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              Chris Valenti of WYYR.com has provided information on the next two editions of Peggy's show Off the Cuff.  On Sunday, May 27th, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. EDT, Pat Boone will be paying a return visit to chat with Peggy and Chris.  He will be introducing his new CD featuring songs originally introduced by the Ink Spots, the popular 40's singing group.  Chris will be playing selections from the CD for the first half hour of the program before Pat joins in via the telephone.

             Then, on Sunday evening, June 24th, Peter Marshall will be returning to chat once again with Peggy and Chris.  He will be bringing along his latest CD titled Let's Be Frank With a Touch of Tommy, Peter's tribute to Sinatra and the Dorsey years.  

              Remember that these and all other shows in the series in which Peggy has participated on WYYR.com are archived on the website and can be downloaded for convenient listening at any time following the original live broadcast date.  Below is a recent photo taken by Chris' nephew of Peggy's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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........    .....Host Chris Valenti of  WYYR.com has announced that Peggy will be joining him on his Sunday Night Special online interview program as a guest on a regular basis starting Sunday, June 19, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. EDT.  Dates of subsequent appearances will be announced on the WYYR.com website. Click here to learn much more and hear Peggy's personal invitation to you to listen to Chris' program and her collection of fascinating stories.  Peggy's was a most colorful and interesting singing and acting career on television, in the movies and on stage......
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           Peggy King's good friend and friend of this website, Ronnie Allen, has created a musical slide show featuring sixty-one images of Peggy and family, along with three songs from among the many that Peggy recorded over the years.  Click Peggy's picture above to view this new feature.  Java script must be enabled on your browser in order to view the show, and pressing F5 on your keyboard one or more times at any time throughout the display will change the song Peggy sings. 
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,,,,,,,,.TThe February 2010 issue of InTune International magazine published in the UK features a glowing review by Dan Singer of Peggy's 1984 album, Oh, What a Memory We Made, along  with her 1985 album, Peggy Sings Jerome Kern.  Both albums were reissued on a single CD sometime in the 1990's, by a now-defunct record company named Jazz Classics. Click here to read Mr. Singer's singularly enthusiastic comments. 
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Peggy to Appear in Person at the Paley Center for Media on October 10th 
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          On October 10, 2009, Peggy will be joining other members of the cast and crew of the 1958 Hallmark Hall of Fame television production of Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates in which she starred along with Tab Hunter and others.  Here are the details reproduced from the Paley Center for Media website: 

Saturday, October 10 
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Hallmark Hall of Fame: Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates (1958)  
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No expense was spared in producing this live television musical (for which half of NBC’s television studio in Brooklyn was converted into a frozen Dutch canal), with music and lyrics by Hugh Martin, teleplay by Sally Benson, direction by Sidney Lumet, music direction by Franz Allers, choreography by John Butler and a first-rate cast including Tab Hunter, Peggy King, Olympic skating champion Dick Button, Basil Rathbone, Carmen Mathews, and opera star Jarmila Novotna. Hans Brinker was watched in 11.5 million homes, setting a viewership record for Hallmark Hall of Fame telecasts that remained unbroken for two decades. (1958; 90 minutes) 
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Panel Discussion in New York: This screening will be introduced by Bill Rudman, host of the Sirius XM On Broadway program On the Aisle. Following the screening, Mr. Rudman will interview Dick Button, Peggy King, Ellie Sommers, and other Hans Brinker cast and creative team members (to be announced). 
Special thanks to The Musical Theater Project.  
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              The Paley Center for Media is located at 25 West 52nd Street in New York City.  They can be reached at (212) 621-6600 or (212) 621-6800. Admission is $10.00 per person for non-members of the Paley Center. 
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New Peggy King CD Released  
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         On July 21, 2009, Submarine Records based in Enfield, Middlesex in the UK, released a CD entitled Peggy King and the Andre Previn Trio.  The disc features four complete fifteen- minute shows in the series The Navy Swings, produced here in the U.S. during the late 1950's.  Peggy and many other prominent performers of the era contributed their talents to such public service radio programming promoting recruitment in the national services, civil defense, and the sale of United States savings bonds.  Programs were produced for the federal government, which then distributed them to radio stations throughout the country via vinyl transcriptions, usually sixteen inches in diameter.  Radio stations were expected to place such programs in their broadcast schedules sometime during the week in order to meet, at least in part, the public service requirements of their operating licenses.  Click here or on the image below to read the liner notes accompanying this new CD, together with the complete track listing.  The CD may be ordered online from CD Universe or Amazon.com.  
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            Please note:  The first copies of this CD received by your editor and by Peggy King fan Herb Stark did not play on conventional CD players.  We advised Submarine Records of this problem, and received this response from them: 
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            Anyone who does buy a faulty copy has only to return the disc or part of the packaging to us (address on the packaging) and we will be more than happy to replace it by return. 
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Hello to everyone here who loves Peggy King and her wonderful music! 

            I'm Ronnie Allen and I had the pleasure of doing a one hour in-studio interview with Peggy back in 2007 in the studios of WNJC in Washington Township, New Jersey.  The interview was recorded for the Jersey Girls Sing website and was also broadcast on that radio station as well as on the internet.  You can hear the interview by visiting this page: 

         Ronnie's Radio Page 

            At the end of our interview show Peggy did something that to me was truly incredible.  She honored me (and her fans as well) by doing a live performance of the wonderful George Gershwin standard "Someone To Watch Over Me."  We didn't have an orchestra in the studio (The room wasn't big enough and I couldn't afford to pay for one anyway!), so she sang it against a piano track.  We were recording the interview show (It was not live radio.), so she had the luxury of doing a re-take if necessary.  She began to sing and about ten seconds into it she said, "Ronnie, can we do it again?"  I didn't notice anything wrong, but she didn't feel it was "right," so I said, "Of course"!  Then we did "Take Two"!  

            PERFECTO!!!!! 

            A few weeks ago I created a Record Page on which I have samples of many different records.  Tonight I made the decision to add Peggy's recording ("Take Two" on my show) to my Record Page, even though it is unreleased. I hope that at least some of you will listen to it not once but several times.  I say that for a reason. I have a Top 100 chart on my page which is based on the popularity of the individual records.  If enough of you listen to Peggy's recording, it will not only make the Top 100 but will climb high.  Okay, here's that page: 

         Ronnie's Record Page 

            Let me add one more thing.  Peggy and I have become close friends.  I was instrumental in coaxing her into making an appearance at the Friends Of Old Time Radio convention in Newark, New Jersey a few years ago, and a lot of wonderful things have happened to Peggy as a result of that appearance.  One of the most wonderful things has been Al Kopec's willingness to create a website for her.  Yes, if the truth must be told, Peggy wasn't initially thrilled with the idea. She's not really a computer person and she wasn't sure that she wanted to go through with it.  Eventually I stopped twisting her arm.  Then, one day, out of the blue she called me up and said, "Ronnie, I've decided I'd like to go through with a website. What do I do?" 

              I called up Al Kopec and, well, the rest is history! 

           Pretty Perky Peggy King 

              I feel so blessed to have Peggy as a part of my life and I am so thrilled that her singing voice is still so incredible.  If any of you would like to e-mail me about Peggy or anything else that you see on my pages, please do so at RonnieOldiesGuy@aol.com. 

Thanks so very much! 
Ronnie Allen 
June 16, 2009 
 
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            On May 13, 2009, Peggy journeyed to nearby Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, to entertain the residents of Bryn Mawr Terrace, a retirement home for older adults.  Bryn Mawr Terrace public relations manager Nan Lansinger was kind enough to send along some pictures that she took at the event.  Just click here to see Peggy during her performance.
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          Sepia Records (UK) have announced the release on CD of the soundtrack from the original TV production of Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates from 1958.  Peggy King fans will be pleased to know that, in addition to the soundtrack of this musical in which she co-starred with Tab Hunter, the CD will include sixteen selections from Peggy's own 1950's catalog of recordings.  The CD will be accompanied by a 16-page booklet with many behind-the-scenes photographs of the television production obtained from the personal collection of Tab Hunter. For complete details on the scheduled November 11, 2008 release, just click on the link below: 
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UPDATE:  This CD set is now available through Amazon.com.  Click here or on the image below to browse through the illustrated booklet Sepia Records includes with the CD. 
 
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          For those of you who receive the Encore West channel on cable or by satellite, you could have caught Peggy as Jenny Hill in the episode of  Maverick from 1960 entitled The Strange Journey of Peggy Hill.  The program was shown at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 14, 2008, and it may be repeated at some time in the future, so watch your local listings.  We are indebted to Peggy King fan Herb Stark for alerting us to the recent broadcast of the classic television Maverick episode written especially for our Peggy.
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          On October 21, 2007, Ronnie Allen conducted an hour long, live in-studio interview with Peggy for broadcast over Philadelphia area radio station WNJC.  That program is archived on Ronnie's Radio Page of the Jersey Girls Sing website.  Click below to go the site where you can hear the entire interview, as well as take a nostalgic journey through the world of popular music and other music makers of the 1950's and 1960's.
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            In August 2007, Peggy journeyed from her home in Philadelphia to the Los Angeles area to sing at the Plaza Sweets free summer concert series at the Beverly Hills Civic Auditorium.  Click on Peggy's image below to see much more of Peggy's participation in the event.
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