[78-L] When Liberace winks

[David Lennick]

I remember seeing Pretty Perky Peggy King on the George Gobel Show. And you 
can't hardly get that no more.
http://www.peggyking.org/Year1955.html

dl

On 9/10/2010 9:20 PM, Ray Kilcoyne wrote:
> Taylor,
> What a neat memento.  According to the story, Mitch Miller signed her to
> Columbia after hearing her on that Hunt's commercial, so it predates all of
> her recordings.  Must have been in the early 50's.
> RayK
>>
> From: "Taylor Bowie"
>> Peggy King was a very fine singer.  Somewhere I have a little give-away
>> record from the 50s where she sings a song called "You'll Get a Kick Out
>> Of
>> Cooking (with Hunt's Tomato Sauce)" and she is given label credit as
>> "Peggy
>> King,  The Hunt's Tomato Sauce Girl."
>>
>> T
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Kristjan Saag"<saag at telia.com>
>> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 4:47 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] When Liberace winks
>>
>>
>>> Thanks a million, Ray and David, for quick help.
>>> Peggy King - a most pleasant voice, good phrasing and acting...could
>>> have made a good jazz singer in the Peggy Lee/ Julie London vein. Nice
>>> 1950's videos on her website.
>>> Kristjan
>>>
>>>   fprRay Kilcoyne skrev 2010-09-10 14:55:
>>>> A better pic.........
>>>> http://www.peggyking.org/
>>>> RayK
>>>>
>>>> From: "Kristjan Saag"
>>>>> There's a video on youtube, from a BBC (?) documentary, where a girl
>>>>> sings "When Liberace Winks At Me" - taken from an early 1950's Liberace
>>>>> Show.
>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMg83t9mej0
>>>>> I haven't been able to trace the singer, though, although the recording
>>>>> is available on some Liberace compilation albums. I know Libby Morris
>>>>> recorded the song for a Canadian label in 1954 (before she moved to
>>>>> Britain - there was a version on Parlophone issued in 1956, probably
>>>>> the
>>>>> same), but pictures of her don't really fit the face in the movie clip.
>>>>> Could it be a dub? Or a completely unknown, forgotten young singer?
>>>>> Kristjan