Peggy Lee was one of the greatest pop & jazz singers there ever was or ever will be. I have just about every album she made re-released on CD. Even "Pete Kelly's Blues".
So talented. She was all over the movie"Lady and The Tamp." Played the mother, Simess cats, wrote the music, etc. When the movie came out in home video she had to take Disney to court to get the money she was owed.
Police Commissioner Manes went back to Rome and probably talked for the rest of his life about being on American television. I enjoyed the first segment. It was very interesting. I can understand how some became impatient, as the show was typically more fast paced. Having something different occasionally spices things up. Thank you for posting all these programs! I'm happily addicted to this show and to researching all the panelists and guests I don't know. I'm learning all kinds of things about people my Mom knew from movies, TV and the theater.
In those days the American attention span was much longer. Patience was more prevalent. Now a goat's attention span is longer!😲The job of simultaneous translator is considered one of the most stressful with extremely high turnover. It is important work.
No language had ever sounded more beautiful than those words spoken by the Italian interpreter! She would easily have won a ‘Most beautiful language of the World’ competition!
Never, repeat never write that last sentence down, simply "think it": by now, there are indeed already 9 Mary Contrary's.... There are people whose hobby it is to do exactly the opposite of what other people are expecting from them. Call it an anarchistic streak....
So Clifton Daniel is Harry Truman's son in law and would in 1964 become the managing editor of the New York Times , and he was conestant in WML on July 15 , '56 , thanks for clearing that up , wikipedia
I first listened to this episode in the car and I fell in love with Marie's voice. I have always loved accents and foreign languages even I cannot speak them. I found the first part of this show very interesting and it added an aspect we did not usually see in the rest of the show due to the translating. In all the years I have seen the reruns I have never seen this one or any like it. I am surprised they did not have this one in a while. Absolutely wonderful.
What a wonderful, elegant show. Fun, and so sauve. No naught words, just pure class..thank you. Am 71, we only had a rented tv in 1960s, but didn't caught this one then. Take care and enjoy. Happy 😊
Peggy Lee did the voice to the twin Siamese cats Si and Am in Disney's "Lady and the Tramp", hence her comment that she did not use a siamese voice. 23:55
She also wrote the song lyrics -- I believe she wrote the lyrics to all the songs in "Lady and the Tramp", not just those to the Siamese cats' song. She was born Norma Delores Egstrom and her father was a Swedish-American and her mother a Norwegian-American. Her original surname was almost certainly "Egström" in Sweden. Peggy Lee was a very talented lady. I wish I had been old enough during the days when she sang live in nightclubs wearing a long, formal dress, frequently strapless, with long gloves on -- I would have gone to see and her and hear her sing. As it is, I love watching video footage of her.
There are a lot of negative comments on the board about the first segment with the interpreter, but I actually found the segment rather interesting. A lot of the game play relies on the clear definition of concepts. Some of these were tough to translate from the Italian, like "agency" and "federal government." As a result, the game got bogged down, literally "lost in translation."
"The Man I Love" is positive in a Billie Holiday kinda way, I guess. No, no, I remember this jazz singer for the hauntingly soulful "Is That All There Is?"
I thought the interpreter was the most beautiful woman on the show, so the first segment was funny and charming. People seem to whistle and go mad for blonde hair, but the upturned nose and the short dark hair were very appealing.
Peggy Lee. O my yes. I am surprised that Peggy so thoroughly bamboozled Dorothy Kilgallen, who was an expert on pop music among other things. ASIDE from the future -- on the last night Dorothy appeared on WML in November 1965, she asked the mystery guest [singer Joey Heatherton] if her real first name was "Norma." Joey replied no, but Dorothy had Peggy Lee in mind, whose real first name is Norma and who was in November 1965 appearing in New York.
21:35 A stumped Arlene Francis makes a guess of Julie Wilson. I had never heard of her. She was big as nightclub singer and actress in the 1940's and 50's and then went into something of a retirement to raise her sons. She made a comeback as a cabaret singer in the 1980's when she was in her late 50's and in her 60's. But she was never much of a recording artist.
Thanx for posting. Never seen this before. [ 0:30 } Definitely getting ready for the new animated opening. [ 1:05 ] Clifton Daniel. Writer. Husband of Harry's singer-socialite-writer daughter Margaret Truman. Not the only time that Bennett appeared in white jacket. And not the only time that an Italian appeared with a translator. Actress Anna Magnani did that back in 1954.
