Along with Tony Bennett, the legendary songstress Peggy King is one of the few, certifiable stars of stage, screen, radio television and nightclubs still performing today. Peggy King will appear in concert with The All-Star Jazz Trio on Sunday, February 1 for a 2:00 p.m. matinee appearance at the historic Sellersville Theater in Sellersville, PA. Tickets are $25.00 for auditorium seating and $39.50 for cabaret seating and are available in advance by calling 215-257-5808. The Sellersville Theater is located on 24 West Temple Avenue.
“Pretty, perky Peggy King” has worked in films and television with every star imaginable, from Frank Sinatra and Mel Torme to Sammy Davis, Jr. and Andre Previn, and her dozens of recordings through the years show just why she remains a favorite of America’s finest composers and lyricists. Indeed, one of the charming high points of the Emmy Award-winning HBO film, “Behind the Candelabra,” was Peggy King’s on-screen rendition of “When Liberace Winks at Me,” which she sang on television circa 1956.
Her credits could fill volumes, and those credits include film roles in “The Bad and the Beautiful” with Kirk Douglas and Lana Turner, “Zero Hour” with Dana Andrews and Linda Darnell, three years as a television regular on “The George Gobel Show,” and guest-starring stints with Steve Allen, Pat Boone, James Garner, Bob Hope, Nat King Cole, Ed Sullivan, Garry Moore, Johnny Carson and Mike Douglas, among many others. And yes, that’s Peggy King with Abbott and Costello in 1955’s cult favorite, “Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy.”
Since teaming with the charismatically swinging All-Star Jazz Trio—pianist Andy Kahn, bassist Bruce Kaminsky and drummer Bruce Klauber—has been delighting audiences of all ages up and down the East Coast.
Of Peggy King today? “At the age of 84, her intonation, interpretive powers, subtle sense of swing and range are better than they were in 1955," said Jazz Times. Gary Giddins of the Village Voice called her “ageless." And Will Friedwald of the Wall Street Journal recently wrote that “Peggy King delivers the same goods she delivered more than 40 years ago."
“Pretty, perky Peggy King” has worked in films and television with every star imaginable, from Frank Sinatra and Mel Torme to Sammy Davis, Jr. and Andre Previn, and her dozens of recordings through the years show just why she remains a favorite of America’s finest composers and lyricists. Indeed, one of the charming high points of the Emmy Award-winning HBO film, “Behind the Candelabra,” was Peggy King’s on-screen rendition of “When Liberace Winks at Me,” which she sang on television circa 1956.
Her credits could fill volumes, and those credits include film roles in “The Bad and the Beautiful” with Kirk Douglas and Lana Turner, “Zero Hour” with Dana Andrews and Linda Darnell, three years as a television regular on “The George Gobel Show,” and guest-starring stints with Steve Allen, Pat Boone, James Garner, Bob Hope, Nat King Cole, Ed Sullivan, Garry Moore, Johnny Carson and Mike Douglas, among many others. And yes, that’s Peggy King with Abbott and Costello in 1955’s cult favorite, “Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy.”
Since teaming with the charismatically swinging All-Star Jazz Trio—pianist Andy Kahn, bassist Bruce Kaminsky and drummer Bruce Klauber—has been delighting audiences of all ages up and down the East Coast.
Of Peggy King today? “At the age of 84, her intonation, interpretive powers, subtle sense of swing and range are better than they were in 1955," said Jazz Times. Gary Giddins of the Village Voice called her “ageless." And Will Friedwald of the Wall Street Journal recently wrote that “Peggy King delivers the same goods she delivered more than 40 years ago."
