Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Holiday sang 32 songs at the Carnegie concert by her count, including Cole Porter's "Night and Day" and her 1930s hit, "Strange Fruit". Holiday is shown singing "Strange Fruit" just a few times in The United States vs. Billie Holiday, too. [61] She may also have wanted strings to avoid comparisons between her commercially successful early work with Teddy Wilson and everything produced afterwards. Young said, "I think you can hear that on some of the old records, you know. She married trombonist Jimmy Monroe on August 25, 1941. [17] By the end of 1928, Holiday's mother moved to Harlem, New York, again leaving Eleanora with Martha Miller.[18]. On May 27 she was in court. These songs were released under the band name "Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra". In an interview with the British paper, Roy Orbison wrote this song with Joe Melson. Billie Holiday - John Szwed 2015-03-31 Kirkus Best Books of 2015 selection for Biography Published in celebration of Holiday's centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer's extraordinary musical talent When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia's studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most Billie Holiday Lyrics sort by albumsort by song album: "Billie Holiday Sings"(1952) I Only Have Eyes For You You Turned The Tables On Me Blue Moon Solitude These Foolish Things You'd Be So Easy To Love You Go To My Head East Of The Sun (West Of The Moon) album: "An Evening With Billie Holiday"(1953) Stormy Weather Lover, Come Back To Me My Man The beat flowed in her uniquely sinuous, supple way of moving the story along; the words became her own experiences; and coursing through it all was Lady's sound a texture simultaneously steel-edged and yet soft inside; a voice that was almost unbearably wise in disillusion and yet still childlike, again at the centre. By early 1959, Holiday was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver. On January 16, 1938, the same day that Benny Goodman performed his legendary Carnegie Hall jazz concert, the Basie and Webb bands had a battle at the Savoy Ballroom. McKay, like most of the men in her life, was abusive. There are few legends whose lives have been as mythologized as Billie Holiday's. In her 1956 autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, Holiday and cowriter William Dufty added to . "There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.". Billie Holiday in the 1940s THE FORTIES In the 1940s Holiday emerged fully as a singer, her voice at its richest and most expressive. He wrote of Holiday's performance: Throughout the night, Billie was in superior form to what had sometimes been the case in the last years of her life. In the 1935 Duke Ellington short "Symphony In Black," Holiday, at age 19, played a spurned woman, bounced to the studio floor by her unfaithful man in take after painful take. by Her funeral Mass was held on July 21, 1959, at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in Manhattan. "I didn't want to do it with the ordinary six pieces. She had been strikingly beautiful, but her talent was wasted. A Broadway production starring Audra McDonald was filmed and broadcast on HBO in 2016; McDonald received an Emmy Award nomination. The musical director, Toots Camarata, said Holiday was overwhelmed with joy. "I needed some money one night and I knew Mom was sure to have some", she said. She also recorded new songs that were popular at the time, including, "My Old Flame", "How Am I to Know? And very damn little of me. [63] "Big Stuff" and "Don't Explain" were recorded again but with additional strings and a viola. A song created for anyone fooling through the depths of love and desire. She signed a recording contract with Brunswick in 1935. still trying to figure out how to play this contraption. That was right in her. ", Nick made some of the biggest videos on MTV, including "The Final Countdown," "Heaven" and "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone).". [87], Holiday's autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, was ghostwritten by William Dufty and published in 1956. (1) = Available on audio Frank Sinatra was influenced by her performances on 52nd Street as a young man. Holiday's popularity increased after "Strange Fruit". When Holiday returned to Europe almost five years later, in 1959, she made one of her last television appearances for Granada's Chelsea at Nine in London. The Swedish impresario Nils Hellstrom initiated the "Jazz Club U.S.A." (after the Leonard Feather radio show) tour starting in Stockholm in January 1954 and then Germany, Netherlands, Paris and Switzerland. ", "No Regrets", "Summertime" and "Billie's Blues". By the late 1940s, despite her popularity and concert power, her singles were little played on radio, perhaps because of her reputation. It went on to sell a million copies. Plagued by racism and McCarthyism, producer Jules Levey and script writer Herbert Biberman were pressed to lessen Holiday's and Armstrong's roles to avoid the impression that black people created jazz. In 1961, she was voted to the Down Beat Hall Of Fame, and soon after Columbia reissued nearly one hundred of her early records. The two later became friends. In her final years Holiday had been progressively swindled out of her earnings by McKay and she died with US$0.70 in the bank. The Billie Holiday Monument is located at Pennsylvania and West Lafayette avenues in Baltimore's Upton neighborhood. Holiday's drug addictions were a problem on the set. Holiday's mother Sadie, nicknamed "The Duchess", opened a restaurant called Mom Holiday's. 