Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Peggy Lee was mad about Dave Barbour.
They had been divorced a year by the time this recently uncovered performance of "Mad About the Boy" — from Noël Coward's 1932 revue Words and Music — was recorded. But despite their differences, they remained close. Peggy often said that Dave, her musical partner and father to their daughter Nicki, was ever the love of her life.
Captured on her personal reel-to-reel tape recorder during an impromptu living room jam session in 1952, this is a song Peggy Lee never recorded commercially or included in her live repertoire.
The intimacy of the moment called for something equally personal for a visualizer, drawn from rare and previously unseen home film footage, including a still from their 1943 wedding, captured just after their first kiss as husband and wife.
So often playing in the shadows of Peggy Lee's spotlight, she would have been happy to give Dave his own moment.
#PeggyLee #MadAboutTheBoy #NoelCoward #FromThePeggyLeeArchive
Peggy Lee was mad about Dave Barbour.
They had been divorced a year by the time this recently uncovered performance of "Mad About the Boy" — from Noël Coward's 1932 revue Words and Music — was recorded. But despite their differences, they remained close. Peggy often said that Dave, her musical partner and father to their daughter Nicki, was ever the love of her life.
Captured on her personal reel-to-reel tape recorder during an impromptu living room jam session in 1952, this is a song Peggy Lee never recorded commercially or included in her live repertoire.
The intimacy of the moment called for something equally personal for a visualizer, drawn from rare and previously unseen home film footage, including a still from their 1943 wedding, captured just after their first kiss as husband and wife.
So often playing in the shadows of Peggy Lee's spotlight, she would have been happy to give Dave his own moment.
#PeggyLee #MadAboutTheBoy #NoelCoward #FromThePeggyLeeArchive
