by James Gavin
“She just fled”: Nancy Olson Livingston to JG, May 26, 2011.
“She’s sitting”: Marian Collier to JG, Mar. 1, 2012.
“former husband”: “Dave Barbour Dies; Guitarist Was 53,” New York Times, Dec. 13, 1965.
“Recent reports”: “Song Writer Barbour, 53,” Washington Post–Times Herald, Dec. 14, 1965.
“My father”: Nicki Lee Barbour to JG, Jan. 30, 1999.
“There’s no way”: Marian Collier to JG, Mar. 1, 2012.
“Peg, what do”: Robert W. Richards to JG, Feb. 15, 1999.
“three A.M.”: Peter Reilly, “Peggy Lee: Ready to Begin Again,” Stereo Review, Mar. 1976.
“A couple of days”: Steve Blum to JG, Sept. 6, 2011.
“I’m quite nutty”: Donal Henahan, “Cary Grant Records Holiday Lullaby for Daddies,” New York Times, Dec. 19, 1967.
“Plump”: “Miss Peggy Lee a Hit at Copa,” Doug McClelland, source unknown, Oct. 14, 1967.
“thin at the top”: “Parsimonious Peggy,” Time, Nov. 3, 1967.
“For one”: The Joe Franklin Show, WOR-AM, June 24, 1968.
“so many”: Rex Reed, “Somethin’ Groovy,” Stereo Review, Jan. 1968.
“not impressed”: “A Confidential Report Covering 1956–1964 to Alan W. Livingston from Dave Dexter, Jr., International A&R Director,” Oct. 1, 1964.
“just a bunch”: Neil McCormick, “Nearly 50 Years Ago Today, The Beatles Taught the U.S. to Play,” Telegraph (U.K.), Jan. 21, 2014.
“the hottest thing”: “A Confidential Report . . .”
“Music Executive”: Dennis McLellan, “Alan Livingston, 1917–2009: Music Executive Signed the Beatles to Capitol Records,” Chicago Tribune, Mar. 15, 2009.
“exclusionary”: Vince Mauro to JG, Jan. 14, 2013.
“When you feel”: Judy Klemesrud, “Peggy Lee Is Still on Top—Is That All There Is?” New York Times, Apr. 26, 1970.
“a job with”: Dave Dexter, Wikipedia.org.
“To Gortikov”: Dave Dexter, Jr., Playback, New York: Billboard Press, 1976, p. 212.
“We have to”: “Cap. A&R Staffers Hit 17; Wright Is Added,” Billboard, Dec. 7, 1968.
“I want to move”: Leonard Feather, “Peggy Lee Turns to the Now Sound,” Los Angeles Times, May 19, 1968.
“tough broad . . . recording her”: Charles Koppelman to JG, Oct. 17, 2012.
“pinky rings . . . fans of Peggy Lee”: Ibid.
“For some years now”: Peter Reilly, “Peggy Lee . . . and That Old Vocal Eroticism,” Stereo Review, Oct. 1973.
“all of you”: Peggy Lee, 2 Shows Nightly, Capitol, 1968.
“was vintage”: Charles Koppelman to JG, Oct. 17, 2012.
“Peggy Lee Turns to the Now Sound”: Leonard Feather, “Peggy Lee Turns to the Now Sound.”
“weren’t gonna”: Don Rubin to JG, Oct. 24, 2012.
“Working with”: Leonard Feather, “Peggy Lee Turns to the Now Sound.”
“At that time”: Charles Koppelman to JG, Oct. 17, 2012.
“From the time”: Brian Panella to JG, Oct. 11, 2012.
“about as relaxing”: Larry L. King, “Rappin’ with Peggy Lee.”
“The minute”: Betty Jungheim to JG, Feb, 9, 2011.
“I had come . . . Adela”: Brian Panella to JG, Oct. 11, 2012.
“You know, Betty”: Betty Jungheim to JG, Nov. 15, 2012.
“Trust the divine”: Brian Panella to JG, Oct. 11, 2012.
“the curse”: Dennis McLellan, “Writer Adela Rogers St. Johns Dies at 94,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 11, 1988.
