[78-L] Billie

[Bill McClung]

thank you.


> [Original Message]
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: 7/18/2009 11:44:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Billie
>
> Definitely Eddie Heywood. March 21, 1941.
>
> dl
>
> Milan P Milovanovic wrote:
> > Was it Eddie Heywood on "Georgia..." at the piano, not Wilson, back
around 
> > 1940. when Billie recorded it?
> > 
> > Milan
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Bill McClung" <bmcclung at ix.netcom.com>
> > To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 4:39 PM
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Billie
> > 
> > 
> >> I'll be playing Billie's 78s she did with Oscar Peterson on Mercury
late 
> >> in
> >> her career.  Her voice is playfully craggy.  The musicians are loose
and
> >> having fun and aren't making her carry the full weight of any song.
> >>
> >> These versions of Moonglow, Lover Come Back to Me,  I Only Have Eyes
for
> >> You, and Blue Moon are how I like to think of her first, even before
> >> Wilson's Georgia on My Mind, my favorite of the Columbias.
> >>
> >>
> >>> [Original Message]
> >>> From: Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com>
> >>> To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> >>> Date: 7/17/2009 3:27:43 PM
> >>> Subject: [78-L] Billie
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of the death of Billie Holiday.
Everyone
> >> pull out "God Bless the Child" and give it a spin for Billie. Me?
That's
> >> too much of a downer to play by itself, so I'm adding her 1935
Brunswick
> >> recording of "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" with Benny and Teddy.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Cary Ginell
> >>>
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