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Peggy Lee

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Peggy Lee is a Jazz and Pop act. Their sound grew out of A Song For You, In the Name of Love, Donna Hightower, Insensatez and Samba de Uma Nota Só. Those roots explain a lot about how Peggy Lee arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Sarah Vaughan, Doris Day, June Christy, Dinah Washington and Perry Como, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Charlie Parker, Elysian Fields, Cristina, Leiber-Stoller and Mark Murphy, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 67 connections around Peggy Lee, reaching back through A Song For You and forward to Charlie Parker. 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 LeeA Song For YouIn the Name of LoveDonna HightowerInsensatezSamba de Uma Nota SóWhy Don't You Do Rig…Kansas Joe McCoyJenny Lou CarsonCharlie ParkerElysian FieldsCristinaLeiber-StollerMark MurphyJunior BylesHoward RobertsFridaSarah VaughanDoris DayJune ChristyDinah WashingtonPerry ComoBobby DarinEartha KittNancy Wilson

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Peggy Lee connections

Peggy Lee grew out of A Song For You, In the Name of Love, Donna Hightower and Insensatez, shares an orbit with Sarah Vaughan, Doris Day, June Christy and Dinah Washington, went on to shape Charlie Parker, Elysian Fields, Cristina and Leiber-Stoller. 67 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

Who influenced Peggy Lee

Roots23

Sounds and acts that shaped Peggy Lee.

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Kindred13

Artists and scenes sharing an orbit with Peggy Lee.

Bands Peggy Lee shaped

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