Songs like this are so real sometimes I cant bear to listen to them. Billies interpretation is the epitome of pain/pleasure and love mixed with fire.....
I am Brazilian, I like good music. It was the myth of the music madeher mark with hervoice and beautiful songs. I am twenty eight years when I see artists of that rarity, my heart is glad and my aqueta.
God Almighty himself has to be smiling when he hears this, knowing he made this incredible singer to entertain us all with songs like this one. Her interpretation of this is truly a work of art!
very artist have ever come close to her delivery...tom waits, close, and amy winehouse had her own style. beautiful the worlds less interesting w/o her..voice like satin
SORRY BUT THIS LADY SINGS THE BLUES .I JUST WISH AT THE TIME SHE WAS AROUND PEOPLE COULD SEE WHAT A WONDERFUL SINGER SHE TRULY WAS .SHE WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED FOR HER MUSIC .
Why can people just not listen to music and not have to bring race into it, we shouldn't care whether it originates from the black or white community, we should only care whether or not it is good.
i think carl perkins and hank williams sr and many other people had a hand in the developement in the great thing we call rock and roll in the 50s i think it died in the 70s im 37 years old and i love the old stuff mrs holliday was the queen and made way for others to follow
the shit she was on was pure..so most of the time she was wasted, but she produced...either it be sober or higher than shit...Billy Holiday made a way...like she said what's the difference?
I can't believe the ignorant comments made regarding this video. Apart from the well documented rascism in her life Lady Day made some bad choices namely her men and her heroin addiction. Listen to her sing when she is clean and she sounds like an angel. Listen to her when she is fucked up and it rips your heart out to imagine such a waste of wonderful talent. True, she sang about the heartache and pain she endured but with respect to one, if not the most talented performers of the last century
it's true - while Harlem became the spiritual home of Jazz it was in fact created in New Orleans in the late 19th century. But if we're getting technical, this is Blues - not traditional 12-bar blues it's true, but because of the use of blues notes and other traits it is part of the Blues
this is pretty sad...Women use to actually sing about a man that ain't shit and beats on them...oh wait ain't nothing changed..lol...Billie is the realest #PIONEER
@YumekuiBeats How can I be a racist when all I hangout with & date are whites? I have always been the biggest supporter of everything white; so what are you talking about? Why is it when a black person is aware of their history in America or the trans-atlantic slave trade they're considered a racist? How can a person of color be considered a racist? when race +power= racism & I'm sorry when did black folks get any? No sweety I'm not racist I'm educated. the one thing white folks fear the most
I can imagine the pain she was going through when she sand thins song. She had been through many failed relationships with the wrong men i.e player types and then later on in her life became depressed and took drugs alcohol which she eventually succumbed from. She died young and was talented though
Malheureusement, je comprends uniquement la moitié de la discussion. Mais de toute facon (cédille): Lady Day était dépendante de l'héroine à cause du racisme de son époque. Et on la laissait crever comme un animal dans la prison où on l'avait mise parce qu'elle avait pris sa drogue. Bien sûr, je l'adore, j'aijme écouter ces titres, mais tout de même: est reste la victime du racisme.
@Memale2009 soyez content(e) de ne pas comprendre cette discussion. comme d'hab, il y a des gens qui se mettent a ecrire des betises au lieu d'apprecier la musique qu'on a partagee.
@Memale2009 soyez content(e) de ne pas comprendre cette discussion. comme d'hab, il y a des gens qui se mettent a ecrire des betises au lieu d'apprecier la musique qu'on a partagee.
Hey Johnny blaze all those white people your thanking well they've been dead for a hundred or so years and just remember if it was'nt for the evil, sick white man you'd be hanging out in Africa instead of the street corners smoking and selling your junk. My God I go to listen to a song and what do I see a bunch of people bitching about shit that went down 80 to a 100 years ago. It's 2011 now and you have more rights than white's but you still wanna piss and moan get a life...
West African countries like Nigeria for example have some of the fastest growing Gdp's in the world. Maybe you should turn off your infomercials of starving Africans and actually see what Africa is really like.
Blacks have more rights than whites? LMAO the claims you whites make to illuminate the supposed ":reverse racism" of today hahahaha
I was wondering at first if this was the original version of My Man and then halfway into the song, yes it was :D How many years was this before Funny Girl?
This video is beautiful and even as a black man in America today, I can agree completely with the statement that without slavery, music wouldn't be what it is. Well... the good music wouldn't exist. The evolution of music in America has DEEP roots in the music from african-americans in the south. That's undeniable. It's fact.
Everyone getting offended by that statement is just being ridiculous. Don't interpret a music history lesson to be offensive.Especially when " i mean no malice" is there.
I`d better consider slavery as a robery of years and possibilities from the black people and their music. I´m surethat without that horrible chapter of History we would listen now to a music we can´t even imagine. Suffer and repression aren´t the only things that inspire people to do music. What if we think of all the potential artists that were killed in America´s plantations before they were "discovered", eh?
This is my favorite song by Billie. She has different interpretations of it and it's hard to choose which I like best; they're all such liquid gold. The less accompaniment the better; putting an orchestra behind her voice is like gilding the lilly.
@tarisone I believe it was Fanny Brice. Barbara Streisand portrayed her in the movie "Funny Girl." She sang this song in the movie actually (which is great)
Very sad to read this:In the final years of her life, she had been progressively swindled out of her earnings, and she died with $0.70 in the bank and $750 (a tabloid fee) on her person.
