This Peggy Lee performance just oozes with class, elegance, sophistication, and sex appeal! I watch this video from time to time and it doesn't get old. What I love about her is the subtlety, sensitivity, and gentleness in her vocals yet it is still powerful! Many young performers who think being loud and yelling is powerful should defintely learn a little lesson from Peggy Lee here. Sometimes less is more and Peggy Lee certainly showed that in her performances.
Peggy Lee - a class act, a wonderful singer! What many don't know is that her early life was a true Cinderella story. She sang to escape the abuse of her stepmother who would pulverize her as a child. She first sang for pay on KOVC radio in Valley City, North Dakota. She was sponsored by a restaurant that paid her salary in food. She also waitressed and sang for pocket change on other radio stations. Her 1st big break was getting hired by Benny Goodman at 20.
First time I've heard her sing, the set was lovely, but I couldn't really see who it was untill the close up. Wow, some dame, some voice, some style, but who the heck is it ? Read the comments and found out. I agree with all the comments wholeheartedly. I was born in 1950, Liverpool but to me Peggy Lee was just a name, she never really entered into my sphere of music for some reason. I have been educated !!
Peggy Lee is my most favorite singer ever. She was talented, gorgeous, classy, sexy, charming and soooo cool and ahead of her time!!! She was perfection!!!
Easily one of the most incredible scenes from any musical or movie ever. The emotion & charisma displayed here you just can't teach! The very best of Hollywood hands down!!
PAUL PETERSON I must contest your curriculum. Yes, Peggy Lee had a voice smoother than a baby's butt. BUT! Ella Fitzgerald had a voice that could make an adult male grow a uterus & impregnate himself before she finished a single song. Listen to Ella Fitzgerald singing " This Time The Dream's On Me"! But keep the contraceptives closem cause you're gonna need em!
Nacho Mamma I never like Ella, and I don’t know anything about Peggy lee. Maybe I should learn. She seems like she’s on qualudes here. It was an underwhelming version compared to Sinatra.
De St I’m not sure what you mean, but one of the reasons I don’t like Ella is that she enunciates too clearly. I speak proper (for a black person), but Ella just enunciates too properly even for me. I don’t enjoy listening to her. Ella probably couldn’t break glass with his voice, but I like it way better. I think the “slide” you’re talking about is half the reason I don’t like Ella. Too affected.
Exceptional arrangement! The presentation is incredible, too, with the flamboyant set. She looks fine in that dress! Oh, and that eyebrow at 1:18 clearly says the sentiment!
Yes Peggy, you are as beautiful as ever, your sense of phrasing, and articulation are wonderful not to mention your musicality and beauty. Miss you baby, you are still number one on my list. RIP. Rango8
OMG what an awesome version of this song! I used to sing it when I was very young & just starting my training in classical singing & was made to sing a much more standard version, more operatic, def no cool drum or bass beat. I used to hate having to sing this song but would've loved it if it was this version!
Note the total control of body movements. These were choreographed to the second. The minimalist movement was her hallmark. No distracting Mariah Carey arm waves or using a microphone like a hairbrush. Just a rise of a shoulder, a glance to the right. Less is more.
Have always been mad about the subtle jazz interpretation she gave to her best songs. Her magic and charisma seem to have survived the test of time. To quote Peg: "Fever started a long time ago!"
LOVE her, LOVE Kismet!! My mother loved her, too. When my mother would sometimes sing a little, she sounded just like Peggy Lee! (But my mother LOOKED exactly like Ava Gardner!) Peggy Lee was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai when my mother was a patient there. She answered a note my mother wrote her., Everyone is so crazy about "Fever". I love her first recording in 1952 (I think) of "LOVER", backed by the great Gordon Jenkins!!
Jan I can see you are a great Peggy Lee fan - so am I. I love esp her Latin a la Lee album. So many great and soulful songs. Apparently Count Basie thought Peggy so soulful he thought she must have black heritage (he didnt put it quite that way exactly but thats the drift of it!!
John Tate Hi John! Nice to hear from you! Oh, yes, Count Basie...my favorite!! So many jazz bands to love, Stan Kenton, Harry James, all who backed SINATRA!, Med Flory / Supersax, etc., etc., etc.!! but Count Basie, a close tie between him and Stan Kenton, remains my favorite! (April In Paris.."one more once"!!) Jan
Valores y respeto son lo que ellos te enseñan unión y armonía son lo que te dan compañía amor ,amabilidad mi corazón está siempre con ellos Valores y enseñanzas dentro de mi (Andrea)
IMO, Miss Lee was always the perfect balance between Julie London's minimalist phrasing & Lena Horne's sass, with the sensuality of each! Thanks for posting.:)
Everything is sheer perfection! "Cotton candy!" Right! ( I would just call it cotton candy in bed.) Am I the only one who notices the super cool drumming in this exquisite video? Combined with the bass, it's great. Notice also touches like her looking into the camera as if to snag a guy when she sings, "so that some day, HE may (looks into camera) buy me a ring-ling-alinga! (winks)" Also note how she drops that unusual bracelet when the strings and winds flutter down from the heights.
