How Many Songs Were Recorded By Peggy Lee?
Here’s the answer to a trivia question that visitors of this site have asked: Peggy Lee recorded approximately 1,100 masters. That estimate includes only songs that she did in the recording studio, and which were meant chiefly for commercial release or radio transcription programming. Besides those approximately 1,100 masters, there are hundreds of Peggy Lee performances extant from various media sources (radio, television, film). Also extant are taped rehearsals and concerts. Peggy Lee’s obituary notices inaccurately reported that the singer had made between 600 and 750 recordings. Such erroneous estimates were probably based on outdated promotional material, going back to the late 1970s.
