tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-106190382011-06-08T01:53:23.803-05:00~~~ ''THE LADY OF THE DAY'' ~~~ My hat goes off to the inventor and poster-child of "The Blues" of Jazz, or, to my mind, "Hurtin' Songs" of Country Music, or a "Lenten Psalm" in the old "Negro Spirituals". She hurt lots, she wrote about hurt real good, and sang Hurtin' Songs the best because she never knew anything else but hurtin', so, without further ado, Ladies 'n' Gents, I present...the one, the only, the Billie Holiday.RosiRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10283011566044187095noreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10619038.post-1107874006919042002005-04-07T02:34:00.000-05:002005-02-22T09:47:41.973-05:00

"The Golden Age of Jazz"- photograph by William GottliebMy hat goes off to the inventor and poster-child of "The Blues" of Jazz,or, to my mind, "Hurtin' Songs" of Country Music,or a "Lenten Psalm" in the old "Negro Spirituals".She hurt lots,She wrote about hurt real good andSang Hurtin' Songs the best becauseShe never knew anything else but hurtin'Her hurtin' voice healed her audience'

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"One Person" - website, Miro Krizic Perhaps one of the largest areas of African-American influence is in the sports arena. When Jackie Robinson stepped out on the field with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, he abolished Major League Baseball's color barrier. How could we forget the pitching speed of Satchel Paige? Or the triple-threat created by Monte Irvin's power-hitting, smooth

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"The Golden Age of Jazz" - photograph by William Gottlieb "It came out of the dark heart of America,the aura, the smoke-filled essence of jazz,the music of joy, abandon, yearning.New cadences, accents, pulsations.Nights of improvisation and hot rapturous jazz.New York's 52nd Street, Swing Street, the mecca.It was to be William P. Gottlieb who would capturewith his own instrument, the camera, the

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For a very active Billy Holiday Fan Club in the UK that began way back in 1946, when Billie was 31 years old - if my Math is correct. For any latest updates on archive-finds, new tributes, and so on keep your eyes peeled on their website.My rating: *****

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For a unique hard-to-find collection of Billie Holiday reading, listening, and watching, as well as biography, lyrics, and artwork, go look-see ~ The Unofficial BILLIE HOLIDAY Website ~ it's a well-worth-watching site!My rating: ***** Billie age 2 (Would that be a gardenia?) Photographer: unknown. I downloaded he following text and links directly from the website page on video footage ~

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Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & Museum website, Feb 9 2005 ~ "Hall of Fame Inductee 225 ~ Billie Holiday " Inductee TimelineApril 7, 1915Eleanora Fagan Gough, a.k.a. Billie Holiday, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.1933Billie Holiday makes her first recordings.November 27, 1933Billie Holiday's first commercial recording session, with bandleader Benny Goodman, is organized by John Hammond, who has

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"Too Many Bad Kicks" ~Billie for the First Time Tells Why She Left Shaw & Basie'I'll Never Sing with a Dance Band Again' - HolidayBillie Holiday - early portrait A telling archive story on Billie's character that I found in Down Beat Magazine, in which Billie Holiday is interviewed ...Chicago -- You sit with Billie Holiday and watch her smoke cigarettes chain fashion. The first thing that strikes

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Movie Poster

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- Frank Driggs, photographer "Internet Movie Database" has a profile for Billie HolidayBillie Holiday was remembered in film primarily as a Music Composer and Lyrics Writer and for her legendary personality, notably, after her death: Miscellaneous Crew - filmography (2000s) (1990s) (1980s) (1960s)The Notebook (2004) (singer: "I'll Be Seeing You")Minority Report (2002) (singer: "Solitude")Chelsea

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Undated photo of jazz queen Billie Holiday during a recording session - The Associated Press July 18, 1959 -- OBITUARY by THE NEW YORK TIMES Billie Holiday Dies Here at 44; Jazz Singer Had Wide Influence Billie Holiday, famed jazz singer, died yesterday in Metropolitan Hospital. Her age was 44. The immediate cause of death was given as congestion of the lungs complicated by heart failure.

