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Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday has been played on NTS over 70 times, featured on 62 episodes and was first played on 21 January 2013.

Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan Gough, Philadelphia, PA, April 7, 1915 – New York City, NY, July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter.

Nicknamed Lady Day by her loyal friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a highly original influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Above all, she was admired for her deeply personal and intimate approach to singing. She co-wrote only a few…

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Strange Fruit
Billie Holiday
Atlantic1972
Strange Fruit
Billie HolidayAtlantic1972
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Solitude
Billie Holiday
Clef Records1956
Solitude
Billie HolidayClef Records1956
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Gloomy Sunday
Billie Holiday
Columbia1947
Gloomy Sunday
Billie HolidayColumbia1947
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For All We Know
Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis And His Orchestra
Columbia1958
For All We Know
Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis And His OrchestraColumbia1958
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I'll Be Seeing You
Billie Holiday, Eddie Heywood And His Orchestra
Commodore1980
I'll Be Seeing You
Billie Holiday, Eddie Heywood And His OrchestraCommodore1980
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You Go To My Head
Billie Holiday
Dreyfus Jazz2002
You Go To My Head
Billie HolidayDreyfus Jazz2002
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My Man
Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson And His Orchestra
V Disc1944
My Man
Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson And His OrchestraV Disc1944
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All Of Me
Billie Holiday
Philips0
All Of Me
Billie HolidayPhilips0
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Lover Man
Billie Holiday
Decca Records, Inc.1958
Lover Man
Billie HolidayDecca Records, Inc.1958
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Lover Come Back To Me
Billie Holiday, The Eddie Heywood Trio
Commodore1945
Lover Come Back To Me
Billie Holiday, The Eddie Heywood TrioCommodore1945
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