Editing Peggy Lee (section)

==Recording career==
In 1942, Lee had her first top ten hit, "Somebody Else Is Taking My Place",<ref name=pc2b>{{Pop Chronicles 40s|2|B |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1633240/m1/#track/4 }}</ref> followed in 1943 by "[[Why Don't You Do Right?]]", which sold more than one million copies and made her famous.<ref name="The Book of Golden Discs">{{cite book
| first= Joseph
| last= Murrells
| year= 1978
| title= The Book of Golden Discs
| edition= 2nd
| publisher= Barrie and Jenkins Ltd
| location= London
| page= [https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/28 28]
| isbn= 0-214-20512-6
| url-access= registration
| url= https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/28
}}</ref> She sang with Goodman's orchestra in two 1943 films, ''[[Stage Door Canteen (film)|Stage Door Canteen]]'' and ''[[The Powers Girl]]''.

In March 1943, Lee married [[Dave Barbour]], a guitarist in Goodman's band.<ref name="CimentRussell2007">{{cite book|last1=Ciment|first1=James |last2=Russell |first2=Thaddeus |title=The Home Front Encyclopedia: United States, Britain, and Canada in World Wars I and II|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n0P04JuMSM8C&pg=PA654|access-date=August 11, 2013 |year=2007 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-57607-849-5 |page=654}}</ref> Lee said:
{{blockquote|David joined Benny's band and there was a ruling that no one should fraternize with the girl singer. But I fell in love with David the first time I heard him play, and so I married him. Benny then fired David, so I quit, too. Benny and I made up, although David didn't play with him anymore. Benny stuck to his rule. I think that's not too bad a rule, but you can't help falling in love with somebody.|Peggy Lee}}

{{blockquote|... when she left the band that spring [1943], her intention was to quit the footlights altogether and become Mrs. Barbour, fulltime housewife. It's to Mr. Barbour's credit that he refused to let his wife's singing and composing talent lie dormant for too long. "I fell in love with David Barbour," she recalled. "But 'Why Don't You Do Right' was such a giant hit that I kept getting offers and kept turning them down. And at that time it was a lot of money, but it really didn't matter to me at all. I was very happy. All I wanted was to have a family and cling to the children [daughter Nicki]. Well, they kept talking to me and finally David joined them and said 'You really have too much talent to stay at home and someday you might regret it.{{'"}}|Liner notes written by Will Friedwald<ref>Liner notes written by Will Friedwald to Peggy Lee and Benny Goodman, ''The Complete Recordings, 1941–1947'', Columbia/Legacy, 1999</ref>}}

She drifted back to songwriting and occasional recording sessions for [[Capitol Records]] in 1944, for whom she recorded a long string of hits, many of them with lyrics and music by Lee and Barbour, including "I Don't Know Enough About You" and "It's a Good Day". Her recording of "Golden Earrings", the title song of a 1947 [[Golden Earrings|movie]], was a hit throughout 1947–1948. "Mañana", written by Lee and Barbour, was her eleventh solo hit recording, and remained on the charts for twenty-one weeks, nine of which were in the number one position. The song sold more than a million copies, and earned the Top Disc Jockey Record of the Year award from ''Billboard'' magazine.<ref name="Tish book" /> From 1946 to 1949, Lee also recorded for Capitol's library of [[electrical transcription]]s for radio stations. An advertisement for Capitol Transcriptions in a trade magazine noted that the transcriptions included "special voice introductions by Peggy".<ref>{{cite news|title=Capitol Transcriptions ad|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1948/1948-06-28-BC.pdf#page=65 |access-date=December 21, 2014 |agency=Broadcasting|date=June 28, 1948}}</ref>

In 1948, Lee joined vocalists [[Perry Como]] and [[Jo Stafford]] as a host of the [[NBC Radio]] musical program ''[[The Chesterfield Supper Club]]''.<ref name="Air">{{cite book |last=Dunning |first=John|title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |section=The Chesterfield Supper Club |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EwtRbXNca0oC&dq=%22The+Chesterfield+Supper+Club,+mu%22+%22Peggy+Lee%22&pg=PA152 |accessdate=June 28, 2010 |date=May 7, 1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press, US |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3|page=152}}</ref><ref name="Music">{{cite magazine|magazine=Billboard|title=Music As Written |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dfUDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA21 |access-date=April 6, 2011 |date= June 19, 1948 |page=21}}</ref> She was a regular on ''[[Jimmy Durante|The Jimmy Durante Show]]'' and appeared frequently on [[Bing Crosby]]'s radio shows during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Her relationship with Capitol spanned almost three decades aside from a brief detour (1952–1956) at Decca.<ref name="Strom2005">{{cite book|last=Strom|first=Robert|title=Miss Peggy Lee: A Career Chronicle |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X3zL9ZGtppgC&pg=PA52 |access-date=August 11, 2013 |year=2005 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-1936-4 |page=52}}</ref> For that label, she recorded ''[[Black Coffee (Peggy Lee album)|Black Coffee]]'' and had hit singles such as "[[Lover (Rodgers and Hart song)|Lover]]" and "Mister Wonderful".

In 1958, she recorded her own version of "[[Fever (Little Willie John song)|Fever]]" by [[Little Willie John]], written by [[Eddie Cooley]] and [[Otis Blackwell]].<ref name="NME Rock 'N' Roll Years 2">{{cite book |first=John |last=Tobler |year=1992 |title=NME Rock 'N' Roll Years|edition=1st|publisher=Reed International Books |location=London|page=56|id=CN 5585}}</ref> Lee created a new arrangement for the song, and added lyrics ("Romeo loved Juliet", "Captain Smith and Pocahontas"), which she neglected to copyright. Her new version of "Fever" was a hit, and was nominated in three categories at the [[1st Annual Grammy Awards|First Annual Grammy Awards]] in 1959, including [[Record of the Year]] and [[Grammy Award for Song of the Year|Song of the Year]].<ref name="Grammy" />

While Lee was in London for a 1970 engagement at [[Royal Albert Hall]], she invited Paul and [[Linda McCartney]] to dinner at [[The Dorchester]]. At the dinner, the couple gifted Lee with a song they had written entitled, "Let's Love". In July 1974, with Paul McCartney producing, Lee recorded the song at the [[Record Plant]] in Los Angeles, and it became the title track for her 40th album, her only one on [[Atlantic Records]].<ref name="Fever" />