Billie's Blues
Billie Holiday
"Billie's Blues" is a blues song written by jazz singer Billie Holiday, composing it just before being recorded in a session on July 10, 1936. According to the article in Melody Maker, on August 1, 1936:"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.
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All of Me (Live)
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My Man (Live)
2:51
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Them There Eyes (Live)
1:40
6
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3:22
7
What a Little Moonlight Can Do (Live)
2:45
8
Announcement By Leonard Feather (Live) [Announcement 2]
3:10
9
I Cover the Waterfront (Live)
0:20
10
Billie's Blues (Live)
11:35
11
Lover Come Back to Me (Live)
6:39
12
Blue Turning Grey Over You
2:01
13
Be Fair to Me
2:36
14
Rocky Mountain Blues
3:04
15
Detour Ahead
3:03
16
Trav'lin' Light
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