A DREAM IS A WISH YOUR HEART MAKES
PEGGY
LEE
SONGWRITERS: MACK DAVID; JERRY LIVINGSTONE & AL
HOFFMAN
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: I’VE GOT A CRUSH ON YOU
LABEL: AVID RECORDS
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1995
Norma Deloris Egstrom (May 26, 1920 – January
21, 2002), known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress, over a career spanning
six decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big
band, Lee created a sophisticated persona, writing music for films, acting, and
recording conceptual record albums combining poetry and music.
Lee was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown,
North Dakota, on May 26, 1920, the seventh of
the eight children of Selma Amelia (née Anderson) Egstrom and Marvin Olof
Egstrom, a station agent for the Midland
Continental Railroad. Her family and she were Lutherans. Her
father was Swedish-American and her mother was Norwegian-American. After her
mother died when Lee was four, her father married Minnie Schaumberg Wiese.
Lee first sang professionally over KOVC radio in Valley City,
North Dakota. She later had her own series on
a radio show sponsored by a local restaurant that paid her salary in food. Both during and after her
high-school years, Lee sang for small sums on local radio stations.
Radio personality Ken Kennedy, of WDAY in Fargo (the most widely heard station in North Dakota), changed her name to
Peggy Lee. Lee left home and traveled to Los Angeles at the age of 17.
She returned to North Dakota for a tonsillectomy, and was
later noticed by hotel owner Frank Bering while working at the Doll House in Palm Springs,
California. Here, she developed her
trademark sultry purr, having decided to compete with the noisy crowd with
subtlety rather than volume. Bering offered her a gig at the Buttery Room, a nightclub in the
Ambassador Hotel East in Chicago. There, she was noticed by bandleader Benny
Goodman. According to Lee, "Benny's then-fiancée, Lady Alice Duckworth,
came into the Buttery, and she was very impressed. So the
next evening, she brought Benny in, because they were looking for a replacement
for Helen Forrest. And although I didn't know, I was
it. He was looking at me strangely, I thought, but it was just his preoccupied
way of looking. I thought that he didn't like me at first, but it just was that
he was preoccupied with what he was hearing." She joined his band in 1941
and stayed for two years.
"A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes"
is a song written and composed by Mack David,
Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston for the Walt Disney film Cinderella (1950). In the song, Cinderella (voiced by Ilene Woods)
encourages her animal friends to never stop dreaming, and that theme continues
throughout the entire story. The theme of the song was taken from Franz Liszt's Etude Nº. 9 Ricordanza of the Transcendental
Etudes. This song was also performed by Lily James for the
soundtrack of the live-action
version of Cinderella in 2015. In
April 2020, Demi Lovato and Michael Bublé performed the song for The Disney
Family Singalong on ABC.
"When I was a
little girl my father used to say,
"If trouble ever troubles you, just dream your cares away."
A dream is a wish
your heart makes
when you're fast
asleep.
In dreams you will lose your heartache,
whatever you wish for you keep.
Have faith in your
dreams and someday, someday,
your rainbow will come smiling through.
No matter how your heart is grieving,
if you keep on believing
the dream that you wish will come true.
Oh, no matter how
your heart is grieving,
if you keep on believing
the dream that you wish will come true.
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