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Hardly King Size GEORGE GOBEL’S TINY FRIEND OWES HER TV CAREER TO A COMMERCIAL The fact that a radio singing commercial she recorded “when I was starving” put her on the road to success makes Peggy King one of the small¬ est pioneers in history. Five feet high and a mere 100 pounds, Peggy crashed the back door to popularity via a tomato sauce aria, “I can cook and cook and cook.” Mitch Miller, of Columbia Records, heard the commer¬ cial on his car radio, signed her to a contract and pro¬ ceeded to sell 100,000 copies of her first effort, “Hottentot.” That was about five months ago. Overnight, Peggy was in such demand that she made 90 radio and TV appearances in eight weeks. When NBC, readying The George Gobel Show, needed a singer who wouldn’t make George look like a midget, non-king-size Miss King solved the problem. Peggy, 23, is the wife of Knobby Lee, a tnimpet player she met while singing with Charlie Spivak’s band. Al¬ though she has never had a singing lesson and can’t read music, the brown-eyed red¬ head had wanted to be a singer ever since she was a. child in Ravenna, Ohio. When the staff warbler at WGAR, Cleveland, broke a leg, Peggy, a WGAR amateur contest win¬ ner, got the job. (ioing on to sing with name bands like Spivak’s and Ralph Flanagan’s, she landed a one- year M-G-M contract in 1952, but was cast adrift because she “looked too much like Judy Garland.” Then came unemployment— and that ode to tomato sauce. 12