{"id":1058,"date":"2013-01-18T15:48:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T15:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peggylee.com\/wp\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2021-08-04T10:19:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T14:19:21","slug":"two-sides-of-a-love-affair-peggy-gives-and-peggy-gets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peggylee.com\/two-sides-of-a-love-affair-peggy-gives-and-peggy-gets\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Sides of a Love Affair \u2013 &#8216;Peggy Gives and Peggy Gets&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pl_content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">by Harriet Choice<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Peggy Lee padded into the living room of her Lake Geneva Playboy Hotel suite in a red, white and green robe, white ballet-like slippers and layers of rhinestone earrings that she had worn during the show she had finished 15 minutes earlier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI\u2019m not exhausted, I\u2019m beat,\u201d she says in that delicious, familiar voice that is summer-night warm with a little bit of tough. She plumps herself down in a chair and says with typical Peggy Lee determination, \u201cI\u2019m going to do this interview even if I have to pour orange juice on my head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You assure her that the interview can be postponed, knowing that she is doing two 90-minute shows a night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But soon she has propped up her feet, invited you to join her for a bowl of Granola, and decided \u201cThis is fun. Let\u2019s go on talking for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She loves the choice of subjects, the Chicago-area jazzmen who also happen to be the top studio musicians. But they cancel record dates, refuse lucrative commercial gigs, and rush to climb on the Peggy Lee bandwagon if she\u2019s within a couple of hundred miles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spend two nights around her and you understand why Peggy Lee knows how to work and how to play. Her mercurial Gemini personality allows her to \u201ctake care of the business\u201d so that her shows are near-perfect. And then, afterwards, when she\u2019s given the audience everything they\u2019ve wanted and more, she can hang out with the musicians. She is one of their kind. With them, she exudes the rare combination of cooing mother hen and \u201clet\u2019s play\u201d little girl.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI can\u2019t explain the beautiful relationship I have with these people,\u201d she says, recalling that it started when she met most of them in 1969 when they played with her at the Sherman House.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe just liked each other. It\u2019s just different with this group of musicians. It\u2019s a genuine affection, and I respect them more than any group I know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That\u2019s no small compliment coming from a girl who came up with the big bands in the early \u201840s. \u201cI never had any formal music training, except for North Dakota glee club,\u201d she says. \u201cEverything I learned about music I learned from musicians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She interrupts herself and turns to Hugo Granata, the sound and light genius who takes care of the lighting for just about every person who\u2019s ever done a club act. \u201cLet\u2019s try to take a little high off the violins tomorrow night,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is an example of her drive to keep making the show a little better, a drive that is contagious and makes the band \u201cwork their \u2013 off for her. She\u2019s one hell of a musician herself,\u201d a trumpet player explains.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Peggy just shrugs and grins when she hears things like that. \u201cYou care about all the little details if you really love the music and you see that they are taken care of.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cYou know,\u201d she continues, in a tone that tells you who is boss, \u201cI don\u2019t just put a show together. I\u2019m not just a finger-snapper. I\u2019m a very serious businesswoman. I have a herd of cattle, I have a music publishing company, and right now I\u2019m interested in a factory, a line of clothes, children\u2019s books, and an option on a book for the production of a movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The independent speech turns to giggles when you ask her about Women\u2019s Lib. \u201cMy stock answer to that is \u2018What have I got to complain about?\u2019 Sure, I think a woman should get paid the same as a man if she can do the same job. But really, don\u2019t you think all this liberation stuff could upset the balance of nature? I\u2019m a tall Swede, capable of doing things. But men see there\u2019s something fragile in me and they enjoy doing things for me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLike my guys,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Harriet Choice Peggy Lee padded into the living room of her Lake Geneva Playboy Hotel suite in a red, white and green robe, white ballet-like slippers and layers of rhinestone earrings that she had worn during the show she had finished 15 minutes earlier. \u201cI\u2019m not exhausted, I\u2019m beat,\u201d[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - 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