I've listened to Lea, Barbra who I am a true fan of and I love Dianna Ross... The smoothness and flare that Billie gives this song can't be repeated her style is truly remarkable. Everyone else screams this song she makes you hear it and truly understand "I'm a woman with control" but I love him so ...she never cried singing it just like she took all of her abuses. Great Lady!
I've never seen this before. She recovered some of the lyric Barbra eschewed from Fanny Brice's original performance in her rendition. Holiday was never a 'belter' and I have to say I really like this cover.
Billie's autobiography reads almost like a work of fiction, her life was so extraordinary and whirlwind, and by the end you are rooting for her self destructive self even though you're in the knowledge that she died a few years after publication. You can hear each ounce suffering dripping from her voice, people don't sing with soul like this anymore, and they'll never come close to matching Billie.
@dinolovessassy I already do thanks, she was a glimmer of hope in a now trashy industry :). I don't believe that Amy Winehouse was more talented that Billie, but that's personal opinion. Amy was certainly a better songwriter as Billie contributed to few of her songs, it was her gritty, soulful approach to tunes that let her capture our hearts.
@riptonks I was surprised to see an Amy Winehouse interview in which she said she didn't like Billie Holiday. Her exact words were, I think, "fuck her." Surprising to me that she could dismiss talent like this. And no, I don't think Winehouse had talent like Billy Holiday's. Holiday was unique for her time and unique now. She was absolutely herself and brutally honest, even if classy and understated, and mesmerizingly moving. Winehouse was immitating a lot of people before her well.
@brelfan Wow, she said that? In what interview? I can totally get not liking Billie for whatever reason, but "fuck you" was quite unnecessary. Especially for someone like Billie, who basically paved the way for singers like Amy.
@IAmPlaysWithSquirrel Yeah, surprising. Winehouse liked Sarah Vaughan. I like Sarah Vaughan. But yeah, i think if someone came along and changed the American style from something extremely polished to something more emotional, it was Billie Holiday.
@dinolovessassy Amy Winehouse is definitely NOT a bigger talent than Billie Holiday, but Ms. Winehouse had talent, I just feel the comparison is like gold to granite. Granite is solid, strong, irreplaceable, and even inviting, but gold is gold.
Billie Holiday touches me so much that every time I hear his voice is like the first time. Billie is a phenomenon that will never be forgotten. Billie was and is the main voice of the soul of us all.
this is one of my all time favorite songs ever and Billie sings it the best of everyone/ this is her song / her story for she was singing about her life and the kind of love she was used to her in her life. thats why she is anle to sing this song with such conviction and believability / Billie is the greatest Torch singer that ever lived. Mo one had a voice like hers and her raw emotion was poured into every golden note she sang / and you felt her pain with every word that she sung.
america would be a mighty boring place without the african-american contribution to music. one wouldn't be wrong for claiming that - were it not for slavery, there would have been no rock and roll as we know it; no jazz or blues -
indeed, american music would be bereft of sex appeal, passion or soul.
p.s. i apologize for any hurt feelings. i mean no malice.
@mustangred oh come on, man. i really didn't mean any malice. btw, i happen to be a brown skinned person and only stating the obvious, albeit, i should have written it delicately.
@Nusrat5791 I think you're right on the money except for the "...would be bereft of..." part. I've thought about this a lot. I think its possible, though, that between classical and folk music (bluegrass, western, general folk), something modern/youthful could have evolved into something that today would not be so very different from our popular music (thanks electronics!). Not mention that there is plenty of passion and soul (and sex appeal, but less explicit) in classical music.
@MartyRichKramlinger something would have evolved, but it would not be the blues, which required genuine pain and suffering, carried over for generations. and without the blues, there would be no rock and roll - no elvis, no rolling stones, no beatles, no buddy holly, etc, etc.
like i said, something would have definitely evolved; maybe something even cooler than what we have, but we will never know.
@Nusrat5791 And I can understand that people who haven't played or listened to much of classical music could think it lacking in passion, soul, or sensuality, either in the performers or simply the music. But, the more I listen to classical, the more and more I feel the opposite, not to mention jazz' seduction.
@MartyRichKramlinger you are probably right. i tried classical listening to classical music but it doesn't speak to me, like jazz, blues, classic rock or even opera does - hey, maybe i don't have the intellectual facility to capture the nuances offered by classical music. really, i have come toe the conclusion that those who genuinely appreciate classical music have a higher IQ than the general population. once again, no offense meant.
@Nusrat5791: It's simply the truth: The greatest cultural expression of our American civilization, Jazz, comes from the African American community. And we should be forever indebted.
@Nusrat5791 NEVER apologize for the truth.........................no truer words were ever spoken, the GREATEST thing about this country is that we SHARE the truth between us, and in the end work everything out that may stand in the way of a better understanding between us, sometimes ,....just sometimes a tragedy turns into a beautiful flower, .............
