Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago

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Peggy Lee's granddaughter, Holly Foster Wells, reflects on a recently uncovered recording of "La Vie en Rose" from 1952.

This recording wasn't made in a studio — it was captured in her living room on a reel-to-reel tape machine during an impromptu jazz session with friends.

Peggy Lee was a lifelong admirer of Édith Piaf and performed this song for years — on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1950, at the Copacabana, and later with Charles Aznavour.

But she never recorded it commercially... until we uncovered this tape in the archive.

Now, for the first time, you can hear it exactly as it happened, nearly 75 years ago.

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