{"id":444,"date":"2013-01-16T17:48:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T17:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peggylee.com\/wp\/?p=444"},"modified":"2021-08-04T10:19:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T14:19:31","slug":"story-of-a-songbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peggylee.com\/story-of-a-songbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Story of a Songbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pl_content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(author unknown)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The &#8220;soft-as-silk&#8221; singing style of Peggy Lee, who with husband Dave Barbour began a two-week engagement at the Paramount Theater Wednesday, was an invention born of necessity. It came into being several years ago, while Peggy was performing at the Doll House in Palm Springs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;One Saturday night,&#8221; Peggy revealed the other evening at her suite at the Hampshire House, &#8220;the audience was unusually boisterous. To cope with the noise, I lowered my voice with each successive song. The people soon forgot their bad manners, and I found a kind of delivery I\u2019d been seeking for a long while.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Blonde-tressed, hazel-eyed Peggy has since learned to vary her style as the occasion demands, but it was that seemingly effortless manner that later persuaded Benny Goodman to sign her as featured vocalist, a spot she filled successfully for two years. During the same period she met Dave, who had joined the band as a guitarist, and their marriage, now in its sixth year, has been hailed as one of the most successful in the music world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I retired shortly before our daughter, Nicki, was born. That was four years ago. I had no intention of returning to show business, but Carlos Gastel, my manager, casually suggested that I make two sides for Capitol Records \u2013 just for fun. The numbers were two that Dave and I had written \u2013 \u2018What More Can a Woman Do?\u2019 and \u2018You Was Right Baby.\u2019 They went over so well that we just had to go on making records. The first real smash was the \u2018Golden Earrings\u2019 disc last year. Frankly, that was a very ordinary vocal job, but Dave\u2019s arrangement and accompaniment were really out of this world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An even bigger hit than &#8220;Golden Earrings&#8221; has been the Lee-Barbour recording of &#8220;Ma\u00f1ana,&#8221; which the couple wrote after a trip to Mexico. The disc has already passed the two-million mark. &#8220;Dave deserves all the credit,&#8221; says Peggy. &#8220;You know, if he weren\u2019t my husband, I\u2019d be glad to tell you he\u2019s the greatest musician and arranger in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Peggy, who was born Norma Egstrom twenty-eight years ago in Jamestown, North Dakota, is just as positive about her favorite female vocalists. &#8220;You have to pick Maxine Sullivan for her simplicity; Billie Holiday for her emotional appeal, and Ella Fitzgerald for her \u2018great heart.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although the Barbours own a house in Hollywood Hills (&#8220;Nope, we don\u2019t have a swimming pool&#8221;), Peggy is not over-eager for any picture work. &#8220;We\u2019re anxious to lead as normal a family life as possible, and that\u2019s pretty tough to do when you\u2019re making films. As for Nicki, we\u2019re giving her dancing lessons right now, but not with the idea of prepping her for the stage. When she gets older, of course, she\u2019ll be free to do as she pleases, but I\u2019m hoping she\u2019ll choose a more restful life than her folks did.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;For a child her age, though, she\u2019s shown a remarkable interest in the entertainment world. Her pet comedians are \u2018Red Scallop\u2019 and \u2018Jimmy Durandy.\u2019 I was listening to her say her prayers the other night, and she finished by using Durante\u2019s tag-line, \u2018Goodnight, Mrs. Calibash, wherever you are.\u2019 If I hadn\u2019t heard it, I never would have believed it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(author unknown) The &#8220;soft-as-silk&#8221; singing style of Peggy Lee, who with husband Dave Barbour began a two-week engagement at the Paramount Theater Wednesday, was an invention born of necessity. 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