Big Band Serenade 213 Lee Wiley Her Life and Music - a podcast by Humphrey Camardella Productions

Her husky, surprisingly sensual voice and exquisitely cool readings of
pop standards distinguished her singing, but Lee Wiley earns notice as
one of the best early jazz singers by recognizing the superiority of
American popular song and organizing a set of songs around a common
composer or theme -- later popularized as the songbook or concept LP.
She was also a songwriter in her own right, and one of the few white
vocalists with more respect in the jazz community than the popular one.
Even more tragic then, that while dozens of inferior vocalists recorded
LPs during the late '50s and '60s, Wiley appeared on record just once
between 1957 and her death in 1975.

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