Editing Peggy Lee

{{Short description|American singer (1920–2002)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Peggy Lee
| image              = Peggy Lee 1950.JPG
| caption            = Lee in 1950
| birth_name         = Norma Deloris Egstrom
| birth_date         = {{birth date|1920|05|26}}
| birth_place        = [[Jamestown, North Dakota]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{death date and age|2002|01|21|1920|05|26}}
| death_place        = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| resting_place      = [[Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery]]
  | occupation       = {{hlist | Singer | songwriter | actress }}
| known_for          = {{ubl | ''The Jazz Tree'' | Disney's ''[[Lady and the Tramp]]'' | ''Pete Kelly's Blues'' | ''The Jazz Singer''}}
| spouse             = {{ubl | {{marriage|[[Dave Barbour]]|1943|1951|end=div}} | {{marriage|[[Brad Dexter]]|1953|1953|end=div}} | {{marriage|[[Dewey Martin (actor)|Dewey Martin]]|1956|1958|end=div}} | {{marriage|Jack Del Rio|1964|1964|end=div}}}}
| children           = 1
| module             = {{Infobox musical artist
  | embed            = yes
  | background       = solo_singer
  | origin           = [[Valley City, North Dakota|Valley City]], [[Jamestown, North Dakota|Jamestown]], [[Wimbledon, North Dakota|Wimbledon]], [[Fargo, North Dakota]]
  | genre            = {{flatlist|
*[[Jazz]]
*[[Traditional pop|pop]]
*[[big band]]
*[[Swing music|swing]]
*[[blues]]
*[[Latin jazz]]}}
  | discography = [[Peggy Lee discography]]
  | instrument       = Vocals ([[Contralto]])
  | years_active     = 1936–2000
  | label            = {{flatlist|
*[[Capitol Records|Capitol]]
*[[Decca Records|Decca]]
*[[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]]
*[[A&M Records|A&M]]
*[[Polydor Records|Polydor]]
*[[Entertainment One Music|DRG Records]]
*[[MusicMasters Records]]
*Harbinger}}
}}
}}

'''Norma Deloris Egstrom'''{{efn|Sources vary as to the spelling of Lee's birth surname. She specified it as "Egstrom" in her autobiography,<ref>{{cite book|author=Peggy Lee|title=Miss Peggy Lee: A Biography|date=April 16, 1989 |publisher=D. Fine |isbn=1556111126}}</ref> a spelling accepted by sources such Britannica,<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peggy-Lee | title= Peggy Lee |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |date=March 8, 2024 | accessdate=March 20, 2024}}</ref> the New York Times obituary,<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/23/arts/peggy-lee-singer-whose-understated-style-kept-sizzling-for-six-decades-dies-81.html | title= Peggy Lee, Singer Whose Understated Style Kept Sizzling for Six Decades, Dies at 81 | author= Enid Nemy |work=The New York Times |date=January 23, 2002 | accessdate=March 20, 2024}}</ref> and the website peggylee.com maintained by her estate.<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.peggylee.com/all-about-peggy/biography/ | title= Peggy Lee: Biography |publisher=peggylee.com | accessdate=March 20, 2024}}</ref> However, other sources give the name as "Engstrom".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Klemesrud |first=Judy |date=April 26, 1970 |title=Peggy Lee Is Still On Top—Is That All There Is? |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/26/archives/peggy-lee-is-still-on-topis-that-all-there-is-peggy-lee.html |access-date=November 25, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Peggy Lee |url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/peggy-lee/credits/3030285111/ |access-date=November 25, 2023 |website=TVGuide.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Women & music: a history |date=2001 |publisher=Indiana Univ. Press |isbn=978-0-253-33819-8 |editor-last=Pendle |editor-first=Karin |edition=2 |location=Bloomington |pages=469}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Peggy Lee – Celebrating the Music of North Dakota! |url=https://ndmusichall.com/peggy-lee/ |access-date=November 25, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=January 22, 2002 |title=Passage: Peggy Lee, 81 |url=https://www.wired.com/2002/01/passage-peggy-lee-81/ |access-date=November 25, 2023 |magazine=Wired |language=en-US}}</ref>}} (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002), known professionally as '''Peggy Lee''', was an American [[jazz]] and [[popular music]] singer, songwriter, and actress whose career spanned seven decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with [[Benny Goodman]]'s big band, Lee created a sophisticated persona, writing music for films, acting, and recording conceptual record albums combining poetry and music. Called the "Queen of American pop music",<ref name=Deseret>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bWVTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iYUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2180%2C1350997 |first=Linda |last=Deutsch |author-link=Linda Deutsch |title='The Queen' of Pop Music Holding Tightly to Crown |page=T1 |newspaper=The Deseret News |date=November 4, 1972 |access-date=June 14, 2023 }}</ref> Lee recorded more than 1,100 [[mastering (audio)|masters]] and co-wrote over 270 songs.

==Early life==
Lee was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in [[Jamestown, North Dakota]], United States, on May 26, 1920, the seventh of the eight children of Selma Emele (née Anderson) Egstrom and Marvin Olaf Egstrom, a station agent for the [[Midland Continental Railroad]]. Her family were [[Lutheranism|Lutherans]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jc.edu/users/stevenso/peggylee/index.html |title=Miss Peggy Lee |publisher=[[University of Jamestown]] |author=Stevenson, Kate |date=October 26, 2005 |access-date=September 30, 2018 |archive-date=May 28, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528164158/http://www.jc.edu/users/stevenso/peggylee/index.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Her father was Swedish-American and her mother was Norwegian-American.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genealogi.se/shf9731.htm |title=Nättidningen Rötter – för dig som släktforskar! (Släkthistoriskt Forum) |publisher=Genealogi.se |access-date=April 10, 2012}}</ref> After her mother died when Lee was four,<ref>{{cite web|author= Torresen, David (content) and Uy, David (design) |url=http://www.peggylee.com/biography/bio_curbio.html |title=Biography – Current Biography |publisher=PeggyLee.com |access-date=December 15, 2012}}</ref> her father married Minnie Schaumberg Wiese.<ref>{{cite web|last=Eriksmoen |first=Curt |url=http://bismarcktribune.com/news/columnists/curt-eriksmoen/peggy-lee-had-a-difficult-childhood/article_f4035046-9b98-11e1-98d9-001a4bcf887a.html |title=Peggy Lee had a difficult childhood |publisher=Bismarcktribune.com |date=May 13, 2012 |access-date=December 15, 2012}}</ref> His family's original name was Ekström.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gavin |first=James |title=Is That All There Is? |date=November 11, 2014 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=9781451641684}}</ref>

