Saturday, March 09, 2013

Saturday Night Music: Billie Holiday


4 comments:

  1. Holy smoke. I think of this as her signature song. But then again, she made just about every song her "signature song." Thanks.

    I think I remember this right. I was coming home from school one day and heard on the car radio that she had been hospitalized, and there was all this trouble with a drug arrest and so on. It was 1959. A month or two later she had died.

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  2. Anonymous8:53 AM

    Patti - What an amazing voice!!! So much talent...

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  3. Anonymous11:40 AM

    What really turned me on to Billie Holiday was the movie Rocket Gibraltar, where the dying Burt Lancaster played her records constantly.


    Jeff M.

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  4. I don't think I have ever seen ROCKET GIBRALTOR.
    She was a real train wreck all right but I could listen to her and Nina Simone all day.

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