Peggy King
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Peggy King on The Jack Benny Show
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February 16, 1930 Greensburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Genres | Pop |
| Website | http://www.peggyking.org |
Peggy King (born 16 February 1930, Greensburg, Pennsylvania) is a jazz and pop vocalist and former TV personality. She got her start with the bands of Charlie Spivak, Ralph Flanagan and Ray Anthony and was featured on an early TV series with Mel Torme.
"Pretty perky Peggy King", as she was called, appeared on The George Gobel Show from 1954 through 1957 and guest-starred on many other TV shows, including Bob Hope's 1956 Chevy Show, American Bandstand, Maverick, Dragnet (series), The Steve Allen Show,The Kraft Music Hall with Milton Berle,What's My Line?,The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Perry Como Show,The Garry Moore Show, and The Jack Benny Show.
In 1952 MGM signed her to a contract, which led to a singing cameo in Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful (recorded with Skip Martin for MGM Records) and a series of commercial jingles for Hunt's tomato sauce. These last brought her to the attention of Mitch Miller at Columbia Records. Miller signed her to a long-term contract, under which she made two best-selling albums, "Wish Upon on a Star" and "Girl Meets Boy" (both reissued on CD by Collectables Records), and a string of hit singles. She sang the Oscar-nominated song Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep) on the 1955 Academy Awards telecast, and both Billboard and Down Beat named her "Best New Singer" of 1955–56.
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