Billie Holiday 1946-4-24 Embassy Theater Los Angeles, CA


(4.9 stars; 8 reviews)

This Billie Holiday show is from a live radio broadcast at The Embassy Theater Los Angeles, CA 4-24-46 that was acquired when it first made the collector's rounds in the early 1990's. This cassette tape recording was taken into Sound Forge and a bad hum was removed. All noise that I could remove without doing damage to the music is gone. A light EQ job helped to brighten up the overall recording and a few glitches were taken out. Billie Holiday is an important American artist and something like this should be saved. 1. Body And Soul 2. Strange Fruit 3. Traveling Light 4. He's Funny That Way 5. The Man I Love 6. All Of Me 7. Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You 8. Billie's Blues

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

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One of the greats.


(4 stars)

"More than just contemporaries, Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday were mutual admirers who pushed each other musically." (NYT Oct 19, 2015) You can't hear Lady Day without thinking of Sinatra, and vice versa. That impeccable phrasing, drawing-out of syllables -- she gave that to him and he acknowledged it several times. This live show has a few drawbacks, like the band not being able to keep up with Lady on All of Me, but it's worth the listen. Just wish there was some film of this performance.