RARE BILLIE HOLIDAY WITH ARTIE SHAW BLUES 78 ANY OLD TIME UK HMV B 9382 E-
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RARE 78 OF BILLIE HOLIDAY WITH ARTIE SHAW AND HIS ORCHESTRA ON THE UK HMV LABEL
ANY OLD TIME
Billie Holiday's grandfather was one of 17 children of a black Virginia slave and a white Irish plantation owner. Her mother was only 13 when she was born.The future "Lady Day" first heard the music of Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith on a Victrola at Alice Dean's, the Baltimore "house of ill repute" where she ran errands and scrubbed floors as a young girl. She made her singing debut in obscure Harlem nightclubs (borrowing her professional name from screen star Billie Dove), then toured with Count Basie and Artie Shaw before going solo. Benny Goodman dragged the frightened singer to her first studio session. Between 1933 and 1944, she recorded over 200 "sides," but she never received royalties for any of them.
Despite a lack of technical training, Holiday's unique diction, inimitable phrasing and acute dramatic intensity made her the outstanding jazz singer of her day. White gardenias, worn in her hair, became her trademark.
"Singing songs like the 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck," she wrote in her autobiography. "I've lived songs like that." Her own compositions included "God Bless the Child," espousing the virtues of financial independence and "Don't Explain," lament on infidelity.
Billie Holiday, a musical legend still popular today, died an untimely death at the age of 44. "Any Old Time" is the only known recording from Billie's eight month stay with Artie Shaw's Orchestra. After a long and beautiful musical introduction, Billie Holiday's voice explodes in all its beauty and you get the goose bumps, an emotion that is repeated every time you listen this song. Fantastic Billie Holiday...
b/w THIS IS ROMANCE
(INSTRUMENTAL ONLY)
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UK HMV B 9382 10" 78 rpm SHELLAC Condition = E- A RARE BILLIE HOLIDAY 78 ON THE UK HMV LABELDON'T MISS OUT - BID NOW!
10" 78 RPM RECORDS NEED CAREFULLY PACKING, AND I CLAIM TO HAVE THE BEST PACKAGING IN THE WORLD FOR DISPATCHING THEM!!
THE GREG'S GREAT'S SYSTEM CONSISTS OF A SPECIALLY DESIGNED INNER BOX MADE OUT OF 1" THICK POLYSTYRENE, WHICH THEN GOES INSIDE A DOUBLE CORREGATED STIFF OUTER CARDBOARD CARTON. THE BOXES CAN TAKE UP TO 21 RECORDS,
USUALLY FOR MAILING OVERSEAS, I RECOMMEND NO MORE THAN 7 IN A BOX, OTHERWISE IT GOES OVER THE AIRMAIL SMALL PACKET MAXIMUM WEIGHT OF 2Kgs WHICH CAUSES A LARGE HIKE IN POSTAL RATES.
I SEND OUT ON AVERAGE ABOUT 30 PARCELS A WEEK AND DISPATCH IS NORMALLY DONE ONCE A WEEK
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