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Peggy Lee

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JazzPop

Peggy Lee is a Jazz and Pop act. Their sound grew out of Donna Hightower, A Song For You, Insensatez, Samba de Uma Nota Só and Why Don't You Do Right?. Those roots explain a lot about how Peggy Lee arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Doris Day, June Christy, Dinah Washington, Perry Como and Eartha Kitt, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Elysian Fields, Cristina, Howard Roberts, Frida and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 62 connections around Peggy Lee, reaching back through Donna Hightower and forward to Elysian Fields. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Peggy LeeDonna HightowerA Song For YouInsensatezSamba de Uma Nota SóWhy Don't You Do Rig…Kansas Joe McCoyJenny Lou CarsonLil GreenElysian FieldsCristinaHoward RobertsFridaAnni-Frid LyngstadSarah VaughanDizzy GillespieCharlie ParkerDoris DayJune ChristyDinah WashingtonPerry ComoEartha KittNancy WilsonBenny GoodmanCarmen McRae

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Peggy Lee connections

Peggy Lee grew out of Donna Hightower, A Song For You, Insensatez and Samba de Uma Nota Só, shares an orbit with Doris Day, June Christy, Dinah Washington and Perry Como, went on to shape Elysian Fields, Cristina, Howard Roberts and Frida. 62 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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