dead at 81

[greedy_lars]

well while her singing was not really my thing, she did have a couple of songs i liked.



Peggy Lee

[BuzzB2K]

Originally posted by greedy_lars
well while her singing was not really my thing, she did have a couple of songs i liked.



Peggy Lee

She collaborated with Sonny Burke on the songs for Disney's The Lady and the Tramp, and was the voice for the wayward canine who sang He's a Tramp (But I Love Him).

Her work on that 1955 film led to a landmark legal judgment 36 years later when a California court awarded her $2.3 million after she sued for a portion of the profits from the videocassette sale of the movie. The case hinged on a clause in her pre-video-era contract barring the sale of "transcriptions" of the movie without her approval.

She recorded more than 600 songs and wrote many others, including themes for such movies as Johnny Guitar and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Her return to recording in 1988 after a hiatus of more than a decade netted her a Grammy nomination for Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues in 1989 and another for The Peggy Lee Songbook: There'll Be Another Spring in 1991.

Despite her success, Lee believed her record company did not pay her enough in royalties. She is among more than 200 musicians involved in a pending lawsuit against Vivendi Universal's music division. Lee claimed the company failed to pay her and other musicians, who recorded with the Decca Records label before 1962, millions of dollars by underreporting sales and overcharging for services.


Sounds like she would have fit right in with us!