Lee and her family lived in several towns along the [[Midland Continental Railroad]] (Jamestown, Nortonville and Wimbledon). She graduated from Wimbledon High School in 1937.<ref name="NDTOURISM"/>

Lee began singing from a young age. In Wimbledon, Lee was the female singer for a six-piece college dance band with leader Lyle "Doc" Haines. She traveled to various locations with Haines's quintet on Fridays after school and on weekends.<ref name="Miss Peggy Lee" />

Lee first sang professionally over [[KOVC]] radio in [[Valley City, North Dakota]], in 1936.<ref name="CimentRussell2007"/> She later had her own 15-minute Saturday radio show sponsored by a local restaurant that paid her salary in food. Both during and after her high-school years, Lee sang for small sums on local radio stations.

In October 1937, radio personality Ken Kennedy, of [[WDAY (AM)|WDAY]] in [[Fargo, North Dakota|Fargo]] (the most widely heard station in North Dakota), auditioned her and put her on the air that day, but not before he changed her name to Peggy Lee.<ref name="McMorrow2010">{{cite book|last=McMorrow|first=Merle W.|title=A Long Short Life: The Trials, Tribulations, Travels, and Trivia of an 88 Year Old Kid|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3WxkEGwVqaYC&pg=PA146|access-date=August 11, 2013|date=December 2010|publisher=Trafford Publishing|isbn=978-1-4269-4938-8|page=146}}</ref>

Lee left home and traveled to [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood, California]], at the age of 17 in March 1938. Her first job was seasonal work on [[Balboa Island, Newport Beach]], as a short order cook and waitress at Harry's Cafe. When the job ended after Easter, she was hired to work as a carnival barker at the Balboa Fun Zone. She wrote about this experience in the song, "The Nickel Ride", which she composed with [[Dave Grusin]] for the 1974 film of the same name.<ref name="Miss Peggy Lee">{{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Peggy |title=Miss Peggy Lee |date=1989 |publisher=Donald I. Fine |isbn=1-55611-112-6 |pages=74–76 }}</ref>

Later in 1938, Lee returned to Hollywood to audition for the [[MC]] at The Jade. Her employment was cut short when she fainted onstage due to overwork and an inadequate diet. After she was taken to the [[Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center]] she was told she needed a [[tonsillectomy]]. Lee returned to North Dakota for the operation.<ref name="Fever">{{cite book|last1=Richmond|first1=Peter|title=Fever : the life and music of Miss Peggy Lee|date=2007|publisher=Picador/Henry Holt|location=New York|isbn=978-0312426613|edition=1st Picador|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1IVpXzE53o8C&q=Peggy+Lee+tonsillectomy&pg=PA549|access-date=September 11, 2015}}</ref>

The following year, remaining in North Dakota, she was hired to perform regularly at [[Powers Hotel (Fargo, North Dakota)|The Powers Hotel]] in Fargo, and toured with both the Sev Olson and the [[Will Osborne (singer)|Will Osborne]] Orchestras.<ref name="bbc">{{cite news |title=100 Jazz Profiles |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazz/profiles/peggy_lee.shtml |access-date=January 8, 2021 |work=BBC Radio 3 |date=January 2014}}</ref> In 1939 she was also again broadcasting at WDAY.<ref>[https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Station-Albums/WDAY-Album-1939.pdf "Behind the Dial with WDAY" (promotional volume), 1939, n.p]</ref>

When Lee returned to California in 1940, she took a job singing at The Doll House in [[Palm Springs]]. Here, she developed her trademark sultry purr, having decided to compete with the noisy crowd with subtlety rather than volume.
[[File:Peggy_Lee_-_Chesterfield_is_my_cigarette,_1953.jpg|thumb|right|alt=Peggy Lee, famous for her sultry singing voice, featured in a cigarette ad in 1953|Peggy Lee, famous for her sultry singing voice, featured in a cigarette ad in 1953.]]

{{blockquote|I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. The more noise they made, the more softly I sang. When they discovered they couldn't hear me, they began to look at me. Then, they began to listen. As I sang, I kept thinking, 'softly with feeling'. The noise dropped to a hum; the hum gave way to silence. I had learned how to reach and hold my audience—softly, with feeling.<ref name="Miss Peggy Lee" />}}

While performing at The Doll House, Lee met Frank Bering, the owner of the Ambassador East and West in Chicago. He offered her a gig at the Buttery Room, a nightclub in the [[Ambassador West|Ambassador Hotel West]]. There, she was noticed by bandleader [[Benny Goodman]]. According to Lee:
{{blockquote|Benny's then-fiancée, Lady Alice Duckworth, came into the Buttery, and she was very impressed. So the next evening, she brought Benny in, because they were looking for a replacement for [[Helen Forrest]]. And although I didn't know, I was it. He was looking at me strangely, I thought, but it was just his preoccupied way of looking. I thought that he didn't like me at first, but it just was that he was preoccupied with what he was hearing.}}
She joined his band in August 1941 and made her first recording, singing "[[Elmer's Tune]]". Lee stayed with the Benny Goodman Orchestra for two years.<ref name="Balliett2006">{{cite book|last=Balliett|first=Whitney|title=American Singers: Twenty-Seven Portraits in Song|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=25yl91-bDt8C&pg=PA88|access-date=August 11, 2013|year=2006|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-57806-835-7|page=88}}</ref><ref name="Mackin2008">{{cite book|last=Mackin|first=Tom|title=Brief Encounters: From Einstein to Elvis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bn61Y8umuPQC&pg=PA230|access-date=August 11, 2013|date=June 1, 2008|publisher=AuthorHouse|isbn=978-1-4343-8561-1|page=230}}</ref>

