[78-L] Your Mother's Son-In-Law - BG and Billie Holiday on Columbia Blue Shellac

[Taylor Bowie]

>> These interviews we are discussing took place several years after the 
>> fact.
>> The interview that I am referring to took place in the seventies. 
>> Obviously,
>> Wilson could compliment whom he felt like by then. He just didn't think 
>> that
>> Billie Holiday was such a big deal. He preferred other singers to her. It
>> was just funny how the interviewer tried to get him to say something
>> complimentary about her and he just wasn't buying into it.
> I agree. But my point is, was his attitude racist, or based upon other
> reasons?
>
> -- 
> Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr. #:?)


Seems unlikely that racism entered into it,  given that both Wilson and 
Holiday were black.  I seem to recall Wilson somewhere in print speaking 
very highly of Sarah Vaughn,  too.

Taylor