I couldn't have said it any better. What a true statement. When I was a little girl, growing up in the 50's, I was constantly told how proud I should be of my heritage, although there were many haters. I didn't understand how proud I should have been until I got much older. Now I can say, " I'm proud to be an American", an American of African, among other heritages. Peace, Sandra Barabino
@Nusrat5791 there would be no rock n roll period because rock n roll was race music (black music) when it originally came out. And besides that Jmi Hendix pioneered the sound of the electric guitar in a way that is now regarded as modern rock n roll / heavy metal. I can't think of any musical form that didn't come out of the african american community even country music as we know it began as rockabilly again from black down in the sticks back in the day.
@kennyfame you're taking it a bit too far away with the "blacks did all the music". the inventor of the electrical guitar was white. plus let's face it. if it weren't for the white expansionist, the black would be still living in huts in africa (which most of them still do). I'm in no way racist or anything...music is here thanks to all the great legends, white or black, there's no color in music...I just think you took it a bit too far...
@amunnokia ok if your saying a white man created a the guitar but I don't think many dispute the fact that it was Jimi Hendricks that revolutionized it. It was black slaves who brung their drums to the new world & gave that guitatr its beat & where would music be today with out its beat. The heartbeat & timekeeper of all music. And living in huts thats not racist no not nuch. Especially considering whites were neanderthals that were infested w/sypllis & mumps killing off the natives;u 4got that
@amunnokia I'm taking things too far. I hate the way people hate to hear about black history but will read lives in text books about the great saviors of humanity(white folks) in school text booKs all day long. black people slaves brought rythym into the new world through their music through their chants through their spirituals. You wanna hear white spirituals walk into any catholic church iy has know rhthym. Every artist from the beatles 2 the stones will say they were inspired by blacks; read
@kennyfame What you say is true, African culture contributed the greater part of rhythm in American music. But then you must acquiesce, that European culture contributed heavily to the elegant melodies which rest upon that rhythm. You are like a child slapping the father, to glorify the mother.
@amunnokia the only thing white people brought to the Americas were: diseases, corruption, capitalism & oh yeah slavery. Don't tell me about the history of Jazz which is what this video is which is the only forms of music that america created and not tell me that the architects weren't black. that it didnt come out of the Harlem Renaiscance & that that wasnt black. What would a guitar sound like w/out a beat? oh yeah folk music & thats white folk music. Jazz, Disco, Soul, Rock n Roll;black music
@Nusrat5791 OH OH! THANK YOU SLAVERY!!! THANK YOU WHITE PEOPLE FOR BUYING US CHEAP AND WORKING US LIKE CATTLE FOR GENERATIONS!!! OMG WHERE WOULD I BE WITHOUT MY FUCKING BLUES AND JAZZ AND ROCK N ROLL!!! THANK YOU WHITE PEOPLE FOR ENSLAVING MY ANCESTORS SO YOU CAN BLEED OUR CULTURE DRY POPULARIZING BLUES!!! WHILE I'M AT IT, THANK YOU OPPRESSORS OF HISTORY FOR ALL THE GOOD YOU HAVE DONE WITHIN YOUR LIFE TIME!! SPECIAL THANKS GOES OUT TO HITLER, WHERE WOULD WE BE WITHOUT THE HOLOCAUST!
@Johnnyblazedanketch as twisted as this may sound, all the events leading after and towards the holocaust were fucked up but in the end it boosted economy ten fold. even the world war. it's a terribly shitty way that things had to happen but such is life and we can't change it. we can only be thankful for the shit other people suffered for to have the lifestyle we have today. we would be living in an even more impoverished world than we do already.
@funinsummersun The accepting and thankful attitude you have towards cataclysmic events in human history is wrought of apathy. My comment was towards slavery and the holocaust. War is combat. There is a major difference in the mind set of people during war vs the mind set of people enslaved or simply being "ethnically cleansed". Do not group war with the later. "But such is life", do you any idea how ridiculous you sound? Are you a log of shit floating down a river, or do you have passion?
Black contribution is not debatable- but to suggest that they are the only peoples of the world who possess sex appeal, passion, or soul is incorrect.
Songs like this are so real sometimes I cant bear to listen to them. Billies interpretation is the epitome of pain/pleasure and love mixed with fire.....
jahlaune 3 days ago
One of my top 5 songs, have to listen to this song once a week. Brings a tear to the eye.
djhvallejo 3 days ago
I am Brazilian, I like good music. It was the myth of the music madeher mark with hervoice and beautiful songs. I am twenty eight years when I see artists of that rarity, my heart is glad and my aqueta.
MrDecival 3 days ago
Barbra who?
heyehehekhje 1 week ago
@heyehehekhje uh.......Barbra's version is great as well...
morenaonline17 1 day ago
I hate people who see music!
sorry..... i had no choice.
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Luv this video. Music is my life. Check out Vonne and please leave comments. Peace and luv.
nexlevproductions 2 weeks ago
God Almighty himself has to be smiling when he hears this, knowing he made this incredible singer to entertain us all with songs like this one. Her interpretation of this is truly a work of art!
kerryincolumbus 2 weeks ago
very artist have ever come close to her delivery...tom waits, close, and amy winehouse had her own style. beautiful the worlds less interesting w/o her..voice like satin
donnafontenette 2 weeks ago 2
One of the best, ever
gone, so fast...
How ironic... 2 billions people watching her singing on TouTube.. she's so beautiful..
