"I took them out of box and fastened them smack to the side of my head without even looking twice." He offered to backstop me with the money I needed. Sound and Moving Image Catalogue: Adelaide Hall interviewed by Max Jones, 1988: Part 1 and Part 2: duration 2 hours 36 minutes: Adelaide Halls secret visit to Billie Holidays bedside before her death article by Iain Cameron Williams, retrieved October 16, 2022: In the 1935 Duke Ellington short "Symphony In Black," Holiday, at age 19, played a spurned woman, bounced to the studio floor by her unfaithful man in take after painful take. Her mother often took what were then known as "transportation jobs", serving on passenger railroads. Holiday's popularity increased after "Strange Fruit". He was eighteen, she was sixteen, and I was three' and ended, very nearly shyly, with her hope for love and a long life with 'my man' at her side. With no official U.S. radio push, the song finished at only No. Most records that made money sold around three to four thousand."[29]. (1) = Available on audio Her improvisation compensated for lack of musical education. Hammond compared Holiday favorably to Armstrong and said she had a good sense of lyric content at her young age. [76] Her last record to reach the charts was "Lover Man" in 1945. Miss Holiday stepped from between the curtains, into the white spotlight awaiting her, wearing a white evening gown and white gardenias in her black hair. One of the things that always bothered me about Ronstadt was that she covered everybody else's hits except, of course, the single tune she did with the Stone Poneys as if to concede that she had nothing original to contribute to pop music. She appeared on the ABC reality series The Comeback Story to discuss attempts to overcome her misfortunes. She soon demanded a raise from her manager, Joe Glaser. [25], In 1935, Holiday was signed to Brunswick by John Hammond to record pop tunes with pianist Teddy Wilson in the swing style for the growing jukebox trade. Back in the '80s, Pepa (Sandra Denton) of Salt-N-Pepa accidentally burned off a chunk of her hair on one side of her head with a chemical straightening relaxer. [citation needed] Holiday's version ranked 6 on the year-end single chart available for 1937. After a short prison sentence, she performed at a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall. "Blue Moon" One of the most important tracks off Billie Holiday Sings is this 1952 version of "Blue Moon." This song is usually associated with Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's,. Billie Holiday, singer (archive tape) When it came to his solo, in the middle of "Fine and Mellow," Lester stood up and he blew the purest blues I have ever heard. [35] Holiday was hired by Artie Shaw a month after being fired from the Count Basie Band. And when the first section of narration was ended, she sang with strength undiminished with all of the art that was hers. "Strange Fruit" and "God Bless the Child" were called classics, and "Good Morning Heartache", another reissued track on the LP, was also noted favorably.[92]. Try a new name: torch rock." Time also added that Ronstadt was "a superstar on the verge of becoming a Big Superstar. [82] In 1948, Holiday played at the Ebony Club, which was against the law. Billie Holiday Lyrics sort by albumsort by song album: "Billie Holiday Sings"(1952) I Only Have Eyes For You You Turned The Tables On Me Blue Moon Solitude These Foolish Things You'd Be So Easy To Love You Go To My Head East Of The Sun (West Of The Moon) album: "An Evening With Billie Holiday"(1953) Stormy Weather Lover, Come Back To Me My Man (2) = Available on DVD, This article is about the singer. When Holiday is singing, you can . "If we disagree on something, I really re-examine it and if I still think I'm right, I go ahead," she told, Ronstadt grew to resent the songs that made her famous, to the point where she can't bear to listen to her, More songs with bodies of water in the title, More songs that were hits for more than one artist, David Clayton-Thomas of Blood, Sweat & Tears, Director Nick Morris ("The Final Countdown"). "So I walked in the restaurant like a stockholder and asked. 