by James Gavin
“If she looked”: Doak Roberts to JG, Apr. 14, 2011.
“for no reason”: Peggy Lee, “The Miracle That Saved My Career,” National Enquirer, July 28, 1974.
“started eating them”: Doak Roberts to JG, June 23, 2011.
“turned to God”: Peggy Lee, “The Miracle That Saved My Career.”
“some fantastic”: Bruce Vanderhoff to JG, May 15, 2013.
“It’s so marvelous”: Shaun Considine, “Miss Peggy Lee.”
“simply because . . . minute of it”: Doak Roberts to JG, June 23, 2011.
“Success is”: Press release, “Peggy Lee Comments on Assorted Subjects.”
“My favorite color”: Ibid.
“An English butler”: Colin Dangaard, “ ‘Miss Standing Ovation’ Mellows with Age,” Washington Star, Mar. 16, 1975.
“a flowing gown . . . Weird”: Scarth Flett, “Meeting People: What Man Would Stand for His Wife Writing Songs in the Middle of the Night?,” Sunday Express (London), Nov. 25, 1973.
“By the way . . . go back”: Bruce Vanderhoff to JG, Oct. 17, 2010.
“crushing pain”: One Christmas, Truman Capote, New York: Random House, 1983, p. 39.
“Oh, my God! . . . protective of her”: George Plimpton, Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career, New York: Doubleday, 1997, pp. 373–376.
“I wanna do”: Christopher Andersen, Barbra: The Way She Is, New York: Harper Entertainment, p. 220.
“disastrous”: Shaun Considine, “Not All Pop Legends Are Indestructible,” New York Times, Oct. 27, 1974.
“minor surgery”: “Peggy Lee Recovering After Minor Surgery,” Hartford Courant, Apr. 6, 1974.
“I’m either”: Len Epand, “The Generation Bridge,” Zoo World: The Music Magazine, July 18, 1974.
“long-term contract”: “Peggy Lee Contract,” Los Angeles Times, May 10, 1974.
“I am so . . . an inspiration”: Len Epand, “The Generation Bridge.”
“He said, ‘Peggy”: Betty Jungheim to JG, Apr. 15, 2011.
“No, that’s”: Len Epand, “The Generation Bridge.”
“Rock music tore”: Shaun Considine, “Miss Peggy Lee: ‘ . . . quite simply the finest singer in the history of popular music,’ ” After Dark, June 1974.
“keeps on happening”: Morgan Ames, High Fidelity, 1974.
“first-rate”: Shaun Considine, “Not All Pop Legends Are Indestructible.”
“He’s not contemporary”: Betty Jungheim to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“I was way . . . leave holes”: Frank Fiore to JG, Feb. 23, 2013.
“Back then . . . to move”: Leata Galloway to JG, Mar. 30, 2013.
“When I was . . . precious”: Recording, Peggy Lee, North Dakota State University, Fargo, May 23, 1975.
“To criticize her”: David Tipmore, “Wanted: The Real Miss Peggy Lee,” Village Voice, Sept. 26, 1974.
“because we were . . . per se”: Frank Fiore to JG, Feb. 23, 2013.
“When I first”: John Whitfield to JG, Apr. 16, 2013.
“Once she”: Leata Galloway to JG, Mar. 30, 2013.
“We would get . . . silly”: Frank Fiore to JG, Feb. 23, 2013.
“I remember a time”: Leata Galloway to JG, Mar. 30, 2013.
“It was the”: Frank Fiore to JG, Feb. 23, 2013.
“I don’t want . . . not talk”: Betty Jungheim to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“seemed to run”: Mike Stoller to JG, Mar. 2, 1999.
“Everybody’s sick”: Robert W. Richards to JG, Feb. 15, 1999.
“North Dakota’s”: Recording, Peggy Lee, North Dakota State University.
“Lou divorced”: John Pisano to JG, Dec. 8, 2010.
“What do you”: Kathy Levy to JG, Feb. 3, 1999.
“PEGGY LEE SANG HERE”: George Christy, “Peggy Lee: Still at Fever’s Pitch,” Interview, Oct. 1984.