Thanks Billie, thanks and love, for ever
maeleeetmax 3 weeks ago
Really how can anybody dislike Billie Holiday Ive loved this woman since I was 7 years old!!!
aroll0309 3 weeks ago
gosh this lady made me believe in love one more time....sigh...
deprezzive 3 weeks ago
Love this music, love Billie too, she will always be the best.
rociobpy 3 weeks ago
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NAJDRAŽI LJUDI , DA BUDETE ZDRAVI I U 2012 OJ GODINI . OBOŽAVAM VAS BESKRAJNO .
Boban1144 3 weeks ago
SORRY BUT THIS LADY SINGS THE BLUES .I JUST WISH AT THE TIME SHE WAS AROUND PEOPLE COULD SEE WHAT A WONDERFUL SINGER SHE TRULY WAS .SHE WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED FOR HER MUSIC .
iwillliftupmyeyes 3 weeks ago
what a voiiiiiceeeeeee!!!!! pure talent
davan666 3 weeks ago
53 people are white supremacists.
elkabong2k 3 weeks ago
@elkabong2k Perhaps they just don't like her? Or don't like the genre? Or the song?
Alexdurrant7 3 weeks ago
first heard lady day when i was 17 and now.. she will always be my meloncholic queen xoxoxox
thank you Billie your beautiful .. truly you are
quieroterry 4 weeks ago
She is enchanting. Rest in paradise momma
EastEZ82 4 weeks ago
È la voce più bella e incantevole che io abbia mai sentito. La sua timbrica è fenomenale!!! Ineguagliabile!
lidiastone 1 month ago
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Why can people just not listen to music and not have to bring race into it, we shouldn't care whether it originates from the black or white community, we should only care whether or not it is good.
MrMasonMaynard 1 month ago
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MrMasonMaynard 1 month ago
Blind people don't see white or black music, they listen to it and enjoy it
crumster2012 1 month ago 33
@crumster2012 Blind people don't see shit, son. :P
Ironjew666 1 week ago
hhahhahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhhahhahhhahha
divantraing11 1 month ago
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persevere4 1 month ago
i think carl perkins and hank williams sr and many other people had a hand in the developement in the great thing we call rock and roll in the 50s i think it died in the 70s im 37 years old and i love the old stuff mrs holliday was the queen and made way for others to follow
jmstraight 1 month ago
the shit she was on was pure..so most of the time she was wasted, but she produced...either it be sober or higher than shit...Billy Holiday made a way...like she said what's the difference?
iluvsvensson 1 month ago
straordinaria
baghdadi48 1 month ago
This is from the TV show Stars of Jazz that my uncle Pete (Peter Robinson) produced. He won an emmy from it.
2012ForObama 1 month ago
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2012ForObama 1 month ago
it was a priviege listening to her.
9162vb48 1 month ago 9
anyone into classics lately?
Gchord86 2 months ago
@Gchord86 Completely :)
musicsmiles174 1 month ago
I can't believe the ignorant comments made regarding this video. Apart from the well documented rascism in her life Lady Day made some bad choices namely her men and her heroin addiction. Listen to her sing when she is clean and she sounds like an angel. Listen to her when she is fucked up and it rips your heart out to imagine such a waste of wonderful talent. True, she sang about the heartache and pain she endured but with respect to one, if not the most talented performers of the last century
Mollysiobhan2000 2 months ago
Extreamely prophetic...
mscarolannstaples 2 months ago
I wish she would have had a better personal life....she breaks my heart.
truediabolique69 2 months ago
Her arms are so sculpted.
chichi1019ine 2 months ago
♥♥♥
RAMLIA1 2 months ago
J'aime j'aime, j'aime, j'aime, j'aime!!!!
TheCiddie 2 months ago
it's true - while Harlem became the spiritual home of Jazz it was in fact created in New Orleans in the late 19th century. But if we're getting technical, this is Blues - not traditional 12-bar blues it's true, but because of the use of blues notes and other traits it is part of the Blues
fearfulbeauty 2 months ago
iam 18, but i love billie, in her song after 1945...the best lyrics, the true words
jirikpisek 2 months ago
this is pretty sad...Women use to actually sing about a man that ain't shit and beats on them...oh wait ain't nothing changed..lol...Billie is the realest #PIONEER
treazuremusic 2 months ago
What an amazing performer...her voice conveys so much, and her influctions are so unique to herself. Billie Holiday was a true original.
schnook11 2 months ago
me gusta me gusta me gusta me gusta me gusta me gusta....
bell666ful 2 months ago
@YumekuiBeats How can I be a racist when all I hangout with & date are whites? I have always been the biggest supporter of everything white; so what are you talking about? Why is it when a black person is aware of their history in America or the trans-atlantic slave trade they're considered a racist? How can a person of color be considered a racist? when race +power= racism & I'm sorry when did black folks get any? No sweety I'm not racist I'm educated. the one thing white folks fear the most
kennyfame 2 months ago 2
Nonsense, country music comes from the middle ages, Scots/Irish fiddling et al. Get a grip.
Robert
rcarroll88 2 months ago
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I find the years of Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, Nat King Cole just fascinating. Check out my chanell for covers of songs written in those days.
josephina323 2 months ago
Nothing less than sensational as only this wonderful lady can do!Fabulous post! Sal
TheVideostunad 2 months ago
I am here because I ve just seen Boardwalk Empire.
asmalimescit 2 months ago
I can imagine the pain she was going through when she sand thins song. She had been through many failed relationships with the wrong men i.e player types and then later on in her life became depressed and took drugs alcohol which she eventually succumbed from. She died young and was talented though
sagat4 2 months ago
Goddess.
