Peggy Lee Passes Away

[enjoythemusic]

Hi Everyone,

It saddens me to report that Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter/actress Peggy Lee (81) Passed away last night at approximately 8 p.m. Her accomplishments within the entertainment industry is immense as she brought joy to millions of people.

[lennonfan]

absolutely one of the GREAT ones. Paul McCartney wrote a song for her in 1976 which I have in my collection. Hey Steve...I think the 24k treatment is well deserved here...maybe a Greatest Hits comp? It would be long overdue IMO.
-regards from lennonfan

[Jim Ricketts]

There is a silver DCC of Peggy Lee's Greatest Hits that includes a GREAT sounding version of "Fever".

[lennonfan]

thanks! I must have missed that one:(

[Paul L.]

Peggy's "Let's Love" Atlantic LP would be a good one to do on SACD.

[AudioGirl]

Peace to Peggy and all of her fans.

[Paul L.]

From washingtonpost.com

And she fought the music establishment, perhaps inspired by the title of one of her biggest hits, "Is That All There Is?" In 1991, Lee won a $2.3 million judgment against Walt Disney Co. after demonstrating that she had not been paid for her songs and voice-over in the 1955 animated classic "Lady and the Tramp" when it was released on video. (Her pre-video-era contract barred the sale of "transcriptions" without her approval.)

Last year she was lead plaintiff in a class-action suit against Vivendi Universal, the world's largest record company and owner of the back catalogue of one of Lee's old labels, Decca. The suit, which recently produced a tentative agreement to pay $4.75 million to as many as 300 performers who recorded before 1962, was the first class action on behalf of recording artists to accuse a record company of employing questionable accounting tactics to avoid payment of royalties as far back as the 1940s. Among the beneficiaries: the estates of her peers and heroes Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.