{"id":1265,"date":"2013-01-19T08:33:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T08:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peggylee.com\/wp\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2021-08-04T10:19:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T14:19:15","slug":"peggy-lee-back-to-say-thats-not-all-there-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peggylee.com\/peggy-lee-back-to-say-thats-not-all-there-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Peggy Lee Back to Say That&#8217;s Not All There Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pl_content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">by Ray Bennett<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">LOS ANGELES \u2013 \u201cI was prepared to go if it was necessary,\u201d said Peggy Lee. \u201cYou know, \u2018Is this trip really necessary?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fortunately for Lee and jazz lovers everywhere, the \u201ctrip\u201d wasn\u2019t necessary. Lee survived double-bypass heart surgery in New Orleans last October and the complications that required a second operation two weeks later. Now, slim and fit again, and exuding her trademark sensuality that evokes more of the South than her North Dakota home, she recently returned to the stage in \u201cSpring Fever\u201d at the Westwood Playhouse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere were complications. Serious ones,\u201d she said one evening at her home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles. \u201cBut they\u2019ve cleared up, and I\u2019m doing just fine. It took a while. Six months. I\u2019m walking a lot, and today I\u2019ve been rehearsing since noon, so I\u2019m holding up. I\u2019ve always been sort of careful of my health, but what I was doing, I think, was overworking. I love it and I get into it and I forget, you know? I don\u2019t have one of those indicators that says, \u2018You\u2019re tired; sit down.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cYou wouldn\u2019t want the details,\u201d she said of her operation, but she credits her recovery to the reading and meditating that she has done all her life \u2013 \u201cIt all helped me, because I wasn\u2019t afraid\u201d \u2013 and to the outpouring of concern she received.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOne of the things I noticed, both at the hospital in New Orleans and at St. John\u2019s here, was the love; the honest, no-faking love that these people had. And the messages that I got from people, when I was able to understand that I was being given messages. I wasn\u2019t there for a while. But I thank those people for their prayers and their cards. It was a lovely experience to know that people cared so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lee smiled, remembering. \u201cSo then,\u201d she said, \u201cyou have to make it. You have an obligation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Throughout her ordeal, Lee never lost her celebrated sense of humor. \u201cDon\u2019t you know,\u201d she said, laughing, \u201cthat people were trying to avoid playing \u2018Is That All There Is\u2019 during that time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of course, Lee always sang that song with the understated optimism that there is always more. And having life\u2019s ultimate trip postponed has left her even more determined to pass that message on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere\u2019s a tremendous amount of gratitude going on in my thoughts, she said, \u201cnot only for the things that others did, but just that I was allowed to live. And they say that when you have an experience like that, there is something else that you have to do. I don\u2019t know what it is yet, but it\u2019s something that I would like to do for people. You know, when you\u2019re given that large a gift and are allowed to stay here, it\u2019s more to give something back. Maybe some work I\u2019m going to do. Something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not the least of that is her reappearance in concert. Besides her classic songs like \u201cFever,\u201d \u201cIs That All There Is?\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m a Woman,\u201d Lee will bring back \u201cWhere Can I Go Without You?,\u201d a venture into country with a subtle waltz treatment of \u201cYou Don\u2019t Know Me,\u201d and introduce a new song she has written with guitarist John Chiodini called \u201cI\u2019ll Give It All to You.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cYou\u2019ll see a lot of differences,\u201d she said. \u201cThere are some subtle changes in pieces I\u2019ve sung before, so that it\u2019s updated. And I\u2019m adding a few things that I\u2019ve written. I don\u2019t usually do that, but they\u2019ve talked me into it. I\u2019m a terrible song-plugger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It pleases Lee that her popularity covers many generations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI\u2019m so lucky. I have a lot of young fans, because they like jazz,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd then I have the ones who enjoy Lady and the Tramp, so there\u2019s always someone fresh to talk to. I\u2019m pleased when their taste in music goes up and up. It makes me very happy. It doesn\u2019t have to be mine, just as long as they like good things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As she approaches her 66th birthday in May, she wishes that more attention would be paid to society\u2019s elders. \u201cLearning, and growing by learning, that\u2019s what we have to leave with our young people,\u201d she said. \u201cI am in no way a prude, but just in the basic things of living and trying to make something of their lives, let\u2019s apply what we\u2019ve learned. There\u2019s nothing like rehearsal, and this is a big rehearsal. If only we could take advantage of some of these things, we wouldn\u2019t have to bump our heads so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ray Bennett LOS ANGELES \u2013 \u201cI was prepared to go if it was necessary,\u201d said Peggy Lee. \u201cYou know, \u2018Is this trip really necessary?\u2019\u201d Fortunately for Lee and jazz lovers everywhere, the \u201ctrip\u201d wasn\u2019t necessary. 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