“tremendous contribution . . . back again”: Recording, Peggy Lee, North Dakota State University.
“Just where”: Alec Wilder, Letters I Never Mailed, New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1975, p.164.
“She loved cold”: Lou Levy to JG, Feb. 2, 1999.
“She kept putting . . . current”: Jerry Leiber to JG, Feb. 22, 1999.
“by singing covers”: Mike Stoller to JG, Dec. 17, 2012.
“wanted a lot”: Phil Wright to JG, Jan. 12, 2013.
“Peggy, we’ve”: Jerry Leiber to JG, Feb. 22, 1999.
“Those purchases”: Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (with David Ritz), Hound Dog: The Leiber & Stoller Autobiography, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010, p. 252.
“They just wanted”: David McMacken to JG, June 18, 2011.
“To have an album . . . advantage of”: Jerry Moss to JG, June 21, 2010.
“as a backup”: Peter Stoller to JG, May 11, 2014.
“That’s really”: Mike Stoller to JG, Dec. 17, 2012.
“She was completely”: Kathy Levy to JG, Feb. 3, 1999.
“I couldn’t breathe”: Jerry Moss to JG, June 21, 2010.
“I won’t record”: Mike Stoller to JG, Mar. 2, 1999.
“she suddenly got”: Robert W. Richards to JG, Feb. 15, 1999.
“some bitter . . . beautiful performance”: Mike Stoller to JG, Mar. 2, 1999.
“unstable tonality”: Liner notes, William Bolcom, A&M CD reissue of Mirrors, 1989.
“It brings back”: David McGee, “Peggy Lee: A Consummate Artist,” Record World, Dec. 27, 1975.
“the recordings worked”: Johnny Mandel to JG, Nov. 14, 2010.
“Like a mirror”: Freeman Gunter, “Visiting Miss Peggy Lee,” Mandate, Dec. 1975.
“just a sultry . . . should look”: David McMacken to JG, June 18, 2011.
“Peggy made”: John Pisano to JG, Dec. 8, 2010.
“I saw she . . . other hotel”: Kathy Levy to JG, Feb. 3, 1999.
“frozen in time”: Ron Powers, “Peggy Lee Sings, Time Stands Still in Empire Room,” Chicago Sun-Times, Sept. 17, 1975.
“corny comedy”: Will Leonard, “Peggy Lee: Miss Perfect,” Chicago Tribune, Sept. 12, 1975.
“There’s a verse . . . nails”: Tonight, NBC-TV, Oct. 10, 1975.
“disappointingly”: John S. Wilson, “Peggy Lee Sings Old Songs of Success,” New York Times, Oct. 27, 1975.
“dreck”: Stephen Holden, Rolling Stone, Dec. 18, 1975.
“These guys”: Mike Stoller to JG, Dec. 17, 2012.
“failure”: Mikal Gilmore, Down Beat, Apr. 8, 1976.
“at times pretentious”: Peter Reilly, “ . . . one would have thought she had already scaled all the peaks . . . ,” Stereo Review, Mar. 1976.
“I was embarrassed”: Jerry Leiber to JG, Feb. 22, 1999.
“more than disliked”: Morgan Ames to JG, May 10, 2012.
“didn’t last . . . warhorses”: Byron Olson to JG, May 24, 2011.
“I’m not going”: Max Jones, “Purrfect Peggy,” Melody Maker (U.K.), Mar. 19, 1977.
“People believed”: Freeman Gunter, “Visiting Miss Peggy Lee.”
“It looks like”: Paul Horner to JG, Apr. 28, 2013.
“It’s all of a piece”: Robert W. Richards to JG, Feb. 15, 1999.
“these new”: Johnny Mandel to JG, Nov. 14, 2010.
“fine wine”: Liner notes, William Bolcom, A&M CD reissue of Mirrors, 1989.
“slander, fraud”: “Peggy Lee Names Former Manager in $6 Million Suit,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 27, 1975.
“I want to put”: Betty Jungheim to JG, Nov. 15, 2012.
“It’s the dumbest”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“If there were”: Brian Panella to JG, Oct. 18, 2010.
“If Betty Jungheim”: Bruce Vanderhoff to JG, Sept. 29, 2012.
“gross negligence . . . a friend”: Betty Jungheim to JG, Feb. 9, 2001.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
“Miss Lee . . . expensive”: Magda Katz to JG, May 4, 2011.
“always first-class”: John Whitfield to JG, Apr
. 16, 2013.
“She went . . . the creeps”: Magda Katz to JG, May 4, 2011.
“a living legend”: Freeman Gunter, “Visiting Miss Peggy Lee,” Mandate, Dec. 1975.
“She seemed to”: Wendy Glickstein to JG, May 4, 2011.
“She was in”: Lee Horwin to JG, Mar. 15, 2014.
“Mm-hmm”: Walter Willison to JG, June 22, 2011.
“It shrinks . . . did to me!”: Magda Katz to JG, May 4, 2011.
“because her great”: Bob Thomas, “Peggy Taking U.S. Flag to Land of Rising Sun,” Tennessean Showcase, Aug. 8, 1976.
“He hated it . . . to do well”: Larry Grossman to JG, Feb. 4, 2013.
“She grew up”: John Culhane, “The Muppets in Movieland; Muppets Moving Muppets,” New York Times, June 10, 1979.
“I often wonder”: Marshall Berges, “Peggy Lee: Is That All There Is? A Lady of Many Moods Finds There’s Much More,” Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, Oct. 19, 1975.
“the magic was gone”: Mel Tormé, “A Farewell to the Old Hotel Night Spots,” New York Times, Jan. 30, 1977.
“It was an”: Robert W. Richards to JG, Feb. 15, 1999.
“The cost of”: Jack O’Brian, Gloversville-Johnston Leader-Herald, Sept. 25, 1974.
“one of her”: John S. Wilson, “Miss Lee a Hit at the Waldorf,” New York Times, Oct. 16, 1976.
“No Peggy”: Spider Saloff to JG, Apr. 16, 2013.
“She was just”: Robert W. Richards to JG, Feb. 15, 1999.
“delighted”: PL, telegram to William Morris Agency, Oct. 22, 1976.
“In two minutes”: Robert W. Richards to JG, Feb. 15, 1999.
“I said to myself . . . find you!”: Recording, Peggy Lee, Empire Room, Waldorf-Astoria, New York, Oct. 23, 1976.
“Look for me”: Ibid.
“Especially . . . wrong with her”: Magda Katz to JG, May 4, 2011.
“He got so”: Doak Roberts to JG, Apr. 14, 2011.
“What she has”: Rick Kogan, “Peggy Lee Still Has Some of the Ol’ Magic Left,” Chicago Daily News, Oct. 5, 1977.
“They are, indeed”: Letter, Shigeru Okada to PL, Feb. 1, 1977.
“Ro-bair . . . for months”: Robert W. Richards to JG, Feb. 15, 1999.
“He has a quality”: George Christy, “Peggy Lee: Still at Fever’s Pitch,” Interview, Oct. 1984.
“I just don’t . . . coma”: Robert W. Richards to JG, Feb. 15, 1999.
“People had . . . in the past”: Ken Barnes to JG, Feb. 24, 2013.
“I’m very”: Max Jones, “Purrfect Peggy,” Melody Maker (UK), Mar. 19, 1977.
“That’s out . . . Stoller”: Ken Barnes to JG, Feb. 24, 2013.
“I’ve revived”: “Peggy Lee: Is That All There Is?”
“I’ve never seen”: Shaun Considine, “Miss Peggy Lee: ‘ . . . quite simply the finest singer in the history of popular music,’ ” After Dark, June 1974.
“the impersonal”: Ray Coleman, Melody Maker (UK), Mar. 19, 1977.
“The albums were”: Ken Barnes to JG, Feb. 24, 2013.
“Why hasn’t . . . the party”: Robert W. Richards to JG, Feb. 15, 1999.
“She had to be”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“cracked rib”: “The Midnight Earl . . . ,” Milwaukee Sentinel, Apr. 13, 1977.
