What better way to give tribute to this past weekend’s Record Store Day than by featuring a character who has a kick-ass record collection. When talking about Mad Men, the show about the glamour age of Madison Avenue and the three martini lunch, everyone automatically thinks of suave Don Draper. At Movies in the Newspaper, we happen to think of a heroine, Ms. Peggy Olson.
No character has evolved more than Peggy. She first started on the show as a conservative, Brooklynite secretary. Four seasons later she becomes a marijuana smoking, stripteasing senior copywriter. You can’t help but admire a woman who breaks through extremely thick glass ceiling in the old boys’ club of the advertising world.
The following mix is compromised of tunes from women that Peggy may have identified with during lonely nights after work, with a Chubby Checker song thrown in the mix because the girl also knows how to party:
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