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Billie Holiday Sings

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Billie Holiday Sings (MGC-118) is a 10 inch LP album made by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released in the United States by Clef Records in 1952. [1]

61 relations: Al Dubin, Album, Album cover, AllMusic, Alvin Stoller, An Evening with Billie Holiday, Barney Kessel, Billie Holiday, Billie Holiday (album), Blue Moon (1934 song), Brooks Bowman, Burton Lane, Charlie Shavers, Clef Records, Cole Porter, Columbia Records, Commodore Records, David Stone Martin, Decca Records, Double bass, Drum kit, Duke Ellington, East of the Sun (and West of the Moon), Eddie DeLange, Eric Maschwitz, Everything I Have Is Yours (song), Flip Phillips, Guitar, Harold Adamson, Harry Link, Harry Warren, Haven Gillespie, Hollywood, I Only Have Eyes for You, Irving Mills, Jack Lawrence, Jack Strachey, John Frederick Coots, Lorenz Hart, Los Angeles, Louis Alter, Love for Sale (song), Moonglow (song), Norman Granz, Oscar Peterson, Piano, Radio Recorders, Ray Brown (musician), Record producer, Richard Rodgers, ..., Sidney D. Mitchell, Singing, Tenderly, Tenor saxophone, These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You), Trumpet, Vocal jazz, Walter Gross (musician), You Go to My Head, You'd Be So Easy to Love, (In My) Solitude. Expand index (11 more) »

Al Dubin

Alexander Dubin (June 10, 1891 – February 11, 1945) was an American lyricist.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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Album cover

An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially released audio recording product, or album.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Alvin Stoller

Alvin Stoller (October 7, 1925 – October 19, 1992) was an American jazz drummer.

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An Evening with Billie Holiday

An Evening with Billie Holiday (MG C-144) is the second 10 inch LP studio album by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released by Clef Records in 1953.

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Barney Kessel

Barney Kessel (October 17, 1923 – May 6, 2004) was an American jazz guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

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Billie Holiday

Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), better known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years.

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Billie Holiday (album)

Billie Holiday (MG C-161) is the third 10 inch LP album of original material by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released on Clef Records in 1954 (her final album would also be given the same title, prior to being changed to Last Recording instead).

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Blue Moon (1934 song)

"Blue Moon" is a classic popular song written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934, and has become a standard ballad.

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Brooks Bowman

Brooks Bowman (October 21, 1913 – October 17, 1937) composed the song "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" which has become a jazz standard.

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Burton Lane

Burton Levy (born Morris Hyman Kushner; February 2, 1912 – January 5, 1997) was an American composer and lyricist better known as Burton Lane.

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Charlie Shavers

Charles James Shavers (August 3, 1917 – July 8, 1971) was an American swing era jazz trumpeter who played with Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone, Sidney Bechet, Midge Williams, and Billie Holiday.

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Clef Records

Clef Records was an American jazz record label founded by Norman Granz in 1946.

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Cole Porter

Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Commodore Records

Commodore Records was an American independent record label known for producing Dixieland jazz and swing.

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David Stone Martin

David Stone Martin (born David Livingstone Martin;(June 13, 1913 – March 1, 1992 in New London, Connecticut) was an American artist best known for his illustrations on jazz record albums.Detailed biographical information is spread throughout the book by Aaron D. Purcell, University of Tennessee Press 2009. by Bruce Lambert, The New York Times, March 8, 1992.

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Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.

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Double bass

The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

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East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)

"East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" is a popular song written by Brooks Bowman, an undergraduate member of Princeton University's Class of 1936, for the 1934 production of the Princeton Triangle Club's production of Stags at Bay.

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Eddie DeLange

Eddie DeLange (15 January 1904 – 15 July 1949) was an American bandleader and lyricist.

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Eric Maschwitz

Albert Eric Maschwitz OBE (10 June 1901 – 27 October 1969), sometimes credited as Holt Marvell, was an English entertainer, writer, editor, broadcaster and broadcasting executive.

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Everything I Have Is Yours (song)

"Everything I Have Is Yours" is a popular song.

