I have to admit. I'm in love with this song. Been listening to drum and bass all day then decided to kick back. First with Nina, now Billie. God what a voice. I am in a 1930's speakeasy. . .
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@hcwollaston winehouse didn't like holiday, and i understand why. I think winehouse thought billie was too overrated. