Billie Holiday

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.

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Billie Holiday (broadcaster)

Billie Holiday (born in Guelph, Ontario) is the professional name of Canadian radio and television personality Amanda Dunn.

The daughter of a retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, Holiday first became involved in radio at the age of 15.

She later attended Humber College's TV and Film Production and Radio Broadcasting programs. She began her professional radio career at CKDX, then a marginal dance music station in Newmarket, Ontario, north of Toronto. She moved to Toronto's KISS 92.5 FM as entertainment reporter, then became full co-host of the Mad Dog and Billie morning show with the departure Jay "Mad Dog" Michaels's first partner Daryn Jones. The show continued at KISS when it transitioned to an urban contemporary format, then moved to the sister station of KISS, adult contemporary station CHFI from 2003 to 2005. After a year-long absence from the dial, Mad Dog and Billie returned to the Toronto airwaves on August 8, 2006 on MIX 99.9 FM.

She was also a reporter of the Sound Source radio network, a host of the Canadian edition of televised talent search Popstars, and co-host of Rogers Cable community series Daytime.

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Billie Holiday (album)

Billie Holiday ( MG C-161) is the third 10 inch LP album of original material by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released on Clef Records in 1954 (her final album would also be given the same title, prior to being changed to Last Recording instead). The recordings took place in 1952 and 1954. Holiday never entered the recording studio in 1953.

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In a 1954 review, Down Beat magazine praises the album, saying:

Two recordings, "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" and "I Cried for You" were also recorded by Holiday in the 1930s with Teddy Wilson's band, at the beginning of her career.

In 1956, when the 10inch format was phased out, Clef reissued the contents of this album on two different newly released 12inch compilation LPs. Five songs (tracks A1-B1) were added to A Recital By Billie Holiday (MG C-686), and the other three (tracks B2-4) were added to Solitude (MG C-690 ).

Track listing

  • "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) – 2:56
  • "Moonglow" (Eddie DeLange, Will Hudson, Irving Mills) – 2:58
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    ALBUMS

    Coleção Folha grandes vozes, Volume 15: Billie Holiday

    Released 2012

    Mitos do jazz, Volume 16: Billie Holiday

    Released 2012

    The Real... Billie Holiday

    Released 2011

    Forever Lady Day

    Released 2011

    The Complete Masters 1933–1959

    Released 2011

    Icon

    Released 2011

    The Rough Guide to Jazz and Blues Legends: Billie Holiday

    Released 2010

    Lady in Satin

    Released 2010

    Lady Sings the Blues

    Released 2010

    The Complete Billie Holiday

    Released 2009

    Playlist: The Very Best of Billie Holiday

    Released 2008

    A Lady Sings The Blues

    Released 2008

    Billy's Blues

    Released 2007

    The Essential Billie Holiday

    Released 2007

    De legendes van de jazz

    Released 2007

    A Portrait of an Artist Through Her Quintessential Recordings

    Released 2007

    The Great American Songbook

    Released 2007

    Remixed & Reimagined

    Released 2007

    Coleção Folha clássicos do jazz, Volume 12

    Released 2007

    That Old Devil Called Love (disc 2)

    Released 2006

    That Old Devil Called Love

    Released 2006

    The Ultimate Collection

    Released 2006

    The Very Best of Billie Holiday

    Released 2006

    Summertime - The Best of Billie Holiday

    Released 2005

    American Songbook

    Released 2005

    16 Classic Performances

    Released 2005

    Night & Day

    Released 2005

    Portrait

    Released 2005

    Strange Fruit

    Released 2004

    Vol. 4 "You're My Thrill" Original 1944-1949 Recordings

    Released 2004

    The Essential Hits

    Released 2004

    Jazz Ballads 12: Billie Holiday

    Released 2004

    The Chronological Classics: Billie Holiday 1952

    Released 2003

    Love Songs 2

    Released 2003

    Timeless Classics

    Released 2003

    Easy Livin'

    Released 2003

    All of Me

    Released 2003

    The Chronological Classics: Billie Holiday 1949-1951

    Released 2002

    The Cream of Billie Holiday

    Released 2001

    ICON: Love Songs

    Released 2001

    The Very Best

    Released 2001

    Billie's Blues - Best of Billie Holiday

    Released 2000

    Billie Holiday

    Released 2000

    Cocktail Hour

    Released 1999

    The Chronological Classics: Billie Holiday 1945-1948

    Released 1999

    Jazz & Blues

    Released 1998

    The Masters

    Released 1997

    The Quintessence: New York - Los Angeles 1934 - 1946

    Released 1997

    Strange Fruit: 1937-1939

    Released 1996

    Billie's Blues

    Released 1996

    Billie Holiday's Greatest Hits

    Released 1996

    Lady Sings the Blues: The Billie Holiday Story, Volume 4

    Released 1995

    If You Were Mine

    Released 1995

    Feel The Blues

    Released 1995

    Jazz & Blues Collection Vol. 14

    Released 1995

    The Chronological Classics: Billie Holiday 1944

    Released 1995

    Greatest Hits

    Released 1995

    God Bless the Child

    Released 1994

    The Classic Jazz Collection: God Bless The Child

    Released 1994

    The Man I Love: 1937-1939

    Released 1994

    Essentiel Jazz, Volume I

    Released 1994

    The Billie Holiday Collection

    Released 1993

    The Chronological Classics: Billie Holiday 1940-1942

    Released 1993

    1952-1955

    Released 1992

    The Revival of the Jazz

    Released 1991

    Billie Holiday - Fine and Mellow

    Released 1990

    The Complete 1951 Storyville Club Sessions

    Released 1990

    Lover Come Back to Me

    Released 1990

    Billie Holliday and Her Orchestra

    Released 1988

    The Billie Holiday Collection

    Released 1988

    At Monterey 1958

    Released 1986

    Holiday Romance

    Released 1986

    Billie Holiday's Greatest Hits

    Released 1968

    Stay With Me

    Released 1959

    Lover Man

    Released 1958

    An Evening With Billie Holiday

    Released 1953

    Billie Holiday Sings

    Released 1952

    Billie Holiday

    Eight Classic Albums

    All of Me

    God Bless the Child

    Tell Me More

    Easy To Love

    The Definitive Collection 1939-1948

    Summertime - The Best of Billie Holiday

    The Essential Collection

    Fantastic

    Greatest Hits

    Gold Collection

    Billie Holiday

    Billie's Love Songs

    Body & Soul

    Her Finest Studio Recordings

    Billie Holiday

    Fine & Mellow: Original Recordings, Volume 2: 1936-1941

    Love Songs (1935-1942)

    The Gold Collection

    Feeling Swing

    Lady Sings the Blues

    Billie's Blues

    Born: 1915-04-07

    Died: 1959-07-17

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    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Until The Real Thing Comes Along

    by: Billie Holiday

    Sammy 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




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