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March 10 , 2007
“Miss Peggy Lee, Songwriter"
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Many listeners know Peggy Lee as a great jazz singer, but she was also a prolific writer of songs—composing or co-composing nearly 200 of them, including hits such as “I Don’t Know Enough About You” and “Manana” as well as lesser-known gems like “That Ol’ Devil Won’t Get Me” and “There’ll Be Another Spring.” She counted among her collaborators Victor Young, Cy Coleman, and husband Dave Barbour; along with Sonny Burke she also wrote the songs for the Disney movie Lady and the Tramp, including “The Siamese Cat Song” and “He’s a Tramp.” We’ll hear Lee performing a number of these songs, along with several interpretations from other artists such as Nat King Cole. For more about Peggy Lee, go here. Special thanks to David Torresen for assistance with this program. “Miss Peggy Lee, Songwriter” airs Saturday, March 10 at 11:05 p.m. EST on WFIU.

You can watch Peggy Lee and her husband Dave Barbour performing two songs that they wrote here and here.