The Vintage Music Blog: Billie Holiday

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Sunday, November 10, 2024

Billie Holiday – Lady Sings The Blues (reissue)

1 Say It Isn't So 3:01

2 I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm 3:55

3 I Wished On The Moon 6:48

4 Always 3:57

5 Everything Happens To Me 6:20

6 Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me 5:00

7 Ain't Misbehavin' 4:38

8 Trav'lin Light 3:07

9 I Must Have That Man! 3:04

10 Some Other Spring 3:36

11 Lady Sings The Blues 3:44

12 Strange Fruit 3:01

13 God Bless The Child 3:58

14 Good Morning Heartache 3:29

15 No Good Man 3:18

16 God Bless The Child (Rehearsal For) 15:38

Billie Holiday – Lady Sings The Blues

Thursday, August 17, 2023

Billie Holiday: The Definitive Collection: 1939-1948

CD 1

· 1. Billie Holiday - Porgy

· 2. Billie Holiday - There Is No Greater Love

· 3. Billie Holiday - Blues Are Brewin'

· 4. Billie Holiday - Baby I Don't Cry Over You

· 5. Billie Holiday - Good Morning Heartache

· 6. Billie Holiday - Big Stuff

· 7. Billie Holiday - That Old Devil Called Love

· 8. Billie Holiday - He's Funny That Way

· 9. Billie Holiday - Lover, Come Back to Me

· 10. Billie Holiday - I'm Yours

· 11. Billie Holiday - Embraceable You

· 12. Billie Holiday - Trav'lin' Light

· 13. Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

· 14. Billie Holiday - I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (And Throw Away the Key)

· 15. Billie Holiday - My Man

· 16. Billie Holiday - Mean to Me

· 17. Billie Holiday - Carelessly

· 18. Billie Holiday - Pennies from Heaven

· 19. Billie Holiday - Way You Look Tonight

· 20. Billie Holiday - These Foolish Things

CD 2

· 1. Billie Holiday - Weep No More

· 2. Billie Holiday - Solitude

· 3. Billie Holiday - Guilty

· 4. Billie Holiday - I'll Look Around

· 5. Billie Holiday - No Good Man

· 6. Billie Holiday - You Better Go Now

· 7. Billie Holiday - Lover Man

· 8. Billie Holiday - On the Sunny Side of the Street

· 9. Billie Holiday - As Time Goes By

· 10. Billie Holiday - My Old Flame

· 11. Billie Holiday - It's a Sin to Tell a Lie

· 12. Billie Holiday - God Bless the Child

· 13. Billie Holiday - I Hear Music

· 14. Billie Holiday - Very Thought of You

· 15. Billie Holiday - Sailboat in the Moonlight

· 16. Billie Holiday - Me, Myself, And I

· 17. Billie Holiday - Moanin' Low

· 18. Billie Holiday - This Year's Kisses

· 19. Billie Holiday - I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm

· 20. Billie Holiday - I Can't Give You Anything But Love

Billie Holiday: The Definitive Collection: 1939-1948

Saturday, February 8, 2020

How did Billie Holiday become Lady Day?

The legendary jazz/blues vocalist Billie Holiday certainly needs no introduction here. Anyone interested in classic and vintage jazz and blues will know her music and inimitable style of singing. No music collection is complete with out at least one Billie Holiday album.

There has also been much written about Billie, some true, some not, some good, some not so good, but one story I recently came across was how she got the name "Lady Day". This is an excerpt from the book "Wishing On the Moon (The Life and Times of Billie Holiday)" written by Donald Clarke and published by Penguin Books, 1994.

"....she had occasionally been called Lady since the early days in Harlem clubs, when she was reluctant to take the tips off the table...Lester (Young) had nicknames for everybody: he called (Count) Basie "Holy"; he called his younger brother, drummer Lee Young, "Little Pea". It was Lester who called trumpeter Harry Edison "Sweets". Will Friedwald says that he dubbed Ella Fitzgerald "Lady Time". Jazz already had an Earl, a Duke and a so-called "King of Swing"....Anyway, this was America, and Franklin D.Roosevelt was the biggest man around, and as Lester was the President of the saxophone, Billie called him "Prez" for short. He though that she must be the First Lady, named her "Lady Day", and reasoned that Sadie (Billie's mother), must be called "Duchess". All the names stuck for the rest of their lives..."

So while you ponder and digest that, here are a couple of Billie Holiday releases that cover a good cross section of her musical output.

Legendary

Billie's Best

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Billie Holiday...Remixed and Re-Imagined

The most heartfelt vintage master-tape performances of Billie Holiday - quite simply the 20th century's preeminent jazz vocalist - were selected and then bestowed upon the groove-worthy re-mixers of the 21st century.

The result is this 14 track gem - a heart-stopping manifesto of love, beauty, rhythm and poetry. Had she been born 70 years later, there's little doubt that this is the kind of soulful sound Billie Holiday would have totally dug. Worlds colliding, indeed, but in the most beautiful way possible.

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Wednesday, June 1, 2016

'S Wonderful...Songs of George Gershwin....Original Recordings 1920 to 1949

20 classic George Gershwin songs recorded from 1920 to 1949 and performed by various artists including Bing Crosby, Al Jolson, Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Billie Holiday and Ethel Merman.