“toppled spittoon”: PL, notes to William Luce for musical Peg, Aug. 12, 1982.
“left her with”: Marilyn Beck, “Her Day in Court Nears for Injured Peggy Lee,” New York Daily News, May 24, 1982.
“cracked skeleton”: PL, notes to William Luce for musical Peg, 1982.
“I literally”: Kathy Larkin, “Peggy Lee: The Life, The Songs,” New York Daily News, Nov. 28, 1983.
“nearly died”: Bob Thomas, “Peggy Lee Credo: Go Back to Work,” Chicago Tribune, Aug. 29, 1984.
“calming effect”: Phoebe Jacobs to JG, Feb. 11, 1999.
“very selective . . . offensive song”: Leonard Feather, “Peggy Lee Casts a Vote for Class,” Los Angeles Times, Feb. 19, 1978.
“subculture of”: “Three Profiles of Heavy Metal Fans: A Taste for Sensation and a Subculture of Alienation,” Journal Qualitative Sociology, Netherlands: Springer, 1993, p. 423.
“outsider”: Rob Zombie, Metal: A Headbangers Journey (documentary), 2005.
“sticking”: Cynthia Kirk, “Scandals Opens with Minimum Drama,” source unknown, Aug. 1978.
“all-out elegance”: Tonight, NBC-TV, Aug. 3, 1978.
“acute viral”: “Peggy Lee to Stay Hospitalized Longer,” Variety, Aug. 17, 1978.
“Peggy Lee Still”: Rick Kogan, Chicago Daily News, Oct. 5, 1977.
“She wasn’t”: Max Bennett to JG, Oct. 28, 2010.
“walking calamity”: Michael Musto, “Miss Manners,” Village Voice, Apr. 25, 1989.
“What was the . . . a friend”: PL, notes to William Luce for musical Peg, 1982.
“Something is”: Transcript of session with psychic Don Torres, c. 1980.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
“It would shimmer”: PL, notes to William Luce for musical Peg, 1982.
“I’ve found”: Maggie Daly, “Peggy Lee Finds Dream House in Bel Air,” Chicago Tribune, Mar. 24, 1980.
“The colors”: Newspaper interview, c. 1982, source unknown.
“was so thick”: Ken Bloom to JG, Apr. 2, 2013.
“which we call”: CBS This Morning, 1990.
“When I watch”: Elaine St. Johns, “A Presence in My Life: Recollections by Peggy Lee,” Science of Mind, May 1987.
“Some people”: Dennis Hunt, “Peggy Lee: A Legend Making a Comeback,” Los Angeles Times, Feb. 26, 1981.
“I’ve already done”: Shaun Considine, “Miss Peggy Lee: ‘ . . . quite simply the finest singer in the history of popular music,’ ” After Dark, June 1974.
“She couldn’t keep”: Kathy Levy to JG, June 11, 2013.
“She was very”: Teri Ralston to JG, Jan. 18, 2013.
“She was a”: Greg MacKellan to JG, Jan. 25, 2013.
“As the hostess”: Lawrence DeVine, “Peggy’s on Outside of Sondheim’s Revue,” Detroit Free Press, June 26, 1980.
“What’s that, Paul? . . . our lives”: Paul Horner to JG, Nov. 16, 2010.
“I was down”: “Peggy Bounces Back,” New York Daily News, Sept. 12, 1980.
“my life would”: William Luce to JG, Nov. 8, 2011.
“life or death . . . million dollars”: Marilyn Beck, “Her Day in Court Nears for Injured Peggy Lee,” New York Daily News, May 24, 1982.
“run up”: Paul Horner to JG, Nov. 16, 2010.
“very nasty”: Robert W. Richards to JG, Feb. 15, 1999.
“our kids”: Irving Cowan to JG, May 30, 2013.
“the now-famous”: Liz Smith, New York Daily News, 1982.
“connected”: Zev Bufman to JG, May 21, 2013.
“one of the great”: Jon Wilner to JG, July 1, 2012.
