Billie Holiday - Fine And Mellow (1939 Single Version)

Billie Holiday : Fine and mellow (1957)

in this video: Billie Holiday singing with Ben Webster -- tenor saxophone, Lester Young -- tenor saxophone, Vic Dickenson -- trombone, Gerry Mulligan -- baritone saxophone, Coleman Hawkins...

Etta Jones FINE AND MELLOW with lyrics

From her 1960 debut album on Prestige. The song was written by Billie Holiday who first recorded it as a single in 1939 on the Commodore label. The flip side was STRANGE FRUIT which was too...

Billie Holiday Fine and Mellow 78 rpm

Many thanks to Individuell83 who writes: This is the second version, recorded on April 30, 1939. The first version was recorded ten days earlier . On this version you can hear at first one...

Billie Holiday - Strange fruit

Billie sings with her heart. Lyrics (Abel Meeropol): Southern trees bear strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, Strange...

1939 HITS ARCHIVE: Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday

Strange Fruit (Meeropol) by Billie Holiday and her Orchestra, piano interlude by Sonny White A poem on the horrors of lynching provided the basis for this famous, dark, intense Holiday recording,...

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