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[27] She began recording under her own name a year later for Vocalion in sessions produced by Hammond and Bernie Hanighen. goes back to the cabaret singing of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Peggy Lee. She left the band shortly after. The biographical film Lady Sings the Blues, loosely based on Holiday's autobiography, was released in 1972 and was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Diana Ross for Best Actress. He had an incredibly pure hig. No longer able to obtain a cabaret license to work in New York City, Holiday nonetheless packed New York's Carnegie Hall 10 days after her release. A handful of scenes in The United States vs. Billie Holiday evoke the singer as we see her in a luminous cache of rediscovered photographs by Jerry Dantzig. Holiday lost her temper and had to be escorted off the stage.[37]. His take is bluesier, his instrument producing a copper-burnished tone and a slower pace as if slowing down musical time to keep Holiday who died that year on the planet just a little while. Billie Holiday : You take care of your mama, I take care of mine. She gave in and agreed to appear. "I took them out of box and fastened them smack to the side of my head without even looking twice." With Arthur Herzog, Jr., a pianist, she wrote a song based on the lyric, "God Bless the Child", and added music. Ella Fitzgerald named "You Better Go Now" her favorite recording of Holiday's. They were allowed to improvise on the material. [99] On July 15, she received last rites. they've gotten to learn that sometimes when we're on holiday and I need to do prep for a film, I'll just . [28] Hammond said the Wilson-Holiday records from 1935 to 1938 were a great asset to Brunswick. [49][50] In 1976, the song was added to the Grammy Hall of Fame. "I Can't Get Started", "They Can't Take That Away from Me", and "Swing It Brother Swing" are all commercially available. article: Last edited on 28 February 2023, at 14:51, Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life. In late 1937, Holiday had a brief stint as a big-band vocalist with Count Basie. Ellie Goulding's hit single "Burn" was originally demoed by Leona Lewis for her 2011 Glassheart album. Her later recordings showed the effects of declining health on her voice, as it grew coarse and no longer projected its former vibrancy. Not long after Eleanora was born, Clarence abandoned his family to pursue a career as a jazz banjo player and guitarist. [39] In September 1938, Holiday's single "I'm Gonna Lock My Heart" ranked sixth as the most-played song that month. The audience was hers from before she sang, greeting her and saying good-bye with heavy, loving applause. she began singing in Harlem clubs, where she took the stage name Billie Holiday from a singer she admired, Billie Dove, and her supposed father Clarence Holiday, who was also a . I know I wore a white dress for a number I did and that was cut out of the picture. [19] At the outset of her career, she spelled her last name "Halliday", her father's birth surname, but eventually changed it to "Holiday", his performing name. He too was a jazz musician, playing guitar and banjo, and eventually landed a gig with Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra. [76] Her last record to reach the charts was "Lover Man" in 1945. and "Farewell to Storyville". Holiday died of cirrhosis on July 17, 1959, at age 44. Back in the '80s, Pepa (Sandra Denton) of Salt-N-Pepa accidentally burned off a chunk of her hair on one side of her head with a chemical straightening relaxer. "It reminds me of how Pop died, but I have to keep singing it, not only because people ask for it, but because twenty years after Pop died the things that killed him are still happening in the South", she wrote in her autobiography. Holiday's autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, 1 opens with the line: "Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married; he was 18, she was 16 and I was three." Holiday's given name was Eleanora Fagan, but when she started to perform she chose the stage name Billie after Billie Dove, a star in silent, and later sound, movies. and Glenn [Frey, of The Eagles] simultaneously suggested [the song] to me sorta like Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum, Ronstadt told Circus Magazine [issue dated October 27, 1977]. Hammond compared Holiday favorably to Armstrong and said she had a good sense of lyric content at her young age. As Holiday began singing, only a small spotlight illuminated her face. . Billie was originally indifferent to the song, written first as a poem " Bitter Fruit ," by a white Jewish schoolteacher Abel Meeropol; then after contemplating it, considered it too bold. The 13 tracks included on this album featured her own songs "I Love My Man", "Don't Explain" and "Fine and Mellow", together with other songs closely associated with her, including "Body and Soul", "My Man", and "Lady Sings the Blues" (her lyrics accompanied a tune by pianist Herbie Nichols). Her mother often took what were then known as "transportation jobs", serving on passenger railroads. The attempts failed because in 1947 Biberman was listed as one of the Hollywood Ten and sent to jail. lol Its success garnered the singer quite a distinction: she became the first female artist to ever have two singles in the Top 5 in the same week (Its So Easy was hanging in at No. Her posthumous awards also include being inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame. Most records that made money sold around three to four thousand."