Her husband also wrote music for her to sing, which she recorded with him.

Andre Previn's memoirs, "No Minor Chords," recalls Nixon losing her temper with Alan Jay Lerner, whose lyrics she sang for film soundtracks. She picked the wrong person to blow up at -- Lerner was well known for his scathing putdowns,

Something on the lines of, Ms. Nixon heatedly exclaiming to Lerner how she dubbed the voices of V, W, X, Y, Z, and so on, all these big names: so that Lerner would stop talking down to her.

To which Lerner shot back, that all those ladies had dubbed Ms. Nixon's FACE. Like I said, scathing.