“And she would”: Brian Panella to JG, Oct. 11, 2012.
“She was the biggest”: Grady Tate to JG, Feb. 13, 1999.
“sustained herself”: Albert Goldman, “A Queen on a Lonely Peak,” Life, Oct. 19, 1971.
“Aggressive females”: Ernest Leogrande, “Here’s Peggy,” New York Daily News, Apr. 18, 1970.
“I’ve always been”: “Peggy Lee Still Sings Way Across Country,” Hartford Courant, Jan. 26, 1972.
“I’d like to . . . nameless something”: Unedited interview with Shirley Eder for Monitor, NBC radio, Dec. 1967.
“Well, gentlemen . . . Everything”: Jerry Leiber to JG, Feb. 22, 1999.
CHAPTER TWELVE
“I’ve lived”: Eugene Boe, “Peggy Lee: An Artist Tunes Up for the Waldorf,” Cue, Apr. 5, 1969.
“There are two”: PL, Monitor, NBC radio, Dec. 14, 1969.
“That movie”: Sidney Myer to JG, Jan. 2, 2013.
“As hard as”: Brian Panella to JG, Oct. 11, 2012.
“a put-on”: Ben Ratliff, “Gravel-Voiced Portraits of a Gallery of Rogues,” New York Times, Sept. 21, 2008.
“I really consider”: Recording, Peggy Lee, Central Park, New York, July 27, 1970.
“I’d seen her . . . attainment”: Randy Newman to JG, Jan. 14, 2013.
“some pseudo”: Mike Stoller to JG, Dec. 17, 2012.
“We’re playing”: Mike Barone to JG, Oct. 18, 2012.
“something a little”: Mike Stoller to JG, Dec. 17, 2012.
“weren’t great”: Jerry Leiber to JG, Feb. 22, 1999.
“Listen, I”: Mike Stoller to JG, Dec. 17, 2012.
“I was always”: Tony Terran to JG, Jan. 20, 2013.
“hallucinatory”: Albert Goldman, “A Queen on a Lonely Peak,” Life, Oct. 19, 1971.
“I almost”: Jerry Leiber to JG, Feb. 22, 1999.
“What’s wrong?”: Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009, p. 244.
“Either he”: Jerry Leiber to JG, Feb. 22, 1999.
“Guess I’ll have”: Hound Dog, p. 245.
“nothing short”: Ibid.
“somber”: Jerry Leiber to JG, Feb. 22, 1999.
“She had a . . . glasses”: Phil Wright to JG, Jan. 12, 2013.
“She was not”: Mike Melvoin to JG, Dec. 14, 2010.
“I could”: Nat Hentoff, “Cosmo Listens to Records,” Cosmopolitan, 1969.
“I fell in love”: Vermettya Royster to JG, Apr. 9, 2013.
“It is cold . . . Ribbit!”: John Hallowell, “Peggy Lee Is Very Different from You and Me,” Los Angeles Times, Apr. 12, 1970.
“She knew”: Phil Wright to JG, Jan. 12, 2013.
“There’s no”: Nat Hentoff, “Cosmo Listens to Records.”
“I think she”: Mike Melvoin to JG, Dec. 14, 2010.
“a stunning”: Nat Hentoff, “Cosmo Listens to Records.”
“a bundle”: “Peggy Lee Gives a Music Lesson,” Cliff Smith, source unknown.
“fool’s assumption”: Mike Melvoin to JG, Dec. 14, 2010.
“Remember Peggy?”: Joyce Haber, “Improvement in Barbra’s ‘Concert,’ ” Los Angeles Times, July 17, 1969.
“Naturally I”: Judy Klemesrud, “Peggy Lee Is Still on Top—Is That All There Is?” New York Times, Apr. 26, 1970.
“If the truth”: Bruce Vanderhoff to JG, Oct. 24, 2012.
“She screamed”: Betty Jungheim to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“crown jewel”: Press release, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 1969.
“It was intimidating”: Sidney Myer to JG, Jan. 2, 2013.
