Why Don't You Do Right?
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"Why Don't You Do Right?" is an American blues and jazz-influenced pop song usually credited to Kansas Joe McCoy. A minor key twelve-bar blues with a few chord substitutions, it is considered a classi
Weed Smoker's Dream single cover
Benny Goodman and His Orchestra with Peggy Lee, performing "Why Don't You Do Right" in Stage Door Canteen (1943)
Peggy Lee
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Norma Deloris Egstrom, known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, and actress whose career spanned seven decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on
Why Don't You Do Right?
…substitutions, it is considered a classic "woman's blues" song and has become a standard. Singer Lil Green recorded a popular rendition in 1941, which Peggy Lee recorded the next year – accompanied by Benny Goodman – and made one of her signature songs. The song appeared in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit…
Lee in 1950
Lee, famous for her sultry singing voice, featured in a cigarette ad in 1953.
Photo of Peggy Lee and Danny Thomas from The Jazz Singer
The Peggy Lee bench-style burial monument