PEGGY LEE & Benny GOODMAN! How Pot gave them a HIT! A SPECIAL POT-CAST!

Featuring a rare interview with PEGGY LEE herself, we learn how she got her start UPFRONT with the King of Swing, BENNY GOODMAN at the age of 19. And in this POT-CAST, she tells why their big hit “Why Don’t You Do Right” was actually about Marijuana!

Also interviewed in my 2002 documentary, her daughter, Nicky LEE Foster, friend Phoebe Jacobs, authors Stephanie Stien Crease, David Hajdu, Will Friedwald and Gene Lees.

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PEGGY LEE & Benny GOODMAN! How Pot gave them a HIT! A SPECIAL POT-CAST!

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