happy b'day miss peggy lee

[alocispepraluger102]

one of a kind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jybesk3c2D4

[J.A.W.]

What's with this American habit to wish dead people a happy birthday?? I see it all the time on American bulletin boards. Very weird.

[flat5]

You just had to groan again? :-)

Really? Only USA-ers? Interesting.

[JSngry]

Is that all there is?

[Teasing the Korean]

I was listening to some early Peggy Lee with Benny Goodman.

She sounds like a completely different singer, much more in a Jo Stafford kind of bag.

I realize singers' voices naturally change over time, but with Peggy Lee it sounds like she made a deliberate choice at some point to change her style.

Any specific info on this?

[crisp]

James Gavin's new bio might shed some light on this:

http://books.simonandschuster.com/Is-That-All-There-Is/James-Gavin/9781451641684

[Larry Kart]

I'm a great admirer of Lee. I met her backstage once in the mid-'80s; it seemed as though the closer one got to her, the more indistinct her features became.

[JSngry]

...the closer one got to her, the more indistinct her features became.

Try to play the video that opens this thread...

[Ted O'Reilly]

"... the closer one got to her, the more indistinct her features became."

What an interesting observation! I've noticed such a thing once or twice, but couldn't have stated it so succinctly...