Trust in Me Rodney Burbeck,Music Week,11/80, Blonde bombshell Peggy Lee took the Palladium by storm last week with her overplayed ice queen glamour and her ultra-cool even underplayed set. She is currently UC Presidents Postdoctoral Fellow at Berkeley in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. [18][19] She was a regular on The Jimmy Durante Show and appeared frequently on Bing Crosby's radio shows during the late 1940s and early 1950s. was recorded by Sarah Vaughan with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. To view A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF MISS Peggy Lee please visit the Mabel Mercer Foundation YouTube Channel at THIS link - this show will be available to watch until June 8, 2022. On personal power: Some of us just go along until that marvelous day people stop intimidating us -- or should I say we refuse to let them intimidate us? For his first Broadway World assignment, Jarrod Cafaro shares his thoughts on the latest offering from the in-house filmmaking team at The Mabel Mercer Foundation, A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF MISS Peggy Lee. "But 'Why Don't You Do Right' was such a giant hit that I kept getting offers and kept turning them down. The Peggy Lee Rose was the 1983 American Beauty Rose of the Year.[47][48]. New York Pops Announce Upcoming Carnegie Hall Shows, Ann Talman's ELIZABETH TAYLOR Celebrates The Dame's Birthday, Zo Van Tieghem and Matt Baker SPRING Into Action March 3rd, Ann and Amanda Bring March In Like A DIVA. Rating rollover to rate (best version) Blacksmith Blues / Ill Be Seeing You, June 1986: The Ballroom, New York The scheduled entertainment, provided by Peggy Lee, the singer, can heat up the room more than adequately, but early yesterday morning she had the impromptu assistance of Jimmy Durante and a couple of his friends. In recent years, Miss Lee has wrapped herself in an austere, otherworldly presence from which she projected an almost disembodied voice. 2. Her family were Lutherans. The Wimbledon depot building, where she and her family lived and worked, became the Midland Continental Depot Transportation Museum, featuring The Peggy Lee Exhibit, in 2012. Wonderful / S Wonderful / Is That All There Is, Peggy Lee didnt sing Sleepy Time Gal the other nightbut no one would have blamed her if she had. But her soothing, seemingly effortless Release date: March 10, 2015. Mentioned in "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" (1959) {Caper at the Bijou (#1.1)}. She played an alcoholic blues singer in Pete Kelly's Blues (1955), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. With such wiles as these she eventually got him up onto the stage. Associate producers are Holly Foster-Wells, vice president of Peggy Lee Associates, LLC; Ivan Santiago-Mercado, author of The Peggy Lee Bio-Discography and Videography; and PeggyLee.com editor David Torresen, who provides liner notes. As if this Peggy Lee tribute weren't already enough, the show sent out some heavy hitters to bring it home. She was again seriously injured in another fall in Las Vegas in 1987. While performing at The Doll House, Lee met Frank Bering, the owner of the Ambassador East and West in Chicago. Many of her compositions have become standards, performed by singers such as Tony Bennett, Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole, Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Diana Krall, Queen Latifah, Barry Manilow, Bette Midler, Janelle Monae, Nina Simone, Regina Spektor, Sarah Vaughan and others.[64]. A Chicago nightclub appearance led to her replacing vocalist Helen Forrest with the Benny Goodman Orchestra in 1941, where she soon earned star status for such songs as "Blues in the Night", "The Way You Look Tonight", and, her signature song, "Why Don't You Do Right?". Peggy Lee also wrote the lyrics for "Johnny Guitar" (with music composer Victor Young), the title track of the 1954 film, Johnny Guitar, which she sings partially at the end of the movie. The star is located at 6319 Hollywood Boulevard in California. New York Times, I had learned how to reach and hold my audiencesoftly, with feeling."[7]. Peggy's vocal style provided a distinctive imprint to countless swing tunes, ballads and big band numbers. The seated position in no way impedes her delivery and forceful presence, singing a mostly familiar catalog of Lee hits, also with some other composers works registering well. Peggy Lee joined Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. in their Radio City Music Hall finale April 10 to make a joyous, affection-laden recital even more joyful. She graduated from Wimbledon High School in 1937. Interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, CA. Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. [22], While Lee was in London for a 1970 engagement at Royal Albert Hall, she invited Paul and Linda McCartney to dinner at The Dorchester. Two rarely-seen clips of Peggy Lee performing on The Ed Sullivan Show are newly available on the long running variety shows official YouTube channel. '"[43], In 1971, Lee sang the Lord's Prayer at the funeral of Louis Armstrong. Manage Settings Lees version of Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) appeared on her 1960 album, Pretty Eyes, four years before Frank Sinatras highly-regarded version of the song helped make it a standard. Was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6319 Hollywood Blvd. First, he appeared in the Songs of WW2, where he had the impossible task of having to follow Karen Mason's opening number, and then Cafaro was in their Kander and Ebb tribute where he was lucky enough to reprise A Little Bit Of Good, Mary Sunshine's number from Chicago. And So to Sleep Again He named it for the Spanish version of "Margaret" which is the formal version of "Peggy". / Help Me Make It Through the Night / Dont Cry Out Loud / Ill Be Seeing You, Peggy Lee is a singer of great subtlety and understatement. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. WebPeggy Lee Is Star Of Copacabana Show. I'm ashamed to say this was my first time hearing this multiple Grammy Award winner sing, and I was left wanting more after her charming rendition of "Sugar" - thankfully, I wasn't wanting for long. But I fell in love with David the first time I heard him play, and so I married him. She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in J read more Similar Artists Julie London 903,166 listeners Nat King Cole 2,059,982 listeners Louis Armstrong 2,180,922 listeners Perry - the latter winning her a Grammy Award in 1969. Is the namesake of the "Margarita" cocktail. [8] She later had her own 15-minute Saturday radio show sponsored by a local restaurant that paid her salary in food. You never know what shell say next, or why. Jesse Hamlin, San Francisco Chronicle, 10/8/87, February 1988: The Ballroom, New York Became engaged to her ex-husband David Barbour, who divorced her because he felt his drinking was not good for his daughter, four days before he died. Ole Buttermilk Sky She settled into a chair and, like an exotic variation of the regal Mabel Mercer, sang her entire program sitting down. The concept of cool comprises many meanings from composure to popularity; but cool also offers a dynamic and conflicted optics or surface where race, gender, capital, illness, violence, and resistance, come together or fall apart. Born May 26, 1920 Died January 21, 2002 (81) Add to list Nominated for 1 Oscar 3 wins & 16 nominations total Photos 76 Known for Lady and the Tramp 7.3 Darling Si Am 1955 Pete Kelly's Blues 6.3 Rose Hopkins 1955 King Kong 7.2 Soundtrack ("Bye Bye Blackbird") (Slkthistoriskt Forum)", "MIDLAND CONTINENTAL DEPOT TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM FEATURING PEGGY LEE", "Lady and the Lawsuit: Peggy Lee's War With Disney", "Peggy Lee Awarded Disney Damages: Courts: Amount from 'Lady and Tramp' video rights is in dispute. Her new version of "Fever" was a hit, and was nominated in three categories at the First Annual Grammy Awards in 1959, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year. In the first, from October 16, Apparently, she has no need to boom and reach out, a trick she discovered long ago Lees knowledge of music and musicians is another astounding aspect of her career. -Variety, 2/10/88, The indomitable Peggy Lee has not only surmounted the physical problems that have beset her recently double heart-bypass surgery three years ago and a fall last year resulting in broken bones in her feet, from which she has still not recovered she has also adapted and, in the process, become an even more subtle and moving performer than she had been. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. - IMDb Mini Biography By: WebLive-Lee Peggy Lee in Concert If you only know Peggy Lee from records, or radio and TV and theaters, catch her some time in an intimate nightclub like this. Mr. Durantes younger partner, Sonny King, also participated, while Miss Lee stood modestly aside, her back turned to the audience. She will be there until July 19. Starting as a waiter in the piano bar and cabaret rooms, he eventually made his debut as a performer upstairs at Eighty-Eights, receiving rave reviews in the New York Post, and a MAC nomination for male debut. Benny then fired David, so I quit, too. Life Is a Beautiful Thing Peggy Lee (26 May 1920 21 Jan 2002), was an American Grammy Award-winning jazz / popular music singer-songwriter and Academy Award-nominated actress. She traveled to various locations with Haines' quintet on Fridays after school and on weekends.[7]. In the first, from October 16, 1960, the singer performs for injured American servicemen in a hospital, while a second featured her 1967 performance of I Feel It from the Sullivan archives. 23. She struck out on her own two years later and earned more hit records with "It's a Good Day" and "Manana", which she wrote.An elegant, intimate performer with a minimalist style, her recording and supper club fame eventually led to movie offers, notably opposite Danny Thomas in a remake of The Jazz Singer (1952). [44], The designer of the Miss Piggy Muppet, Bonnie Erickson, who grew up in Lee's home state of North Dakota, used the singer as inspiration for the Miss Piggy character in 1974. More important, she brings to the songs the warm, sensitive, often slyly dramatic qualities that have contributed to all her great performances. John S. Wilson, New York Times,, 2/2/89, Be Anything (But Be Mine): Rare Peggy Lee Recording Featured in New Video for Valentines Day, Ann Hampton Callaway Explores the Music and Songwriting of Peggy Lee, Peggy Lee: Norma Deloris Egstrom from Jamestown, North Dakota (Expanded Edition). She was among the first of the "old guard" to recognize this new genre, as seen by her recording music from the Beatles, Randy Newman, Carole King, James Taylor, and other up-and-coming songwriters. [7], Later in 1938, Lee returned to Hollywood to audition for the MC at The Jade. Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1992 and the American Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1999. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Watch all the latest archival videos from The Ed Sullivan Show on the programs official YouTube channel. Norma Deloris Egstrom (May 26, 1920 January 21, 2002), known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress, over a career spanning seven decades. [22], She received the Rough Rider Award from the state of North Dakota in 1975,[33] the Pied Piper Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 1990,[34] the Ella Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Society of Singers in 1994,[35] the Living Legacy Award from the Women's International Center in 1994,[36] and the Presidents Award from the Songwriters Guild of America in 1999. Look for Jarrod's future reviews under his own byline. lang & More Plus An Online Exhibit. Steven Reineke-led New York Pops announced this week an amazing lineup for the upcoming season. In 1942, Lee had her first number-one hit, "Somebody Else Is Taking My Place",[14] followed in 1943 by "Why Don't You Do Right? Called the "Queen of American pop music,"[1] Lee recorded over 1,100 masters and composed over 270 songs. Getting to Know You Julia's lovely voice and coy demeanor worked well with "I Love The Way You're Breaking My Heart" and Danny's well-suited selection of "It's A Good Day" was entertaining while showing off his voice and his soprano sax (while Jon Weber played the piano like he had extra fingers on each hand). Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be? She has a superb group of musicians backing her, led by the drummer Grady Tate, who has been associated with her for 25 years. This led to a string of shows and singing gigs at clubs and venues all over NYC. She made her mark in Hollywood as an actress, winning an Academy Award nomination for her role as the hard-drinking singer in the jazz saga, Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) and composed songs for the 1955 Walt Disney animated classic Lady and the Tramp (1955). w/ Gordon MacRae, Keely Smith, Nelson Riddle, Margaret Whiting, Betty Hutton, Andy Russell, Ella Mae Morse, Johnny Johnston, The Four Freshmen, The Pied Pipers View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, The Friars Club Gala Tribute to Cary Grant (1982) Premiere. A delicate, pouting smile, at once provocative, regal and insouciant, tops it all off. Chicago The Musical Alum Amra-Faye Wright took a song that has never especially resonated with me, "Is That All There Is? Especially effective is her ability to hit a note, flatten it for dramatic effect and return it to its proper place on the scale While Lee respects her audience by trying new, unusual material, she also respects backup musicians by turning toward them during bridges, riveting audience attention on their fine music. Variety, 2/13/80, February 1980: Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco Nicki's father was Peggy's first husband, Dave Barbour. If you would like to change your settings or withdraw consent at any time, the link to do so is in our privacy policy accessible from our home page.. After All, Its Spring Your email address will not be published. ' Paul Grein, Los Angeles Times, 2/19/81, February 1981: Diplomat Hotel, Hollywood, Florida with Tony Bennett 14. You can watch them both below. I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. 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Mr. Durante, who began an official New York nightclub engagement of his own nineteen hours later at the Copacabana, walked to a ringside table shortly before Miss Lee appeared on stage for the 1 a.m. supper show. Launching immediately into "Where Can I Go Without You" Ms. Russell completely satisfied my newfound craving. WebA Peggy Lee biopic is in the works and we can feel a fever coming on. 9. In October 1937, radio personality Ken Kennedy, of WDAY in Fargo, (the most widely heard station in North Dakota), auditioned Egstrom and put her on the air that day, but not before he changed her name to Peggy Lee. In Fall 2022, she will join as Assistant Professor of English and Provosts Distinguished Faculty Fellow with a focus on critical race and ethnic studies at Georgetown University. [49] Produced by recording artist Richard Barone, the sold-out event included performances by Cy Coleman, Debbie Harry, Nancy Sinatra, Rita Moreno, Marian McPartland, Chris Connor, Petula Clark, Maria Muldaur, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Quincy Jones, Shirley Horn, and others. My Darling, My Darling Her effortless, unforced style combines great taste with purity and precision, though she spices it up occasionally with saucy numbers like Leiber and Stollers Im a Woman. In 2003, "There'll Be Another Spring: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee" was held at Carnegie Hall. In 1983, she went to Broadway in an autobiographical production called "Peg". Lee first sang professionally over KOVC radio in Valley City, North Dakota, in 1936. This course explores how writing is an act of risk that carries the stakes of history and future possibility. In Wimbledon, Lee was the female singer for a six-piece college dance band with leader Lyle "Doc" Haines. [10], The following year, remaining in North Dakota, she was hired to perform regularly at The Powers Hotel in Fargo, and toured with both the Sev Olson and the Will Osborne Orchestras.[11]. [10] All the marriages ended in divorce. Miss Lee, like all truly accomplished entertainers, is a superb actress who projects not only a song but also a personality. Simplicity is keynote, but it is a simplicity that underlines the colors and warmth in her voice. Music and songs of San Francisco were presented in the pilot episode, hence the backdrop. The Wheel of Fortune won her the Grammy for Best Contemporary Vocal Performance. In addition to her accomplishments as a singer, she was a very fine songwriter, with several hit songs to her credit, many of them written in collaboration with her first husband, Ranked #93 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock N Roll. Peggy's father, a railroad station agent, remarried but later left home, leaving Peggy's care entrusted to a stepmother who physically abused her. Originally broadcast over the CBS network and the Armed Forces Radio Service, these performances showcase Lee backed by bands led by Sonny Burke in Los Angeles and Russ Case in New In 1948, Lee joined vocalists Perry Como and Jo Stafford as a host of the NBC Radio musical program The Chesterfield Supper Club. It would be remiss to not mention Natalie Douglas' interview with Peggy Lee's Granddaughter, and the President of the Peggy Lee Association, Holly Foster-Wells. 