I think that Peggy Lee had a gift for singing the exclamation “Oh!” or “Oo!”
This gift is evident in her performances of “What a Little Moonlight Can Do”, and of two Gershwin duets with Sinatra (“The Frank Sinatra Show”, November 8,1957). In the case of “Nice Work If You Can Get It”, the “Oo!” she and Sinatra sing is not in the original lyric. In one of her recordings of “Lover Come Back To Me” she effectively inserts an “Oh!” at the beginning of the bridge - an “Oh!” that is not in the original lyric.
Can anyone think of other instances of her singing of these exclamations?
(Also if you can think of other singers who effectively add exclamations/interjections, I’d be interested to hear from you. Dinah Washington’s use of “Well!” springs to my mind.)