Well Peggy Lee was a little before my time..But when I was studing Dance & voice, We had a recital..called ( Bubbles, Bangles, And Beads) our custumes were awesome...like ( I dream of Jeannie)
@@LKaramazov Good question. I think that my "Depression Era" Mother would have blushed at this video. YES, I would say that the lyrics blatantly spoke of dissipation however her very cool and detached performance gives a subtle sense of material consumption. Still so elegant though... it puts me into a dream....
@FRANCIS6189 I agree, she was amazing, but I would have to say that Betty Hutton was greater. Don't get me wrong, I love Peggy Lee, they just had different styles.
At 1:25, she makes an expression that connects, at least for me. I find it odd that you pointed out that moment in time that I happen to love. May I ask why you noted that?
Sandra Dee? In that time all the ladys was: LADYS not the trash of these present days i think the last lady in entertaiment was Karen Carpenter maybe i'm wrong you tell me.
The wild, almost uncontrolled "male" drumming gives it a very subtle but strong animalist sexual quality inside the polished outer sophistication. Of course, the strings add mystery.
Pure music from an era when a vocalist was intimate with his or her audience---not like today when singers need an entourage of people on stage to distract from the fact that they aren't as talented. What a shame. Peggy Lee was very sensual without being vulgar.
I love this song so much I am now forbidden to sing it at work or face instant termination. Is it my fault? I think not. It's addictive. I'm going to be at betty ford walking around humming this
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This Peggy Lee performance just oozes with class, elegance, sophistication, and sex appeal! I watch this video from time to time and it doesn't get old. What I love about her is the subtlety, sensitivity, and gentleness in her vocals yet it is still powerful! Many young performers who think being loud and yelling is powerful should defintely learn a little lesson from Peggy Lee here. Sometimes less is more and Peggy Lee certainly showed that in her performances.
Great comment
This is what talent looks like children.
Peggy Lee - a class act, a wonderful singer! What many don't know is that her early life was a true Cinderella story. She sang to escape the abuse of her stepmother who would pulverize her as a child. She first sang for pay on KOVC radio in Valley City, North Dakota. She was sponsored by a restaurant that paid her salary in food. She also waitressed and sang for pocket change on other radio stations. Her 1st big break was getting hired by Benny Goodman at 20.
She embellished her suffering as a child. Yes it was hard but not quite the abuse of her telling
Peggy Lee is the epitome of cool.Her vocal phrasing and her pitch are bang on the money. The arrangement is also primo!
I think her phrasing is perfect and her pitch , too, So sexy ,so real and so wonderful!!!❤
Spot on💗
Singular timing, expressiveness in ALL her stuff...
Fantastic version of this song, both in performance and set design. Peggy lee was definitely one of the all time greats. A fantastic beauty as well.
First time I've heard her sing, the set was lovely, but I couldn't really see who it was untill the close up. Wow, some dame, some voice, some style, but who the heck is it ?
Read the comments and found out. I agree with all the comments wholeheartedly. I was born in 1950, Liverpool but to me Peggy Lee was just a name, she never really entered into my sphere of music for some reason. I have been educated !!
Love your comment ‘some dame’ !! Do you know where she was or on what show?
wow, what an extraordinary rendition ... quite wonderful
Peggy Lee is my most favorite singer ever. She was talented, gorgeous, classy, sexy, charming and soooo cool and ahead of her time!!! She was perfection!!!
Easily one of the most incredible scenes from any musical or movie ever. The emotion & charisma displayed here you just can't teach! The very best of Hollywood hands down!!
The coolest singer to step a beat on this planet. Inspired me from an early age...Perfection..
Oh my god. I have never seen or heard Peggy's version of this tune till now. Sublime!
LESSON NO 1: Peggy Lee was the coolest vocalist who ever lived. END OF LESSON NO 1
PAUL PETERSON
I must contest your curriculum.
Yes, Peggy Lee had a voice smoother than a baby's butt. BUT! Ella Fitzgerald had a voice that could make an adult male grow a uterus & impregnate himself before she finished a single song. Listen to Ella Fitzgerald singing " This Time The Dream's On Me"! But keep the contraceptives closem cause you're gonna need em!
Cooler than Billie Holiday?
@@Nacho-Mamma You're vulgar.
