Reassessing Peggy Lee, Vintage 1972
Her ‘Norma Deloris Egstrom from Jamestown, North Dakota’ is a selection of songs written by other people that is transformed into highly intimate, autobiographical reflections on life, love, youth, and maturity.

Peggy Lee’s 1972 album “Norma Deloris Egstrom from Jamestown, North Dakota,” which was just reissued in a deluxe, expanded edition, is notable at first as a confluence of those round numbers that so many seem to love: It’s the 50th anniversary of the recording, which coincidentally was her 40th original, full-length album project. It would also be, unfortunately, her last album with Capitol Records.
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