Billie Holiday at George Wein's Storyville (1953)
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Dedicated to George Wein who passed away earlier this month
This video is something I have always wanted to make for years but never got around to doing it. This is one of Billie Holiday's sets at the famed George Wein Storyville Club in Boston. It is October of 1953 and Lady Day has been making the rounds trying to make her "comeback" by appearing in magazine articles, touring the country and making appearances on television (her comeback story was taped the same month).
This is personally my favorite live recording of Lady. The host of the radio broadcast says that the show is taped without the artist's knowledge so they can perform "at their natural, relaxed best" and this performance is no exception. This recording marks the start of Lady's autumn years. Her voice is starting to sound like the Lady we would later know during the middle and latter part of her Verve years. Her performance is very languid, especially in the way she sings and falls behind the beat in each song. Pay close attention to how she introduces "I Only Have Eyes for You" where she almost, and seductively, growls the first line. She is in great spirits here, interacting frequently with the crowd laughing and at one point telling them that she wants to "put them in a mood" before she starts singing "Willow Weep For Me" which I think is her best version. She really swings "Too Marvelous for Words" as well and you can hear a few exclamations from patrons as they listen.
This is truly one of Billie Holiday's greatest live recordings, I wish there were more air checks of her nightclub performances in the 1950s because that is when we really hear her in her element as shown in this 1953 date.
I hope you enjoy!
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Sounds like I am in the audience! Smoke swirling in the air. What piano accompaniment!
I think after all I have heard about Billie, she is one person that I would have loved to have a drink with.
The Queen of melancholy empress Billie Holiday .👑💜
How could you not fall in love with that voice?
@marjorjorietillman856
7 ай бұрын
I wish I could, but her voice and sound comes across as so sad to me. Now Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald are Supreme to me! But nobody can grip me the way Billie did, when she sang about lynching in the South! That song rips your heart out, for the folks who had one!
@robertpreato3891
7 ай бұрын
@@marjorjorietillman856 Her voice IS sad, that's why they call it "Blues". Nothing artificial or gimmicky about her voice or phrasing. That's why I love her, she is REAL and all that comes through in her voice. Now I love Ella and Sarah not to mention Carmen McRae, Anita O'Day, Peggy Lee and so many others but Billie Holiday is totally in league of her own. There is no one even remotely like her because she was the embodiment of her music, not just a performer of music.
@christianlacheze3323
7 ай бұрын
You can’t
@Alpha-Andromeda
7 ай бұрын
How? Ask the FBI of her time. They definitely didn’t.
@robertpreato3891
7 ай бұрын
@@Alpha-Andromeda What? your comment makes no sense. Are you saying that if someone commits a crime the FBI will only arrest them if they don't "love their voice"? I just love her music and the influence she had on blues in general. I don't have time for personal BS. It's none of my business, nor is it yours.
Love her.
Love you Billie
....never too late for some Billie ......
Lady Day
She is such a class act
Truly missed Lady Day her and Ella Rest in Power my Sister s from another Mother Kudos
She is the maria callas of the Jazz.. those two big artists are unique, unreachbele for the others..in this profession.. both, each one on their own side, are of the highest peak of art. With no one to compare...Robert kreis, entertainer in Germany.
@sakyseptiono
6 ай бұрын
Ido agreeeee..love you bily
@davidclerc8692
Ай бұрын
La Maria Callas du jazz... Excellente formule 👍👌
too marvelous for words
Just Fabulous thee Lady
THANK SO MUCH!!!
i‘m born okt.1953 she sang this all for me🎉
Thank you for putting together and sharing such a great video! Her voice is so captivating.
Muy emocionante escuchar el sonido impecable de su voz y de sus músicos en pleno 2024 en vivo desde un local nocturno. No hay un dia en que yo no quiera escuchar a Bilie Holiday. Descansa en Paz al fin, querida Billie!💜🎙🙏💜🙏Gracias por compartir este tesoro!🙏
This collection is so needed.
Lady ein Genius des Jazz Was fuer eine Stimme 😂❤😊
she had a quality like Judy Garland. They both made songs sound so sad. Loved them both.
@peterholwill1170
Ай бұрын
I'll second that, Judy and Billie very different singers, but they both sang with a level of emotion. every word from the heart, no other singers come close.You might want to listen to Judy singing 'Ol Man River' or 'Alone Together' both on youtube.
I listen to “Willow Weep for Me” from this show all the time. My favorite recording of the song.
@billie44
2 жыл бұрын
She sounds strong maybe a few cocktails
@UncleDuTheWatchman
Жыл бұрын
Mine too! It's actually the only version I listen to going back to this being a Cassette...lol. I played this concert all day every day in College.
This is probably the most personal video I've watched (and heard). I truly felt a part of the audience.
🎶 I loves you porgy 🎶
Aughhh....I love her singing so much. This live set is magnificent. What a night! What singing! What swinging! I was spellbound with this performance. I'd love to find this on CD or vinyl. Thanks for sharing!
@braytonwright6011
9 ай бұрын
You're in luck, it was released on vinyl last year.
