Billie Tells Her Story

New Day Jazz Justin Desmangles Jazz music for lovers and the lonely. Genre Jazz Miss the Show? MP3 Stream (128kbps, broadband) MP3 Stream (32kbps, dial-up) [View Past Shows] [View Upcoming Shows] Show Description for Sunday 04/11/2010 Our annual birthday celebration of Our Lady, the great Lady Day, Miss Billie Holiday, is this afternoon. As ever, the broadcast, in it's entirety, will be dedicated exclusively to her and her music.
Artist Song Album Label Billie Holiday Your Mother's Son-in-law The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia Billie Holiday It's Like Reaching for the Moon The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia Billie Holiday He Ain't Got Rhythm The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia Billie Holiday Let's Call the Whole Thing Off The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia Billie Holiday My Man The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia James Emanuel (read by Cicely Tyson) Get Up Blues A Hand Is On The Gate Verve-Folkways Mari Evans (read by Cicely Tyson) The Rebel A Hand Is On The Gate Verve-Folkways Billie Holiday Be Fair to Me Baby Shades of Blue Sunset Billie Holiday Blue Turning Grey Over You Shades of Blue Sunset Billie Holiday Rocky Mountain Blues Shades of Blue Sunset -----------------------------air break----------------------------- Billie Holiday Everything I Have is Yours The Complete Verve Recordings Verve Billie Holiday What A Little Moonlight Can Do The Complete Verve Recordings Verve Billie Holiday Cheek to Cheek Lady Sings the Blues Verve -----------------------------air break----------------------------- Billie Holiday I Get a Kick Out of You The Complete Verve Recordings Verve Gwendolyn Brooks Song of the Front Yard Anthology of Negro Poets Folkways Gwendolyn Brooks The Preacher Ruminates Behind the Sermon Anthology of Negro Poets Folkways -----------------------------air break----------------------------- Billie Holiday Nice Work If You Can Get It The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia Billie Holiday I Don't Know If I'm Coming Or Going The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia Billie Holiday Pennies From Heaven The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia Billie Holiday The Way You Look Tonight The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia -----------------------------air break----------------------------- Billie Holiday Spreadin' the Rhythm Around The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia Billie Holiday A Fine Romance The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia Billie Holiday This Years Kisses The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia Billie Holiday A Sailboat in the Moonlight The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia Langston Hughes (read by Ellen Holly) Mother to Son A Hand Is On The Gate Verve-Folkways Billie Holiday Autumn in New York The Complete Verve Recordings Verve -----------------------------air break----------------------------- Billie Holiday East of the Sun The Complete Verve Recordings Verve Billie Holiday Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me The Complete Verve Recordings Verve Jean Toomer (read by Arna Bontemps) Song of the Sun Antholgy of Negro Poets in the U.S.A. Folkways Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues Lady Sings the Blues Verve Margaret Walker (read by Gloria Foster) We Have Been Believers A Hand Is On The Gate Verve-Folkways Billie Holiday Strange Fruit Lady Sings the Blues Verve Richard Wright (read by James Earl Jones) Between the World and Me A Hand Is On The Gate Verve-Folkways -----------------------------air break----------------------------- Billie Holiday He's Funny That Way The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia Billie Holiday They Can't Take That Away From Me The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia