I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. Here, she developed her trademark sultry purr, having decided to compete with the noisy crowd with subtlety rather than volume. When Lee returned to California in 1940, she took a job singing at The Doll House in Palm Springs. The following year, remaining in North Dakota, she was hired to perform regularly at The Powers Hotel in Fargo, and toured with both the Sev Olson and the Will Osborne Orchestras. Lee returned to North Dakota for the operation. After she was taken to the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center she was told she needed a tonsillectomy. Her employment was cut short when she fainted onstage due to overwork and an inadequate diet. Later in 1938, Lee returned to Hollywood to audition for the MC at The Jade. She wrote about this experience in the song, "The Nickel Ride", which she composed with Dave Grusin for the 1974 film of the same name. When the job ended after Easter, she was hired to work as a carnival barker at the Balboa Fun Zone. Her first job was seasonal work on Balboa Island, Newport Beach as a short order cook and waitress at Harry's Cafe. Lee left home and traveled to Hollywood, California, at the age of 17 in March 1938. In October 1937, radio personality Ken Kennedy, of WDAY in Fargo, (the most widely heard station in North Dakota), auditioned Egstrom and put her on the air that day, but not before he changed her name to Peggy Lee. Both during and after her high-school years, Lee sang for small sums on local radio stations.
She later had her own 15-minute Saturday radio show sponsored by a local restaurant that paid her salary in food. Lee first sang professionally over KOVC radio in Valley City, North Dakota, in 1936. She traveled to various locations with Haines' quintet on Fridays after school and on weekends. In Wimbledon, Lee was the female singer for a six-piece college dance band with leader Lyle "Doc" Haines. The upper floor of the museum, where the Egstrom family once lived, features exhibits that trace Lee's career and her regional and state connection. The Wimbledon depot building, where she and her family lived and worked, became the Midland Continental Depot Transportation Museum, featuring The Peggy Lee Exhibit, in 2012. She graduated from Wimbledon High School in 1937. Lee and her family lived in several towns along the Midland Continental Railroad (Jamestown, Nortonville and Wimbledon). After her mother died when Lee was four, her father married Minnie Schaumberg Wiese. Her father was Swedish-American and her mother was Norwegian-American. There are dialects of Eggy Peggy language and the same sort of idea is used in Pig Latin, Jeringozo, Verlan, and Ubbi Dubbi.Lee was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, United States, on May 26, 1920, the seventh of the eight children of Selma Emele (née Anderson) Egstrom and Marvin Olaf Egstrom, a station agent for the Midland Continental Railroad. In essence, the string 'egg' is inserted before every vowel.
It takes a while to master, but was once used, in particular, by schoolgirls to talk privately when there was a chance of being overheard by outsiders, and it could be spoken and understood very rapidly, but was unintelligible to the untrained ear. * Eggy Peggy Language is a secret language rather like Pig Latin or Cockney Rhyming slang. This was all I could find on the internet. This reminds me of the Film and Book: 'Clockwork Orange', which is quite appropriate given the context. Also, as certain words are used quite often, the mental gymnastics only have to be done once, and then you remember the new words. Only the main words in sentences have to be translated. Take a word like 'knife', a word that you might want to keep secret. "A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away." (Star Wars) You never know what you're gonna get."(Forrest Gump)Įgga leggong teggime eggageggo, eggin egga geggaleggaxy feggar feggar eggaweggay. Yeggou neggevegger kneggow wheggat yeggou're geggonnegga gegget. Leggife eggis leggike egga beggox eggof cheggoceggoleggates. Meggay thegge feggorce begge weggith yeggou! "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."(The Shining) Sentences given to students (all taken from well-known films):Įggall weggork eggand neggo pleggay meggakes Jeggack egga deggull beggoy. The principle- add "egg" before each vowel (in another version, add "ug").
This secret language is used mostly by school children in England. Mr Eddie said he could not understand what Leslie, Cowie and Stewart were saying during the journey from the harbour to Northfield as they were speaking "eggy" - a language used in Northfield.
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