“Honey-dripping singing”: Marlene Dietrich, Marlene Dietrich’s ABC, New York: Doubleday, 1962, p. 93.
“Hugo would be”: Bruce Vanderhoff to JG, Nov. 13, 2010.
“I helped”: Doak Roberts to JG, Apr. 14, 2011.
“She wings”: Peter Reilly, “Peggy Lee . . . and That Old Vocal Eroticism,” Stereo Review, Oct. 1973.
“So many things”: Sidney Myer to JG, Jan. 2, 2013.
“with open”: Albert Goldman, “A Queen on a Lonely Peak,” Life, Oct. 19, 1971.
“today’s trends”: Variety, Apr. 16, 1969.
“Peggy, you’ve . . . never open!”: Miss Peggy Lee, WNET, 1969.
“Peggy was the eye”: Robert Foshko to JG, June 28, 2011.
“planned for”: Cecil Smith, “Peggy Lee, Singer for All Seasons,” Los
Angeles Times, July 2, 1969.
“government work”: Peter Levinson to JG, Mar. 12, 1999.
“got it in her head”: Lou Levy to JG, Feb. 2, 1999.
“You’re not . . . century”: Betty Jungheim to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“the toughest”: Norma Lee Browning, “Streisand in Vegas,” Chicago Tribune, June 30, 1969.
“curious . . . to learn”: Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times, July 1969.
“The acclaim”: Cue, July 1969.
“suffused the room”: Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times.
“the old pro”: John Hallowell, “Peggy Lee Is Very Different from You and Me.”
“But if you”: Brian Panella to JG, Oct. 17, 2010.
“too long”: Peter Levinson to JG, Mar. 12, 1999.
“apocalypse”: Jann Wenner, “Jagger Remembers,” Rolling Stone, Dec. 14, 1995.
“some kind”: Franklin Bruno, “ ‘Is That All There Is?’ and the Uses of Disenchantment,” Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music (Eric Weisbard, ed.), Durham, NC: Duke University Press, p. 139.
“It was unlike”: Randy Newman to JG, Jan. 14, 2013.
“The principal thrust”: “New Artist Development Keys Cap to Be No. 1,” Billboard, June 13, 1970.
“sullen, cold-steel”: Dave Dexter, Jr., Playback, New York: Billboard Press, 1976, p. 214.
“a moment of muddy”: Jon Pareles, “Woodstock: A Moment of Muddy Grace,” New York Times, Aug. 5, 2009.
“one of the greatest”: The Joey Bishop Show, ABC-TV, Aug. 21, 1969.
“the phones at ABC”: “Insider Tribute,” TV Guide, Feb. 23, 2002.
“old woman”: Rob Hoerburger, “The Lives They Lived: Is That All There Is?,” New York Times, Dec. 29, 2002.
“I think most”: Sidney Myer to JG, Jan. 2, 2013.
“Maybe the world”: Jerry Leiber to JG, Feb. 22, 1999.
“extremely pessimistic”: Neil Simon, Desert Island Discs (BBC), May 14, 1995.
“They still refused”: Brian Panella to JG, Oct. 17, 2010.
“Some people”: Monitor, NBC radio, Dec. 14, 1969.
“When you’ve reached”: Paul Pines to JG, July 18, 2012.
“very liberating”: Mike Stoller to JG, Dec. 17, 2012.
“When she went”: Brian Panella to JG, Oct. 17, 2010.
“She kept calling”: Betty Jungheim to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“He was gone . . . Sills”: Kathy Levy to JG, June 12, 2013.
“may have”: Brian Panella to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“Peggy Lee, I used”: Bruce Vanderhoff to JG, Oct. 17, 2010.
“the most gracious . . . feel it”: Brian Panella to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
“an obstinate volcano”: John Hallowell, “Peggy Lee Is Very Different from You and Me,” Los Angeles Times, Apr. 12, 1970.
“because she is”: “Pompidou Dinner, Leaders Trade Praise,” New York Times, Feb. 25, 1970.
“One of the reasons”: Judy Klemesrud, “Peggy Lee Is Still on Top: Is That All There Is?” New York Times, Apr. 26, 1970.
