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Billie's Blues

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A-side
  
Summertime

Recorded
  
July 10, 1936

Length
  
2:37

Format
  
78 rpm

Genre
  
Blues

Label
  
Vocalion

"Billie's Blues" is a blues song written by jazz singer Billie Holiday, composing it just before being recorded in a session in 1936. According to the article in Melody Maker, 1 August 1936:

Contents

"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.

Recording Session

  • Did I Remember?
  • Summertime
  • No Regrets
  • Billie's Blues

    • Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, (Bunny Berigan, trumpet; Artie Shaw, clarinet; Joe Bushkin, piano; Dick McDonough, guitar; Arthur "Pete" Peterson, bass; Cozy Cole, drums)

    Notable cover versions

  • Carmen McRae (1986)
  • Mary Coughlan (2000)
  • Jazz at the Philharmonic (2004)

    • Resource

    Vladimir, Bogdanov. All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues, Backbeat Books (2003), page 240 - ISBN 0-87930-736-6

    References

    Billie's Blues Wikipedia
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