@UncleDuTheWatchman
4 ай бұрын
@@braytonwright6011That's Awesome! I had it on Cassette in the 90s and used to wear it OUT!!!
I had this set on Cassette in College DECADES ago!!!
Wonderful. Recorded the year before I was born. I've since learned that there was a second jazz club right across the street from the location pictured at about 1:30. You could choose between MIles Davis or Errol Garner across the street. I was born too young for that surplus of greatness.
Happy Birthday Lady Day 🎵 👏💖✌️
THANK YOU
Thank you so much ! I agree with every word you put into your info passage, and special thanks for You Go To My Head !!
she expresses so much emotion in her singing. im either dancing or about to cry when i listen. so awesome
Sublime and totally enthralled by Billie. Thank you and Happy Holidays!
Lady Daly the greatest ❤️❤️❤️
This is so good! I stumbled across this and my mood instantly improved. Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful set.
@UncleDuTheWatchman
4 ай бұрын
She'll do it to you every time!
Thanks.
Thank you 👍
Muchas Gracias por compartir esta excelente obra musical.
Lovely ❤
Con amor para Billie ❤❤❤
GRATITUDE INFINIE 💫
Fantástico she is eternal!
La seta Billy fue una Reyna del jazz a pesar de tener muchas injusticias en su país fue la mejor atraves delo tiempos se escucha en todo el mundo soy Jorge de Perú de Mateo salado cercado de lima
Oh i love so much Billy singing.. amazing jazz voices until now...love you Billy i do
Thank you for this
Billie es una de esas mujeres que inspiran a las cantantes por su honestidad y forma de cantar sin rebusques ni artificios. Gracias! Gran video.
Thanks for this.
Un video picture da ascoltare. Billie Holiday at George Wein's Storyville (1953). Magnifico colore di voce, swing marcato, a volte Holiday deliziosamente impertinente, irrequieta. Qui è Lady, una delle più Lady di sempre; canta, swinga, mockeries a profusione e manierismi sfrontati fin quasi all'autoimitazione. Lady gioca alla grande quella sera anche se l'accompagnamento non è granché stimolante e non la porta alla magnifica sfida cui la portò Oscar Peterson nel magnifico album Recital, Clef Series.. Lady dopo un rendez vous e prima di un altro: abissali appuntamenti con le sue splendenti luci buie e con le profonde ombre delle sue luminose oscurità. Tuttavia pelle a pelle con il pubblico. Chi non vorrebbe essere stato là quella sera? Lady è Lady. Solamente 38 anni a quel tempo. La sua voce non lo dice. Lady nel cuore❤ Wonderf pic never seen be4 ❤ A video to listen to. magnificent live voice color and swinging great, at times a little bit deliciously naughty. She was Lady, one of her very Ladies that night. Singing, swinging, laughing, enjoying mockeries, mannerisms to almost self-imitation. Lady plays Lady, maybe too much and maybe 'cause the accompaniment doesn't take her to carry high the torch the way Oscar Peterson did in the magnificent challenging album Recital, Clef Series. Here, we have Lady after a rendez vous and before another one; abysmal dates with her shining lights and deep bright darkness shadows. However skin to skin with the audience However skin to skin with the audience . Who wouldn’t want to be there that night? Lady’s Lady. Only 38 years old then. Her voice doesn't say that. My heart belongs to Lady ❤
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I just bought this CD and omg I’m so happy you posted this video as well!! Such a gem💖
Wonderful artifact to have n preserve!!! The recording is superb!
Enorme, unica irrepetible
i want to see her live!!
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Really interesting document. The pianist is out to lunch during the intro of "I Loves You Porgy" (also during the bridge).
I could not❤
This is Just wonderful .. Thank you so much . hopefully Taylor swift and swiftly ding dongs will watch this and realize what GREAT music sounds like and how it is performed .. This is Beautiful music
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Grande Billie Holiday - Meravigliosa - favolosa.
I thought the Storyville club was situated in the Buckminster Hotel in Kenmore Square, Boston.
@bgurman1
7 ай бұрын
You are correct! It seemed like a strange location for Jazz, but George was right.
Is it true what i think -- at 12:25 -- Lady's getting some old tulips out of the audience, but she can't remember the name of Amsterdam ? 'What's that town in Europe -- Where they put them in a vase ---' A man's voice answers, which i can't understand . . .
I Never Cared For Her Singing. But I Loved Her Band!
Poor Billie. Couldn't realise how bad hard drugs are. Strong soul though .
To blend a story with raw and formidle talent. That's something. To keep vulgarity and politics out of is what THE BEST. Do.
You don't see ladies like that my mother had that look she was mean as hell. 😮
7:20
"Porgy" not "Paulie"
Canale già bloccato in quanto ripetitivo e invasivo, ma che continua a ripresentarsi, peraltro sempre col medesima video. Ovviamente, prescindendo dai miei interessi personali, non seguirò niente, dato quanto è infestante.
Conveys well, but tired of these standards - even by her. The songbook passé by 2024 ...?
A unique one of a kind talent.
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