“You’re not gonna”: Peter Levinson to JG, Mar. 12, 1999.
“pinnacle of success . . . Miss Peggy Lee.”: Recording, PL, White House, Feb. 24, 1970.
“I’m very fond . . . Indians!” Ibid.
“I was thinking”: Mundell Lowe to JG, Dec. 2, 2010.
“I had a pet . . . along with me?”: Recording, PL, White House.
“I don’t know . . . all right!”: Ibid.
“a disaster”: Vera Glaser, “Peggy’s Act Tests Nixon’s Tact,” newspaper unknown, Feb. 26, 1970.
“was in such”: Betty Beale, “Letter from Washington,” Washington Star, Mar. 7, 1970.
“sexy routines”: “Peggy’s Act Tests Nixon’s Tact.”
“We made a”: Earl Wilson, “It Happened Last Night,” New York Post, Mar. 2, 1970.
“totally inaccurate”: Judy Klemesrud, “Peggy Lee Is Still on Top.”
“Miss Peggy Lee! . . . very much.” Ibid.
“like the phoenix”: Nicki Lee Foster to JG, Jan. 30, 1999.
“What a remarkable”: Marilyn Beck, “Peggy Lee Must Limit Engagements,” Hartford Courant, Apr. 13, 1970.
“It was so”: City Lights (Brian Linehan, host), Citytv, Toronto, 1984.
“She had that . . . as I was”: Petula Clark to JG, Mar. 5, 2013.
“She was born”: Petula, ABC-TV, Dec. 9, 1970.
“I can’t say”: Brian Panella to JG, Oct. 17, 2010.
“It was so”: Judy Collins to JG, Feb. 12, 2013.
“WE LOVE YOU! . . . always”: Recording, Peggy Lee, Central Park, New York, July 27, 1970.
“She led with that”: William Luce to JG, Aug. 17, 2012.
“I think a big”: Robert Strom to JG, Jan. 8, 2012.
“If Peggy had”: Robert W. Richards to JG, Feb. 15, 1999.
“She played everybody”: Angela Levey to JG, Dec. 5, 2010.
“Don’t mention”: Peter Levinson to JG, Mar. 12, 1999.
“I don’t think”: Brian Panella to JG, Oct. 17, 2010.
“How old”: Angela Levey to JG, Dec. 5, 2010.
“We used to”: Betty Jungheim to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“I don’t think”: Betty Jungheim to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“Oh, no, honey”: Leata Galloway to JG, Mar. 30, 2013.
“My kids need me”: Patricia Bernard to JG, May 5, 2011.
“I think Nicki”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“a direct input”: Nancy Liebler and Sandra Moss, Healing Depression the Mind-Body Way: Creating Happiness with Meditation, Yoga, and Ayurveda, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2009, p. 103.
“At some point”: Earl Wilson, “It Happened Last Night,” New York Post, Oct. 30, 1976.
“Oh, that’s the . . . furious”: Betty Jungheim to JG, Nov. 15, 2012.
“I was watching”: Tonight, NBC-TV, Oct. 29, 1979.
“I think I’ve died”: Jim Bailey to JG, Aug. 19, 2011.
“Friends were calling”: Shaun Considine, “Miss Peggy Lee: ‘ . . . quite simply the finest singer in the history of popular music,’ ” After Dark, June 1974.
“What was I . . . in a way”: Jim Bailey to JG, Aug. 19, 2011.
“She’s burned . . . every night”: Brian Panella to JG, Oct. 17, 2010.
“I’m thinking . . . that basket”: Ibid.
“It’s no wonder . . . better job”: “Miss Peggy Lee,” New Yorker, Mar. 18, 1972.
“The way she smokes”: Mary Daniels, “Peggy Keeps Going, Still Glowing,” Chicago Tribune, Feb. 19, 1971.
“It was a dress”: Jim Bailey to JG, Aug. 19, 2011.
“There are different”: Bob Mardesich to JG, June 30, 2011.
“vanilla-whip-’N-Chill”: Mary Daniels, “Peggy Keeps Going, Still Glowing.”