==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" />

==Acting career==
[[File:Peggy_Lee_Danny_Thomas_The_Jazz_Singer_1952.JPG|thumb|right|alt=Photo of Peggy Lee and Danny Thomas from The Jazz Singer|Photo of Peggy Lee and Danny Thomas from The Jazz Singer]]
Lee starred opposite [[Danny Thomas]] in ''[[The Jazz Singer (1952 film)|The Jazz Singer]]'' (1952), a remake of the Al Jolson film, ''[[The Jazz Singer]]'' (1927). She played an alcoholic blues singer in ''[[Pete Kelly's Blues (film)|Pete Kelly's Blues]]'' (1955), for which she was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress]].<ref name="NME Rock 'N' Roll Years">{{cite book|first=John|last=Tobler|year=1992|title=NME Rock 'N' Roll Years|edition=1st|publisher=Reed International Books Ltd|location=London|page=18|id=CN 5585}}</ref>

Lee provided speaking and singing voices for several characters in the [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] movie ''[[Lady and the Tramp]]'' (1955), playing the human Darling, the dog Peg, and the two [[Siamese cat]]s, [[Si and Am]]. She also co-wrote, with [[Sonny Burke]], all of the original songs for the film, including "He's A Tramp", "Bella Notte", "La La Lu", "The Siamese Cat Song", and "Peace on Earth". In 1987, when ''Lady and the Tramp'' was released on [[VHS]], Lee sought performance and song royalties on the video sales. When the Disney company refused to pay, she filed a lawsuit in 1988. After a prolonged legal battle, in 1992, Lee was awarded $2.3 million for breach of contract, plus $500,000 for unjust enrichment, $600,000 for illegal use of Lee's voice and $400,000 for the use of her name.<ref name="Cartoon Brew">{{cite news |last1=Gabriel |first1=Brian |title=Lady and the Lawsuit: Peggy Lee's War With Disney |url=https://www.cartoonbrew.com/disney/peggy-lee-war-disney-lady-and-the-tramp-113688.html |access-date=January 10, 2021 |work=Cartoon Brew |date=September 4, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Los Angeles Times">{{cite news |last1=Bernstein |first1=Sharon |title=Peggy Lee Awarded Disney Damages : Courts: Amount from 'Lady and Tramp' video rights is in dispute. Singer contends it is $3.8 million but company says $2.3 million. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-03-21-me-846-story.html |access-date=January 17, 2021 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=March 21, 1991}}</ref>

Peggy Lee also wrote the lyrics for "[[Johnny Guitar (song)|Johnny Guitar]]" (with music composer [[Victor Young]]), the title track of the 1954 film, ''[[Johnny Guitar]]'', which she sings partially at the end of the movie.

During her career, Lee appeared in hundreds of variety shows, and several TV movies and specials.

==Personal life==
Lee was married four times: to guitarist and composer Dave Barbour (1943–1951),<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/nicki-lee-barbour-foster-dead-749968 |title=Nicki Lee Barbour Foster, Daughter of Peggy Lee, Dies at 71 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|first=Mike|last=Barnes|date=November 18, 2014|access-date=December 5, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mtexpress.com/obituaries/nicki-lee-barbour-foster/article_3c7dfc8c-6f85-11e4-9dda-a7c93496c8cd.html|title=Nicki Lee Barbour Foster |website= Mtexpress.com |date=November 19, 2014 |access-date=December 5, 2017}}</ref> actor [[Brad Dexter]] (1953), actor [[Dewey Martin (actor)|Dewey Martin]] (1956–1958), and percussionist Jack Del Rio (1964).<ref name="Fever" /> All the marriages ended in divorce.

On November 11, 1943, Lee gave birth to her only child, daughter Nicki Lee Foster (who died in 2014), in her marriage to Barbour.<ref>{{cite web
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 | title = Nicki Lee Barbour Foster
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 | date = November 18, 2014
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Lee learned [[Transcendental Meditation]] and said she was taught "by the Maharishi personally and that was a great honor."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.peggylee.com/peggy-lee-a-consummate-artist/ |title=Peggy Lee: A Consummate Artist |first=David |last=McGee|website=Peggy Lee |date=January 18, 2013 |access-date=October 4, 2022}}</ref>

==Death==
[[File:Peggy Lee grave at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Brentwood, California.JPG|thumb|The Peggy Lee bench-style burial monument]]
Lee continued to perform into the 1990s, sometimes using a wheelchair.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/07/news/sounds-around-town-615692.html |work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Sounds Around Town|first=Stephen|last=Holden|date=August 7, 1992}}</ref> After years of poor health, she died of complications from diabetes and a heart attack on January 21, 2002, at the age of 81.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/jan/23/guardianobituaries.johnfordham |title=Obituary: Peggy Lee |first=John|last=Fordham|date=January 23, 2002|access-date=December 5, 2017|website=Theguardian.com}}</ref> She was cremated and her ashes were buried with a bench-style monument in [[Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery]] in Los Angeles.<ref name="Daily Green">{{cite news |last1=Lucini |first1=Gianni |title=Peggy Lee, l'altra Norma Jean |url=https://www.dailygreen.it/33083-2/ |access-date=December 29, 2020 |work=Daily Green |date=May 28, 2018}}</ref>

==Awards and honors==
Lee was nominated for 13 Grammy Awards. In 1969, her hit "[[Is That All There Is? (album)|Is That All There Is?]]" won her the Grammy for [[Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance|Best Contemporary Vocal Performance]]. In 1995, she was given the [[Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award]].<ref name="Grammy">{{cite web |title=Artist Peggy Lee |url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/peggy-lee/4211 |website=grammy.com|date=November 23, 2020 }}</ref>

