Talk:Peggy Lee

message: 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 Slivinsky 16:26, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pic 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Gay Icon Project 

message: 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 unsigned comment added by 140.192.35.100 (talk) 22:01, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: 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 (talk) 02:34, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Capitol Records was created in 1942. Not 1947.  CDPorter (talk) 21:35, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Errors

message: See Wikipedia:Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the <ref(erences/)> tags Nhl4hamilton (talk) 04:41, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Citations & references

message: Added Category per the source:  -- — Kbob • Talk •  20:11, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: 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 Beback  talk   21:29, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: 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.
-- — Kbob • Talk •  02:17, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added: Category:Transcendental Meditation practitioners 

message: The article was assessed C-class for lack of in-line citations. Boneyard90 (talk) 19:11, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  WP: Women's History Assessment Commentary 

message: 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."
Mercurywoodrose (talk) 03:01, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: legal stuff

message: 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 (talk) 16:05, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: "Forcibly bound to a wheelchair"

message: 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 (talk) 19:52, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The article says she is "often cited as the inspiration" for margaritas, which is fine. Seasider53 (talk) 22:05, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inspiration for the Margarita (?) 

message: ::Looking at my own source a second time it's an obvious Americanisation of Ekström her father's and grandfather's name alongside the patronym.😀 2A02:1406:39:D245:8D7A:1858:F0DC:889C (talk) 23:19, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I found a source & have now added Ekström. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 17:11, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice! I added what you missed! Thank you! 😀 2A02:1406:39:D245:498:B802:894C:3414 (talk) 21:17, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Find-A-Grave is not normally considered a reliable source. But I suppose the gravestone photos are accurate. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 07:57, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Ekström

message: 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 (talk) 21:29, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  1940 and 1941.