4. [93]:Millstein's liner notes, When Holiday died, The New York Times published a short obituary on page 15 without a byline. Introduo: C Am Dm G7 C Am Dm G7 G7 C Am7 Dm7 Blue moon G7 C Am7 Dm7 You saw me standing alone D7 C7M Am7 D7 Without a dream in my heart F C Am7 Dm7 Without a love of my own G7 C Am7 Dm7 Blue moon G7 C Am7 Dm7 You knew just what I was there for D7 C7M Am7 D7 You heard me saying a prayer for F G C F Fm C Someone I really could care for . Her lover, Joe Guy, traveled to Hollywood while Holiday was filming and supplied her with drugs. "I went on my knees to him", Holiday said. Not only was there assurance of phrasing and intonation; but there was also an outgoing warmth, a palpable eagerness to reach and touch the audience. It was a night when Billie was on top, undeniably the best and most honest jazz singer alive. "Blue Bayou" was released as the b-side to stateside single "Mean Woman Blues" and became an international hit for Oribson, peaking at No. "Her hair was lopsided, and . Orbison would then flesh out the song, and he initially recorded the boastfully aching song in 1961. Holiday's autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, 1 opens with the line: "Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married; he was 18, she was 16 and I was three." Holiday's given name was Eleanora Fagan, but when she started to perform she chose the stage name Billie after Billie Dove, a star in silent, and later sound, movies. Eleanora Fagan[3][4] was born on April 7, 1915,[5] in Philadelphia, the daughter of African American unwed teenage couple Sarah Julia "Sadie" Fagan of Irish descent and Clarence Halliday. As her singing improved and became more individual, she began to get better musical jobs and was discovered by the young producer John Hammond in . In March 1939, a 23-year-old Billie Holiday walked up to the mic at West 4th's Cafe Society in New York City to sing her final song of the night. [118][119][120][121], In 1986, Joel Whitburn's company Record Research compiled information on the popularity of recordings released from the era predating rock and roll and created pop charts dating back to the beginning of the commercial recording industry. He later wrote: The narration began with the ironic account of her birth in Baltimore 'Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills.[1]. [113] It is based on the book Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari. The MGM sessions were released posthumously on a self-titled album, later retitled and re-released as Last Recording. [80], The loss of her cabaret card reduced Holiday's earnings. Clef Records and Verve Records, 19521958, Columbia Records and MGM Records, 19581959, Last edited on 16 September 2022, at 23:34, Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport, The Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert Recorded Live, Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 19331944, I Can't Give You Anything but Love (Dear), https://www.discogs.com/Billie-Holiday-Recital-By-Billie-Holiday/release/4196672, https://www.allmusic.com/album/a-recital-mw0000912340, https://www.discogs.com/Billie-Holiday-Solitude/release/4617997, https://www.allmusic.com/album/solitude-verve-mw0000102964, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Billie_Holiday_discography&oldid=1110694256, 10 LPs with 134 monaural tracks, including four previously unreleased takes, Recorded: April 1, 1952; July 27, 1952; April 14, 1954, Recorded: June 6 and 7, 1956; September 3, 1954, Recorded: August 14 and 18, 1956; January 3, 7, and 8, 1957, Recorded: February 12, 1945; June 3 and October 7, 1946, Recorded: JanuaryFebruary 1954 (live, in Germany), Recorded: October 28 and November 1, 1951, Storyville Club, Boston, Holiday sings two songs, with Basie's band, 1940: "Tell Me More and More and Then Some", Liner Notes (Translation in French) Leonard Feather, Vocals Billie Holiday (tracks: A2 to B2), This page was last edited on 16 September 2022, at 23:34. "I didn't feel anything until the blood started rushing down in my eyes and ears", she said. I begged Milt and told him I had to have strings behind me. Reg Hanley : Biillie. [99] On July 15, she received last rites. Holiday could not sing as often during Shaw's shows as she could in Basie's; the repertoire was more instrumental, with fewer vocals. He too was a jazz musician, playing guitar and banjo, and eventually landed a gig with Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra. She had not received proper record royalties until she joined Decca, so her main revenue was club concerts. Another frequent accompanist was tenor saxophonist Lester Young, who had been a boarder at her mother's house in 1934 and with whom Holiday had a rapport. [64], In September 1946, Holiday began her only major film, New Orleans, in which she starred opposite Louis Armstrong and Woody Herman. The Cure's "Lullaby" is based on a recurring nightmare frontman Robert Smith had as a child where he was eaten by a giant spider. ", The article was also published in the following book . On March 27, 1948, Holiday played Carnegie Hall to a sold-out crowd. On May 27 she was in court. "You can't copy anybody and end with anything. Holiday was posthumously nominated for 23 Grammy awards.