She received the [[Rough Rider Award]] from the state of North Dakota in 1975,<ref name="ND">{{cite web |title=Peggy Lee |url=https://www.governor.nd.gov/theodore-roosevelt-rough-rider-award/peggy-lee |website=North Dakota Office of the Governor |access-date=December 29, 2020}}</ref> the Pied Piper Award from the [[American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers]] in 1990,<ref name="ASCAP">{{cite web |title=ASCAP Pied Piper Award |url=https://www.ascap.com/news-events/awards/pied-piper-award |website=ascap.com |access-date=December 29, 2020}}</ref> the Ella Award for Lifetime Achievement from the [[Society of Singers]] in 1994,<ref name="LA Times2">{{cite news |last1=Stein |first1=Jeannine |title=RSVP'S Wonderful : Society of Singers and Friends Galore Salute Jazzy Peggy Lee |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-05-11-ls-56157-story.html |access-date=December 29, 2020 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> the Living Legacy Award from the Women's International Center in 1994,<ref name="WIC">{{cite web |title=Peggy Lee A Renaissance Woman With A Conscience |url=http://www.wic.org/bio/plee.htm |website=Women's International Center |access-date=December 29, 2020}}</ref> and the Presidents Award from the [[Songwriters Guild of America]] in 1999.<ref name="Songwriters HOF">{{cite web |title=Songwriter, composer, lyricist, jazz and pop vocal sensation and actress |url=https://www.songhall.org/profile/Peggy_Lee |website=Songwriters Hall of Fame |access-date=December 29, 2020}}</ref> Other honors include induction into the Big Band Jazz Hall of Fame in 1992,<ref name="Hit Songs">{{cite book |last1=Tyler |first1=Don |title=Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era |date=2007 |publisher=McFarland & Co. |isbn=978-0-7864-2946-2 |page=430 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hSCfBQAAQBAJ&q=%22Peggy+Lee%22+%2C+%22Big+Band+Jazz+Hall+of+Fame%22&pg=PA430 |access-date=December 30, 2020}}</ref> the [[Songwriters Hall of Fame]] in 1999,<ref name="American Songwriter">{{cite news |last1=Dye |first1=Robert |title=ASCAP Announces Inaugural Peggy Lee Songwriter Award Winners: Michael Blum And Jenna Lotti |url=https://americansongwriter.com/ascap-announces-inaugural-peggy-lee-songwriter-award-winners-michael-blum-and-jenna-lotti/ |access-date=December 30, 2020 |work=American Songwriter |date=August 2020}}</ref> and the Songbook Hall of Fame from the [[Great American Songbook Foundation]] in 2020.<ref name="Songbook Hall">{{cite web |title=Peggy Lee Induction Week - Songbook Hall of Fame |url=https://thesongbook.org/peggyleeHOF |website=Songbook Hall of Fame |access-date=December 30, 2020}}</ref>

==Tributes and legacy==
Lee is often cited as the inspiration for the [[Margarita]] cocktail. In 1948, after a trip to Mexico, she and her husband ventured into the [[Balinese Room]] in [[Galveston, Texas]]. She requested a drink similar to one she had had in Mexico, and the head bartender, Santos Cruz, created the Margarita, and named it after the Spanish version of Peggy's name.<ref name="KPRC-TV">{{cite news |last1=Cochran |first1=Amanda |title=Galveston family makes claim to margarita fame |url=https://www.click2houston.com/news/2017/02/22/galveston-family-makes-claim-to-margarita-fame/ |access-date=January 1, 2021 |work=KPRC-TV |date=February 20, 2017}}</ref>

Lee was awarded a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] for Recording in 1960. The star is located at 6319 Hollywood Boulevard in California.<ref name="walk of fame">{{cite news |title=Peggy Lee |url=https://walkoffame.com/peggy-lee/ |newspaper=Hollywood Walk of Fame |date=October 25, 2019 |access-date=January 1, 2021|author1=Chad }}</ref>

Baseball's [[Tug McGraw]], whose career with both the [[New York Mets]] and [[Philadelphia Phillies]] ranged from 1965 to 1984, named one of his pitches the Peggy Lee. He explained to ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'': "That's the one where the hitter is out in front of it and says, 'Is that all there is?{{'"}}<ref name="Phil Inquirer">{{cite news |last1=Conlin |first1=Bill |title=Little Luis Gives Phils Big Lift |url=https://1980phillies.jimdofree.com/may/may-2-vs-la/philadelphia-daily-news/?mobile=1 |access-date=January 5, 2021 |work=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |date=May 2, 1980}}</ref>

In 1971, Lee sang the [[Lord's Prayer]] at the funeral of [[Louis Armstrong]].<ref name="NY Times">{{cite news |last1=Lelyveld |first1=Joseph |title=Friends Bid Louis Armstrong a Nostalgic Farewell at Simple Service |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/10/archives/friends-bid-louis-armstrong-a-nostalgic-farewell-at-simple-service.html?auth=login-google1tap&login=google1tap |access-date=January 2, 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 10, 1971}}</ref>

The designer of the [[Miss Piggy]] [[Muppet]], [[Bonnie Erickson]], who grew up in Lee's home state of North Dakota, used the singer as inspiration for the Miss Piggy character in 1974. Originally called Miss Piggy Lee, her name was shortened to Miss Piggy when the Muppet gained fame.<ref name="Smithsonian">{{cite news |last1=Gupta |first1=Anika |title=The Woman Behind Miss Piggy |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-woman-behind-miss-piggy-11290861/ |access-date=January 2, 2021 |work=Smithsonian Magazine |date=October 2008}}</ref>

In 1975, Lee received an honorary doctorate in music from North Dakota State University,<ref name="Fever" /> and in 2000, she received another from Jamestown University.<ref name="Midland Daily">{{cite news |title=Singer Peggy Lee's Portrait Hangs in N.D. |url=https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Singer-Peggy-Lee-s-Portrait-Hangs-in-N-D-7097958.php |access-date=January 8, 2021 |work=Our Midland Daily News |issue=Associated Press |date=May 15, 2003}}</ref>