Rossonero072213 2 months ago
Whoever uploaded this..please contact me....thanks.
brendab614 2 months ago in playlist Jazz Ballads-Chris Connor
Vinnie Burke is in the background...playing bass...
brendab614 2 months ago in playlist Jazz Ballads-Chris Connor
This is so great!
dearmalika 2 months ago
I love the expression on her face when she sings
whatcaitiedid1 3 months ago
How the hell did we go from Billie Holiday to Lady Gaga . . . and can we go back?
Zorgadoni 3 months ago
@Nusrat5791 (Black Music) You are so wrong. This Purer MUSIC that is all. I hear it feel it yes enjoy it.. Black Music NO! YOUR WRONG!
cavemanyc 3 months ago
good som
novafrog1 3 months ago
Malheureusement, je comprends uniquement la moitié de la discussion. Mais de toute facon (cédille): Lady Day était dépendante de l'héroine à cause du racisme de son époque. Et on la laissait crever comme un animal dans la prison où on l'avait mise parce qu'elle avait pris sa drogue. Bien sûr, je l'adore, j'aijme écouter ces titres, mais tout de même: est reste la victime du racisme.
Memale2009 3 months ago
@Memale2009 soyez content(e) de ne pas comprendre cette discussion. comme d'hab, il y a des gens qui se mettent a ecrire des betises au lieu d'apprecier la musique qu'on a partagee.
bryrun 2 months ago
@bryrun Oui, effectivement, vous avez raison.
Memale2009 2 months ago
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@Memale2009 soyez content(e) de ne pas comprendre cette discussion. comme d'hab, il y a des gens qui se mettent a ecrire des betises au lieu d'apprecier la musique qu'on a partagee.
bryrun 2 months ago
Leave it up to ignorant people to go off on tangents and rudely miss the point...; billie holiday signing magnificently.. My Man
VitaminG 3 months ago
This is not a forum!
Everyone needs to stop being so hot headed and just enjoy the video....
taxreturnsmeon 3 months ago in playlist billie holiday
J. Cole!
ThaTrueEgyptino92 3 months ago
I love the song, awesome
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thats? amazing!!!! congratulations =DDDDD
Temiel1995 3 months ago
Hey Johnny blaze all those white people your thanking well they've been dead for a hundred or so years and just remember if it was'nt for the evil, sick white man you'd be hanging out in Africa instead of the street corners smoking and selling your junk. My God I go to listen to a song and what do I see a bunch of people bitching about shit that went down 80 to a 100 years ago. It's 2011 now and you have more rights than white's but you still wanna piss and moan get a life...
TheInfadel1 4 months ago
@TheInfadel1 Whats wrong with being in Africa?
West African countries like Nigeria for example have some of the fastest growing Gdp's in the world. Maybe you should turn off your infomercials of starving Africans and actually see what Africa is really like.
Blacks have more rights than whites? LMAO the claims you whites make to illuminate the supposed ":reverse racism" of today hahahaha
BlacknesUnforgivable 3 months ago
I was wondering at first if this was the original version of My Man and then halfway into the song, yes it was :D How many years was this before Funny Girl?
BookRose86 4 months ago
This video is beautiful and even as a black man in America today, I can agree completely with the statement that without slavery, music wouldn't be what it is. Well... the good music wouldn't exist. The evolution of music in America has DEEP roots in the music from african-americans in the south. That's undeniable. It's fact.
Everyone getting offended by that statement is just being ridiculous. Don't interpret a music history lesson to be offensive.Especially when " i mean no malice" is there.
iamclery 4 months ago
i love this woman, she don´t have to scream to make me feel what she feels, just love it
claudiosucks 4 months ago
Shut up and enjoy the song.
BrookBrainwash 4 months ago 58
@BrookBrainwash
Both sides of this argument make me sick. Can't we just appreciate this page for what it is? Beautiful music by a beautiful woman.
D2ezbmu 3 months ago
@D2ezbmu
Indeed.
BrookBrainwash 2 months ago
I`d better consider slavery as a robery of years and possibilities from the black people and their music. I´m surethat without that horrible chapter of History we would listen now to a music we can´t even imagine. Suffer and repression aren´t the only things that inspire people to do music. What if we think of all the potential artists that were killed in America´s plantations before they were "discovered", eh?
katenux 4 months ago
J.Cole brought me here :D
nk326 4 months ago
I just Love her....
sorayaavesta 4 months ago
Pure passion. Art in its purest form.
ellenfix 4 months ago
This is a dimension of Billie that I had never seen-thanks!
FRANKHODGES39 4 months ago
This is my favorite song by Billie. She has different interpretations of it and it's hard to choose which I like best; they're all such liquid gold. The less accompaniment the better; putting an orchestra behind her voice is like gilding the lilly.
cffpsych 4 months ago
cole world
thekidisthekid 4 months ago
Sounds like something straight outta fallout!!
