Billie Holiday - You Go To My Head You go to my head You go to my head, And you linger like a haunting refrain And I find you spinning round in my brain Like the bubbles in a glass [...]
I've just tought about my grandmother and knowing that when these pictures were taken, she was alive and young , somewhere on this Earth, I put together a movie. I am tired.
Summertime -- Billie Holiday 1936 Summertime was a tune from the opera Porgy and Bess that had openend only some 9 months before this recording was made. Even today, some 72 years later, the tune is still a favourite standard, [...]
It's quarter to three, there's no one in the place Except you and me So set 'em' up joe, I got a little story you autta know We're drinking my friend, to the end Of a brief episode Make it [...]
I wished on the Moon --Billie Holiday 1935 20 year old Billie Holiday sings in a first session with the Teddy Wilson Orchestra on July 2 1935 in New York. Next to Teddy on piano the All Star Band consists [...]
These Foolish Things -- Billie Holiday 1936 In 1936 Billie was musically matched with trumpeter Jonah Jones and leader pianist Teddy Wilson arranged an incredible recording session also with altosaxophonist Johnny Hodges and Harry Carney on clarinet and here on [...]
It's heartbreaking to read Billie Holiday's biography, yet we're blessed that her immense talent was preserved in the recordings during her short life. NOTE 8/30/09: I've created a new channel called "SundroidHD", focusing on HD videos. Here is the link: [...]