[29]. [114] The film also depicts Holiday's bisexuality and relationship with Tallulah Bankhead. A grand jury was summoned to indict her, and she was arrested, handcuffed to her bed, and placed under police guard. Blood on the leaves and blood at the root. Many compilations have been issued since her death, as well as comprehensive box sets and live recordings. Their staid trills were dwarfed in 1952 as Billie Holiday's sultry purrs and pauses turned the song into a sly seduction. Holiday began singing in Harlem clubs in 1929. Eleanora Fagan[3][4] was born on April 7, 1915,[5] in Philadelphia, the daughter of African American unwed teenage couple Sarah Julia "Sadie" Fagan of Irish descent and Clarence Halliday. [58] In 1943, a flamboyant male torch singer, Willie Dukes, began singing "Lover Man" on 52nd Street. Holiday recorded extensively for six labels: Columbia Records (on its subsidiary labels Brunswick Records, Vocalion Records, and Okeh Records), from 1933 through 1942; Commodore Records in 1939 and 1944; Decca Records from 1944 through 1950; briefly for Aladdin Records in 1951; Verve Records and its earlier imprint Clef Records, from 1952 through 1957; again for Columbia Records from 1957 to 1958 and MGM Records in 1959. [11] Holiday's autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, published in 1956, is inconsistent regarding details of her early life, but much was confirmed by Stuart Nicholson in his 1995 biography of the singer. In July 2022, with Max Jones tape now in the public domain, Williams wrote an article for The Syncopated Times about Halls secret visit. "It kept Mom busy and happy and stopped her from worrying and watching over me", Holiday said. As her singing improved and became more individual, she began to get better musical jobs and was discovered by the young producer John Hammond in . On November 10, 1956, Holiday performed two concerts before packed audiences at Carnegie Hall. [118][119][120][121], In 1986, Joel Whitburn's company Record Research compiled information on the popularity of recordings released from the era predating rock and roll and created pop charts dating back to the beginning of the commercial recording industry. [75], Ed Fishman (who fought with Joe Glaser to be Holiday's manager) thought of a comeback concert at Carnegie Hall. She found a job running errands in a brothel,[15] and she scrubbed marble steps as well as kitchen and bathroom floors of neighborhood homes. As with many of her own reworkings of popular hit songs, Ronstadts 1977 version is often known as irrefutably hers. [67], By the late 1940s, Holiday had begun recording a number of slow, sentimental ballads. After six weeks in the hospital, Billie Holiday died on July 17, 1959. [101][102][103] Hari accused Anslinger of being responsible for her death. "I don't care what they say about Aretha," he said. [73], Holiday was released early (on March 16, 1948) because of good behavior. She wrote "Don't Explain" after she caught her husband, Jimmy Monroe, with lipstick on his collar. Although she had initially stopped drinking on her doctor's orders, it was not long before she relapsed. The lights went down, the musicians began to play and the narration began. Holiday's delivery made her performances recognizable throughout her career. By Maggie Ayre. She had not received proper record royalties until she joined Decca, so her main revenue was club concerts. I was very much moved. She complained of low pay and poor working conditions and may have refused to sing the songs requested of her or change her style. In 1929 she started calling herself Billie Holiday, naming herself after actress Billie Dove while taking her father's last name. [96] On May 31, 1959, Holiday was taken to Metropolitan Hospital in New York for treatment of both liver and heart disease. But she was eventually convinced to sing it, and on three consecutive nights early in 1939, Holliday ended her sets with the song "Strange Fruit." Masters of all times!" on Pinterest. The young singer teamed up with a neighbor, tenor saxophone player Kenneth Hollan. She was sentenced to Alderson Federal Prison Camp in West Virginia. [125] Most noteworthy, the popular jazz standard "Summertime" sold well and was listed on the pop charts of the time at number 12, the first time the jazz standard charted. 3 and No. [69] She was ranked second in the DownBeat poll for 1946 and 1947, her highest ranking in that poll. The critic Nat Hentoff of DownBeat magazine, who attended the Carnegie Hall concert, wrote the remainder of the sleeve notes on the 1961 album. So today we revisit the mystery, mastery, and sonic quality of an appropriate anthem: Billie Holiday's version of "I'm a Fool to Want You.". "You can't copy anybody and end with anything. By February 1938, Holiday was no longer singing for Basie. In the darkness, my face burned and my eyes. Her final album, Lady in Satin, was released in 1958. The singer was Billie Holiday. It was released two years later for his In Dreams album on Monument Records. We sat up all night talking like mice at incredible speeds, playing and singing half the song we knew, all of us singing in different keys. Holiday said that she always wanted her voice to sound like an instrument and some of her influences were Louis Armstrong and the singer Bessie Smith. [64], In September 1946, Holiday began her only major film, New Orleans, in which she starred opposite Louis Armstrong and Woody Herman. "I might just as well have wheeled into Penn Station and had a quiet little get-together with the Associated Press, United Press, and International News Service", she said. Billie Holiday wrote Don't Explain, Fine and Mellow and God Bless the Child. Gabler said the hit was her most successful recording for Decca after "Lover Man". [dubious discuss], Holiday first toured Europe in 1954 as part of a Leonard Feather package. 5. Though in both those films she got to sing, too. A photographer captured Billie Holiday singing Strange Fruit as she recorded the song in 1939. "[44] "Strange Fruit" was the equivalent of a top-twenty hit in the 1930s. Metronome expressed its concerns in 1946 about "Good Morning Heartache", saying, "there's a danger that Billie's present formula will wear thin, but up to now it's wearing well. . Fagan began borrowing large amounts from Holiday to support the restaurant. [16] Around this time, she first heard the records of Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith. Cameron was able to escape the mob, but Shipp and Smith were dragged out of their jail cells and . According to writer and journalist Johann Hari, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics under Harry J. 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