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"Billie's Blues" is a blues song written by jazz singer Billie Holiday, composing it just before being recorded in a session on July 10, 1936. According to the article in Melody Maker, on August 1, 1936:

"Billie Holiday has her first solo recording at Brunswick last week...Bernie Hanighen,...suggested making a blues, so the blues it was". This blues was Billie's Blues.

Recording session

• "Did I Remember?"
• "Summertime"
• "No Regrets"
• "Billie's Blues"

Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, (Bunny Berigan, trumpet; Artie Shaw, clarinet; Joe Bushkin, piano; Dick McDonough, guitar; Arthur "Pete" Peterson, bass; Cozy Cole, drums)

Notable cover versions

• Blossom Dearie (1957)
• Carmen McRae (1986)
• Mary Coughlan (2000)
• Jazz at the Philharmonic (2004)

Footnotes

1. ^ "78 Record: Billie Holiday - Summertime (1936)". 45worlds.com. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
2. John Chilton: Billie's blues.Quarter Books 1977 ISBN 0-7043-3114-4
3. ^ "1936 sessions". Billieholidaysongs.com. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
4. Adapted on the 1957 Verve album, Blossom Dearie, as "Blossom's Blues". (Not released until CD reissue as a bonus track.)
5. "Radio Swiss Jazz - Music database - Title". Radioswissjazz.ch. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
6. "Original versions of Billie's Blues by Mary Coughlan". Secondhandsongs.com. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
7. "The First Ten Years - Jazz at the Philharmonic | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved May 31, 2021.

Resource

Vladimir, Bogdanov. All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues, Backbeat Books (2003), p. 240, ISBN 0-87930-736-6

External links

• The Unofficial Billie Holiday Website
• Song: Billie Blues

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