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Artist: Billie Holiday |Label: Wax Time |Format: LP |Genre: Jazz | Album Condition: New | Cover Condition: Sealed
Billie HolidayThe Complete Commodore MastersWax Time 772105 – Import on 180g vinyl
In 1939 when Billie Holiday’s label refused to record thehighlycontroversial ‘Strange Fruit’, she did not give up, butsearcheddesperately for a label that was not afraid to takea risk.Thankfully Milt Gabler at Commodore Records, a fledglingindependent jazz label, understood the importance of thissongbeing recorded and released to the public and soonarrangedfor Holiday to record a session with him. The ‘StrangeFruitsession’ for Commodore, was one of those historicmomentsand part of Billie Holiday’s legend hinges on thetremendouscourage it took for her go ahead and record thissong, knowingthat it might well mean the end of her career.Three other songs,found here, were also recorded at thatsession: ‘Yesterdays’,‘Fine And Mellow’ and ‘I Gotta Right ToSing the Blues’,while due to contractual issues, the remainingCommodoresides were not recorded until five years later in 1944.
Includes the indispensable tracks; Strange Fruit
Yesterdays
Fine and Mellow
I Got a Right to Sing the Blues
How Am I To Know
My Old Flame
I’ll Get By I Cover the Waterfront I’ll Be Seeing You
I’m Yours Embraceable You
As Time Goes By
(I Got a Man Crazy for Me) He’s Funny That Way Lover, Come Back to MeBillie’s Blues (I Love My Man) On the Sunny Side of the StreetNEW SEALED import re-issue LP Pressing on 180gVinyl
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