🎶 I’ll glitter and gleam so, make somebody dream, so… ✨ For many, the highlight of Peggy Lee’s appearance on the episode of ‘The Bing Crosby Show’ that aired September 29, 1959 was her performance of “Baubles, Bangles and Beads.” Singing the tune (from the musical ‘Kismet’) “in a forest of chandeliers,” a concept conceived of by director Bill Colleran, “she sparkled” as one reviewer wrote, “like the Hope Diamond in a visually magnificent vignette.” 💖 My heart will sing, sing-a-ling-a 🎵 #Peggy

Before a performance in Las Vegas, Peggy Lee received a telegram from songwriter Arthur Hamilton that ended with a simple, poetic line: “Sing a rainbow!” She loved the phrase so much she called him immediately. As Arthur recalled: “She said, ‘It’s a wonderful title for a song—who’s going to write it?’ I told her, ‘It’s yours now.’ And she said, ‘Oh no, those words are yours.’” Arthur went on to write “Sing a Rainbow”, featured in ‘Pete Kelly’s Blues’, a film that earned Peggy an Oscar nomination

🎶 Hush now, don’t explain ✨ Peggy Lee spent her formative years listening to the music of Billie Holiday, and was always open in her admiration. "I honestly feel that I understand what she sings because she understands what she's singing,” Peggy once said. “She's highly refined. She has the broadest scope of character with all kinds of little facets.” In this rare clip from a live performance, she pays tribute to Lady Day with a cover of a jazz standard Billie co-wrote in 1944 with Arthur Herzo