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Billie Holiday is the third 10 inch LP album of original material by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released on Clef Records in 1954. The recordings took place in 1952 and 1954. Her final album would also be given the same title, prior to being changed to Last Recording instead. Content In a 1954 review, Down Beat magazine praises the album, saying: "The set is an experience in mounting pleasure that can do anything but increase still further no matter how often the LP is replayed. As for comparing it with earlier Teddy Wilson-Billie sessions, what's the point? Count your blessings in having both. Speaking of time, Billie's beat and variations thereon never cease to be among the seven wonders of jazz." 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 10 inch format was phased out, Clef reissued the contents of this album on two different newly released 12 inch compilation LPs. Five songs (tracks A1-B1) were added to A Recital By Billie Holiday, and the other three (tracks B2-B4) were added to Solitude.

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Notable quotes

“[I]t takes a bad woman to be a good godmother.”
— Remark made to Rosemary Clooney, c. summer 1956, regarding Holiday's qualifications to serve as godmother to Clooney's second child, as quoted by Clooney in Whitney Balliett "Profiles: The Heart, The Head, and The Pipes", The New Yorker (August 3, 1992). "Just before she left, I asked her if she would like to be the godmother of my second child, Maria, who was about to be born, and she said yes, that it takes a bad woman to be a good godmother. It was the last time I saw her."
“I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain’t music, it’s close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.”
— Ch. 4.
“Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.”
— Ch. 20.
“I've been told that nobody sings the word "hunger" like I do. Or the word "love."”
— Ch. 22.
“If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks the fuck to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you’re crazy. It can fix you so you can’t play nothing or sing nothing.”
— Ch. 23.
“I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.”
— Ch. 23.

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Overview

Billie Holiday is the third 10 inch LP album of original material by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released on Clef Records in 1954. The recordings took place in 1952 and 1954. Her final album would also be given the same title, prior to being changed to Last Recording instead. Content In a 1954 review, Down Beat magazine praises the album, saying: "The set is an experience in mounting pleasure that can do anything but increase still further no matter how often the LP is replayed. As for comparing it with earlier Teddy Wilson-Billie sessions, what's the point? Count your blessings in having both. Speaking of time, Billie's beat and variations thereon never cease to be among the seven wonders of jazz." 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 10 inch format was phased out, Clef reissued the contents of this album on two different newly released 12 inch compilation LPs. Five songs (tracks A1-B1) were added to A Recital By Billie Holiday, and the other three (tracks B2-B4) were added to Solitude.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Billie Holiday is the third 10 inch LP album of original material by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released on Clef Records in 1954. The recordings took place in 1952 and 1954. Her final album would also be given the same title, prior to being changed to Last Recording instead.

Not who you're looking for? Others named Billie Holiday: American jazz singer (1915–1959)

Notable quotes

“[I]t takes a bad woman to be a good godmother.”
— Remark made to Rosemary Clooney, c. summer 1956, regarding Holiday's qualifications to serve as godmother to Clooney's second child, as quoted by Clooney in Whitney Balliett "Profiles: The Heart, The Head, and The Pipes", The New Yorker (August 3, 1992). "Just before she left, I asked her if she would like to be the godmother of my second child, Maria, who was about to be born, and she said yes, that it takes a bad woman to be a good godmother. It was the last time I saw her."
“I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain’t music, it’s close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.”
— Ch. 4.
“Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.”
— Ch. 20.
“I've been told that nobody sings the word "hunger" like I do. Or the word "love."”
— Ch. 22.
“If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks the fuck to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you’re crazy. It can fix you so you can’t play nothing or sing nothing.”
— Ch. 23.
“I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.”
— Ch. 23.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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