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Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), professionally known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz musician and singer-songwriter with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Holiday was known for her vocal delivery and improvisation skills, which made up for her limited range and lack of formal music education.
After a turbulent childhood, Holiday began singing in nightclubs around Harlem. After being heard by producer John Hammond, who commended her voice, Holiday was signed to Brunswick Records in 1935. Collaborations with Teddy Wilson yielded the hit "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", which would later become a jazz standard. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Holiday booked mainstream success with labels such as Columbia Records and Decca Records. By the late 1940s, however, Holiday was beset with legal troubles and drug abuse. After a short prison sentence, Holiday performed a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall. However, due to her drug and alcohol problems, her reputation deteriorated.
Billie Holiday - The Best Of (By Classic Mood Experience)
Billie Holiday - The Ultimate Collection (Not Now Music) [Full Album]
Best of Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday - The Essential Brunswick Recordings 1935-1939 (Not Now Music) [Full Album]
Billie Holiday - All of me
Billie Holiday - Summertime
Lady sings The Blues - Billie Holiday [Full Album] (1956)
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
Billie Holiday - The Best Of jazz forever
Billie Holiday - On The Sentimental Side (Past Perfect) [Full Album]
Actors: Suzanne De Passe (writer), Bob Mackie (costume designer), Isabel Sanford (actress), George Wyner (actor), Richard Pryor (actor), Michel Legrand (composer), Diana Ross (actress), Virginia Capers (actress), Scatman Crothers (actor), Billy Dee Williams (actor), Ned Glass (actor), Sid Melton (actor), Milton Selzer (actor), Lawrence Schiller (miscellaneous crew), Sidney J. Furie (director),
Plot: Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug addiction are featured.
Keywords: 1930s, african-american, alcohol, arrest, baltimore-maryland, bandleader, based-on-book, blaxploitation, brothel, carnegie-hall-manhattan-new-york-citySammy Kahn / Saul Chaplin / Mann Holiner / Alberta Nichols / L.E. Freeman
I'd wait for you
I'd slave for you
I'd be a beggar or a knave for you
If that isn't love, it will have to do
Until the real thing comes along
I'd gladly move
The earth for you
To prove my love, dear
And its worth for you
If that isn't love, it will have to do
Until the real thing comes along.
With all the words, dear, at my command
I just can't make you understand
I'll always love you darling
Come what may
My heart is yours
What more can I say?
I'd lie for you
I'd sigh for you
I'd tear the stars down from the sky for you
If that isn't love, it will have to do
Until the real thing comes along
With all the words, dear, at my command
I just can't make you understand
I'll always love you baby
Come what may
My heart is yours
What more can I say?
I'd lie for you
I'd cry for you
I'd lay my body down and die tor you
If that isn't love, it will have to do