TheDudeBelowMeIsGay 4 months ago
She is God and i love her, thanks Billie for all your tenderness!!
tamiketami 4 months ago
this song is nice ... but a little sad =///
everlastinglove714 4 months ago
I can spend hours listening to her... her voice is so hypnotizing!
savamounange 4 months ago in playlist Billie Holiday Playlist
lets face it we are all here because of j. cole
bilizza09 5 months ago
who is the original singer?
tarisone 5 months ago
@tarisone I believe it was Fanny Brice. Barbara Streisand portrayed her in the movie "Funny Girl." She sang this song in the movie actually (which is great)
ps3udonyms 5 months ago
Love Barbara, one of my top five, and have seen and heard everything from her, but Billie was the original
Teenqueen43 5 months ago
It's my man
But I love him
What can I do?
He'll never know
All my life is just a spare
But I don't care
When he takes me in his arms...
valzouzou 5 months ago
@valzouzou "a spare" = "despair". :-)
hollyfigueroaoreilly 4 months ago
it sounds like poetry
TopazScorpio909 5 months ago
Sad to say...not Jimmy...
alive1945 5 months ago
¡¡Cielo santo!! ¡Qué sensibilidad, qué personalidad! ¡¡BRAVO BILLIE!!
bepegal 5 months ago
i LOVE IT !!
Amy winehouse sent me here !!
MAYALA91 5 months ago
@MAYALA91 I love it, too, but Amy badmouthed Billie in an interview.
cleanpalette 5 months ago
@YEELKEED she isnt remembered for how much money she had in the bank shes remembered because she was a great singer.
wesaline55 5 months ago
In modern society, her man would have been considered a real asshole!
wilhemsen1 5 months ago in playlist Billie Holiday Playlist
Very sad to read this:In the final years of her life, she had been progressively swindled out of her earnings, and she died with $0.70 in the bank and $750 (a tabloid fee) on her person.
YEELKEED 5 months ago
Lovely song <3 they don't make them like these ever.
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musicflowable 5 months ago
Fanny Brice (Funny Girl) sang this song too. I like Billie's version better. Barbara's version is beautiful as well.
keenyens12074 5 months ago
Regina Spektor's Version is amazing!
Evangeline30575 5 months ago
eu Amo Billie Holiday!
TheMingusjazz 5 months ago
Beautifull ....
Sysia8686 5 months ago
I've listened to Lea, Barbra who I am a true fan of and I love Dianna Ross... The smoothness and flare that Billie gives this song can't be repeated her style is truly remarkable. Everyone else screams this song she makes you hear it and truly understand "I'm a woman with control" but I love him so ...she never cried singing it just like she took all of her abuses. Great Lady!
SimplyDlmply 5 months ago
Wow, so Billie sang it first. That was smooth. I love Barbra but damn. I feel like Billie got robbed of her legacy. This is amazing.
PoeticPoppa 5 months ago
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I've never seen this before. She recovered some of the lyric Barbra eschewed from Fanny Brice's original performance in her rendition. Holiday was never a 'belter' and I have to say I really like this cover.
MauiLevi 5 months ago
she sings with pain i can feel it
toene42 5 months ago
her eyes kill me...
ardentepatience 5 months ago
This is pure perfection - thank you!
celtica99 5 months ago
Amy,Billie,Ella best female jazz singers of their times!! R.I.P to all three queens!! <333
SleazzyM 5 months ago
Wow I never saw this,didn't even know this footage exist!
1969SL 5 months ago
Loved this song for as long as I can remember. Didn't understand it until tonight.
lcnfarrah 5 months ago
so nice song
ArianeSomar 5 months ago
I'm so feeling this, except the beat me part. Lol!
Delicious1922 6 months ago
now it's 40 xD
happyradek 6 months ago
It's my maaaaaAAAAaAaAn n_n
arenitamanda 6 months ago
Sing it to me billie
CassiusMcfreshly 6 months ago
Billie's autobiography reads almost like a work of fiction, her life was so extraordinary and whirlwind, and by the end you are rooting for her self destructive self even though you're in the knowledge that she died a few years after publication. You can hear each ounce suffering dripping from her voice, people don't sing with soul like this anymore, and they'll never come close to matching Billie.
riptonks 6 months ago
@riptonks. Listen to Amy Winehouse. Sadly, likely an even bigger talent than Billie Holiday.
dinolovessassy 6 months ago
@dinolovessassy I already do thanks, she was a glimmer of hope in a now trashy industry :). I don't believe that Amy Winehouse was more talented that Billie, but that's personal opinion. Amy was certainly a better songwriter as Billie contributed to few of her songs, it was her gritty, soulful approach to tunes that let her capture our hearts.
riptonks 6 months ago
@riptonks Hey I reckon they both equally talented. They're actually kinda similar in live performances in terms of vocals.
Adski92 5 months ago
@Adski92 Nah, I disagree. Amy never had that tortured soul and grit down like Billie did.
riptonks 5 months ago
@riptonks True, I guess. Still love 'em both though. I love Billie's version of this song. This and Ella Fitzgerald's also.
Adski92 5 months ago
@Adski92 Oh Ella! The only person IMO who could ever match Billie's level of extreme awesome!
riptonks 5 months ago
@riptonks Totally!!!
Adski92 5 months ago
@riptonks I was surprised to see an Amy Winehouse interview in which she said she didn't like Billie Holiday. Her exact words were, I think, "fuck her." Surprising to me that she could dismiss talent like this. And no, I don't think Winehouse had talent like Billy Holiday's. Holiday was unique for her time and unique now. She was absolutely herself and brutally honest, even if classy and understated, and mesmerizingly moving. Winehouse was immitating a lot of people before her well.
brelfan 5 months ago
@brelfan Wow, she said that? In what interview? I can totally get not liking Billie for whatever reason, but "fuck you" was quite unnecessary. Especially for someone like Billie, who basically paved the way for singers like Amy.
