Billie Holiday Songs

Choosing just 20 of the best billie holiday songs seems like an impossible task but these songs tell the story of lady day s career.

Billie holiday songs. 16 most requested songs is a mid priced collection that spotlights many of billie holiday s best known and most popular performances for columbia records including body and soul the way you look tonight and easy living 16 most requested songs is far from a perfect retrospective of her total career but it is a nice sampler of good performances and songs by famous songwriters. Her vocal style strongly inspired by jazz. Billie holiday released her version this popular ray noble song in 1938. The music scene is wide and the instruments are well separated.

The jazz star is hailed as one of the greatest singers of all time. The folder is a good reproduction of the original with a beautiful satin photograph. Billie holiday eleanora fagan gough philadelphia pa april 7 1915 new york city ny july 17 1959 was an american jazz singer and songwriter. The audio discs spotlight all of holiday s most innovative material from the musically pioneering billie s blues and lover man in which she refined the perpetually coarse female blues form and virtually invented the slow burn torch song to the socially progressive strange fruit and god bless the child wherein she yoked reform.

Martin chilton picks her 10 best songs in her centenary year. Even early in her career holiday s youthful voice shows range and flexibility on this track. Billie holiday died on 17 july 1959.