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Flip Phillips

Flip Phillips (March 26, 1915 – August 17, 2001) – accessed May 2010 was an American jazz tenor saxophone and clarinet player.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Harold Adamson

Harold Adamson (December 10, 1906 – August 17, 1980) was an American lyricist during the 1930s and 1940s.

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Harry Link

Harry Link (born John Harry Linkey, January 25, 1896, Philadelphia – July 5, 1956, New York City) was an American vaudeville actor and songwriter.

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Harry Warren

Harry Warren (born Salvatore Antonio Guaragna, December 24, 1893 – September 22, 1981) was an American composer and lyricist.

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Haven Gillespie

James Lamont Gillespie (February 6, 1888 – March 14, 1975) pen name Haven Gillespie, was an American Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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I Only Have Eyes for You

"I Only Have Eyes for You" is a romantic love song by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Al Dubin, written for the film Dames (1934) where it was introduced by Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler.

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Irving Mills

Irving Harold Mills (né Isadore Minsky; 16 January 1894 in Odessa, Ukraine – 21 April 1985 in Palm Springs, California) was an American music publisher, musician, lyricist, and jazz artist promoter.

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Jack Lawrence

Jack Lawrence (April 7, 1912 – March 16, 2009) was an American songwriter.

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Jack Strachey

Jack Strachey (1894–1972), was an English composer and songwriter Born John Francis Strachey in London on 25 September 1894, he began writing songs in the 1920s for the theatre and the music hall, scoring his first success with songs he had written for Frith Shephard's long running musical revue Lady Luck which opened at The Carlton Theatre in April 1927 where it ran for 324 performances.

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John Frederick Coots

John Frederick Coots (May 2, 1897 – April 8, 1985) was an American songwriter.

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Lorenz Hart

Lorenz Milton Hart (May 2, 1895 – November 22, 1943) was the lyricist and librettist half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Louis Alter

Louis Alter (June 18, 1902 – November 5, 1980) was an American pianist, songwriter and composer.

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Love for Sale (song)

"Love for Sale" is a song by Cole Porter, from the musical The New Yorkers which opened on Broadway on December 8, 1930 and closed in May 1931 after 168 performances.

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Moonglow (song)

"Moonglow", also known as "Moonglow and Love" is a 1933 popular song.

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Norman Granz

Norman Granz (August 6, 1918 – November 22, 2001) was an American jazz music impresario.

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Oscar Peterson

Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Radio Recorders

Radio Recorders, Inc. located at 7000 Santa Monica Boulevard, was a recording studio based in Los Angeles, California.

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Ray Brown (musician)

Raymond Matthews Brown (October 13, 1926 – July 2, 2002) was an African American jazz double bassist known for extensive work with Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Richard Rodgers

Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer of music, with over 900 songs and 43 Broadway musicals, leaving a legacy as one of the most significant composers of 20th century American music.

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Sidney D. Mitchell

Sidney D. Mitchell (June 15, 1888 in Baltimore, Maryland – February 25, 1942 in Los Angeles, California) was a Hollywood film industry lyricist and composer.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Tenderly

"Tenderly" is a popular song published in 1946 with music by Walter Gross and lyrics by Jack Lawrence.

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Tenor saxophone

The Tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.

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These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)

"These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" is a standard with lyrics by Eric Maschwitz and music by Jack Strachey, both Englishmen.

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Trumpet

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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Vocal jazz

Vocal jazz or jazz singing is an instrumental approach to the voice, where the singer can match the instruments in their stylistic approach to the lyrics, improvised or otherwise, or through scat singing; that is, the use of non-morphemic syllables to imitate the sound of instruments.

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Walter Gross (musician)

Walter Gross (July 14, 1909 – November 27, 1967) is best known for having composed the music for the popular 1946 song "Tenderly".

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You Go to My Head

"You Go to My Head" is a 1938 popular song composed by J. Fred Coots with lyrics by Haven Gillespie.

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You'd Be So Easy to Love

"(You'd Be So) Easy to Love" is a popular song written by Cole Porter for William Gaxton to sing in the 1934 Broadway show Anything Goes.

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(In My) Solitude

"(In My) Solitude" is a 1934 jazz standard, composed by Duke Ellington, with lyrics by Eddie DeLange and Irving Mills.

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Solitude (Billie Holiday album), Solitude (Billy Holiday album).

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday_Sings

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