Peggy Lee

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Born Norma Jean Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, Peggy Lee (1920-2002) had her first professional singing experience sing on local radio shows, for which we she was occasionally paid in free food by the restaurant sponsor. Lee sang in the Doll House in Palm Springs and then The Buttery RoomContinue Reading

Sonny Burke

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Sonny Burke (1914-1980) is perhaps best known as a big band leader and arranger, who worked with Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Torme and Frank Sinatra among many others. Burke produced Sinatra’s 1980 triple album ‘Trilogy’ just before his death from cancer. His first significant arranging work came in the 1940s withContinue Reading