Nacho Mamma I never like Ella, and I don’t know anything about Peggy lee. Maybe I should learn. She seems like she’s on qualudes here. It was an underwhelming version compared to Sinatra.
De St I’m not sure what you mean, but one of the reasons I don’t like Ella is that she enunciates too clearly. I speak proper (for a black person), but Ella just enunciates too properly even for me. I don’t enjoy listening to her. Ella probably couldn’t break glass with his voice, but I like it way better. I think the “slide” you’re talking about is half the reason I don’t like Ella. Too affected.
The consummate professional. What a magnificent artist. The best.
Fabulous Miss Peggy Lee
Sheer perfection, vocally and visually. Peggy the Greatest.
Thank God for technology, so you can listen to Peggy for ever. she was the female version of Sinatra, Dean Matin, Nat king Cole, etc. rolled into one
well said!
Willaim Fletcher
I was just thinking the same about Maria Callas. Our fortune to have great, memorable music at our fingertips, YES!!
😊 Jan
Peggy Lee is always one of my favorite singers since I was a little boy!
gets better every time I watch it. amazing and I wish I could have seen her live.
Stunning
I love the way she doesnt directly look at the camera till halfway thru the song. She delays her effect. Fantastic.
This song is killing me. I always stop breathing when I listen to it :)
Thanks so much for sharing.
One of the most amazing musical performances I've ever seen. Perfection seems to come so naturally to her, and she wears it well.
She often sang this in later years , saw her at the old Ballroom, NYC, doing it around 1986
Pierre Cardin...
Exceptional arrangement! The presentation is incredible, too, with the flamboyant set. She looks fine in that dress! Oh, and that eyebrow at 1:18 clearly says the sentiment!
Such a class act. Love Peggy Lee.
One of a kind lady. Miss Peggy Lee was a GEM!!!
Thank you so much for posting this beautiful performance.
Yes Peggy, you are as beautiful as ever, your sense of phrasing, and articulation are wonderful not to mention your musicality and beauty. Miss you baby, you are still number one on my list. RIP.
Rango8
OMG what an awesome version of this song! I used to sing it when I was very young & just starting my training in classical singing & was made to sing a much more standard version, more operatic, def no cool drum or bass beat. I used to hate having to sing this song but would've loved it if it was this version!
Wonderful! Haven't heard her is such a very, very long time!
I've been around 67 years and this is the first version other than Kirby Stone 4 that I've heard. Well done, Blondie!
Note the total control of body movements. These were choreographed to the second. The minimalist movement was her hallmark. No distracting Mariah Carey arm waves or using a microphone like a hairbrush. Just a rise of a shoulder, a glance to the right. Less is more.
Have always been mad about the subtle jazz interpretation she gave to her best songs. Her magic and charisma seem to have survived the test of time. To quote Peg: "Fever started a long time ago!"
Es algo maravilloso escuchar esta sensual voz y el acompañamiento musical
Love her sooooo much!!
LOVE her, LOVE Kismet!! My mother loved her, too. When my mother would sometimes sing a little, she sounded just like Peggy Lee! (But my mother LOOKED exactly like Ava Gardner!)
Peggy Lee was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai when my mother was a patient there. She answered a note my mother wrote her.,
Everyone is so crazy about "Fever". I love her first recording in 1952 (I think) of "LOVER", backed by the great Gordon Jenkins!!
Jan I can see you are a great Peggy Lee fan - so am I. I love esp her Latin a la Lee album. So many great and soulful songs. Apparently Count Basie thought Peggy so soulful he thought she must have black heritage (he didnt put it quite that way exactly but thats the drift of it!!
John Tate
Hi John!
Nice to hear from you! Oh, yes, Count Basie...my favorite!! So many jazz bands to love, Stan Kenton, Harry James, all who backed SINATRA!, Med Flory / Supersax, etc., etc., etc.!! but Count Basie, a close tie between him and Stan Kenton, remains my favorite! (April In Paris.."one more once"!!)
Jan
Very very beautiful!
I keep coming back.. So magnificent.
beautiful thanks for posting
I love this video, obviously the singing is perfect, but I think the fuzzy quality really adds a magical quality to it. :)
Taking her hit from the early 50s and giving it a late 50s 'Fever' treatment...groovy
WoW!!! Excellent.
Nice ta-ta's!😀
What an elegant performance. No twerking or profanity that we see in todays music…
LOVE PEGGY SINGING THIS SONG, SHE WAS THE BEST....
Absolutely beautiful
lovely～❤💞 💕 💓 💗 💝 😍
Valores y respeto son lo que ellos te enseñan
unión y armonía son lo que te dan compañía
amor ,amabilidad mi corazón está siempre con ellos
Valores y enseñanzas dentro de mi (Andrea)
Topclass !
Oh, HELL. She is the best.
