No need for any introduction for this great singer !!....From 1956 complete with readings from her bio...this makes great listening !!
Billie Holiday’s famous back-to-back concerts on November 10, 1956, began at the beginning: “Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was 18, she was 16, and I was three.”Narrating from the stage between songs, Gilbert Millstein of The New York Times read excerpts from Holiday’s recently published autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. The unpolished prose describes moments from a childhood listening to Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith in the brothel where she ran errands, to her arrest in 1947 and the Carnegie Hall concert she gave just 10 days after her release. Although the book was ghost-written (and suspected to have been a less-than-perfect representation of Holiday’s experiences), the vignettes create a sharp and theatrical self-portrait when paired with her singing, the bluntness and bygone innocence of her story mirrored in her voice. Reviewer Nat Hentoff, who was in attendance, described her sound as “almost unbearably wise in disillusion and yet still childlike.”
1. Reading From "Lady Sings The Blues"
2. Lady Sings The Blues
3. Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
4. Reading From "Lady Sings The Blues" with Trav'lin Light
5. Reading From "Lady Sings The Blues"
6. Billie's Blues (aka I Love My Man )
7. Body And Soul
8. Reading From "Lady Sings The Blues"
9. Don't Explain
10. Yesterday's
11. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
12. I'll be Seeing You
13. Reading from " Lady Sings The Blues"
14. My Man
15. I Cried For You
16. Fine And Mellow
17. I Cover The Waterfront
18. What A little Moonlight Can Do
1. Reading From "Lady Sings The Blues"
2. Lady Sings The Blues
