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I like to see portraits of celebrities from their prime, the most flattering and impressive, not too young and not too old. It is acceptable to use album covers in the context of album discussion.
George Slivinsky16:26, 20 May 2007 (UTC)reply
McCoy
Joe McCoy wrote "Why Don't You Do Right?", so I took out the attribution to Ms Lee.
Trontonian
Gay Icon Project
In my effort to merge the now-deleted list from the article
Gay icon to the Gay icons category, I have added this page to the category. I engaged in this effort as a "human script", adding everyone from the list to the category, bypassing the fact-checking stage. That is what I am relying on you to do. Please check the article
Gay icon and make a judgment as to whether this person or group fits the category. By distributing this task from the regular editors of one article to the regular editors of several articles, I believe that the task of fact-checking this information can be expedited. Thank you very much.
Philwelch 21:10, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Errors
The dates on the Peggy Lee page don't add up correctly. If she was born in 1912 and died in 1997, she was not 81 when she died. Further, there is considerable reference to music she recorded in the 1920s, which suggests that perhaps she was even born prior to 1912. The text moves between 1920's work and 1940's work in an awkward way. I don't know enough about Lee to correct these points, but can see that there are errors here. —Preceding
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140.192.35.100 (
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22:01, 11 November 2008 (UTC)reply
There is also a problem with dates in the following sentence: "She was also a regular on NBC's Jimmy Durante Show during the 1938-48 season."
There are still more problems with dates. She left Capitol from the early 1940s until 1943, but Capitol was formed in 1947? All dates must be checked; they are very erratic.
Zaslav (
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02:34, 6 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Categorizations should reflect the text in the article. For this and the other aricles you've categorized you shold add a sourced statement to the article. Will Bebacktalk21:29, 24 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Good point, I have therefore removed the category I added earlier. If other editors feel this is notable and wish to add it to this article, then the category may also be re-added.
i removed unsourced info on her lawsuits. those definitely need sources. heres most of it:
In the early 1990s, she retained famed entertainment attorney
Neil Papiano to sue Disney for royalties on Lady and the Tramp. Lee's lawsuit claimed that she was due royalties for video tapes, a technology that did not exist when she agreed to write and perform for Disney. Her lawsuit was successful.
Never afraid to fight for what she believed in, Lee passionately insisted that musicians be equitably compensated for their work. Although she realized litigation had taken a toll on her health, Lee often quoted
Ralph Waldo Emerson on the topic: "God will not have his work be made manifest by cowards."
Retirement and death section: "Forcibly bound" suggests against her will, which is not the case – she needed a wheelchair due to he poor health, but there's nothing in either cited source that refers to her being "forcibly bound" (as with a straitjacket). I've changed "forcibly bound" to "confined".
Brianboulton (
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16:05, 29 June 2017 (UTC)reply
Inspiration for the Margarita (?)
It is highly improbable, if not impossible, that Peggy Lee was the inspiration for the Margarita cocktail. The tequila-based cocktail and associated name can reliably be traced back to at least the mid-1920s in Tijuana, Mexico, and the origins of the drink go back even further in time to the original brandy- and gin-based Daisy cocktails of the 1870s and 1880s. And far from being named for Peggy Lee (Peggy being a common nickname for Margaret), the word "margarita" is a literal translation of the English word for the daisy flower (also translated into French as marguerite). Thus, the "Margarita" tequila cocktail predates the origins stated in this article by at least two decades, and the origin of the "Margarita" name has nothing to do with a woman named Margaret/Peggy. Please consider deleting this factually incorrect information from the article. Cocktail history is full of such ephemeral, but historically inaccurate origin stories (e.g., the Manhattan being named in honor of Jenny Jerome, Winston Churchill's mother), and while you can often find a printed source for such origins, that does not mean such printed source is correct. Thanks.
2603:8080:2500:9BF5:F860:1B63:62C3:5CDD (
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19:52, 24 July 2023 (UTC)reply
Hello! I had a look for you! (I don't find myself on these topics frequently but since this was a classic one it was easy to look up.) When Swedes emigrated to the US and when they took "swedish names" in the US they often became Americanised. Swanson is a classic example. But in this case just looking up her parents with a quick google shows that this was the case here.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83487155/marvin-olaf-egstrom I'm not saying this is definite proof but it is the name on the graves from above reasons. I would find it tricky to call someone something that is not on their grave as is currently done in the above examples case in this article without an explanation.
The whole statement, including all the citations, within one footnote? Forgive my ignorance, I'm not sure how that would work.
PSPazW (
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16:55, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Thank you! I've made the edits as you suggest. Not sure where the best place for the Notes section is – I placed it after the final section of narrative. (I actually think the Discography section should go after that section.)
PSPazW (
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16:59, 25 March 2024 (UTC)reply
^Sources vary as to the spelling of Lee's birth surname. She specified it as "Egstrom" in her autobiography,[1] a spelling accepted by reliable sources such Britannica,[2] the New York Times obituary,[3] and the website peggylee.com maintained by her estate.[4] However, other reliable sources list the name as "Engstrom."[5][6][7][8][9]
I someone wants t ochange article text re: this item the change must respect cited sources, so that they do not end up sourcing something other than what's in them. --
SergeWoodzing (
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10:30, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
1940 and 1941.
I notice that Peggy Lee is listed as going back to California in 1940, after traveling with the Osborne orchestra. This isn't the case. The biographies contort the dates of her career unintentionally sometimes. Peggy was traveling with Osborne in the Fall of 1940 up in the Mid-West, and had a surgery that went poorly, with an incompetent surgeon causing her to fall to the floor of the operating room when pouring myrrh all over her face. When she woke up, her mouth was so damaged that she had it surgically shut. She couldn't sing for months until the Orchestra was rebranded as Osborne singer Dick Rogers' orchestra in January, 1941, with Will leaving. Upon this happening, Lee was fired. Lee, Dale Jones of the orchestra and Osborne's manager driving down to California.
Look at the biographies, and compare it with Down Beat, The Billboard, and Variety articles, and you'll be able to see the the dates of the above events did happen like that.
CDPorter (
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21:29, 25 November 2023 (UTC)reply