[105]. By March 1938, Shaw and Holiday had been broadcast on New York City's powerful radio station WABC (the original WABC, now WCBS). The Commodore release did not get any airplay, but the controversial song sold well, though Gabler attributed that mostly to the record's other side, "Fine and Mellow", which was a jukebox hit. But she was eventually convinced to sing it, and on three consecutive nights early in 1939, Holliday ended her sets with the song "Strange Fruit." Her popularity was unusual because she did not have a current hit record. Harry J. Anslinger, the jazz-hating racist running the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, caught wind of . 5 on the pop charts) and the second act overall, only behind The Beatles. "Halliday" was her father's last name. Billie Holiday : You take care of your mama, I take care of mine. [77], On April 27, 1948, Bob Sylvester and her promoter Al Wilde arranged a Broadway show for her. and Glenn [Frey, of The Eagles] simultaneously suggested [the song] to me sorta like Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum, Ronstadt told Circus Magazine [issue dated October 27, 1977]. It recently publicly came to light that the singer Adelaide Hall made a secret visit to Holidays bedside at the Metropolitan Hospital, believed to have taken place on (or around) June 12, 1959. [49], In 1939, Holiday recorded her biggest selling record, "Strange Fruit" for Commodore, charting at number 16 on the available pop charts for the 1930s.[128]. In July 2022, with Max Jones tape now in the public domain, Williams wrote an article for The Syncopated Times about Halls secret visit. Minor hits and independent releases had no way of being spotlighted. "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" has been deemed her "claim to fame". She later said that the imagery of the song reminded her of her father's death and that this played a role in her resistance to performing it. She was sentenced to Alderson Federal Prison Camp in West Virginia. Why is Billie Holiday so important? The success and distribution of the song made Holiday a staple in the pop community, leading to solo concerts, rare for jazz singers in the late 1940s. Her songs "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" and "Easy Living" were imitated by singers across America and were quickly becoming jazz standards. In 1961, she was voted to the Down Beat Hall Of Fame, and soon after Columbia reissued nearly one hundred of her early records. Holiday was arrested again on January 22, 1949, in her room at the Hotel Mark Twain in San Francisco. He and Holiday issued 95 recordings together. She left an estate of $1,000, and her best recordings from the 1930s were mostly out of print. I was very much moved. [22], Late in 1932, 17-year-old Holiday replaced the singer Monette Moore at Covan's, a club on West 132nd Street. [88] In his 2015 study, Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth, John Szwed argued that Lady Sings the Blues is a generally accurate account of her life, but that co-writer Dufty was forced to water down or suppress material by the threat of legal action. But it was the way he did it I'll never forget, with love and respect, like a human being holding out his hand to someone who needed it." Billie Holiday, Lady Sings the Blues 2 likes Like Billie Holiday recorded extensively for four labels: Columbia Records, which issued her recordings on its subsidiary labels Brunswick Records, Vocalion Records and OKeh Records, from 1933 through 1942; Commodore Records in 1939 and 1944; Decca Records from 1944 through 1950; briefly for Aladdin Records in 1951; Verve Records and on its earlier imprint Clef Records from 1952 through 1957, then again for Columbia Records from 1957 to 1958 and finally for MGM Records in 1959. The likelihood exists that among the last thoughts of this cynical, sentimental, profane, generous and greatly talented woman of 44 was the belief that she was to be arraigned the following morning. [106] Halls long-time friend, Iain Cameron Williams, and author of Halls biography, also had direct knowledge of the visit. Her final studio recordings were made for MGM Records in 1959, with lush backing from Ray Ellis and his Orchestra, who had also accompanied her on the Columbia album Lady in Satin the previous year (see below). This may have been the last straw for her. No longer able to obtain a cabaret license to work in New York City, Holiday nonetheless packed New York's Carnegie Hall 10 days after her release. It takes place in South Philadelphia in March 1959. Her performance of "Fine and Mellow" on CBS's The Sound of Jazz program is memorable for her interplay with her long-time friend Lester Young. [61] She may also have wanted strings to avoid comparisons between her commercially successful early work with Teddy Wilson and everything produced afterwards. [43] Holiday said her father, Clarence Holiday, was denied medical treatment for a fatal lung disorder because of racial prejudice, and that singing "Strange Fruit" reminded her of the incident. Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 - July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Billie Holiday - John Szwed 2015-03-31 Kirkus Best Books of 2015 selection for Biography Published in celebration of Holiday's centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer's extraordinary musical talent When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia's studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most Some time I'd sit down and listen to 'em myself, and it sound like two of the same voices or the same mind, or something like that. Linda has made the Stones' people listen to a torch singer. The Swedish impresario Nils Hellstrom initiated the "Jazz Club U.S.A." (after the Leonard Feather radio show) tour starting in Stockholm in January 1954 and then Germany, Netherlands, Paris and Switzerland. She signed a recording contract with Brunswick in 1935. In an interview with the British paper, Roy Orbison wrote this song with Joe Melson. Initially, she performed under the name "Billie Halliday.". Because of personal struggles and an altered voice, her final recordings were met with mixed reaction but were mild commercial successes. McKay, like most of the men in her life, was abusive. After six weeks in the hospital, Billie Holiday died on July 17, 1959. Billie was originally indifferent to the song, written first as a poem " Bitter Fruit ," by a white Jewish schoolteacher Abel Meeropol; then after contemplating it, considered it too bold. Interspersed among Holiday's songs, Millstein read aloud four lengthy passages from her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. Masters of all times!" on Pinterest. Location: Baton Rouge. After a turbulent childhood, Holiday began singing in nightclubs in Harlem, where she was heard by producer John Hammond, who liked her voice. [111]:KCSM interview. It was released under the name "Benny Goodman & His Orchestra" in 1933. [27] She began recording under her own name a year later for Vocalion in sessions produced by Hammond and Bernie Hanighen. There was drastic weight loss . I had known her casually over the years and I was shocked at her physical weakness. Billie Holiday is considered one of the best jazz vocalists of all time, Holiday had a thriving career as a jazz singer for many years before she lost her battle with substance abuse. Metronome reported that the addition of Holiday to Shaw's band put it in the "top brackets". She didn't just want to feel more like Holiday, who had addiction issues and was notoriously volatile. In 1950, Holiday appeared in the Universal short film Sugar Chile Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet, singing "God Bless the Child" and "Now, Baby or Never". While it only scored as high as #29 in the US (despite scoring #1 in Ireland and #10 in Norway), Linda Ronstadt took it to far greater fame as her only gold-selling single and her signature song. And so it goes, not only is she no Roy Orbison, she's no Everly Brothers . The record's flip side was "No More", one of her favorites. The story of her burial plot and how it was managed by her estranged husband, Louis McKay, was documented on NPR in 2012.[104]. She performed it on a Latin music awards show with help from a teleprompter. In Louisville, Kentucky, a man called her a "nigger wench" and requested she sing another song. She began singing in night clubs that year when she was just 14. Ultimately, "Strange Fruit" would cost Holiday everything. She married trombonist Jimmy Monroe on August 25, 1941. He wrote of Holiday's performance: Throughout the night, Billie was in superior form to what had sometimes been the case in the last years of her life. Billie Holiday, Lady Sings the Blues 3 likes Like "Tony kept my job open. F#. [38] In November 1938, Holiday was asked to use the service elevator at the Lincoln Hotel in New York City, instead of the one used by hotel guests, because white patrons of the hotels complained. [69] She was ranked second in the DownBeat poll for 1946 and 1947, her highest ranking in that poll. Holiday was childless, but she had two godchildren: singer Billie Lorraine Feather (the daughter of Leonard Feather) and Bevan Dufty (the son of William Dufty).[88]. [23] Hammond arranged for Holiday to make her recording debut at age 18, in November 1933, with Benny Goodman. Her career began in the 1930s, when she started singing in Harlem nightclubs. Not long after Eleanora was born, Clarence abandoned his family to pursue a career as a jazz banjo player and guitarist. Producer John Hammond, who loved Moore's singing and had come to hear her, first heard Holiday there in early 1933. In 1985, a statue of Billie Holiday was erected in Baltimore; the statue was completed in 1993 with additional panels of images inspired by her seminal song Strange Fruit. In the 1947 feature "New Orleans," she played a white opera singer's housemaid. Though in both those films she got to sing, too. [87], Holiday's autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, was