Peggy Lee’s signature singing sound was “a soft and cool style.” She developed this sound in 1940 while performing at a restaurant in Palm Springs when Jack Benny and his radio entourage arrived.

Peggy Lee's signature singing sound was "a soft and cool style." She developed this sound in 1940 while performing at a restaurant in Palm Springs, Calif., when Jack Benny and his radio entourage ...

In 1970 Peggy Lee won a Grammy for "Is That All There Is," a song that many heard as an anthem of ennui … ... but not Lee, says her granddaughter, Holly Foster ...

George Brooks grew up in Valley City, N.D., and eventually got a job at radio station KOVC there. He later was news director for KFGO in Fargo, managed stations in Morris and Fergus Falls, Minn., then ...

Club singer Lezlie Anders believes that the late Peggy Lee, to whom she has been compared, was "the most important woman in American music." Anders and her husband of 11 years, Buddy Greco, have ...

LOS ANGELES — Peggy Lee, the sultry singer who could heat up the room with smoldering hits like "Fever" and "Is That All There Is?," has died at 81. Lee died of a heart attack Monday at her Bel Air ...

Peggy Lee, the sultry-voiced singer-composer whose 60-year career of putting the cool in the blues and the heat in the fever put her in the front rank of American jazz, blues and pop divas, died last ...