Peggy Lee

Peggy Lee was born Norma Deloris Egstrom on May 26, 1920, in Jamestown, North Dakota. At age 14, she started performing with a local band, The Doc Haines Orchestra, and singing with them for radio stations. While the program director at WDAY in Fargo was fond of Egstrom's voice, he liked her name less. He decided she looked “like a Peggy,” and renamed her Peggy Lee.

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SINGER & ACTRESS GALE STORM DIES

Josephine Owaissa Cottle (April 5, 1922 - June 27, 2009), better known as Gale Storm, was an American actress and singer, who starred in two popular television programs of the 1950s, My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show and had a few modest pop recording hits of the day.
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Vikki Carr "Discovery" (1968)

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Vic Damone loved the art, not the biz

As a general rule, it’s wise not to expect modesty from a celebrity autobiography, but there it is, right up front in Vic Damone’s book Singing Was the Easy Part. MORE

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Joanie Sommers

Joanie Sommers (born Joan Drost, Buffalo, New York, February 24, 1941), is an American singer and actress. Sommers was a popular singer during the 1960s. In 1962, she reached #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 with the single Johnny Get Angry, released on Warner Bros. Records. (Will Ryan wrote and produced a sequel song, Johnny Got Angry, for Sommers during the 1990s.) In the early 1960s, she sang It's Pepsi, For Those Who Think Young in commercials, and she came to be referred to as "The Pepsi Girl". In the early 1970s, she withdrew from the music scene in favor of a family life. She began making public appearances again during the 1980s, including two appearances on KCRW's satirical radio program, The Cool & the Crazy.

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Happy Birthday, Peggy Lee, Actress and Award-Winning Jazz-Pop Singer

Peggy Lee was born Norma Deloris Egstrom on May 26, 1920, in Jamestown, North Dakota. At age 14, she started performing with a local band, The Doc Haines Orchestra, and singing with them for radio stations. While the program director at WDAY in Fargo was fond of Egstrom's voice, he liked her name less. He decided she looked “like a Peggy,” and renamed her Peggy Lee.

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Rosemary Clooney

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Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002) was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers "Botch-a-Me (Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina)" (a cover version of the Italian song Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina by Alberto Rabagliati), "Mambo Italiano", and "This Ole House", songs which tended to obscure her talents as a jazz vocalist.
Clooney's career languished in the 1960s, partly due to problems related to depression and drug addiction, but revived in 1974, when Bing Crosby asked her to appear with him at a show marking his 50th anniversary in show business. From the late 1970s until her death in 2002, she recorded a series of albums for the Concord Jazz, record label with small ensembles which were warmly received by audiences and critics alike.

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Misty Miss Christy

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PEGGY LEE Someting Groovy (1968)

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