I have loved popular vocal music for as long as I can remember. I especially love anything I can sing along with. Peggy Lee was someone that I didn't truly appreciate until I was an adult with some life experience behind me. Most musicologists opine that her signature song was yet to come when she appeared on WML for this episode. That song would be "Fever", Originally recorded by Little Willie John in 1956, Lee added two verses of her own composition and slowed down the tempo to a sultry, sexy sizzle. (It is 41 seconds longer.) See how sultry she is with just her voice and a few subtle moves (plus the lyrics). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EYxoAJ3Boyc.html
Lois Simmons - Thanks so much. I do not think I ever knew she had added verses onto the existing song. The trio you referenced here was a fabulous performance.
Very cool. Ty for this, hadn't seen it before. I really enjoy Peggy Lee. Great combo. I like that the drummer essentially played the bongos on his drum kit. Miss Lee, sounding and looking very elegant.
for everybody wondering why they never put out a second chair when they had two guests, you see the reason why in this episode. they couldn't get all three people in the frame, without it looking like they were crowded, and they were not far enough apart to only show one or two. I assume they had to do the second chair this time because it would not be proper to put a man and woman, who probably never met before this show, in physical contact with each other.
22:20 Arlene is ready to guess that the MG is Peggy Lee and not Jaye P Morgan (after Bennett narrows it down to those two). During a conference, Dorothy prolongs it by suggesting that Arlene ask whether she ever recorded the song "Don't Smoke in Bed", a song Miss Lee recorded in 1948. Why ask the question? Once the possibility is narrowed down to two people, it takes no more time, and possibly less time to simply guess one or the other. And if Clifton Daniels wasn't familiar with the song (it only reached #22 on the charts), it would be no help to him at all. This is one case where Dorothy's method of questioning is too clever by half. Arlene follows Dorothy's lead but artfully rephrases the question to get a laugh.
Gil Fates wrote in his book that a typical WML game took 7 minutes. Here at 12 minutes when Dorothy nailed it, this may be the longest game in Sunday Night WML. Typically if the panel was off track, Daly would cut it short at 7 minutes. Here it is stuck with a mechanically slow game. A nightmare for live TV director Franklin Heller, I bet. An interesting experiment which they did not repeat on Sunday night.
I recall the use of an interpreter at least once previously with an MG (Sylvia Mangano?) and it seemed to work okay. But with a performer, there wouldn't be as many technical terms to deal with regarding a job classification. This segment seemed to get bogged down with disagreements about which level of government the challenger worked for and whether he worked for a law enforcement agency (with the emphasis on the definition of an agency).
what was so funny about the police chief/commissioner saying he was connected to two of the agencies Dorthy mentioned but not the third? he made it sound like nobody wants to admit they work for THEM.
Peggy Lee signs in as "Peggy Lee Martin". She was married at the time to actor Dewey Martin, the third of her four marriages. Sadly, like all of her marriages it did not last long. They married in 1956 and divorced in 1958. With her second marriage (to actor Brad Dexter), they were married and divorced in 1953. Her fourth and final marriage (to musician Jack Del Rio) took place in 1964 and they divorced the following year. Her longest lasting marriage was her first, to guitarist Dave Barbour. They were wed in 1943 and divorced in 1951. They met while both were with Benny Goodman's band and their love match violated Goodman's rule about any of the musicians "fraternizing with the girl singer." Ironically, Peggy wanted to give up her career to be a housewife and mother (they had one child, the only child she ever had). But Barbour joined the chorus of those who felt she had too much talent to give up her career. She reluctantly started to record again, but it was still part-time until she had a huge hit with "Mañana" (a song she and Barbour wrote together, and which she mentions as her biggest hit to John Daly after the game play was over). It was impossible for her to have a part-time career after that.
Brad Dexter is always the 7th member of the Magnificent Seven who no one can remember. A few others of the 7 were MGs including Arlene's costar from One, Two, Three, Horst Buchholz.
Earlier in the questioning, Bennett asks if the MG ever had an eponymous TV show of her own. The answer was no ("nein"). Later he narrows down the possibilities to Peggy Lee or Jaye P Morgan. But Miss Morgan had a show of her own ("The Jaye P Morgan Show") in 1956. Perhaps the show wasn't around long enough on NBC for Bennett to have noticed. Maybe it was the heat in the studio, but the panel didn't seem to be as sharp for this episode. Or maybe they became mind-numbed by the first segment.
Peggy Lee was a great singer. I own some of her recordings which I enjoy listening to very oftenly. When she said that "Mañana" (Which I think is a 'stupid' song) was her biggest-selling record, she was probably referring to up-to the time this program was recorded, because she certainly made throughout her long career a lot of much more better and meaningful songs than "Mañana". On the other hand, she made her participation in this program very interesting and entertaining.
+Whats My Line How much Italian did JCD actually know? Seems like he didn't need the translator on the show. Those "conferences" were very lengthy. Did you see how long they were?
Aside from letting us hear John speaking Italian, this is not a night to remember fondly. Full translations made the first segment too slow, even for those of us who know a little of the language. And we were told he was a police chief rather than a commissioner, so it was frustrating to hear answers that sounded wrong to us in the light of what we were given.
