V RARE BILLIE HOLIDAY 78 " DID I REMEMBER? / NO REGRETS" UK VOCALION S24 EX-/VG+
  £   36
  $   48

 


£ 36 Sold For
May 19, 2012 Sold Date
May 12, 2012 Start Date
£   10 Start price
5   Number Of Bids
  Great Britain Country Of Seller
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AN EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS MEGA RARE 78 FROM THE GREAT BILLIE  HOLIDAY WITH HER ORCHESTRA - ON THE RARE UK VOCALION "SWING" SERIES

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.

 

ABOUT THIS RECORD:- 

UK VOCALION SWING SERIES - S 24  RECORDED 10 JULY 1936

10" SHELLAC 78rpm  CONDITION - EX-

A SIDE: -  DID I REMEMBER?

B SIDE: -  NO REGRETS

BAND INCLUDES    ARTIE SHAW, BUNNY BERIGAN, JOE BUSHKIN, COZY COLE etc

 

TWO GREAT SIDES ON THIS MEGA RARE 78 FROM BILLIE HOLIDAY

 

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