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 | Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit Rare Live Footage of one of the firtst anti rascism songs ever. |
 | Billie Holiday - Summertime |
 | Billie Holiday, My Man On of the best interpretation of Billie with Jimmy Rowles, and in very high quality, ..... take a look |
 | GLOOMY SUNDAY-BILLIE HOLIDAY VERSION 3minute music video i made for billie holiday version of gloomy sunday. |
 | Billie Holiday - The Blues Are Brewin' A fine video where Lady Day and Satchmo show the world why they came for... |
 | Billie Holiday - I'll Be Seeing You Vid with lyrics Enjoy! |
 | Billie Holiday - The Very Thought of You Billie Holiday left 50 years ago, but in our head her unique voice is still there... A very special thought of you Billie. |
 | I'm A Fool To Want You Billie (jazz) Holiday |
 | Mieczys?aw Fogg - Ostatnia niedziela, 1936 The ?Last Sunday" -- erroneously called ?THAT Last Sunday" -- was composed by Jerzy Petersburski in 1936. It is a nostalgic tango with lyrics by Zenon Friedwald describing the final meeting of former lovers who are parting. The Polish title was "To Ostatnia Niedziela" ("The Last Sunday"). The song was extremely popular and was performed by numerous artists (best kown performance by Mieczys?aw Folg). Along the way, it first gained the nick-name of "Suicide Tango" due to its sad lyric (although, the real ?suicie song" in the night restaurants of Eastern Europe -- where the shoot in the brow at 12 at night was not any unusual happening - was In 1930s another sad ?Sunday": the ?Gloomy Sunday" (in Polish: ?Smutna niedziela") by a Hungarian composer Rezs? Seress. (Soon, an international hit; in the US sung by Billie Holiday). But this Polish ?Last Sunday" song also had a terribly sad fate. During World War II In the concentrations camps it was often played while Jewish prisoners were led to the gas chambers and ovens, to be executed. During World War II its Russian version was prepared by Iosif Alveg and performed by Leonid Utyosov under the title of "Weary Sun" (Russian: "Utomlyennoye Solntse"). After World War II, the song remained largely successful and appeared in a number of films, including Yuriy Norshteyn's 1979 "Tale of Tales" (considered by many international critics to be the greatest animated film ever made), the award-winning Krzysztof Kie?lowski's "White" (1994 ... |
 | I Cried for You . Billie Holiday 1936 I Cried for You . Billie Holiday 1936 This tune became Billie's biggest hit for the Brunswick recording company. Avarage sales of the Holiday recordings with Teddy Wilson would be in the 3.000 mark. However this one sold more than 15.000 78's. The Johnny Hodges saxophone solo became a sample for every saxophonist and Billie's version was just as good. One of the reason's this did so well could be in the fact that this one of the first standards she recorded. The tune had been around since 1923 and in the public mind. Other members in the Teddy Wilson Orchestra were Harry Carney on bariton sax, Lawrence Lucie guitar, John Kirby bass and Cozy Cole drums |