In 1983, Lee had a hybrid tea rose named in her honor that was pink with a touch of peach. The Peggy Lee Rose was the 1983 American Beauty Rose of the Year.<ref name="Bismarck">{{cite news |last1=Eriksmoen |first1=Curt |title=Tea, rose and muppet honor Peggy Lee |url=https://bismarcktribune.com/news/columnists/curt-eriksmoen/tea-rose-and-muppet-honor-peggy-lee/article_7875328a-a68f-11e1-9761-001a4bcf887a.html |access-date=January 1, 2021 |work=Bismarck Tribune |date=May 27, 2012}}</ref><ref name="Seguin">{{cite news |last1=Brice |first1=Ted |title=National rose award told |work=Seguin Gazette-Enterprise |date=October 24, 1982}}</ref>

In 2003, "There'll Be Another Spring: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee" was held at Carnegie Hall.<ref>{{cite web|author=David Torresen (content) and David Uy (design) |url=http://www.peggylee.com/solos/carnegie.html |title=There'll Be Another Spring: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee |publisher=PeggyLee.com |date=June 23, 2003 |access-date=April 10, 2012}}</ref> Produced by recording artist [[Richard Barone]], the sold-out event included performances by [[Cy Coleman]], [[Debbie Harry]], [[Nancy Sinatra]], [[Rita Moreno]], [[Marian McPartland]], [[Chris Connor]], [[Petula Clark]], [[Maria Muldaur]], [[Dee Dee Bridgewater]], [[Quincy Jones]], [[Shirley Horn]], and others. In 2004, Barone brought the event to a sold-out [[Hollywood Bowl]],<ref>{{cite web|author=David Torresen (content) and David Uy (design) |url=http://www.peggylee.com/solos/july2004.html |title=There'll Be Another Spring: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee |publisher=PeggyLee.com |access-date=April 10, 2012}}</ref> and then to Chicago's [[Ravinia Festival]], with expanded casts including [[Maureen McGovern]], [[Jack Jones (singer)|Jack Jones]], and [[Bea Arthur]].<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Robert L. |last=Daniels|url=https://variety.com/2003/music/reviews/there-ll-be-another-spring-a-tribute-to-miss-peggy-lee-1200540893/ |title=There'll Be Another Spring – A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee|magazine=Variety.com|date=June 24, 2003 |access-date=August 28, 2018}}</ref> The Carnegie Hall concert was broadcast on [[NPR]]'s ''JazzSet''.

The Wimbledon depot building, where she and her family lived and worked, became the Midland Continental Depot Transportation Museum, featuring The Peggy Lee Exhibit, in 2012. The upper floor of the museum, where the Egstrom family once lived, features exhibits that trace Lee's career and her regional and state connection.<ref name="NDTOURISM">{{cite web |title=MIDLAND CONTINENTAL DEPOT TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM FEATURING PEGGY LEE |url=https://www.ndtourism.com/wimbledon/attractions/midland-continental-depot-transportation-museum-featuring-peggy-lee |website=ndtourism.com |access-date=January 17, 2021}}</ref>

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Lee's birth, May 26, 2020, The Grammy Museum hosted an online panel discussion featuring musicians [[Billie Eilish]], [[k.d. lang]], Eric Burton ([[Black Pumas|The Black Pumas]]), as well as Lee's granddaughter, Holly Foster Wells, and the author of ''Peggy Lee: A Century of Song'', Dr. Tish Oney.<ref name="100 celebrate">{{cite web |title=GRAMMY Museum To Celebrate Peggy Lee's 100th Birthday With Panel Featuring Billie Eilish, k.d. lang & More Plus An Online Exhibit |url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/grammy-museum-celebrate-peggy-lees-100th-birthday-panel-featuring-billie-eilish-kd-lang |website=grammy.com |date=May 20, 2020 |access-date=January 1, 2021}}</ref>

Lee has been noted as a musical influence on other artists such as [[Paul McCartney]],<ref name="La Nacion">{{cite news |last1=Andres |first1=Jorge H. |title=Música popular. Peggy Lee, irreemplazable |url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/espectaculos/musica/peggy-lee-irreemplazable-nid371488/ |access-date=January 2, 2021 |work=La Nacion |date=February 4, 2002}}</ref> [[Madonna]], [[Beyoncé]],<ref name="WSJ">{{cite news |last1=Friedwald |first1=Will |title=It's Time to Retire 'Fever' |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/its-time-to-retire-fever-1479505517 |access-date=January 2, 2021 |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=November 18, 2016}}</ref> k.d. lang,<ref name="EW">{{cite magazine |last1=lang |first1=k.d. |title=k.d. lang remembers Peggy Lee |url=https://ew.com/article/2002/12/23/kd-lang-remembers-peggy-lee/ |access-date=January 2, 2021 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=May 23, 2002}}</ref> [[Elvis Costello]],<ref name="Vanity Fair">{{cite magazine |last1=Costello |first1=Elvis |title=Costello's 500 |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2000/11/elvis-costello-500-favorite-albums |access-date=January 2, 2021 |magazine=Vanity Fair |date=August 26, 2013}}</ref> [[Diana Krall]],<ref name="LA Times">{{cite news |last1=Heckman |first1=Don |title=Peggy Lee Did Do Right by Her Material |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jan-25-et-don25-story.html |access-date=January 4, 2021 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=January 25, 2002}}</ref> [[Dusty Springfield]],<ref name="Sunday Post">{{cite news |last1=Campbell |first1=Craig |title=The story of Dusty Springfield, part one: Star blazed a trail for female singers in the music world |url=https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/woman-who-blazed-a-trail-for-female-singers-in-the-music-world/ |access-date=January 4, 2021 |work=The Sunday Post |date=October 23, 2019}}</ref> [[Rita Coolidge]],<ref name="NPR">{{cite news |last1=Hansen |first1=Liane |title=Coming Up: Rita Coolidge |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4799695 |access-date=January 4, 2021 |work=NPR |date=August 14, 2005}}</ref> [[Rita Moreno]],<ref name="Observer">{{cite news |last1=Reed |first1=Rex |title=Darling Rita! Moreno Moves |url=https://observer.com/2007/01/darling-rita-moreno-moves/ |access-date=January 4, 2021 |work=Observer |date=January 29, 2007}}</ref> and [[Billie Eilish]].<ref name="OC Register">{{cite news |last1=Larsen |first1=Peter |title=100 years after her birth, Peggy Lee celebrated with a book on her 'Century of Song' |url=https://www.ocregister.com/2020/08/22/100-years-after-her-birth-peggy-lee-celebrated-with-a-book-on-her-century-of-song/ |access-date=January 4, 2021 |work=[[Orange County Register]] |date=August 22, 2020}}</ref>

