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Billie Holiday (bornEleanora Fagan, April 7, 1915 July 17, 1959) was an American folk vocalist as well as songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" simply by her good friend and also music partner Lester Young , Holiday had your seminal influence upon folk and pop singing. Her expressive style, firmly inspired by simply folk instrumentalists, pioneered your new means of manipulating phrasing and tempo.

Early life as well as training Early performing career Commodore recordings and well-known achievements (1939) Successes (1940 1947) Legal troubles, Carnegie Hall Concert (1947 1952) Lady Sings The Blues (1952 1959) Death Billie Holiday passed on in the Metropolitan Hospital, New York, upon Friday, July 17, 1959, from the cargo box during which your lover have been in jail to get unlawful control of narcotics more than a four week period before, seeing that she lay mortally ill; inside the place that a criminal arrest protect acquired been recently removed by means of judge order not many hours just before the woman death, which, like your ex life, was disorderly and pitiful. She were strikingly beautiful, although the girl was squandered actually to somewhat of a small, grotesque caricature of herself. The earthworms of each form of excess prescription drugs were one simple experienced consumed your girlfriend . The chance is available that concerning the final thoughts with the following cynical, sentimental, profane, nice and enormously as qualified in cooking lovely women with forty four was your notion in which the girl was to become arraigned this next morning. She could have been, eventually, although possibly possibly not that quickly. In any case, she taken away herself eventually with the jurisdiction of virtually any the courtroom here below. Voice Hit files Discography Albums Year Title Label plus Number 1946 Billie Holiday (four 78rpm records) Commodore CR-2 1947 Billie Holiday Teddy Wilson (four 78rpm records) Columbia C-61 1947 A Hot Jazz Classic Set, Vol.1 (four 78rpm records) Columbia-135 1947 Distinctive Song Stylings (four 78rpm records) Decca A-652 1949 Teddy Wilson And His Orchestra Featuring Billie Holiday (10") Columbia CL-6040 1950 An Evening With Eddie Heywood in addition to Billie Holiday (10") Commodore FL 30001 1950 Ella, Lena and Billie (10") Columbia CL 2531 1950 Billie Holiday Sings (10") Columbia CL 6129 1950 Billie Holiday Volume One (10") Commodore 20005 1950 Billie Holiday Volume Two (10") Commodore 20006 1951 Favorites (10") Columbia CL 6163 1951 Lover Man (10") Decca DL 5345 1951 (released 1964) A Rare Live Recording Of Billie Holiday (Storyville) M2001 1952 Billie Holiday Sings Clef MGC 118 (10" version) Mercury 89002 (four 78rpm files version) 1953 An Evening with Billie Holiday Clef MGC 144 (10" version) Mercury 89028 (four 78rpm information version) 1954 Billie Holiday Clef MGC 161 (10" version) Mercury 89045 (four 78rpm files version) 1954 Billie Holiday with JATP Clef MGC 169 (10" version) Mercury 89053 (four 78rpm documents version) 1954 Billie Holiday plus Teddy Wilson Orchestras Columbia 33 S 1034 1954 Lady Day Columbia CL 637 1954 Billie Holiday Volume One Jolly Roger 5020 1954 Billie Holiday Volume Two Jolly Roger 5021 1954 Billie Holiday Volume Three Jolly Roger 5022 1955 A Collection Of Classic Jazz Interpretations By Billie Holiday (10") Columbia B-1949 1955 (released with 1958) Verve MGV 8302 1955 Clef MGC 669 / Verve MV 2595 1956 Clef MGC 686 1956 Solitude Clef MGC 690 / Verve V6-8074 1956 Hall Of Fame Series (7") Columbia B-2534 1956 Clef MGC 713 1956 Billie Holiday at JATP Verve MGC 718 1956 Decca DL 8215 1956 Lady Sings the Blues Clef MGC 721 / Verve MV 2047 1956 (released within 1959) All or even Nothing at All Verve MGV 8329 1956 (released 1961) Carnegie Hall Concert Verve V6-8410 1957 (released 1958) Songs for Distingu Lovers Verve MGV 8257 / Verve 2352 085 1957 (released 1960) Body and Soul Verve MGV 8197 1957 Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport Verve MGV 8234 1957 (released 1999) A Midsummer Night's Jazz at Stratford '57 Baldwin Street 308 1957 Sound associated with Jazz Columbia CL 1098 1958 Lady around Satin Columbia CL 1157 1958 Decca DL 8701 1958 Lover Man Decca DL 8702 1958 Billie Holiday Commodore 30008 1958 (released 