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Show J-eeL at I lie Stars By LYN CONNELLY HIT tunes have a way of winding wind-ing up under the Peggy Lee standard . . . "Golden Earrings," "Manana," "It's a Good Day" and "Lover" are just a few . . . They've had "lee-way" . . . It's all in the lovely vocalist's approach to a song . . . Her personality with a tune has made her a great favorite in night spots . . Small wonder then, that her CBS radio program is one of the most popular musical offerings on the air . . Listeners get an earful of the same, famed "Lee treatment" she gives the songs while singing at Ciro's in Hollywood, the Copacabana in New York or at any of the other famed night clubs in which she appears. Miss Lee gets the life and bounce into the tunes she sings by using a-microphone a-microphone technique all her own The fingers of her left hand snap in firecracker fashion, while her right heel beats the tempo against the studio floor . . "Even the musicians," says conductor Sonny Burke, "are captivated by Peggy's microphone magic to a point where we're just dimly aware of being on the air with a coast-to-coast show." . Peggy opened a new career for herself with a sterling performance in her first big screen break in "The Jazz Singer." PLATTER CHATTER CAPITOL: As usual, this com-pany com-pany is way out in front when it conies to recording children's specialties spe-cialties . . . Some of their latest that would be fine for Junior's library include "Bozo's Song," featuring fea-turing "Honkety Hank;" "Sparky's Magic Echo," the wonderful "Ugly Duckling," taken, of course, from the Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale . . . This is told and sung by Don Wilson with voice characterizations char-acterizations by Stan Freberg,and it couldn't be finer. Other Capitol records for children chil-dren are "Bugs Bunny and the Grow-Small Juice," featuring the talented Mel Blanc; "Tweet, Tweet, Tweety," also with Blanc; and Walt Disney's "Bongo, the Circus Bear," told by Don Wilson. |