Something Permanent

We have a constant appetite. We're never satisfied. Always wanting exposes our human need for more, for something lasting, eternal. Though all fashions repeat, songs end, stories conclude, performers bow, there is only one thing that lasts through all of our art in time, the Love of God. Here is our history, here is our present. What will we create that lasts?
Jazz vocalist, writer, and actress, Peggy Lee is a category all her own and she is ultimately who I aspire to be like.  I adore and respect her beyond her talents as her kind demeanor and business mind match her praise.  Lee’s step-mother abused her for eleven years giving her reason to become violent, but she chose to be a peace-maker.  However, when it came to her music business, she’d fight to win.  Once, Disney tried to use her vocals in a video promo without payment, and she won her case in court against them.  As I listen to her sweet soothing sound, I imagine what it must have been like in ‘42, turning on the radio and hearing her sing I Got It Bad And That Ain’t Good.  There wasn’t a hip hop genre, nor a dance-pop club jam that made you say “put yo drinks up” as part of the hook.  She was it, among the greats.  I wonder if they knew what kind of mark they were making on the world in the jazz era.  It was a complete movement.  Singing duets with Mel Torme and Sinatra was what audiences looked forward to.  Even the song titles alone are as promising as the duets: Bing Crosby in the 40s with “Watermelon Weather” and into 70s with Paul McCartney “Let’s Love”, and who can forget the clever “Beauty and the Beat” and “Mink Jazz”. 

Jazz vocalist, writer, and actress, Peggy Lee is a category all her own and she is ultimately who I aspire to be like.  I adore and respect her beyond her talents as her kind demeanor and business mind match her praise.  Lee’s step-mother abused her for eleven years giving her reason to become violent, but she chose to be a peace-maker.  However, when it came to her music business, she’d fight to win.  Once, Disney tried to use her vocals in a video promo without payment, and she won her case in court against them.  As I listen to her sweet soothing sound, I imagine what it must have been like in ‘42, turning on the radio and hearing her sing I Got It Bad And That Ain’t Good.  There wasn’t a hip hop genre, nor a dance-pop club jam that made you say “put yo drinks up” as part of the hook.  She was it, among the greats.  I wonder if they knew what kind of mark they were making on the world in the jazz era.  It was a complete movement.  Singing duets with Mel Torme and Sinatra was what audiences looked forward to.  Even the song titles alone are as promising as the duets: Bing Crosby in the 40s with “Watermelon Weather” and into 70s with Paul McCartney “Let’s Love”, and who can forget the clever “Beauty and the Beat” and “Mink Jazz”.