“She was a dream”: Zev Bufman to JG, May 21, 2013.
“Everyone told me”: Bob Thomas, “Peggy Lee Coming to Broadway,” Gannett Westchester Newspapers, Sept. 6, 1982.
“I KISS YOUR”: Telegram, Zev Bufman to PL, June 14, 1982.
“If you had”: Paul Horner to JG, Apr. 28, 2013.
“bring a friend”: Zev Bufman to JG, May 21, 2013.
“Do you know”: Bruce Vanderhoff to JG, May 15, 2013.
“something long”: Paul Horner to JG, Nov. 16, 2010.
“It was off . . . break it”: William Luce to JG, Nov. 8, 2011.
“These were business”: Paul Horner to JG, Nov. 16, 2010.
“Peggy went”: William Luce to JG, Nov. 8, 2011.
“At the door”: Ibid.
“I knew there . . . that woman”: Zev Bufman to JG, May 21, 2013.
“Marge and Zev”: Irving Cowan to JG, May 30, 2013.
“This was . . . on Broadway”: Jon Wilner to JG, July 1, 2012.
“a side of Peggy”: Bob Thomas, “Peggy Lee Coming to Broadway,” Gannett Westchester Newspapers, Sept. 6,
1982.
“This is one”: Ibid.
“It’ll be my”: Lawrence Christon, “Peggy Lee Set for ‘Personal’ Musical,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 19, 1982.
“like a rock”: Zev Bufman to JG, May 21, 2013.
“needed support”: Marilyn Beck, “Her Day in Court Nears for Injured Peggy Lee,” New York Daily News, May 24, 1982.
“We hoped”: Marilyn Beck, “Does Lee’s Suit Fit B’way Plans?,” New York Daily News, Aug. 19, 1982.
“Peggy deserved nothing”: Bruce Vanderhoff to JG, May 15, 2013.
“I’ve been around”: Kathy Larkin, “Peggy Lee: The Life, The Songs,” New York Daily News, Nov. 28, 1983.
“quiet intensity”: Susan Heller Anderson, “Peggy Lee Is Set to Star in a Musical She Wrote,” New York Times, Aug. 18, 1982.
“You have some”: Transcript of session with psychic Don Torres, May 20, 1982.
“He was gentle”: Zev Bufman to JG, May 21, 2013.
“He reeled off . . . my life”: William Luce to JG, Nov. 8, 2011.
“I’m diabetic . . . first-class?”: Ibid.
“eerie”: Stephen Holden: Stephen Holden, “Reunion in Tribute to Capitol,” New York Times, Sept. 13, 1982.
“I felt . . . new bond”: William Luce to JG, Nov. 8, 2011.
“dearly loved her”: Paul Horner to JG, Nov. 16, 2010.
“You look outrageous!”: Tonight, NBC-TV, June 25, 1984.
“something wonderful”: London Night Out, Thames TV, Feb. 9, 1983.
“We’re going”: Susan Heller Anderson, “Peggy Lee Is Set to Star in a Musical She Wrote.”
“I know the value”: George Christy, “Peggy Lee: Still at Fever’s Pitch,” Interview, Oct. 1984.
“Look”: Kathy Larkin, “Peggy Lee: The Life, The Songs.”
“I took it”: Paul Horner to JG, Nov. 16, 2010.
“This is bullshit!”: Ibid.
“We seemed”: William Luce to JG, May 10, 2013.
“Somebody’s got”: Paul Horner to JG, Apr. 28, 2013.
“Our star”: William Luce to JG, Nov. 8, 2011.
“Peggy Lee will”: Paul Horner to JG, Apr. 28, 2013.
“I chose not”: Zev Bufman to JG, May 21, 2013.
“I was like”: Holly Foster-Welles to JG, Jan. 30, 1999.
“I think that”: Zev Bufman to JG, May 21, 2013.
“She fit a . . . lovefest”: Andrew Sarewitz to JG, July 2, 2011.
“creative consultant”: Clive Barnes, “Peg’s Broadway Debut: A Strange Triumph,” New York Post, Dec. 15, 1983.
