Is That All There Is?, page 64
“mentally ill . . . lip”: PL, notes to William Luce for musical Peg, 1982.
“I cried”: Adelaide Kerr, “New York Nightclub Favorites.”
“I knew”: Mary English, “Softly, with Feeling,” Record Whirl, Oct. 1955.
“By that accident”: Charles Mangel, “The Name Is Woman,” Look, Oct. 19, 1971.
“I’m hiring”: Miss Peggy Lee, p. 92.
“There I sat”: Norma Lee Browning, “She Has a Love Affair with Chicago: Peggy Lee Returning to Where It All Began,” Chicago Tribune, Mar. 16, 1969.
“We didn’t”: Dave Dexter, Jr., Playback, New York: Billboard Press, 1976, p. 94.
“those hilarious”: Chicago Tribune, Oct. 12, 1941.
“Peggy’s singing . . . was on”: Jean Bach to JG, May 18, 2011.
“gaily puffing”: Wambly Bald, “In the Groove,” New York Post Week-End Magazine, Oct. 30, 1949.
“life sentence”: Helen Forrest, I Had the Craziest Dream: Helen Forrest and the Big Band Era, New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1982, p. 95.
“by far”: Ibid., p. 94.
“noodling”: Ibid., p. 105.
“This is it”: Ibid., p. 108.
“went right”: Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing, American Masters, WNET, 2000.
“I wish”: Charles Champlin, “Peggy, Benny in the Swing of It,” Los Angeles Times, Apr. 28, 1965.
“character”: Thomas C. Wheeler, “The Timeless Charm of Peggy Lee,” Saturday Evening Post, Oct. 10, 1964.
“I know”: George Christy, “Peggy Lee: Still at Fever’s Pitch,” Interview, Oct. 1984.
“What can you lose . . . y-yes”: Aida Pavletich, “Thrushing with PL,” Los Angeles Free Press, May 10, 1974.
“I was in”: Charles Champlin, “Peggy, Benny in the Swing of It,” Los Angeles Times, Apr. 28, 1965.
“I guess”: Miss Peggy Lee, p. 6.
“Negro’s supremacy”: John Hammond with Irving Townsend, John Hammond on Record: An Autobiography, New York: Ridge Press, 1977, p. 68.
“bedlam broke . . . helplessly”: “Swing Addicts Storm and Take the Paramount,” New York Herald-Tribune, Jan. 27, 1938.
“If something”: Louise Tobin to JG, Apr. 27, 2011.
“this self-absorption”: Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing, American Masters, WNET, 2000.
“The guys complained”: Peggy Clark Schwartz to JG, Oct. 9, 2010.
“I think”: Ed Shaughnessy to JG, Dec. 8, 2010.
“He’d break”: Johnny Mandel to JG, Nov. 14, 2010.
“Benny made”: Louise Tobin to JG, Apr. 27, 2011.
“I had the feeling”: Alan Jackson, “That’s Not All There Is, Says Miss Lee,” Times (London), June 15, 1994.
“I had a psychosomatic”: George Christy, “Peggy Lee: Still at Fever’s Pitch,” Interview, Oct. 1984.
“ice-cold”: George Avakian to JG, Dec. 15, 2010.
“she stood . . . can’t sing”: Ross Firestone, Swing, Swing, Swing: The Life & Times of Benny Goodman, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1994, p. 303.
“Miss Lee is”: Ibid.
“I’d like to stomp”: PL, Monitor, NBC radio, Mar. 4, 1972.
“Miss Lee should”: Dave Dexter, Jr., Down Beat, Oct. 1941.
“Never Been”: Down Beat, c. May 1942.
“She couldn’t sing”: Frank Farrell, “Peggy Lee at Copa,” World Journal Tribune, Oct. 28, 1966.
“never said”: Helen Forrest, I Had the Craziest Dream, New York: Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, p. 95.
“He said, ‘I’ve heard’ ”: PL, press conference, The Ballroom, New York, June 13, 1986.
