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Billie Holiday in Canada: The Interview

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This is rarely heard interview with Lady Day in Toronto, Canada in 1952. She talks about a number of different things, including the "good old days" with Teddy Wilson and Artie Shaw, her recent 22 sides she made for Norman Granz and how her and Granz were planning on doing albums with strings dedicated to songwriters such as Gershwin and Jerome Kern and Cole Porter (sound familiar?), Toronto, actually Montreal, hometown boy Oscar Peterson, and her plans on going to Europe.
Hope you guys enjoy the interview!

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24 авг 2024

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@ShesArtDealerChic 6 лет назад

To hear Lady Day so vivid and candidly is amazingly surreal. She's forever loved to say the least.

@LotusFlower5312 5 месяцев назад

Hearing her voice in this interview was a wonderful experience for me. Her laugh made me smile. She was happy. I love it!

@grlevert 3 года назад

Love her speaking voice and singing voice, husky and raw. Great interview.

@joeanthony1456 3 года назад

I love her period.

@StephanieJeannot 9 лет назад

Great to see and hear her personality off stage. I like it!

@williamdillard5060 47 минут назад

Billie "Lady Day" Holiday had THE MOST uniquely, beautiful, voice in my musical history. To battle through ALL the abuse, violence, heartbreak, and "medicine" alone is monumental. To be able to navigate through that type of misery while giving millions a place in her big, caring heart is truly A miracle. ❤

@andygray 3 года назад

Around 1930, Holiday began singing in local clubs, she was 14 or 15 at the time and renamed herself "Billie" after the film star Billie Dove. Her first recording was with John Hammond, in 1933 when she was 18. Hammond arranged for Holiday to make her recording debut at age 18, in November 1933, with Benny Goodman. She recorded two songs: "Your Mother's Son-in-Law" and "Riffin' the Scotch," the latter being her first hit.

@jonldn 11 лет назад

Thanks for posting this - I am always so pleased to hear Lady talk about her life

@Arron413 11 лет назад

WOW! What a lovely trip to the past and back again. The quality of the interview was so high!

@loublue5667 9 лет назад

Amazing!! She's absolutely incredible!!

@TONEBHURT 11 лет назад

Jahlaune, you are so right, ya gotta luv her lmao. She was all of 21 when she made "Billie's Blues". But it's so wonderful to hear her speaking. My favorite of all time, The Lady Day

@quickdayz 11 лет назад

Thank you so much for posting this!

@southsydesasha3125 7 лет назад

I love Billie Holiday!! RIP Lady Day! The best singer " i want to sing like Louis Armstrong played, i want my voice to be an instrument "- Billie Holiday

@MrGHunter77 9 лет назад

This was good interview; she appeared to be sober and candid.

@joeanthony1456 Год назад

Love you Billie.

@bradc304 11 лет назад

Great interview. I wish it was longer.

@jahlaune 11 лет назад

U have to love Billie Holiday I love how in every interview her age gets lower and lower 14 OK LOL

@UncleDuTheWatchman 4 года назад

Didn't it?!!! 😂😂😂 And when did Bessie Smith and Sadie become friends??? I LOVE Billie, man. She was always gon keep some kind of lore going about herself. It worked, too.

@JadeLeaf1980 3 года назад

@@UncleDuTheWatchman exactly Lol. I’ve read the autobiography and there was NEVER any mention of Bessie Smith and the Duchess being vaguely acquainted let alone friends. 😂 it might have happened (Didn’t they have the same mentor?) but I can’t remember any mention of Bessie outside of being an inspiration or having met her. Suppose it could be meant metaphorically perhaps? 🤷‍♀️

@browneyedgyspygirl 9 лет назад

Thank you so much for sharing! You made this Canuck happy today #BillieAt100

@southsydesasha7268 9 лет назад

Thanks for postin this!!!! LOVE YOU LADY DAY!!!🌸🌸

@loulou2lou 9 лет назад

"The once and future voice of jazz."

@ellenringer5236 8 месяцев назад

I enjoyed this interview. This is before she married Louis McKay.

@BlakeBarbieDoll 8 лет назад

Tragic, Brilliant, Talented, all at the same time.

@UncleDuTheWatchman 4 года назад

Cherished for the next 70 years at least...I just gave those very Teddy Wilson recordings he was talking about to my Grandfather who is 89 and still loves them.

@SletnamMusic 9 лет назад

A rare document ...

@aintthatsomeshit2920 8 лет назад

She's lying. She wasn't 14 years old when she first recorded "Billie's Blues." Her very first recordings were made in 1933 with Benny Goodman "My Mother's Son in Law" among them. She was 18 years old. She was 21 when she first recorded "Billie's Blues."

@jurek46pink 8 лет назад

+AintThat SomeShit - Fantasy of a great artist - I would say.

@bigeman25 8 лет назад

I have to believe Billie has the license to say whatever she feels like concerning her life. She's lying just sounds very harsh and totally out of place. Now ain't that some shit.

@aintthatsomeshit2920 8 лет назад

Just Looking No - she's lying. She did NOT start singing professionally at 14 years of age. I'm a big Billie fan - know a lot of her work - read and watched several biographies about her. First read her book "Lady Sings the Blues" years ago when I was just 15. Lying or embellishing - whatever the case - it's not fact. At 14, she was still working in another profession *wink*

@bigeman25 8 лет назад

Exactly, so why would she even want to think about the former profession (wink). To scrutinize anyone's life , especially the life Billie led as a child, would make embellishing,much easier to live with. Being fans, most know the hardships of her younger days and I, for one, can live with and understand the "lying".

@aintthatsomeshit2920 8 лет назад

Just Looking Okay, man - it's getting too heavy - I'm out.

@teddydavis2339 Месяц назад

I forget she was a child star. No wonder she was so messed up. The sexism and racism she had to deal with. She was very well spoken. She had a short life, but boy did she leave her mark on the world.

@devonte7297 11 лет назад

Awwwwwwwsome!

@kylwright131 3 года назад

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@southsydesasha3125 7 лет назад

Jesus, im 4 minutes into this interview and the interviewer is interrupting her left& right! Let her talk!! How rude! Figures, she is in Canada where;they have no manners, compared to all her other interviews in New York City& such i have never heard ANYONE interrupt her not once, but this one? I counted 4 times and its not over yet, shame on him for disrespecting THE Lady Day...