IAmPlaysWithSquirrel 5 months ago
@IAmPlaysWithSquirrel Yeah, surprising. Winehouse liked Sarah Vaughan. I like Sarah Vaughan. But yeah, i think if someone came along and changed the American style from something extremely polished to something more emotional, it was Billie Holiday.
brelfan 5 months ago
@brelfan Sorry, I meant "fuck her".
IAmPlaysWithSquirrel 5 months ago
@dinolovessassy Amy Winehouse is definitely NOT a bigger talent than Billie Holiday, but Ms. Winehouse had talent, I just feel the comparison is like gold to granite. Granite is solid, strong, irreplaceable, and even inviting, but gold is gold.
skengin 6 months ago
"And now, I'd like to sing for you a little tune.... made famous by miss Fanny Brice... titled... My man... I do hope you like it".
oysterpippo 6 months ago
Billie Holiday touches me so much that every time I hear his voice is like the first time. Billie is a phenomenon that will never be forgotten. Billie was and is the main voice of the soul of us all.
bluejazz44 6 months ago
j.cole- cost me alot
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ratstompmusic 6 months ago
this is one of my all time favorite songs ever and Billie sings it the best of everyone/ this is her song / her story for she was singing about her life and the kind of love she was used to her in her life. thats why she is anle to sing this song with such conviction and believability / Billie is the greatest Torch singer that ever lived. Mo one had a voice like hers and her raw emotion was poured into every golden note she sang / and you felt her pain with every word that she sung.
MermaidPrincess9 6 months ago 2
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KC5291 6 months ago
Many have tried to make this better, but none as sad as you.
net60man 6 months ago
america would be a mighty boring place without the african-american contribution to music. one wouldn't be wrong for claiming that - were it not for slavery, there would have been no rock and roll as we know it; no jazz or blues -
indeed, american music would be bereft of sex appeal, passion or soul.
p.s. i apologize for any hurt feelings. i mean no malice.
Nusrat5791 6 months ago 104
@Nusrat5791 That's ok, no one blames retards for the things they say. We know you can't help the way you are.
mustangred 6 months ago
@mustangred oh come on, man. i really didn't mean any malice. btw, i happen to be a brown skinned person and only stating the obvious, albeit, i should have written it delicately.
apologies to anyone who is offended.
Nusrat5791 6 months ago
@mustangred thanks for understanding, kindred spirit. :)
Nusrat5791 4 months ago
@Nusrat5791 I think you're right on the money except for the "...would be bereft of..." part. I've thought about this a lot. I think its possible, though, that between classical and folk music (bluegrass, western, general folk), something modern/youthful could have evolved into something that today would not be so very different from our popular music (thanks electronics!). Not mention that there is plenty of passion and soul (and sex appeal, but less explicit) in classical music.
MartyRichKramlinger 6 months ago
@MartyRichKramlinger something would have evolved, but it would not be the blues, which required genuine pain and suffering, carried over for generations. and without the blues, there would be no rock and roll - no elvis, no rolling stones, no beatles, no buddy holly, etc, etc.
like i said, something would have definitely evolved; maybe something even cooler than what we have, but we will never know.
Nusrat5791 5 months ago
@Nusrat5791 And I can understand that people who haven't played or listened to much of classical music could think it lacking in passion, soul, or sensuality, either in the performers or simply the music. But, the more I listen to classical, the more and more I feel the opposite, not to mention jazz' seduction.
MartyRichKramlinger 6 months ago
@MartyRichKramlinger you are probably right. i tried classical listening to classical music but it doesn't speak to me, like jazz, blues, classic rock or even opera does - hey, maybe i don't have the intellectual facility to capture the nuances offered by classical music. really, i have come toe the conclusion that those who genuinely appreciate classical music have a higher IQ than the general population. once again, no offense meant.
Nusrat5791 5 months ago
@Nusrat5791 - None @ all because most folks know that from pain comes true art.
LaTainaIndia 5 months ago
@Nusrat5791 -I agree.
SPOKENFOR36 5 months ago
@Nusrat5791 not only that but the Beatles probably wouldn't have made a lot of their music!
VelvetSynclaire 5 months ago
@Nusrat5791: It's simply the truth: The greatest cultural expression of our American civilization, Jazz, comes from the African American community. And we should be forever indebted.
aarfeld 4 months ago
@Nusrat5791
I do not only agree completly with your statement and say that it is the same down here in Brazil...
moyahn56 4 months ago
@Nusrat5791 couldn't agree more...and you forgot fashion...white people are still copying the looks of modern day african/americans.
wonderboyjoy 4 months ago
@Nusrat5791 NEVER apologize for the truth.........................no truer words were ever spoken, the GREATEST thing about this country is that we SHARE the truth between us, and in the end work everything out that may stand in the way of a better understanding between us, sometimes ,....just sometimes a tragedy turns into a beautiful flower, .............
vetmusician 4 months ago
@Nusrat5791 black ppl r the largest consumers in America. IF we were to stop spending foolishly, the industry would crash!
rubberrand142 4 months ago in playlist rubberrand142's Favorited Videos 2
@Nusrat5791
I couldn't have said it any better. What a true statement. When I was a little girl, growing up in the 50's, I was constantly told how proud I should be of my heritage, although there were many haters. I didn't understand how proud I should have been until I got much older. Now I can say, " I'm proud to be an American", an American of African, among other heritages. Peace, Sandra Barabino
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@Nusrat5791 there would be no rock n roll period because rock n roll was race music (black music) when it originally came out. And besides that Jmi Hendix pioneered the sound of the electric guitar in a way that is now regarded as modern rock n roll / heavy metal. I can't think of any musical form that didn't come out of the african american community even country music as we know it began as rockabilly again from black down in the sticks back in the day.
kennyfame 4 months ago 37
@kennyfame True that!