5. https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/12/arts/cabaret-peggy-lee-returns.html. [30] After years of poor health, she died of complications from diabetes and a heart attack on January 21, 2002, at the age of 81. Backed by an outstanding onstage orchestra, the star delivers tasty versions of some 26 songs, including the obligatory hits, along with a handful of pleasant new songs co-written with composer Paul Horner. Her opening performance of "He's a Tramp" was everything it needed to be, and she made Lee's legendary hit "Fever" seem like a Natalie Douglas original. In 1958, she recorded her own version of "Fever" by Little Willie John, written by Eddie Cooley and John Davenport,. The 44 tracks on At Last The Lost Radio Recordings consists ENTIRELY of songs Peggy never recorded commercially, ranging from popular standards to novelty numbers to songs popularized by such esteemed peers as Doris Day, Rosemary Clooney, The discussion between the two friends was a special segment in an already-lovely program of performances by some of cabaret's most accomplished musicians. [40], Lee is often cited as the inspiration for the Margarita cocktail. Having been a performer for a couple of decades, Mr. Cafaro cut his teeth in the cabaret rooms of yesterday. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. '", She drifted back to songwriting and occasional recording sessions for Capitol Records in 1944, for whom she recorded a long string of hits, many of them with lyrics and music by Lee and Barbour, including "I Don't Know Enough About You" and "It's a Good Day". She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in J read more Similar Artists Julie London Fred Astaire Perry Como Doris Day Trending Tracks 1 2 Features It's The Samba (False Start) (2002 Digital Remaster) Peggy Lee Everything Happens to Me Broadway World Cabaret has gone back into the clubs of New York City to cover live entertainment as it returns to the stages; however, there remains a good deal of virtual entertainment for at-home audiences to enjoy, so we are both happy and proud to welcome a new correspondent who will be reporting exclusively on virtual cabaret and concerts. According to Lee: Benny's then-fiance, Lady Alice Duckworth, came into the Buttery, and she was very impressed. December 14-18, 1983:Peg,Lunt-Fontanne Theater, New York The "Peggy Lee" rose is pink with a touch of peach. Produced by Real Gone Music in collaboration with the Peggy Lee estate, At Last: The Lost Radio Recordings presents 44 solo performances from Peggys own radio series, nearly all of them unavailable since they originally aired in the early 1950s on CBS Radio and the Armed Forces Radio Service. When Peggy Lee is singing, it is an entertaining show. [37] Other honors include induction into the Big Band Jazz Hall of Fame in 1992,[38] the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1999,[39] and the Songbook Hall of Fame from the Great American Songbook Foundation in 2020. An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. through ''Lover,'' ''I'm a Woman,'' ''Fever'' and ''Is That All There Is?'' Please Mr. Sun Your email address will not be published. Miss Foster-Wells, further, confirmed the re-release of Peggy Lee's autobiography and also told viewers that an exciting new coffee table book of personal photos. We and our partners use cookies to Store and/or access information on a device. 1. WebPeggy Lee at Ella Award - YouTube 0:00 / 11:13 Peggy Lee at Ella Award 4,383 views Aug 29, 2016 105 Dislike Share Save osi sadorio 3.24K subscribers Probably this was the last time Songs included: Ive Got It Bad (and That Aint Good) / Dont Explain / God Bless the Child, July 1985: The Ballroom, New York And at that time it was a lot of money, but it really didn't matter to me at all. and went out on her own to record such classics as "Fever", "Lover", "Golden Earrings", "Big Spender" and "Is That All There Is?" An early move to Hollywood at age 17 proved disappointing, returning north to her radio job within a short time. Lees voice remains one of the glories of popular music. 9/14/82, November 1982: Barbican Center, London / Johnny Guitar / Ive Grown Accustomed to His Face / Just One of Those Things / Dont Cry Out Loud / Ill Be Seeing You, Peggy Lee still has an aura, a mystique, an ineffable essence that she uses to hold sway over her audiences She presides over her show like a good, white witch (so to speak) and yet, it seemed that she wasnt always there. She was considered the type of performer equally capable of interpreting a song as uniquely as Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Bessie Smith. Barely moving from the same spot by the piano, she simply sang, but commanded attention, respect and admiration through the deceptively laid-back power and