This per4mance gets me everytime:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...ed&search=

Look @ how the camera shifted to Louis McKay's face(her then husband) when she said 'he beats me too'.

i love this so much..she looks so healthy in this..i mean compare to 1958..thank you for putting up this link!

Thanks for that.

If y'all want to hear some great remastered live tracks from Lady Day, cop this album:



At Newport (Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, 1957) (Verve)
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Beautiful

Going thru youtube I found this: http://www.youtube.com/wa...ed&search=

I'd hear of them but never really listened 2 them. Only Etta James.

Harlepolis said:

Is that a woman at the piano??

Having watched "the Lady sings the Bluess" several times, Diana Ross never really manages to capture Billie singing style. watching Billie sings "My Man", "Strange fruit" and "Lover Man" etc sound so different from the way Diana sang them.

NuPwr319 said:

Yes, you noticed

The caption mistakely mention that her accompanist in that clip is Jimmy Rowels,,,but its her accompanist and lady companion @ that time(her name is on the tip of my tongue though).

amazing stuff...thx

Nice.

i've been playing a lot of Billie's songbook lately, wonderful.