In 2020, the [[American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers|ASCAP Foundation]], along with Lee's family, established the annual Peggy Lee Songwriter Award. The inaugural award went to [[Michael Blum (musician)|Michael Blum]] and Jenna Lotti for their song, "Fake ID".<ref name="ASCAP 2">{{cite web |title=The ASCAP Foundation Peggy Lee Songwriter Award |url=https://www.ascapfoundation.org/ascapfoundation/programs/awards/peggy-lee |website=ascap.com |access-date=January 7, 2021}}</ref>

==Discography==
{{Main|Peggy Lee albums discography|Peggy Lee singles discography}}

* ''[[Rendezvous with Peggy Lee]]'' (Capitol, 1948; 1950 [10"]; 1955 [12"])
* ''Benny Goodman with Peggy Lee'' (Columbia, 1949)
* ''My Best to You: Peggy Lee Sings'' (Capitol, 1950)
* ''Road to Bali: Selections from the Paramount Picture'' (Decca, 1952)
* ''[[Black Coffee (Peggy Lee album)|Black Coffee]]'' (Decca, 1953; 1956 [12"])
* ''[[Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas]]'' (Decca, 1954)
* ''Peggy: Songs in an Intimate Style'' (Decca, 1954)
* ''[[Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues]]'' (Decca, 1955)
* ''Songs from Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp'' (Decca, 1955)
* ''[[The Man I Love (album)|The Man I Love]]'' (Capitol, 1957)
* ''[[Peggy Lee Sings with Benny Goodman]]'' (Harmony, 1957)
* ''[[Dream Street (Peggy Lee album)|Dream Street]]'' (Decca, 1957)
* ''[[Jump for Joy (Peggy Lee album)|Jump for Joy]]'' (Capitol, 1958)
* ''[[Things Are Swingin']]'' (Capitol, 1958)
* ''[[Miss Wonderful]]'' (Decca, 1958)
* ''[[Sea Shells]]'' (Decca, 1958)
* ''[[Beauty and the Beat!]]'' with George Shearing (Capitol, 1959)
* ''[[I Like Men!]]'' (Capitol, 1959)
* ''[[Christmas Carousel]]'' (Capitol, 1960)
* ''[[Latin ala Lee!]]'' (Capitol, 1960)
* ''[[Pretty Eyes]]'' (Capitol, 1960)
* ''[[Basin Street East Proudly Presents Miss Peggy Lee]]'' (Capitol, 1961)
* ''[[If You Go]]'' (Capitol, 1961)
* ''[[Olé ala Lee]]'' (Capitol, 1960)
* ''[[All Aglow Again!]]'' (1960)
* ''[[Sugar 'n' Spice (Peggy Lee album)|Sugar 'n' Spice]]'' (Capitol, 1962)
* ''[[Blues Cross Country]]'' (Capitol, 1962)
* ''The Fabulous Peggy Lee'' (Decca, 1963)
* ''[[Mink Jazz]]'' (Capitol, 1963)
* ''The Fabulous Miss Lee'' (World Record Club, 1963)
* ''[[I'm a Woman (Peggy Lee album)|I'm a Woman]]'' (Capitol, 1963)
* ''Lover'' (Decca, 1963)
* ''[[In the Name of Love (Peggy Lee album)|In the Name of Love]]'' (Capitol, 1964)
* ''[[In Love Again!]]'' (Capitol, 1964)
* ''[[Then Was Then – Now Is Now!]]'' (Capitol, 1965)
* ''[[Pass Me By (album)|Pass Me By]]'' (Capitol, 1965)
* ''Happy Holiday'' (Capitol, 1965)
* ''[[Guitars a là Lee]]'' (Capitol, 1966)
* ''[[Big $pender]]'' (Capitol, 1966)
* ''So Blue'' (Vocalion, 1966)
* ''[[Extra Special!]]'' (Capitol, 1967)
* ''[[Somethin' Groovy!]]'' (Capitol, 1967)
* ''[[2 Shows Nightly]]'' (Capitol, 1968)
* ''[[Is That All There Is? (album)|Is That All There Is?]]'' (Capitol, 1969)
* ''[[A Natural Woman (album)|A Natural Woman]]'' (Capitol, 1969)
* ''[[Bridge Over Troubled Water (Peggy Lee album)|Bridge Over Troubled Water]]'' (Capitol, 1970)
* ''[[Make It with You (album)|Make It With You]]'' (Capitol, 1970)
* ''Crazy in the Heart'' (Vocalion, 1970)
* ''[[Where Did They Go (album)|Where Did They Go]]'' (Capitol, 1971)
* ''[[Norma Deloris Egstrom from Jamestown, North Dakota]]'' (Capitol, 1972)
* ''Peggy Lee'' (Everest Archive, 1974)
* ''[[Let's Love (album)|Let's Love]]'' (Atlantic, 1974)
* ''[[Mirrors (Peggy Lee album)|Mirrors]]'' (A&M, 1975)
* ''[[Peggy (album)|Peggy]]'' (Polydor, 1977)
* ''[[Live in London (Peggy Lee album)|Live in London]]'' (Polydor, 1977)
* ''Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp: All the Songs from the Film'' (Disneyland, 1979)
* ''[[Close Enough for Love (Peggy Lee album)|Close Enough for Love]]'' (DRG, 1979)
* ''You Can Depend On Me: 14 Previously Unreleased Songs'' (Glendale, 1981)
* ''The Music Makers Program 116 for Broadcast Week of 4/19/82'' (Music Makers, 1982)
* ''Easy Listening'' with Woody Herman, Dave Barbour (Artistic Art, 1984)
* ''The Uncollected Peggy Lee'' (Hindsight, 1985)
* ''If I Could Be with You'' (Sounds Rare 1986)
* ''[[Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues]]'' (Musicmasters, 1988)
* ''[[The Peggy Lee Songbook: There'll Be Another Spring]]'' (Musical Heritage Society, 1990)
* ''Peggy Lee with the Dave Barbour Band'' (Laserlight, 1991)
* ''[[Love Held Lightly: Rare Songs by Harold Arlen]]'' (Angel, 1993)
* ''[[Moments Like This (album)|Moments Like This]]'' (Chesky, 1993)

==Songwriting==
Lee wrote or co-wrote more than 270 songs.<ref name="Tish book">{{cite book |last1=Oney |first1=Dr. Tish |title=Peggy Lee |date=2020 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-5381-2847-3}}</ref> In addition to her own material to sing, she was hired to score and compose songs for movies. For the Disney movie ''[[Lady and the Tramp]]'', she co-composed all of the original songs with Burke, and supplied the singing and speaking voices of four characters.<ref name="PeggyLee Website">{{cite web|title=Lady and the Tramp – 50th Anniversary Edition|url=http://www.peggylee.com/new/0602_ladyandthetramp.html |publisher=PeggyLee.com |date=February 28, 2006}}</ref>

Over the years, her songwriting collaborators included David Barbour, [[Laurindo Almeida]], [[Harold Arlen]], Sonny Burke, Cy Coleman, [[Duke Ellington]], Dave Grusin, Quincy Jones, [[Francis Lai]], [[Jack Marshall (composer)|Jack Marshall]], [[Johnny Mandel]], [[Marian McPartland]], [[Willard Robison]], [[Lalo Schifrin]], and Victor Young.

Lee's first published song was in 1941, "Little Fool". "What More Can a Woman Do?" was recorded by [[Sarah Vaughan]] with [[Dizzy Gillespie]] and [[Charlie Parker]]. "[[Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)]]" was number one on the Billboard singles chart for nine weeks in 1948, from the week of March 13 to May 8.

Lee was a mainstay of Capitol Records when rock and roll came onto the American music scene. She was among the first of the "old guard" to recognize this new genre, as seen by her recording music from [[the Beatles]], [[Randy Newman]], [[Carole King]], [[James Taylor]], and other up-and-coming songwriters. From 1957 until her final disc for the company in 1972, she produced a steady stream of two or three albums per year that usually included standards (often arranged quite differently from the original), her own compositions, and material from young artists.

Many of her compositions have become standards, performed by singers such as [[Tony Bennett]], [[Nat King Cole]], [[Natalie Cole]], Bing Crosby, [[Doris Day]], [[Ella Fitzgerald]], [[Judy Garland]], [[Diana Krall]], [[Queen Latifah]], [[Barry Manilow]], [[Bette Midler]], [[Janelle Monae]], [[Nina Simone]], [[Regina Spektor]], [[Sarah Vaughan]] and others.<ref name="FW Business">{{cite news |title=Peggy Lee 'Fever' continues during centennial celebration |url=https://fortworthbusiness.com/culture/peggy-lee-fever-continues-during-centennial-celebration/ |access-date=January 10, 2021 |work=Fort Worth Business |date=July 17, 2020}}</ref>

==Chart hits==
===Singles===
<ref name="BB Chart">{{cite magazine |title=Peggy Lee Chart History |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/peggy-lee |access-date=December 31, 2020 |magazine=Billboard |date=December 2020}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!Title
!Notes
!Peak Pop chart position
!Date
|-
|"I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good"
|With Benny Goodman
|25
|11/15/41
|-
|"Winter Weather"
|Duet with Art Lund with Benny Goodman
|24
|1/10/42
|-
|"Blues in the Night"
| rowspan="7" |With Benny Goodman
|20
|2/14/42
|-
|"[[Somebody Else is Taking My Place]]"
|1
|3/7/42
|-
|"My Little Cousin"
|14
|4/11/42
|-
|"We'll Meet Again
|16
|5/23/42
|-
|"Full Moon (Noche de Luna)"
|22
|6/13/42
|-
|"The Way You Look Tonight"
|21
|6/27/42
|-
|Why Don't You Do Right?"
|4
|1/2/43
|-
|"Waitin' for the Train to Come In"
|
|4
|11/10/45
|-
|"I'm Glad I Waited for You"
|
|24
|3/30/46
|-
|"I Don't Know Enough About You"
|
|7
|5/25/46
|-
|"Linger in My Arms a Little Longer, Baby"
|
|16
|9/28/46
|-
|"It's All Over Now"
|
|10
|11/23/46
|-
|"It's a Good Day"
|
|16
|1/18/47
|-
|"Everything's Moving Too Fast"
|
|21
|2/8/47
|-
|"Chi-baba, Chi-baba (My Bambino, Go to Sleep)"
|
|10
|6/28/47
|-
|"Golden Earrings"
|
|2
|11/15/47
|-
|"I'll Dance at Your Wedding"
|
|11
|12/20/47
|-
|"Mañana"
|
|1
|1/24/48
|-
|"All Dressed Up With a Broken Heart"
|
|21
|1/31/48
|-
|"For Every Man There's a Woman"
|
|25
|2/28/48
|-
|"Laroo, Laroo, Lili Bolero"
|
|13
|4/3/48
|-
|"Talking to Myself About You"
|
|23
|4/17/48
|-
|"Don't Smoke in Bed"
|
|22
|5/15/48
|-
|"Caramba! It's the Samba!"
|
|13
|6/5/48
|-
|"Baby, Don't Be Mad at Me"
|
|21
|6/5/48
|-
|"Somebody Else Is Taking My Place"
|Reissue of 1942 single
|30
|6/19/48
|-
|"Bubble Loo, Bubble Loo"
|
|23
|7/3/48
|-
|"Blum Blum, I Wonder Who I Am"
|
|27
|3/12/49
|-
|"Similau (See-Me-Lo)"
|
|17
|4/23/49
|-
|"Bali Ha'i"
|
|13
|5/14/49
|-
|"Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)"
|
|2
|5/28/49
|-
|"The Old Master Painter"
|Duet with Mel Tormé
|9
|1/7/50
|-
|"Show Me the Way to Get Out of This World"
|
|28
|8/26/50
|-
|"(When I Dance with You) I Get Ideas"
|
|14
|9/8/51
|-
|"Be Anything (But Be Mine)"
|
|21
|5/24/52
|-
|"Lover"
|
|3
|6/7/52
|-
|"Watermelon Weather"
|Duet with Bing Crosby
|28
|7/26/52
|-
|"Just One of Those Things"
|
|14
|8/2/52
|-
|"River, River"
|
|23
|11/22/52
|-
|"Who's Gonna Pay the Check?"
|
|22
|5/23/53
|-
|"Baubles, Bangles and Beads"
|
|30
|12/5/53
|-
|"Where Can I Go Without You?"
|
|28
|3/13/54
|-
|"Let Me Go, Lover"
|
|26
|12/18/54
|-
|"Mr. Wonderful"
|
|14
|3/3/56
|-
|"Joey, Joey, Joey"
|
|76
|5/5/56
|-
|"[[Fever (Little Willie John song)|Fever]]"
|
|8
|7/14/58
|-
|"Light of Love"
|
|63
|11/3/58
|-
|"Sweetheart"
|
|98
|11/24/58
|-
|"[[Alright, Okay, You Win]]"
|
|68
|1/26/59
|-
|"My Man"
|
|81
|1/19/59
|-
|"Hallelujah, I Love Him So"
|
|77
|8/18/59
|-
|"I'm a Woman"
|
|54
|1/5/63
|-
|"Pass Me By"
| rowspan="10" |Adult Contemporary chart
|20
|3/13/65
|-
|"Free Spirits"
|29
|10/23/65
|-
|"[[Big Spender]]"
|9
|1/29/66
|-
|"That Man"
|31
|4/9/66
|-
|"You've Got Possibilities"
|6
|6/18/66
|-
|"So What's New"
|20
|10/15/66
|-
|"Walking Happy"
|14
|10/22/66
|-
|"I Feel It"
|8
|9/30/67
|-
|"[[Spinning Wheel (song)|Spinning Wheel]]"
|24
|5/3/69
|-
|"[[Is That All There Is?]]"
|1
|9/1/69
|-
|"Is That All There Is?"
|
|11
|9/27/69
|-
|"Whistle for Happiness"
| rowspan="6" |Adult Contemporary chart
|13
|12/20/69
|-
|"Love Story"
|26
|2/7/70
|-
|"You'll Remember Me"
|16
|5/9/70
|-
|"One More Ride on the Merry-Go-Round"
|21
|10/3/70
|-
|"Love Song"
|34
|10/7/72
|-
|"Let's Love"
|22
|11/2/74
|}

===Albums===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!Title
!Notes
!Peak Pop chart position
!Date
|-
|''Songs from White Christmas''
|With Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye
|2
|1/1/55
|-
|''Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues''
|With Ella Fitzgerald
|7
|9/17/55
|-
|''The Man I Love''
|
|20
|9/23/57
|-
|''Jump for Joy''
|
|15
|7/14/58
|-
|''Things Are Swingin’''
|
|16
|12/8/58
|-
|''Beauty and the Beat''
|
|19
|9/12/59
|-
|''Latin ala Lee''
|
|11
|4/11/60
|-
|''Basin Street East Proudly Presents Miss Peggy Lee''
|
|77
|9/11/61
|-
|''Bewitching-Lee!''
|
|85
|8/25/62
|-
|''Sugar ‘n’ Spice''
|
|40
|11/17/62
|-
|''I'm a Woman''
|
|18
|3/9/63
|-
|''Mink Jazz''
|
|42
|7/27/63
|-
|''In the Name of Love''
|
|97
|9/26/64
|-
|''Pass Me By''
|
|145
|5/22/65
|-
|''Big Spender''
|
|130
|7/30/66
|-
|''Is That All There Is?''
|
|55
|12/13/69
|-
|''Bridge Over Troubled Water''
|
|142
|6/6/70
|-
|''Make It With You''
|
|194
|12/19/70
|}

==Bibliography==
* Friedwald, Will. Liner notes for ''The Best of Peggy Lee: The Capitol Years''.
* Gavin, James. ''Is That All There Is? – The Strange Life of Peggy Lee''. Atria Books, 2014. {{ISBN|978-1-4516-4168-4}}
* Lee, Peggy. ''Miss Peggy Lee: An Autobiography''. Donald I. Fine, 1989. {{ISBN|978-1-5561-1112-9}}
* Oney, Dr. Tish Oney, ''Peggy Lee: A Century of Song''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. {{ISBN|978-1-5381-2847-3}}
* Richmond, Peter, ''Fever: The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee''. Henry Holt and Company, 2006. {{ISBN|0-8050-7383-3}}
* Strom, Robert. ''Miss Peggy Lee: A Career Chronicle''. McFarland Publishing, 2005. {{ISBN|0-7864-1936-9}}

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
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* {{Official website|http://www.peggylee.com/}}
* [http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Lee/index.html Peggy Lee Discography]
* {{IMDb name|498007}}
* {{IBDB name|8086}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071011104952/http://www.macleans.ca/culture/entertainment/article.jsp?content=20060417_125049_125049 Review of a Peggy Lee biography] by [[Mark Steyn]]
* [http://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/peggy-lee Peggy Lee Interview] at [[NAMM Oral History Program|NAMM Oral History Collection]] (1994)

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