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Performer	Featured Album (or artist photo)	Performance(s) on Cafe Songbook (Click song title to visit Cafe Songbook page with performance on album and/or video.)
Patti LaBelle (Born: May 24, 1944 (age 74 years), Philadelphia, PA, US, primarily a soul and R&B singer)	Amazon	The Folks Who Live on the Hill
Bert Lahr (born Irving Lahrheim, August 13, 1895, New York City - died December 4, 1967, age 72, New York City -- actor, comedian)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	If I Only Had a Brain/a Heart/the Nerve
Cleo Laine (born Clementine Dinah Bullock, October 28, 1927, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England -- aka Lady Dankworth and Dame Cleo Laine, jazz and pop singer)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	Oh, Lady, Be Good! (with Johnny Dankworth)
Nancy LaMott (born December 30, 1951, Midland, Michigan, US – died December 13, 1995, New York City)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive Ask Me Again Come Rain or Come Shine Hit the Road to Dreamland I Didn't Know What Time It Was It Might As Well Be Spring That Old Black Magic You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby
Harold Lang (born December 21, 1920, Daly City California, US - died July 26, 1985, Chico, California, US -- Broadway singer and dancer)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered I Could Write a Book
Frances Langford (Born Julia Frances Newbern-Langford April 4, 1913 Lakeland, Florida, U.S. - died July 11, 2005 (age 92) Jensen Beach, Florida, U.S. -- singer, actress)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	You Are My Lucky Star
Julius La Rosa (born January 2, 1930 - 2016, Brooklyn, New York)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	Aren't You Glad You're You
Ellis Larkins (associated with Baltimore, Maryland, US, born May 15, 1923 - died September 30, 2002 (age 79) -- jazz pianist)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	My One and Only (accompanying Ella Fitzgerald) Where or When (with Ruby Braff)
Yusef Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston, October 9, 1920 Chattanooga, Tennessee US -- died December 23, 2013, age 93, Shutesbury, Massachusetts, US	Amazon \|\| iTunes	All Alone
Gertrude Lawrence (born Gertrude Alice Dagmar Klasen, July 4, 1898, London, England - died September 6, 1952, age 54 -- actress, singer)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	Do, Do, Do Maybe (on Do, Do, Do page with Harold French) Someone To Watch Over Me
Ledisi (born Ledisi Anibade Young, March 28, 1972, New Orleans, Louisiana -- R&B and soul singer-songwriter)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	Blues in the Night
Peggy Lee (born Norma Deloris Egstrom, May 26, 1920, Jamestown, North Dakota US - died January 21, 2002, age 81, Los Angeles, California)	Peggy Lee and Benny Goodman The Complete Recordings (1941) Amazon \|\| iTunes Peggy Lee Black Coffee (1953)	Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive Blues in the Night (with Benny Goodman) Cloudy Morning Fly Me to the Moon How Long Has This Been Going On? I Cover the Waterfront (with Dave Barbour) I Didn't Know What Time It Was I May be Wrong (with Dave Barbour) If I Should Lose You I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You) The Folks Who Live on the Hill The Lady Is a Tramp Peggy Lee (songwriter page) My Heart Stood Still My Old Flame (with Benny Goodman) Nice 'n' Easy Nice Work If You Can Get It Somebody Loves Me (two versions) They Can't Take That Away from Me The Way You Look Tonight (with Benny Goodman) Where or When (with Benny Goodman) You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me (two performances, solo and duet with Sinatra)
Annie Lennox (born December 25, 1954, Aberdeen, Scotland -- singer, songwriter, pianist)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	Georgia on My Mind September in the Rain
Julie London (born Gayle Peck September 26, 1926, Santa Rosa, California, U.S. - died October 18, 2000 (age 74) Encino, California, U.S. -- jazz and pop singer)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	All Alone Daddy Gone with the Wind Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year What'll I Do?
Jimmie Lunceford (born June 6, 1902, Fulton, Missouri US - July 12, 1947, Seaside, Oregon, US)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	Blues in the Night
Patti Lupone (born Patti Ann LuPone April 21, 1949, Northport, New York, U.S.)	Amazon \|\| itunes	Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered Comden and Green medley "Lyrics of Love" (with Howard McGillen)
Brian Lynch (born September 12, 1956, Urbana, Illinois -- jazz trumpeter)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	My Heart Stood Still
Vera Lynn (born Vera Margaret Welch, March 20, 1917, East Ham, London, UK)	Amazon \|\| iTunes	A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

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