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see The World Book, where she is listed as "Jazz Vocalist": Billie Holiday (1915-1959) won recognition as the most moving jazz singer of her day. She was admired for the uniquely bittersweet quality of her voice, and for phrasing that had much in common with the solos of the great improvising jazz musicians. Although Holiday was often described as a blues singer, she was principally an

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~ by A&E Television NetworksThe text from the Biography on A&E Search Results for "Billie Holiday" :Holiday (Holliday), Billie ~ 1915-1959Jazz musician. Born Eleanora Fagan on April 7, 1915, in Baltimore, Maryland. Her father, Clarence Holiday — a guitarist who played with Fletcher Henderson’s big band, never married her mother, Sadie Fagan, and eventually abandoned the family. Holiday (some

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Fullscreen capture 2 9 2005 12 54 57 PM

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Billie Holiday - 1949 Lyrics by Billie holiday & Arthur Herzog Jr. Them that's got shall get Them that's not shall lose So the bible said and it still is news Mama may have, papa may have But god bless the child that's got his own That's got his own Yes, the strong gets more While the weak ones fade Empty pockets don't ever make the grade Mama may have, papa may have But god bless the child

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Photographer unknown Never had nothing No one to care That's why I seem to have More than my share I've got a man crazy for me He's funny that way When I hurt his feelings Once in a while His only answer is one little smile I've got that man crazy for me He's funny that way I can see no other way And no better plan End it all and let him go To some better gal But I'm only human A coward at

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Billie, in her Dressing Room "All of Me" by Seymour Simons / Gerald Marks You took my kisses and all my love You taught me how to care Am I to be just remnant of a one side love affair All you took I gladly gave There is nothing left for me to save All of me Why not take all of me Can't you see I'm no good without you Take my lips I want to loose them Take my arms I'll never use them Your

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You Can't Be Mine J.C. Johnson / C. Webb You can't be mine And someone else's too Someday you'll find I've been a friend to you I don't believe that life's worth living I gave you all there was worth giving You never cared how I fared or what I do I called you mine but I was not to blame For all the time you played up to Hand and game Second hand love I can't see It's good for some but not

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Billie in the studio. Like the beat, beat, beat of the tom-tom When the jungle shadows fall Like the tick, tick, tock of the stately clock as it stands against the wall Like the drip, drip, drip of the raindrops When the summer show'r is through So a voice within me keeps repeating You, you, you Night and day you are the one Only you beneath the moon and under the sun Whether near to me or

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Billie and Count Basie in television studio. Photographer: Milt Hinton, New York, 1957. Lyrics - Tell Me More and More Tell me more and more and then some You know what I long to hear I want more and more and then some Of that "I Love You Only Dear" Tell me more and more and then some The way that you feel and then When you've told that old sweet story And you're through, start right in

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Image from Euro-Music Club website Embraceable You - by George and Ira Gershwin Embrace me My sweet embraceable you Embrace me My irreplaceable you Just to look at you My heart grows tipsy in me You and you alone Bring out the gypsy in me I love all The many charms about you Above all I want my arms about you Don't be naughty baby Come to me Come to me do My sweet embraceable you I love

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Photo from a Donegal Middle School, Gr. 8 Project Sunday is gloomy, My hours are slumberless Dearest the shadows I live with are numberless Little white flowers Will never awaken you Not where the black coach of Sorrow has taken you Angels have no thought Of ever returning you Would they be angry If I thought of joining you? Gloomy Sunday Gloomy is Sunday, With shadows I spend it all My

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A list of the body of work that Billie Holiday was, and still is, best known for, that is, her Songs, many of which she wrote the lyrics and music composition herself.From ~ The Unofficial BILLIE HOLIDAY Website "HER SONGS"‘Deed I Do - Fred Rose / Walter Hirsch(I Don’t Stand A) Ghost Of A Chance - Victor P. Young / Bing Crosby / Ned Washington(I Love You) Porgy - George and Ira Gershwin / DuBose

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"Equality" - Dr. Martin Luther King

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Billie and Coleman Hawkins.Photographer: ?, F. Driggs Collection, 1950. MORE THAN YOU KNOW- Billy Rose / Edward Eliscu / Vincent YoumansMore than you knowMore than you knowMan of my heart, I love you soLately I've found you on my mindMore than you knowWhether you're rightWhether you're wrongMan of my heart, I'll string alongI need you soMore than you'll ever knowLoving you the way that I

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