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Use your home
equity to keep your
Retirement on Track
2020 has brought many things to a
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• Reduce expenses by eliminating
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paying property charges, including property taxes, fees, hazard insurance. The borrower must maintain the
home. If the borrower does not meet these loan obligations, then the loan will need to be repaid.
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She Gave Us Fever
By: Yvonne Cloutier / Musical Moments
Peggy Lee, called the greatest white, female
jazz singer of all times was also known for
her sex appeal and sultry songs. She was a multifaceted
artist and composer - her career spanning 70 years.
She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom, in North Dakota, in 1920,
and had exquisite Scandinavian looks. She was the seventh of eight
children.
Her mother died when she was four years old. Her father then married
a woman who daily beat Peggy for 11 years.
Peggy Lee developed her soft, cool style during an engagement in
Palm Springs where she found that if she sang softly to a noisy audience,
they would quiet down and listen. This style became her trademark.
She wrote for
TV, films, acted
in The Jazz
Singer remake,
was nominated
for an Academy
Award for her
performance in
Pete Kelly’s Blues
remake and
created record
albums using
poetry, jazz, chamber pop, art songs, and other genres.
She wrote the lyrics and did several voices for Walt Disney’s Lady
and the Tramp, the lyrics for Duke Ellington’s I’m Gonna Go Fishin’
in Anatomy of a Murder, and the theme music for movies Johnny
Guitar and About Mrs. Leslie.
She wrote or co-wrote over 200 songs and recorded over 600. She
worked with Bing Crosby, Mel Torme, Frank Sinatra, Quincy Jones, and
George Shearing.
Disney paid her $3,500 for singing in Lady and the Tramp. In 1991
she won a lawsuit against Disney allowing her to collect royalties from
the 1987 video cassette release sales - estimated to be $90 million.
Miss Lee was discovered by Benny Goodman becoming his principal
singer but left the band when she married fellow band member Dave
Barbour. She and Barbour collaborated on the hit songs, Fever and
Manana.
She credits her success to her big band experiences with Goodman.
Her first big hit was Somebody Else Is Taking My Place followed by
Why Don’t You Do Right?
Her awards included nominations for 12 Grammys, and Best
Contemporary Vocal Performance for her 1969 hit Is That All There Is?
In 2002, at age 81, she died. Her cemetery marker is inscribed “Music
is my life’s breath.”
Yvonne Cloutier, a former teacher/principal, with a music
background, specializes in ragtime piano. She researches and
reports about music on SCA-TV.com/Anthem Alive! You can
contact her at www.mytimeisragtime.com.