Peggy King

Birth Name:

Peggy King

Birth Place:

Greensburg, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession

Actress, Soundtrack, Music department

Was named Best New Singer by Billboard magazine and Down Beat magazine in 1956
Was inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia Hall of Fame in 2010
Got a recording contract with Columbia Records after the success of her series of commercial jingles for Hunt's tomato sauce
Started out as a singer for bands led by Charlie Spivak, Ralph Flanagan, and Ray Anthony
Signed with MGM in 1952 and had a singing role in the film "The Bad and the Beautiful․"
Best known as a jazz and pop singer and television personality who sang the Oscar-nominated song "Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep)․"
Restarted her singing career in 2013 when she joined the All-Star Jazz Trio in Philadelphia
Appeared as "pretty perky Peggy King" on "The George Gobel Show" in the mid-1950s
Made guest appearances on TV shows like "Maverick," "Dragnet," "American Bandstand," and "What's My Line?"
Played the stewardess Janet Turner in the 1957 thriller "Zero Hour!," which would later become the inspiration for the disaster spoof "Airplane!"

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