1936 CLASSIC BILLIE HOLIDAY/ TEDDY WILSON 78 I CRIED FOR YOU VOCALION S33 E
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Description
A VERY RARE UK SWING SERIES VOCALION 78 FROM THE GREAT BILLIE HOLIDAY WITH TEDDY WILSON AND HIS ORCH.
I CRIED FOR YOU
b/w
IT'S LIKE REACHING FOR THE MOON
Billie Holiday's grandfather was one of 17 children of a black Virginia slave and a white Irish plantation owner. Her mother was only 13 when she was born.
The future "Lady Day" first heard the music of Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith on a Victrola at Alice Dean's, the Baltimore "house of ill repute" where she ran errands and scrubbed floors as a young girl. She made her singing debut in obscure Harlem nightclubs (borrowing her professional name from screen star Billie Dove), then toured with Count Basie and Artie Shaw before going solo. Benny Goodman dragged the frightened singer to her first studio session. Between 1933 and 1944, she recorded over 200 "sides," but she never received royalties for any of them.
Despite a lack of technical training, Holiday's unique diction, inimitable phrasing and acute dramatic intensity made her the outstanding jazz singer of her day. White gardenias, worn in her hair, became her trademark.
"Singing songs like the 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck," she wrote in her autobiography. "I've lived songs like that." Her own compositions included "God Bless the Child," espousing the virtues of financial independence and "Don't Explain," lament on infidelity.
Billie Holiday, a musical legend still popular today, died an untimely death at the age of 44.
DISC DETAILS
UK VOCALION S 33 10" 78 rpm SHELLAC
TEDDY WILSON AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Session #8 New York, 30/June/1936, Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra (Brunswick)
Jonah Jones (tp) Johnny Hodges (as) Harry Carney (bs) Teddy Wilson (p) Lawrence Lucie (g) John Kirby (b) Cozy Cole (d) Billie Holiday (v)
A SIDE:- I CRIED FOR YOU
this record was Billie’s sales champion in Brunswick. That’s the first “standard” she recorded, a song from 1923 by Arthur Freed & Gus Arnheim & Abe Lyman. Beautiful melody. Listen to Hodges’ solo at the opening, introducing the theme.
B SIDE: - IT'S LIKE REACHING FOR THE MOON
this is an emotional rendering of Billie of a less known song. Wilson opens and Hodges assumes, preparing Billie’s entry. Jonah Jones assumes the melodic line - he closes the track.
CONDITION - EXCELLENT
PRESSED FROM THE ORIGINAL STAMPERS
TWO GREAT BILLIE HOLIDAY SIDES ON THIS UK VOCALION 78
DON'T MISS OUT !
DON'T LEAVE IT TOO LATE - BID NOW!!
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