Peggy Lee, songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany

• I Don't Know Enough about You
• It's a Good Day
• Where Can I Go without You?

Research Resources: Peggy Lee

• Amazon (publications by and about, recordings, videos, sheet music, etc.)
• DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list; awards; hit songs; co-writers)
• Discogs.com (songwriting and arranging credits)
• Indiana University Sheet Music Collection: Peggy Lee
• Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) (Broadway productions and song credits)
• Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
• New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.)
• The New York Times (articles about or related to the songwriter)
• Night Lights Classic Jazz (radio program "Miss Peggy Lee Songwriter" --audio available)
• PeggyLee.com (section on Lee as songwriter including discography of her compostions and chronological catalog of her songwriting)
• PeggyLeeDiscography.com (Songwriter Index For The Peggy Lee Bio-Discography And Videography)
• PRX.org (radio program: "Women's History Special - Miss Peggy Lee," Songwriter -- audio available at website)
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
• Wikipedia article--section on lee's songwriting
• Whitney Balliett, American Singers: Twenty-seven Portraits in Song, New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1988 ("Still There" chapter on Lee, primarily as singer).
• Gary Marmorstein, Hollywood Rhapsody: Movie Music and Its Makers, 1900-1975,
  New York: Schirmer Books, 1997 (multiple references).
• Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball (Eds.), Reading Lyrics, New York: Pantheon Books, 2000 (pp. 543-546, overview plus lyrics to six songs).
• Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (entry--pp. 82-85 plus multiple references).
• Peter Richmond, Fever: The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee, Picador, 2007.
• Thomas S. Hischak. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 (entry--p. 423).
• A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers, New York: Pantheon Books, 2010 (Lee: pp. 287-294).

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