"Any Old Time" Billie Holiday w Artie Shaw and his Orchestra

[street133]

What great sound!

[LorentzElena32]

a beautiful song

[kevinherbert]

Fantastic post....thanxxxxxxx

[jahlaune]

Im always amazed at how big and gawky those old 78's were and they would break so easy! Technology is a mother!

[hcwollaston]

It couldn't get any more classic! Thanks for posting.

[blackbeantree]

Wonderful. Just wonderful.

[waynebrasler]

Among Billie's best recordings and, what a shame, her only commercial recording with Shaw. She loved him and loved the band but couldn't take the prejudicde she encountered as the result of being a black girl with a white band. She was the best singer around, she was gorgeous, she dressed impeccably, she was smart, she was nice(r than she should have been) and she got punished anyway.

[twalsh06]

Kick your shoes off, turn up the volume, lie on the floor and let it drown you - They don't make 'em like this anymore.

[jim30bell]

The interesting thing about this post is that your have an origianl 78 rpm recording of Art Shaw (not Artie Shaw). He explains in his autobiography "The Trouble With Cinderella" that some friend said that Art Shaw "sounded like a sneeze". So he changed his name...again. Of course, other band leaders had dimunitive names like "Benny", "Charlie", "Tommy", "Jimmy"..etc.

[JWARDable]

@jim30bell : In French, there's another funny problem : when I say "Artie shaw", people understand "artichoke" :a good reason me to prefer "Art" !

[jim30bell]

@JWARDable . Good point about the French word for "artichoke" sounding like "artieshaw". The French word is "artichaut"...and that is, indeed, how it sounds. Along the same line, when Artie Shaw lived in Spain, he formed a company called "Artixo"...which in Catalan, also sounds like "Artie Shaw".

[lordkilmainham]

Or of course you could be in New Orleans! Forgot about that!

[lordkilmainham]

Thanks for sharing this. By the way,before you play the record,is that a streetcar (or tram as we call them where I am from) in the background? San Francisco by any chance?

Anyway,thanks again for making the effort to share this with all of us. Artie is the best, and Billie ain't bad either!

[asemenovsky]

Many thanks for sharing.

[carladebe66]

Thank you for sharing

Grazie davvero per aver condiviso questo video

[2agray]

Running a little slow it sounds. I remember it being just a bit faster. I had this record. I had never heard of Billie Holiday before until this record. I had a boyfriend later that had her records and I just fell in love with her.

[8cccpeevostokzempf]

Quite possibly the finest big band arrangement of the 20th century with possible exception of Ray Noble's The Very Thought of You--I've listened to the re-mastered RCA Artie Shaw Greatest Hits at least a 1000 times. Just absolutely perfect in every possible way. Many Thanks for the ride.

[Corrie121]

What a combination - Artie playing his music, and Billie "playing " her voice. Just wonderful to listen to.

Thank you for sharing.

[fromthesidelines]

Shaw recorded this twice- originally with Billie Holiday {her only commercial recording with the band} on July 24, 1938, and again with Helen Forrest on March 12, 1939 (which wasn't released until 1945 on Victor).