“We touched it”: Bruce Vanderhoff to JG, Oct. 17, 2010.
“He looked like Hercules”: Leata Galloway to JG, Mar. 30, 2013.
“demented queen”: Robert W. Richards to JG, Feb. 15, 1999.
“Oh, you want”: Bob Mardesich to JG, June 30, 2011.
“She’s the best”: Joan Rattman Heilman, “Fringe Benefits for Jet-Set Hairdressers,” Australian Women’s Weekly, Dec. 6, 1972.
“This is the way . . . over here”: Larry L. King, “Rappin’ with Peggy Lee,” Cosmopolitan, Sept. 1971.
“I went to”: Brian Panella to JG, Jan. 27, 2013.
“Sing ‘Fever.’ . . . enough!”: Larry L. King, “Rappin’ with Peggy Lee.”
“Are you all right? . . . went nuts”: Ibid.
“the queen”: Bruce Vanderhoff to JG, Oct. 17, 2010.
“She was a sneak”: Phoebe Jacobs to JG, Feb. 11, 1999.
“I don’t understand”: Betty Jungheim to JG, Dec. 15, 2012.
“Oh, I take”: Bill Burrus, “Peggy Lee: At Fever Pitch,” New York Post, Apr. 12, 1969.
“I want to live”: Alfred G. Aronowitz, “Miss Peggy Lee (III),” New York Post, Mar.
23, 1972.
“Now he’s broke . . . it’s mine!”: “Smiles from Yesterday,” Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law, ABC-TV, Feb. 17, 1972.
“I helped start”: Betty Jungheim to JG, Apr. 15, 2011.
“His ego”: Brian Panella to JG, Oct. 17, 2010.
“a little pisher . . . applauded”: Artie Butler to JG, Mar. 20, 1999.
“I’m watching her”: Brian Panella to JG, Oct. 17, 2010.
“Whatever the craziness”: Artie Butler to JG, Mar. 20, 1999.
“Has he lost”: Brian Panella to JG, Oct. 17, 2010.
“sort of”: Tom Von Malder, Chicago Herald, Aug. 4, 1972.
“three or four”: Peter Reilly, “Peggy Lee . . . and That Old Vocal Eroticism,” Stereo Review, Oct. 1973.
“Peggy was great”: Spider Saloff to JG, July 13, 2013.
“Last night”: Leonard Feather, “The Pleasures and Pains of Peggy Lee,” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 10, 1972.
“He made me . . . about this”: This Is Your Life, Mar. 11, 1973.
“Betty and I”: Doak Roberts to JG, Apr. 14, 2011.
“completely made up”: Robert W. Richards to JG, Feb. 15, 1999.
“I slipped”: Shaun Considine, “Miss Peggy Lee: ‘ . . . quite simply the finest singer in the history of popular music,’ ” After Dark, June 1974.
“the richest girl”: Rob Haskell, “Doris Duke: The Richest Girl in the World,” Harper’s Bazaar, Aug. 29, 2012.
“Is everything OK”: Paul Horner to JG, Apr. 28, 2013.
“sexy act”: Larry L. King, “Rappin’ with Peggy Lee.”
“It was going”: Robert W. Richards to JG, Feb. 15, 1999.
“Gail said . . . spiritual”: Walter Willison to JG, June 22, 2011.
“beneath her . . . periphery . . .”: Brian Panella to JG, Oct. 17, 2010.
“Peggy didn’t fall”: Bruce Vanderhoff to JG, Nov. 3, 2010.
“They did not”: Brian Panella to JG, Oct. 17, 2010.
“I want you”: Betty Jungheim to JG, Nov. 15, 2012.
“I learned”: Brian Panella to JG, Oct. 17, 2010.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
“It was very . . . done for me”: Nicki Lee Foster to JG, Jan. 30, 1999.
“The conversations”: Robert W. Richards to JG, Feb. 15, 1999.
“There was the . . . you ain’t!”: Doak Roberts to JG, Apr. 14, 2011.
“He sat down”: Betty Jungheim to JG, Nov. 15, 2012.
