPalm to JG, Oct. 21, 2010.
“knew what”: Charles Solomon, “Peggy Lee Bangs Out Jazz in ‘Lady and the Tramp,’ ” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 26, 1986.
“Walt, please . . . rat stays”: PL to Alan Dell, BBC Radio 2 interview, rec. 1992.
“make phonograph records”: Contract, PL and Walt Disney Productions, Oct. 20, 1952.
“an elegant nightclub”: Virginia Wicks to JG, Apr. 12, 2012.
“I wanted to”: Recorded interview, PL to Ken Bloom and Bill Rudman, June 1993.
“not just musically”: PL, magazine interview, source unknown, c. 1954.
“Rowles could”: Dave Frishberg, Written Word, davefrishberg.net, Dec. 2006.
“Wait till”: Ed Shaughnessy to JG, Dec. 8, 2010.
“Being very cautious”: “At La Vie en Rose Peggy Rates Raves,” Down Beat, May 6, 1953.
“a kind of scrim”: Charlie Cochran to JG, Aug. 9, 2011.
“sprinkle a little”: Ed Shaughnessy to JG, Dec. 8, 2010.
“It mus
t be”: Leonard Feather, “Raymond Scott on a Hi-Fi Kick,” Down Beat, Oct. 21, 1953.
“I would make”: Recorded interview, U.K., source unknown, c. 1982.
“That record”: Mark Murphy to JG, Mar. 7, 1999.
“Here, we suspect”: Down Beat, Sept. 23, 1953.
“my Bible”: Petula Clark to JG, Mar. 5, 2013..
“virtuoso”: Paul McLoone Show Today, FM Ireland, June 17, 2010.
“The problem arose”: David Noh, “Gifts from Down Under,” Gay City News, Mar. 27, 2013.
“pretty well perfect”: Lorraine Feather to JG, May 9, 2011.
“I really loved”: Ed Shaughnessy to JG, Dec. 8, 2010.
“It was a big”: Kirtley Baskette, “Peggy Lee: She Can’t Stop Giving,” Redbook, Apr. 1955.
“I liked Brad”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“I don’t have time”: Liz Nichols, “Old-Fashioned Girl in Sequins,” TV Show, Aug. 1953.
“With such disregard”: Kirtley Baskette, “Peggy Lee: She Can’t Stop Giving.”
“because it was . . . tell you”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“Dave’s business mistakes”: Miss Peggy Lee, p. 161.
“husband to help”: Lee Ringuette to JG, June 28, 2011.
“didn’t like”: “Singer Peggy Lee Wins Divorce in California,” Hartford Courant, Nov. 4, 1953.
CHAPTER SEVEN
“One day my”: “Jon Whitcomb Visits Peggy Lee,” Cosmopolitan, Feb. 1955.
“walk”: Miss Peggy Lee, p. 172.
“tripped”: Miss Peggy Lee, p. 173.
“She wanted”: Jack Larson to JG, Sept. 30, 2012.
“Egyptian”: Person to Person, CBS-TV, Oct. 20, 1960.
“was like Pekingese”: Lorraine Feather to JG, May 9, 2011.
“I get my ideas”: “Peggy’s Pitch is for People,” New York Journal-American, Apr. 3, 1961.
“She hates”: Jimmy Rowles, unpublished memoir, 1999.
“I was more or less”: Gene DiNovi to JG, Dec. 19, 2010.
“Aunt Peg”: Lee Ringuette to JG, June 28, 2011.
“Peggy could swing”: Stella Castellucci to JG, Nov. 26, 2010.
“She’s a complete”: PL to Alan Dell, BBC Radio 2 interview, rec. 1992.
“wrote three”: “Yvonne De Carlo Will Be Star in Latin Musical Made in Berlin,” Chicago Tribune, Dec. 15, 1953.
“torrid romance”: Dorothy Kilgallen, “Voice of Broadway: Station Wagon Set,” Washington Post and Times-Herald, Apr. 1, 1954.
“Why would they book . . . is full.”: Don Cherry with Neil Daniels, Cherry’s Jubilee, Chicago: Triumph Books, 2006, p. 81.
“Nobody in . . . been her”: Don Cherry to JG, July 31, 2012.