control of a voice that has not dimmed over the years. | Singin in the Rain Fred Katz Orchestra) Carmen McRae (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman Aretha Franklin Play track What a Difference / Maana / Lover / Big Spender / That Old Piano / Hell Make Me Believe That Hes Mine / Daddy Was a Railroad Man / One Beating a Day / Is That All There Is? Peggy also wrote for jazz greats Duke Ellington, who called her "The Queen", and Johnny Mercer, and composer Quincy Jones. Staying Cool: Race and FemininityEmory University, Department of African American Studies (2022). AKA Norma Deloris Egstrom. Peggy recorded prolifically for Capitol Records, Decca Records and other labels, but none of the songs featured on At Last can be found elsewhere since she never recorded them for commercial release, nor for transcription discs. In 1948, after a trip to Mexico, she and her husband ventured into the Balinese Room in Galveston, Texas. Starting as a waiter in the piano bar and cabaret rooms, he eventually made his debut as a performer upstairs at Eighty-Eights, receiving rave reviews in the New York Her 1989 album, "Peggy Sings the Blues", was a Grammy Award nominee. 5. What can be said about Sidney Myer that hasn't already been said? 7. / Big Spender / Why Dont You Do Right? Benny and I made up, although David didn't play with him anymore. So the next evening, she brought Benny in, because they were looking for a replacement for Helen Forrest. The Ballroom, 253 West 28th Street, is an ideal setting for Miss Lee. Was a staunch Republican who gave much of her time and money to various conservative political causes. I thought that he didn't like me at first, but it just was that he was preoccupied with what he was hearing. In March 1943, Lee married Dave Barbour, a guitarist in Goodman's band. Working alongside Douglas on both numbers, viewers got a chance to see the predominant musical director of the evening, the talented Jon Weber, in action. / Little Baby Ducks / You Dont Know Me / Just Keep Holdin On, March 1987: Pasadena Playhouse, Pasadena, California Songs included: The More I See You / I Could Write a Book / My Father / Is That All There Is? Passed away on January 21, 2002, four months away from what would have been her 82nd birthday on May 26. As an actor, Jarrod had the good fortune of performing across the US, Europe, and Asia. Moving from chain-gang songs to street cries to spirituals and gospel songs, Miss Lee mixes brief phrases of song with a languorous, almost hypnotizingly cadenced narration before she reaches a full-scale treatment of a classic blues song, Ma Raineys See See Rider. She sings it softly, with a sinuously rocking beat that is pure Peggy Lee without losing the emotional strength of Ma Raineys version Although much of this overview of the blues is more pop than blues, Miss Lee brings a distinctively blueslike character to all of it. Its a Most Unusual Day The song sold over a million copies, and earned the Top Disc Jockey Record of the Year award from Billboard magazine. When the Disney company refused to pay, she filed a lawsuit in 1988. Lee starred opposite Danny Thomas in The Jazz Singer (1952), a remake of the Al Jolson film, The Jazz Singer (1927). Her later years were dogged by ill health and lawsuits, winning $2.3 million in 1991 against Disney to recoup royalties from videocassette sales of "Lady and the Tramp" and, just a week before her death, earning a preliminary approval of $4.75 million in a class lawsuit (she was the lead plaintiff of a group of Decca recording artists) for royalties against Universal Music Group. At the dinner, the couple gifted Lee with a song they had written entitled, "Let's Love". The main thrust of the evening is the quality of the music and the singers, and there are no problems there. The WDAY program director suggested a name change, and she became Peggy Lee. She attended several Republican National Conventions, galas and fundraisers, and was active in the campaigns of. Solitaire The more noise they made, the more softly I sang. It was here that Peggy Lee fans learned that a biopic starring Michelle Williams is being produced by Reese Witherspoon and Billie Eilish. Screen Actors Guild Awards Memoriam 2001-2002 (Fan-Made). Publicity Listings Learn all about The Mabel Mercer Foundation at THIS link. [3] After her mother died when Lee was four,[4] her father married Minnie Schaumberg Wiese. Songs included: Make Believe / I Can Dream, Cant I? 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