"Billie's Blues" is a blues song written by jazz singer Billie Holiday, composing it just before being recorded in a session on July 10, 1936.[1] According to the article in Melody Maker, on August 1, 1936:
"Billie's Blues" | |
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Single by Billie Holiday | |
A-side | "Summertime" |
Released | 1936 |
Recorded | July 10, 1936[1] |
Genre | Blues |
Length | 2:37 |
Label | Vocalion |
Songwriter(s) | Billie Holiday |
Producer(s) | Bernie Hanighen |
"Billie Holiday has her first solo recording at Brunswick last week...Bernie Hanighen,...suggested making a blues, so the blues it was". This blues was Billie's Blues.[2]
Recording session edit
- "Did I Remember?"
- "Summertime"
- "No Regrets"
- "Billie's Blues"[3]
Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, (Bunny Berigan, trumpet; Artie Shaw, clarinet; Joe Bushkin, piano; Dick McDonough, guitar; Arthur "Pete" Peterson, bass; Cozy Cole, drums)[3]
Notable cover versions edit
- Blossom Dearie (1957)[4]
- Carmen McRae (1986)[5]
- Mary Coughlan (2000)[6]
- Jazz at the Philharmonic (2004)[7]
Footnotes edit
- ^ a b "78 Record: Billie Holiday - Summertime (1936)". 45worlds.com. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
- ^ John Chilton: Billie's blues.Quarter Books 1977 ISBN 0-7043-3114-4
- ^ a b "1936 sessions". Billieholidaysongs.com. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
- ^ Adapted on the 1957 Verve album, Blossom Dearie, as "Blossom's Blues". (Not released until CD reissue as a bonus track.)
- ^ "Radio Swiss Jazz - Music database - Title". Radioswissjazz.ch. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
- ^ "Original versions of Billie's Blues by Mary Coughlan". Secondhandsongs.com. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
- ^ "The First Ten Years - Jazz at the Philharmonic | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
Resource edit
Vladimir, Bogdanov. All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues, Backbeat Books (2003), p. 240, ISBN 0-87930-736-6
External links edit
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