ghostwritten by William Dufty and published in 1956. She had been strikingly beautiful, but her talent was wasted. [49][50] In 1976, the song was added to the Grammy Hall of Fame. Watching Billie and. Ronstadts Blue Bayou was released in August 1977 and climbed to the No. She earned more than one thousand dollars per week from club ventures but spent most of it on heroin. Although Shaw admired Holiday's singing in his band, saying she had a "remarkable ear" and a "remarkable sense of time", her tenure with the band was nearing an end. I know I wore a white dress for a number I did and that was cut out of the picture. She was best known for sad songs about heartache and pain from losing your love. Frank Sinatra was influenced by her performances on 52nd Street as a young man. Ask us a question about this song * Billie Holiday Sings (1952). Many compilations have been issued since her death, as well as comprehensive box sets and live recordings. ", "I'm Yours", and "I'll Be Seeing You", a number one hit for Bing Crosby. [70] She was ranked fifth in Billboard's annual college poll of "girl singers" on July 6, 1947 (Jo Stafford was first). That was right in her. "I left two years later as a star. The longtime BS&T frontman tells the "Spinning Wheel" story, including the line he got from Joni Mitchell. "Strange Fruit" remained in her repertoire for 20 years. [47] Holiday returned to Commodore in 1944, recording songs she made with Teddy Wilson in the 1930s, including "I Cover the Waterfront", "I'll Get By", and "He's Funny That Way". Holiday found herself in direct competition with the popular singer Ella Fitzgerald. [52], On June 12, 1942, in Los Angeles, Holiday recorded "Trav'lin Light" with Paul Whiteman for a new label, Capitol Records. Holiday's drug addictions were a problem on the set. goes back to the cabaret singing of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Peggy Lee. "I Can't Get Started", "They Can't Take That Away from Me", and "Swing It Brother Swing" are all commercially available. A song created for anyone fooling through the depths of love and desire. She needed help developing the singer's signature rasp. As Holiday began singing, only a small spotlight illuminated her face. Holiday was 44. Sarah moved to Philadelphia at age 19,[6] after she was evicted from her parents' home in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, for becoming pregnant. still trying to figure out how to play this contraption. Jimmy Rushing, Basie's male vocalist, called her unprofessional. In May 1938, Shaw won band battles against Tommy Dorsey and Red Norvo, with the audience favoring Holiday. "The regular music critics and drama critics came and treated us like we were legit", she said. In the lyrics, the "strange fruit" is a metaphor for lynching. I recall only one thing. Reg Hanley : Sing pretty. [84], By the 1950s, Holiday's drug use, drinking, and relationships with abusive men caused her health to deteriorate. 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He told Ebony magazine in 1958 about her impact: With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. Gabler said, "I made Billie a real pop singer. Video by Hulu Day's performance in the film earned the. She performed it at the club in 1939,[42] with some trepidation, fearing possible retaliation. Metronome expressed its concerns in 1946 about "Good Morning Heartache", saying, "there's a danger that Billie's present formula will wear thin, but up to now it's wearing well. Holiday sang 32 songs at the Carnegie concert by her count, including Cole Porter's "Night and Day" and her 1930s hit, "Strange Fruit". Wilson, Holiday, Young, and other musicians came into the studio without written arrangements, reducing the recording cost. It sounds like R2D2.. [108] In 2019, Chirlane McCray announced that New York City would build a statue honoring Holiday near Queens Borough Hall.[109]. Billie Holiday In 1947 Holiday was arrested for a narcotics violation and spent a year in a rehabilitation centre. . [51] Herzog claimed Holiday contributed only a few lines to the lyrics. Holiday died of cirrhosis on July 17, 1959, at age 44. Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? Collaborations with Teddy Wilson produced the hit "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", which became a jazz standard. She was also inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, though not in that genre; the website states that "Billie Holiday changed jazz forever". The worms of every kind of excess drugs were only one had eaten her. The two argued, and Holiday shouted angrily, "God bless the child that's got his own", and stormed out. Only Billy Stewart's R&B version of "Summertime" reached a higher chart placement than Holiday's, charting at number 10 thirty years later in 1966. 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