“She’s one of”: Helen Ward, The Joe Franklin Show, WOR-TV, 1978.
“All the way”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Apr. 20, 2011.
“was like boot camp”: Bob Thomas, “Peggy Taking U.S. Flag to Land of Rising Sun,” Tennessean Showcase, Aug. 8, 1976.
“If I’d known”: Gerald Nachman, “There’s Gold in Them Thar Hollywood Hills,” American Spectator, July–Aug. 2011.
“a million miles away”: Peggy Clark Schwartz to JG, Oct. 9, 2010.
“They were all”: Helen Ward, The Joe Franklin Show, WOR-TV, 1978.
“I used to”: PL, press conference about Benny Goodman’s death, The Ballroom, June 13, 1986.
“We were like”: PL, notes to William Luce for musical Peg, 1982.
“the biggest thrill”: Ann Clark to JG, Oct. 11, 2010.
“I was strong”: PL, notes to William Luce for musical Peg, 1982.
“My God”: Hal Schaefer to JG, Feb. 7, 2011.
“New Yorker Hotel”: PL, notes to William Luce for musical Peg, 1982.
“better to”: The Larry King Show, 1988.
“He had it roaring”: The Studs Terkel Program.
“Benny, that’s not the way”: The Studs Terkel Program, WFMT-FM, Chicago, 1988.
“It’s with a”: Dave Dexter, Jr., “Ray Paige’s Kids Surprise with Album of Standards; Goodman Chirp Phenomenal,” Down Beat, Dec. 1, 1941.
“hushed the house”: George T. Simon, “Benny Absolutely Stupendous on Stage,” Metronome, July 1942.
“He had”: Brian Panella to JG, Oct. 17, 2010.
“You know”: “A Candid Talk with Peggy Lee,” New York Post, Feb. 3, 1942.
“Instead of buying”: Whitney Balliett, “Still There,” New Yorker, Aug. 5, 1985.
“Are wedding bells”: “Cupid Said Busy,” Valley City Times-Record, Feb. 27, 1942.
“the man . . . first sight”: PL, notes to William Luce for musical Peg, 1982.
“He played like”: Steve Blum to JG, Sept. 6, 2011.
“a very good”: Hal Schaefer to JG, Apr. 2, 2012.
“There was a depth”: PL to Ken Bloom and Bill Rudman, recorded interview, June 1993.
“He managed”: “Barbara Lea Sings Willard Robison,” Alec Wilder’s American Popular Song, National Public Radio, Oct. 3, 1976.
“There was a”: Gene DiNovi to JG, Dec. 19, 2010.
“watched his”: Miss Peggy Lee, p. 97.
“You know, I”: Lucia Perrigo, “Mañana Comes True for Peggy Lee,” Massillon (OH) Evening Independent, Aug. 30, 1948.
“until he”: The Studs Terkel Program, WFMT, Chicago, 1988.
“After a week”: Amy Lee, “Peggy Lee—Lyricist, Composer, and Singer,” Christian Science Monitor, July 17, 1969.
“but Benny”: The Studs Terkel Program.
“Benny ran out”: The Grammy Treasure Chest #76–144 (radio), 1975.
“I’m not really”: Shaun Considine, “Miss Peggy Lee: ‘. . . quite simply the finest singer in the history of popular music,’ ” After Dark, June 1974.
“big surprise”: Metronome, Dec. 1942.
“You can hear”: “Peggy Lee,” Look, Nov. 17, 1942.
“I didn’t know”: PL to Alan Dell, BBC Radio 2 interview, rec. 1992.
“She was elated”: Margaret Whiting to JG, Mar. 13, 1999.
“Never before”: George T. Simon, The Big Bands, p. 224.
“Miss Lee was forced”: “Baptized E’Lane for Astor Date,” Billboard, June 26, 1943.
“what a horror”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“Only yesterday”: John Crosby, “Long-Haired Music, Short-Haired Disc Jockey,” New York Herald-Tribune, May 2, 1951.
“You know”: This Is Your Life, Mar. 11, 1973.
CHAPTER FOUR
“a little ole”: Jean Burden, “A Flair for French,” Los Angeles Times, Oct. 30, 1949.
“Those were”: Phyllis Battelle, “Peggy Lee and ESP,” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Oct. 20, 1976.
“It’s the kind”: Kirtley Baskette, “Peggy Lee: She Can’t Stop Giving,” Redbook, Apr. 1955.
“They were very”: Margaret Whiting to JG, Mar. 13, 1999.
“She was just”: Peggy Clark Schwartz to JG, Oct. 9, 2010.
“Pegalah”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, May 17, 2011.
“It was strange”: Kirtley Baskette, “Peggy Lee: She Can’t Stop Giving.”
“we forged ahead”: Paul Grein, “Capitol Records: The Story So Far, from the Beginning,” Billboard, June 13, 1992.
“no bargain”: Dave Dexter, Jr., “Benny Goodman,” Down Beat, Oct. 1941.
“I’m retired, Dave”: Dave Dexter, Jr., liner notes for LP The Capitol Jazzmen 1943–1947, Swaggie Records, 1984.
“What does”: Dave Dexter, Jr., Playback, New York: Billboard Publications, 1976, p. 92.
“If you can get”: Dave Dexter, Jr., The Capitol Jazzmen 1943–1947.
“This chick”: Dave Dexter, Jr., Playback, p. 93.
“standing at”: Phyllis Battelle.
“You was”: George Christy, “Peggy Lee: Still at Fever’s Pitch,” Interview, Oct. 1984.
“the best”: It Wasn’t All Velvet: An Autobiography by Mel Tormé, New York: Viking, 1988, p. 58.
“was on an”: Anita O’Day with George Eells, High Times Hard Times, New York: Putnam, 1981, p. 130.
“heated pipes”: M.H. Orodenker, “Record Reviews,” Billboard.
“Most Outstanding”: New York Amsterdam News, Oct. 27, 1945.
“I like those”: Leonard Feather, “Sarah Doesn’t Dig Bessie,” Metronome, Mar. 1949.
“began to”: PL, notes to William Luce for musical Peg, 1982.
“thinking about how”: Gene Handsaker, “Trivial Events Inspire Writers,” Lubbock (TX) Avalanche-Journal, May 25, 1947.
“He made me”: John S. Wilson, “Peggy Lee Sings Tonight and Mañana,” New York Times, July 31, 1981.
“He said, ‘Put this”: PL, press conference, Le Parker Meridien, New York, June 22, 1995.
“was singing”: Margaret Whiting to JG, Mar. 13, 1999.
“No. I don’t”: Ross MacDonald, “Peggy Lee,” New Liberty (Canada), 1948.
“She always seemed”: Dave Dexter, source unknown.
“I looked out”: Jack Long, “Wild About Peggy,” American Magazine, 1948.
“just tasting”: Maurice Zolotow, “Is That All There Is, Peggy?” Los Angeles, July 1983.
“Nobody could . . . orchestration”: Hal Schaefer to JG, Feb. 10, 2011.
“not really”: Shaun Considine, “Miss Peggy Lee: ‘. . . quite simply the finest singer in the history of popular music,’ ” After Dark, June 1974.
“She felt she had”: Leata Galloway to JG, Mar. 30, 2013.
“that certain”: “Peggy Lee Heads Opening Program at State Theater,” Hartford Courant, Sept. 11, 1948.
“He was not”: Nicki Lee Foster to JG, Jan. 30, 1999.
“Peggy was a”: Mundell Lowe to JG, Dec. 2, 2010.
“I love you . . . nagging me”: Ibid.
“We believe”: Founders Church of Religious Science website: founderlosangeles.org.
“for spiritual . . . in faith”: Kirtley Baskette, “Peggy Lee: She Can’t Stop Giving.”
“She loved Papa”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“They’re sort of”: George T. Simon, “Hooray for Love,” Metronome, Dec. 1948.
“the eternal loser”: Desmond Stone, Alec Wilder in Spite of Himself, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, p. 87.
“lovable eccentric”: Miss Peggy Lee, p. 128.
“sweet sadness”: Alec Wilder, Letters I Never Mailed, New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1975, p. 164.
“really gave her”: William Engvick to JG, May 10, 2011.
“Dear Peggy”: Hal Schaefer to JG, Feb. 10, 2011.
“How absolutely”: Alec Wilder, Letters I Never Mailed, p. 164.
“He was extremely”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“She and Dave . . . own it”: Hal Schaefer to JG, Feb. 7, 2011.
“You had to wonder”: Mark Murphy to JG, Mar. 7, 1999.
“It was so”: George Christy, “Peggy Lee: Still at Fever’s Pitch,” Interview, Oct. 1984.
“wrote special lyrics”: “It’s No Longer Cold Outside,” New York Daily Mirror, July 25, 1949.
“It was never”: George Christy, “Peggy Lee: Still at Fever’s Pitch,” Interview, Oct. 1984.
“these gorgeous . . . movie set”: Hal Schaefer to JG, Feb. 7, 2011.
“She was always”: Virginia Wicks to JG, Apr. 12, 2012.
“Most of the time”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“among the elite”: Lee Ringuette to JG, June 28, 2011.
“I used to listen”: Shaun Considine, “Miss Peggy Lee.”
“with all kinds”: “Peggy Lee Goes South of the Border, and Dave Barbour Takes a Shine to Crewcut,” Metronome, Oct. 1950.
“singers like Peggy”: Larry Douglas, “Theatrically Yours,” Atlanta Daily World, Nov. 27, 1952.
“always loved Peggy”: Leonard Feather, “Lady Day Has Her Say,” Metronome, Feb. 1950.
“She stole”: Donald Clarke, Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday, New York: Penguin Books, 1995, p. 396.
“When Peggy Lee”: Julia Blackburn, With Billie: A New Look at the Unforgettable Billie Holiday, New York: Vintage Books, 2006, p. 194.
“She was always”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“Miss Lee sees”: Life, Mar. 29, 1948.
“from a very”: Kathy Levy to JG, June 12, 2013.
“I never fly”: Ross MacDonald, “Peggy Lee,” New Liberty (Canada), 1948.
“Dave was drunk”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“Glenn Wallichs didn’t”: Kay Starr to JG, Nov. 15, 2010.
“Contrary to the belief”: Glenn Wallichs, “Looking Backward Means Little, Next Ten Years Offer Challenge,” Billboard, Aug. 2, 1952.
“like a mountain lake . . . success”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“morose”: Kirtley Baskette, “Peggy Lee: She Can’t Stop Giving.”
“Peggy said, ‘no, no”: Hal Schaefer to JG, Feb. 11, 2011.
“I had to be”: Dona Harsh Hutchinston to JG, May 17, 2011.
“I never knew”: Steve Allen to JG, Mar. 19, 1999.
“out of her element”: Jack Gould, “Programs in Review,” New York Times, Jan. 4, 1950.
“this little”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“Objection . . . stress”: “Schnozzle’s 1-Man Show in Court as Song Suit Witness,” Variety, Nov. 15, 1950.
CHAPTER FIVE
“She didn’t tell you”: Robert W. Richards to JG, Feb. 15, 1999.
“Teabags”: Steve Allen to JG, Mar. 19, 1999.
“When you see”: George T. Simon, “Hooray for Love,” Metronome, Dec. 1948.
“a very demanding”: Harold Jovien to JG, Nov. 16, 2010.
“I think I was”: Kay Starr to JG, Nov. 15, 2010.
“Dave used to”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“Miss Lee . . . rich food”: Letter, Dave Barbour to Dona Harsh, c. 1950.
“i suppose now”: Ibid.
“Dave’s a modest man”: “Peggy Lee Heads Opening Program at State Theater,” Hartford Courant, Sept. 11, 1948.
“big ambition”: George T. Simon, “Hooray for Love.”
“breaking into”: “Dave Barbour Bags Massey Skein Show,” May 1948.
“It occurred”: Charles Emge, “Mel Ferrer Adds Fresh Slant to Music in Pix,” Down Beat, Dec. 30, 1949.
“Peggy Lee’s husband”: Hedda Hopper, “Looking at Hollywood,” Chicago Daily Tribune, Nov. 5, 1949.
“After the first”: “Peggy Lee Goes South of the Border, and Dave Barbour Takes a Shine to Crewcut,” Metronome, Oct. 1950.
“I don’t think”: Hal Schaefer to JG, Feb. 11, 2011.
“cheap and lurid twaddle”: Bosley Crowther, “The Screen in Review,” New York Times, June 22, 1950.
“He was beaten”: Glen Egstrom to JG, June 6, 2011.
“much time”: “Mexican Tune Spells Success for Peggy Lee,” Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, Mar. 14, 1948.
“I saw her”: Artis Conitz Tranmer to JG, Jan. 8, 2012.
“Her appearance”: Lee Ringuette to JG, June 28, 2011.
“glamorous Hollywood”: “Peggy Lee Leaves by Truck for Bedside of Sick Father,” unknown Valley City newspaper, Mar. 8, 1950.
“It was like”: Dean McConn to JG, Nov. 27, 2011.
“because the”: Earl Wilson, “Farmerette Makes Hay,” New York Post, Apr. 26, 1953.
“within me”: Miss Peggy Lee, p. 136.
“father of”: Jamestown Sun, Apr. 27, 1950.
“Screw Louella”: Dick LaPalm to JG, June 17, 2011.
“You’re fired! . . . owe you”: Virginia Wicks to JG, Jan. 14, 2013.
“Whether this is true”: Magda Katz to JG, May 4, 2011.
“didn’t find their”: “Legion’s ‘Red, White and Blue’ Folding Jan. 20; $500,000 Loser,” Variety, Jan. 9, 1951.
“Peggy Lee plans”: Sheilah Graham, “Flashes from Filmland,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, Dec. 31, 1950.
“told her”: Boston Globe, May 16, 1951.
“little or”: “ ‘Red, White, Blue’ Folds Next Week; Legion Loss May Reach $600,000,” Variety, Jan. 9, 1951.
“limping”: “Legion’s ‘Red, White and Blue’ Folding Jan. 20; $500,000 Loser.”
“The actors”: Claudia Cassidy, “On the Aisle,” Chicago Tribune, Jan. 2, 1951.
“the second”: “ ‘Red, White, Blue’ Folds Next Week.”
“her”: Dick LaPalm to JG, Oct. 21, 2010.
“was tired”: Ibid.
“It was just”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“Getting along”: Liz Nichols, “Old-Fashioned Girl in Sequins,” TV Show, Aug. 1953.
“I loved him dearly”: John M. Cathcart, “After 4 Broken Marriages My Career Has Cost Me Enough, Says Peggy Lee,” National Enquirer, 1974.
“friendly”: “Singer Peggy Lee to Ask Divorce,” Los Angeles Times, Apr. 7, 1951.
“cruelty”: “Seeks Divorce,” Chicago Tribune, Apr. 29, 1951.
“He said he didn’t”: “Peggy Lee Wins Divorce,” New York Times, May 16, 1951.
“shortly lead”: The Associated Press, July 14, 1951.
“Roger”: Miss Peggy Lee, p. 140.
“and when I first”: Ibid.
“By now”: Ibid., p. 140.
“sent him home”: Magda Katz to JG, Feb. 12, 2011.
“For her latest”: “Capitol Hunts Lee Backing,” Billboard, Feb. 24, 1951.
“very difficult”: Dick LaPalm to JG, Oct. 21, 2010.