“take them . . . lettuce”: Cherry’s Jubilee, p. 82.
“I am simply mad”: “Mr. Coward Dissects Las Vegas,” New York Times, June 26, 1955.
“Vegas was a”: George S. Jacobs with William Stadiem, Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra, New York: It Books, 2003, p. 89.
“She didn’t adjust”: George Schlatter to JG, Apr. 20, 2011.
“I don’t remember”: Jack Costanzo to JG, Apr. 17, 2012.
“She struck me”: Polly Bergen to JG, Dec. 22, 2010.
“wonderful yet”: PL, notes to William Luce for musical Peg, 1982.
“She drinks”: The Colgate Variety Hour, NBC-TV, July 24, 1955.
“It was like meeting”: Arthur Hamilton to JG, Mar. 11, 1999.
“a beautiful woman”: Ibid.
“a kind of hit”: Mark Murphy to JG, Mar. 7, 1999.
“illness that befell”: Chicago Defender, Nov. 20, 1954.
“major surgery”: Boston Globe, Dec. 18, 1954.
“Zenlike peace”: Lee Ringuette to JG, June 28, 2011.
“a New Age”: Bill Rudman to JG, Apr. 2, 2013.
“I had never”: Gene DiNovi to JG, Dec. 19, 2010.
“Peggy said, ‘You know”: Stella Castellucci to JG, Nov. 26, 2010.
“You pick up”: Peggy Lee, Softly—with Feeling, Los Angeles: private publication, 1953.
“Marianne was”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“which is unlike”: Sidney Skolsky, “Hollywood Is My Beat,” New York Post, Oct. 12, 1952.
“Peggy Lee doll”: Mark Murphy to JG, Mar. 7, 1999.
“somebody was”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“I did not”: Press release, Pete Kelly’s Blues, Warner Bros., 1955.
“The only time”: Janet Leigh, Warner Bros. press release, 1955.
“Reva”: Betty Jungheim to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“I remember that”: Nicki Lee Foster to JG, Jan. 30, 1999.
“with that stepmother”: Stella Castellucci to JG, Aug. 22, 2012.
“I was bothered”: Press release, Pete Kelly’s Blues, Warner Bros., 1955.
“like a friendly cat”: Miss Peggy Lee, p. 167.
“Our conversations”: City Lights (Brian Linehan, host), Citytv, Toronto, 1984.
“He really started”: Gene DiNovi to JG, Dec. 19, 2010.
“Sing a rainbow . . . she cried”: Arthur Hamilton to JG, Mar. 11, 1999.
“I got so”: Dick Biondi & Friends, WCFL-AM, Chicago, 1970.
“She was playing”: Arthur Hamilton to JG, Mar. 11, 1999.
“Peggy Lee has always”: Paul Pines to JG, Jan. 5, 2012.
“as manly as . . . 1955 picture”: Henry McLemore, Altoona (PA) Tribune, May 23, 1955.
“below par”: Bosley Crowther, New York Times, June 24, 1955.
“Few contemporary figures”: John Tynan, “Peggy Lee—In Which a Multi-Talented Singer Discusses a Many-Faceted Career,” Down Beat, Mar. 21, 1957.
“remarkable assignment”: Randy Newman to JG, Jan. 14, 2013.
“I’m still not . . . implied sadness”: John Tynan, “Peggy Lee.”
“severe abdominal pains”: “Singer III,” Chicago Tribune, June 28, 1953.
“Peggy Lee’s losing weight”: Dorothy Kilgallen, “Eddie Fisher, Manage, Revamp Financial Deal,” Washington Post, Apr. 12, 1956.
“You could tell . . . for them”: Jack Larson to JG, Sept. 30, 2012.
“outstanding”: Edwin Schallert, “Jack Webb Gets Tough with Music,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 11, 1955.
“no fewer”: Edwin Schallert, “Chief Romantic Idol of Germany Contracted; Middleton Again Henry,” Los Angeles Times, Sept. 12, 1955.
“I was an alcoholic . . . with me”: Shaun Considine, “Miss Peggy Lee: ‘ . . . quite simply the finest singer in the history of popular music,’ ” After Dark, June 1974.
“They had me”: PL, notes to William Luce for musical Peg, 1982.