1986) At Monterey Blackhawk 50701 1959 Seven Ages of Jazz Metrojazz 1009 1959 Billie Holiday MGM 3764 Singles Year Single Chart postures Pop US R&B 1934 "Riffin' the actual Scotch" 6 1935 "What your Little Moonlight Can Do" 12 "Twenty-Four Hours A Day" a few "If You Were Mine" 12 1936 "You Let Me Down" eighteen "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" a few "It's Like Reaching with the Moon" 17 "No Regrets " nine "Summertime" twelve month period "A Fine Romance" in search of "Let's Call a Heart a Heart" eighteen "The Way You Look Tonight" three or more "Who Loves You " some "That's Life, I Guess" twenty "I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Dear)" 5 1937 "Pennies From Heaven" three or more "I've Got My Love for you to Keep Me Warm" some "Please Keep Me with Your Dreams" 13 "This Year's Kisses" 8 "Carelessly" a single "How Could You" twelve "Moanin' Low" 11 "They Can't Take That Away From Me" 12 "Mean in order to Me" 7 "Easy Living" 15 "Yours & Mine " sixteen "Me, Myself & I" 11 "A Sailboat In The Moonlight" 10 "Getting Some Fun Out of Life" 10 "Trav'lin' All Alone" eighteen "Nice Work If You Can Get It" 14 1938 "My Man" 12 "You Go in order to My Head" 20 "I'm Gonna Lock My Heart" 2 1939 "Strange Fruit" sixteen 1941 "God Bless the Child" 25 1942 "Trav'lin' Light" 23 a single 1945 "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) " sixteen some Compositions Awards in addition to honors Grammy Hall of Fame Grammy Best Historical Album Other influences Tributes Honors Filmography Television appearances Year Program Host Songs 1949 Adventures with Jazz Fred Robbins Unknown Songs 8/27/1949 Arlene Francis Show, NY (1) Arlene Francis The Man I Love, All of Me, Lover Man 8/27/1949 Eddie Condon's Floor Show, NY (1) Eddie Condon I Love My Man, Keeps with Rainin', Lover Man 9/3/1949 Eddie Condon's Floor Show, NY (1) Eddie Condon Fine & Mellow, Porgy, Them There Eyes, I Love My Man 9/10/1949 Art Ford Show, NY (1) Art Ford Lover Man, I Cover that Waterfront, Two Minute Interview, All of Me 10/15/1949 Art Ford Show, NY (1) Art Ford Them There Eyes, Detour Ahead, Now or Never 1/7/1950 Eddie Condon's Floor Show, NY Eddie Condon Unknown 5/24/1950 Apollo Theatre Show, NY (1) - You're My Thrill 7/25/1951 Apollo Theatre Show, NY (1) - My Man 12/10/1952 Apollo Theatre Show, NY (1) Count Basie Tenderly 10/16/1953 The Comeback Story, NY (1) George Jessel Twenty Minute Interview, God Bless the particular Child 2/8/1955 The Tonight Show, NY (1) Steve Allen My Man, Them There Eyes, Lover Man 2/10/1956 The Tonight Show, NY (1) Steve Allen Please Don't Talk About Me, Two Minute Interview, Ghost of the Chance 8/19/1956 Star's associated with Jazz, LA, CA (2) Bobby Troup Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone, Billie's Blues, My Man 10/29/1956 Bandstand USA, NY (1) Bert Parks Willow Weep for Me, I Only Have Eyes for You, My Man, Please Don't Talk About Me 11/7/1956 Night Beat, NY (1) Mike Wallace Fifteen Minute Interview 11/8/1956 Peacock Alley, NY (1) Tex McCleary Twenty Minute Interview 11/8/1956 The Tonight Show, NY (1) Steve Allen Porgy 3/11/1957 Live Broadcast from Mr. Kelly's, Chicago (1) - Good Morning Heartache, You Better Go Now 12/8/1957 The Seven Lively Arts: The Sound connected with Jazz, LA (2) - Fine & Mellow 4/12/1958 Club Oasis, NY (1) Martha Raye You've Changed, My Man 5/26/1958 Telethon, NY Dean Martin Unknown Songs 5/29/1958 Art Ford's Jazz Party, NY (2) Art Ford You've Changed, I Love My Man, When Your Lover Has Gone 6/5/1958 Art Ford's Jazz Party, NY Art Ford All with Me, Good Morning Heartache, Travelin Light 7/10/1958 Art Ford's Jazz Party, NY (2) Art Ford What your Little Moonlight Can Do, Foolin' Myself, It's Easy in order to Remember 7/17/1958 Art Ford's Jazz Party, NY (2) Art Ford Moanin' Low, Don't Explain, When Your Lover Has Gone 9/25/1958 Today Show Dave Garroway My Funny Valentine 11/18/1958 Mars Club, Music Hall Parade Voyons Un Peu, Paris France (2) - I Only Have Eyes with regard to You, Travelin Light 11/20/1958 Gilles Margaritis Programme, Paris France Gilles Margaritis Unknown 1/7/1959 Timex All-Star Jazz Show IV, NY Jackie Gleason Unknown 2/23/1959 Chelsea at Nine, London, England (2) Robert Beatty Porgy, Please Don't Talk About Me, Strange Fruit Notes

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