{"id":6236,"date":"2024-02-18T08:26:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T13:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peggylee.com\/?p=6236"},"modified":"2024-02-18T08:30:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T13:30:10","slug":"dan-rather-on-its-a-good-day-one-of-my-all-time-favorites-and-a-reason-to-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peggylee.com\/dan-rather-on-its-a-good-day-one-of-my-all-time-favorites-and-a-reason-to-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Rather on \u2018It\u2019s a Good Day\u2019: \u2018One of My All-Time Favorites and a Reason to Smile\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cIf you\u2019ve never heard of Peggy Lee, the best way I can describe her is that she was the Taylor Swift of my time. In that, like Swift, she was a superstar singer-songwriter of popular music. The Grammy winner wrote more than 270 songs, including many chart-toppers, like 1946\u2019s \u2018It\u2019s a Good Day.\u2019 \u2026 Maybe one of your parents, or a grandparent, sang \u2018It\u2019s a Good Day\u2019 to you when you were a child. It\u2019s a song you\u2019ll find yourself humming long after you\u2019ve heard it. Living through times such as these, I find songs like this can quickly turn a gray day into a sunny one.\u201d [Source: Dan Rather, Steady by Dan Rather<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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