“She did”: Nicki Lee Foster to JG, Jan. 30, 1999.
“Peggy Lee has”: Dorothy Kilgallen, “Bullfighter Luis Dating Ava Gardner,” Washington Post and Times-Herald, Aug. 25, 1955.
“begun”: Dorothy Kilgallen, “Rudy Calls Names, Vice Versa,” Washington Post and Times-Herald, Aug. 9, 1955.
“she saw me”: George Schlatter to JG, Apr. 20, 2011.
“I would have liked”: PL to Alan Dell, BBC Radio 2 interview, rec. 1992.
“but I’ve never”: George Christy, “Peggy Lee: Still at Fever’s Pitch,” Interview, Oct. 1984.
CHAPTER EIGHT
“It’s orange”: Newspaper column, source unknown, c. 1954.
“I can’t seem”: Ibid.
“You should cry”: Stephen Citron, Noel & Cole: The Sophisticates, New York: Oxford University Press, p. 283.
“Are you a”: Mark Murphy to JG, Dec. 20, 2011.
“My mom told me”: Nancene Cohen to JG, May 16, 2011.
“was like the bouncer”: Jack Costanzo to JG, Apr. 18, 2012.
“She’s after me”: Angela Levey to JG, Dec. 5, 2010.
“When the night”: Max Bennett to JG, Oct. 28, 2010.
“There was no”: Jack Costanzo to JG, Apr. 18, 2012.
“Give me a”: John Tynan, “Peggy Lee: In Which a Multi-T
alented Singer Discussed a Many-Faceted Career,” Down Beat, Mar. 21, 1957.
“She’d say, ‘I’d like”: Lou Levy to JG, Feb. 2, 1999.
“I played”: “Lou Levy talks to Steve Voce, Part 2,” 1981–1982.
“I didn’t get”: PL to Alan Dell, BBC Radio 2 interview, rec. 1992.
“She was way up”: Nicki Lee Foster to JG, Jan. 30, 1999.
“artistic gift”: Mark Murphy to JG, Mar. 7, 1999.
“this group of”: Nicki Lee Foster to JG, Jan. 30, 1999.
“She makes”: Dick Kleiner, “Peggy Lee Wants to Quit the Road,” New York World-Telegram & Sun, Nov. 5, 1955.
“If it becomes”: Kirtley Baskette, “Peggy Lee: She Can’t Stop Giving,” Redbook, Apr. 1955.
“the thighs”: Richard Lamparski to JG, June 22, 2013.
“He was spectacular looking”: Jack Larson to JG, Sept. 30, 2012.
“a huge flirt”: Charlie Cochran to JG, Aug. 9, 2011.
“I’ve been in love . . . flipped”: “Peggy Lee and Dewey Martin: Their Love Story,” Modern Screen, June 1957.
“There were two”: Nicki Lee Foster to JG, Jan. 30, 1999.
“He was kind”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“She was one”: Stella Castellucci to JG, Aug. 22, 2012.
“There, praying . . . our friends”: “Peggy Lee and Dewey Martin: Their Love Story.”
“He seemed utterly”: Lee Ringuette to JG, June 28, 2011.
“Sometimes I feel”: Walter Winchell, “The Broadway Beat,” Washington Post, July 15, 1956.
“The House”: “About Nat King Cole,” American Masters, pbs.org, May 17, 2006.
“get Peggy back”: Margaret Whiting to JG, Mar. 13, 1999.
“Let’s do an album”: PL to Harry Boswell, Magic 61, KFRC-FM, San Francisco, 1989.
“He conducted”: Stella Castellucci to JG, Aug. 22, 2012.
“A lot of times”: Jess Rand to JG, Aug. 29, 2011.
“Debussy meets”: Gary Schocker to JG, Aug. 13, 2012.
“Frank wanted”: PL to Alan Dell, BBC Radio 2 interview, rec. 1992.
“I don’t remember”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“Dewey ran out”: George Schlatter to JG, Apr. 20, 2011.
“insanely”: Max Bennett to JG, Oct. 28, 2010.
“No. Let’s just”: Nicki Lee Foster to JG, Jan. 30, 1999.
“one instance”: Stella Castellucci to JG, Aug. 22, 2012.