I agree with what you said, but I have to admit that watching John Daly try to convince the chief of police of Rome that he had a job with the police force was amusing. I realize that the problem is caused by having several different kinds of police, but it was still funny.
She played the Siamese cats, the mother (owner) and that singing female dog and helped wright most of the songs in the movie but, and I’m very sorry to tell you, she did not voice the cocker spaniel.
The poor men are all sweaty and look so very uncomfortable. They're always mopping their heads and foreheads off. I'm wondering how the women seemed to stay so fresh and didn't get drippy on their faces, heads or even their clothing. I feel bad for these folks, in the summer in bright lights with no air conditioning. This must've been so distressing.
As a Southerner, I might say that men sweat, ladies sparkle. 😉 AND I might add that air conditioning was extremely scarce in those days, so most of us didn't miss what we didn't have.
MNow someone is just have to "clue me in" as to Clifton Daniel was . I assume he was an actor but am not sure. So someone please shore up my info. gap on him.
Mr. Daniel was a journalist, with the NY Times for much of his career. He married Margaret Truman in 1956. They had four children together and their marriage lasted until he died in Feb. 2000.
@@loissimmons6558 Clifton Daniel was NY Times editor; Arlene refers to Margaret and refers to the new born and yet unnamed son Clifton Truman Daniel, who grew up to publish several interesting books etc. on his grandfather HST, including the A-bomb and Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
Actually the protein in egg is very good for one's hair. I suspect that people in those days and earlier were well aware of that. Even now, one can find websites extolling the virtues of it (but warning about needing to mitigate the odor). Helene Curtis appears to have taken a very basic approach to naming their product, perhaps a throwback to simpler times. And the exec who suggested "Pomade d'Ova" was left in the dust. Or perhaps someone at the meeting threw out the exasperated remark, "Whaddya want, egg in your beer?" And they took it from there.
Peggy was born in 1920 which puts her 37, which isn't old but it ain't young either. Peggy was born in Jamestown, ND which was home to a huge number of German (speaking) immigrants from Russia.
The men generally had a basic black blindfold or mask held on by some sort of elastic band (except that Robert Q. Lewis eventually had eyeglasses drawn on his). But Dorothy and Arlene changed theirs from time to time. Arlene for a number of years had one with eyelashes on it and then had one with her initials (A over her right eye and F over her left). Later, she went to a mask that she could put on like eyeglasses. Dorothy's for quite a while were tied on with a ribbon. But she didn't always have this mask to the best of my recollection.
David Harris- Yes; she’s very annoying “Did you once take a shrimp off Truman Capotes plate, pass it to Barbara Stanwyck and then throw it in Lucille Balls’ swimming pool while Dean Martin sang with Peggy Lee?”
I suspect that Clifton Daniel didn't have much experience in front of a camera or any audience for that matter. He was a print journalist. And while Bennett Cerf wasn't normally a performer, per se, he regularly was touring as a public speaker before live audiences. Bennett clearly enjoyed it while Clifton was as nervous as a cat in a room full of grandmothers in rocking chairs.
I think the interpreter took her job too seriously; she translated all words instead of asking short questions. That made this part of the show too slow and stringy. But nevertheless a nice idea to invite guests from all over the world. And this was the first time I heard about the famous "Blank Blank Show" :)
I thought she did a good job. I understand Italian and it seemed to me that she represented the questions failthfully, which is important in this case to keep the answers on track.
Dorothy, Dorothy :) "Gracia" is Spanish, "Grazie" is Italian :) And Peggy Lee is not helping either: jawrrrrrrohl ??? There is no "r" in Jawohl. Bei mir bist du nicht schön this way.... Income tax people and Marriage Councelers seem to have been very frequent visitors of WML. Were there never fire brigade people, butchers, top bakers, inn keepers etc. ? Also, 95 % of the mystery guests had to reply "yes" if asked if they were "in the entertainment business".... Almost no writers, painters (yes yes Mr. Dali, I know you were there), sculptors, award winning journalists etc. On the positive side, fortunately enough, none of them was "smaller than a breadbox" :)
There were certain repeat professions. Bullfighters, big game hunters, lady barbers, teachers of classes to expectant mothers. But there was an episode where the guests were a butcher, a baker, and a candle stick maker. And they once had a fire fighter who had been called to a fire at Dorothy's house (she did not recognize him). Mystery guests were normally in the entertainment business, that is true. Celebrities then as now were mostly in that field or in sports. An occasional politician or artist/architect.
This episode I didn't enjoy, mostly because of the first guest needing an interpreter. Obviously, that wasn't his fault, but an already slow-paced game became very tedious during that portion of it. After that, it was enjoyable as usual.
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