UNIQUE BILLIE HOLIDAY ACETATE 78 ST. LOUIS BLUES MINT
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A UNIQUE ULTRA RARE BILLIE HOLIDAY ACETATE 78 OF BILLIE HOLIDAY SINGING "ST. LOUIS BLUES " b/w "I'M GONNA LOCK MY HEART"
IN VERY NEAR MINT CONDITION!!!!
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.
Billie Holiday I'm Gonna Lock My Heart
Songwriters: Eaton, Jimmy; Shand, Terry;
I'm gonna lock my heart
And throw away the key
I'm wise to all those tricks you played on me
I'm gonna turn my back on love
Gonna snob the moon above
Seal all my windows up with tin
So the love bug can't get in
Park my romance right alone the curb
Hang a sign upon my heart
"Please don't disturb"
And if I never fall in love again
That's soon enough for me
I'm gonna lock my heart
And throw the key
And it I never tall in love again
That's soon enough for me
I!m gonna lock my heart
And throw away the key
I'll never fall in love again
I'm gonna lock my heart
And throw away the ke
DISC DETAILS
MSS ACETATE 7084 10 " 78
BILLIE HOLIDAY AND HER ORCHESTRA - VOCALS -BILLIE HOLIDAY
A SIDE:- ST LOUIS BLUES
B SIDE:- I'M GONNA LOCK MY HEART
Condition = BOTH TRACKS ARE IN VERY NEAR MINT CONDITION
THE SIDE WITH I'M GONNA LOCK MY HEAR HAS A FALSE START TRACK BEFORE IT ... WITH A SNIPPET OF ANOTHER SONG?
A ONE OFF CHANCE TO BID FOR THIS UNIQUE BILLIE HOLIDAY ACETATE 78 IN NEAR MINT CONDITION!!
DON'T MISS OUT !!!
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