Absolutely fabulous!
I have to sing this song for a competition, she is killing it!!! =D
Always my favorite singer.
IMO, Miss Lee was always the perfect balance between Julie London's minimalist phrasing & Lena Horne's sass, with the sensuality of each!
Thanks for posting.:)
TheReturnOfStephan
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE LENA!!
she is excellent
Such a stunning siren. I keep returning to dip into this well of absolute feminine seduction.
True Class
Wow I have never heard this, amazing!
Wow beautiful.
Now I know, all grown up, way she always gives me fever !!
She's awesome.
Now that is entertainment
This woman knows how to deliver a song.
no voice tells a story like hers could.
For you! Be it Sarah Vaughn, Dionne Warwick or so many lovelies. xxxxxxxxxxx Have lovely weekend!
Absolutely Awesome. Thanks :)
The indomitable Pegg Lee. Pure smoke
she does it so good
love this...
Yeah, me too!
Pure magic
Beautifulnesssss😃😃😃😃💖💖💖💖💖💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎
Wow!!!
wow, holly i have never seen this one.
Everything is sheer perfection! "Cotton candy!" Right! ( I would just call it cotton candy in bed.) Am I the only one who notices the super cool drumming in this exquisite video? Combined with the bass, it's great. Notice also touches like her looking into the camera as if to snag a guy when she sings, "so that some day, HE may (looks into camera) buy me a ring-ling-alinga! (winks)" Also note how she drops that unusual bracelet when the strings and winds flutter down from the heights.
Love her
Well Peggy Lee was a little before my time..But when I was studing Dance & voice, We had a recital..called ( Bubbles, Bangles, And Beads) our custumes were awesome...like ( I dream of Jeannie)
She sparkles
Beauty and the beat with George shearing.Peggys standards never dropped
Nice references to 'Fever' by the drummer!
She was one of kind. From D Rivers
Dynamite!
"Over the top" sexy, but not a hint of vulgarity. That's how it's done!
Yes, yes...and yes! That was an excellent comment.
@@camillecoffin7423 Thank you Camille. So beautiful of you to say that.
You could be right, but I wonder if the people back then would say the same. There was something in her that hinted at dissipation.
@@LKaramazov Good question. I think that my "Depression Era" Mother would have blushed at this video. YES, I would say that the lyrics blatantly spoke of dissipation however her very cool and detached performance gives a subtle sense of material consumption. Still so elegant though... it puts me into a dream....
Peggy Lee...the best
@FRANCIS6189 I agree, she was amazing, but I would have to say that Betty Hutton was greater. Don't get me wrong, I love Peggy Lee, they just had different styles.
Pure natural class, very rare. Ella Fitzgerald, Amy Winehouse, Julie London, Billie Holiday, Etta James, please add to this short list
John I would add Judy Garland and Doris Day to that list
And one more - Dinah Washington. But of course the "short list" goes on.....
John Tate
LOVE Dinah Washington!! Anita O'Day should be on the list!!
😊 Jan
For me, Sarah Vaughan is Numero Uno.
1:25 (LOVE PEGGY)
At 1:25, she makes an expression that connects, at least for me. I find it odd that you pointed out that moment in time that I happen to love. May I ask why you noted that?
Sandra Dee? In that time all the ladys was: LADYS not the trash of these present days i think the last lady in entertaiment was Karen Carpenter maybe i'm wrong you tell me.
That's really Norma Egstrom disguised as Peggy Lee. (daughter of Marvin Olof Egstrom from Jamestown North Dakota)
Bangles baubles and beads hear how
❤
so sexy! love the arrangement of drums and bass at the back
The wild, almost uncontrolled "male" drumming gives it a very subtle but strong animalist sexual quality inside the polished outer sophistication. Of course, the strings add mystery.
OK, seriously folks. WAS THERE EVER EVER EVER ANYBODY ''''''COOLER''''' THAN THE ONE, THE ONLY ''''MISS PEGGY LEE''''''? (no!!!!)
Pure music from an era when a vocalist was intimate with his or her audience---not like today when singers need an entourage of people on stage to distract from the fact that they aren't as talented. What a shame. Peggy Lee was very sensual without being vulgar.
Today's sad "entertainment", i.e. Miley Cyrus vs Cyd Charisse...! (Anyone can go on half-dressed and shake their butt...)
☺
Odd that you didn't name this fabulous singer in the title or description....!
There's just no comparison to Peggy Lee or this era of popular music.
I hear sobs. LOL.
BRIAN BADONE SHOULD DO A COVER OF THIS SONG!!!! :D
I love this song so much I am now forbidden to sing it at work or face instant termination. Is it my fault? I think not. It's addictive. I'm going to be at betty ford walking around humming this
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