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Jazz a la Lee

BBC Radio 3
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Today Peggy Lee celebrates her 77th birthday. In the second of four programmes, Mel Hill focuses on her years as vocalist with the Benny
Goodman Orchestra. It was the time that saw her transformation from a capable band singer who supplied a vocal refrain to a distinctive jazz soloist who sold over a million copies of Why Don't You Do Right? Repeated Friday 12.30am

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Peggy Lee
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Mel Hill
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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