There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument.
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If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.
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I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.
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Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.
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Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record.
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I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.
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