MrRealityone 2 months ago
@kennyfame you're taking it a bit too far away with the "blacks did all the music". the inventor of the electrical guitar was white. plus let's face it. if it weren't for the white expansionist, the black would be still living in huts in africa (which most of them still do). I'm in no way racist or anything...music is here thanks to all the great legends, white or black, there's no color in music...I just think you took it a bit too far...
amunnokia 2 months ago
@amunnokia ok if your saying a white man created a the guitar but I don't think many dispute the fact that it was Jimi Hendricks that revolutionized it. It was black slaves who brung their drums to the new world & gave that guitatr its beat & where would music be today with out its beat. The heartbeat & timekeeper of all music. And living in huts thats not racist no not nuch. Especially considering whites were neanderthals that were infested w/sypllis & mumps killing off the natives;u 4got that
kennyfame 2 months ago
@amunnokia I'm taking things too far. I hate the way people hate to hear about black history but will read lives in text books about the great saviors of humanity(white folks) in school text booKs all day long. black people slaves brought rythym into the new world through their music through their chants through their spirituals. You wanna hear white spirituals walk into any catholic church iy has know rhthym. Every artist from the beatles 2 the stones will say they were inspired by blacks; read
kennyfame 2 months ago
@kennyfame What you say is true, African culture contributed the greater part of rhythm in American music. But then you must acquiesce, that European culture contributed heavily to the elegant melodies which rest upon that rhythm. You are like a child slapping the father, to glorify the mother.
menacingshadows 2 months ago
@amunnokia the only thing white people brought to the Americas were: diseases, corruption, capitalism & oh yeah slavery. Don't tell me about the history of Jazz which is what this video is which is the only forms of music that america created and not tell me that the architects weren't black. that it didnt come out of the Harlem Renaiscance & that that wasnt black. What would a guitar sound like w/out a beat? oh yeah folk music & thats white folk music. Jazz, Disco, Soul, Rock n Roll;black music
kennyfame 2 months ago
@kennyfame I don't wanna get into your debate but Jazz was born in New Orleans not Harlem.
bolder2009 2 months ago
@amunnokia Most blacks in Africa actually live in Cities
nice try though
BlacknesUnforgivable 3 weeks ago
@kennyfame I get what you are trying to say, but it sounds a bit naive and racist to be honest.
Cegrell 1 month ago
@Nusrat5791 OH OH! THANK YOU SLAVERY!!! THANK YOU WHITE PEOPLE FOR BUYING US CHEAP AND WORKING US LIKE CATTLE FOR GENERATIONS!!! OMG WHERE WOULD I BE WITHOUT MY FUCKING BLUES AND JAZZ AND ROCK N ROLL!!! THANK YOU WHITE PEOPLE FOR ENSLAVING MY ANCESTORS SO YOU CAN BLEED OUR CULTURE DRY POPULARIZING BLUES!!! WHILE I'M AT IT, THANK YOU OPPRESSORS OF HISTORY FOR ALL THE GOOD YOU HAVE DONE WITHIN YOUR LIFE TIME!! SPECIAL THANKS GOES OUT TO HITLER, WHERE WOULD WE BE WITHOUT THE HOLOCAUST!
Johnnyblazedanketch 4 months ago
@Johnnyblazedanketch as twisted as this may sound, all the events leading after and towards the holocaust were fucked up but in the end it boosted economy ten fold. even the world war. it's a terribly shitty way that things had to happen but such is life and we can't change it. we can only be thankful for the shit other people suffered for to have the lifestyle we have today. we would be living in an even more impoverished world than we do already.
funinsummersun 4 months ago
@funinsummersun The accepting and thankful attitude you have towards cataclysmic events in human history is wrought of apathy. My comment was towards slavery and the holocaust. War is combat. There is a major difference in the mind set of people during war vs the mind set of people enslaved or simply being "ethnically cleansed". Do not group war with the later. "But such is life", do you any idea how ridiculous you sound? Are you a log of shit floating down a river, or do you have passion?
Johnnyblazedanketch 4 months ago
@Nusrat5791
Black contribution is not debatable- but to suggest that they are the only peoples of the world who possess sex appeal, passion, or soul is incorrect.
Jalistie 3 months ago
j.cole loool
chexxonline 6 months ago
@chexxonline now i dont love no material things
jackieblam 6 months ago
Terrific way to go Billie, you are such a fantastic singer.
TxmxthyJS7868 6 months ago
My Dear Lady Day ... We Are The Same ... I Love You So Much ...
fololoo 6 months ago
What's the difference if I say, I'll go away..."
cls3201 6 months ago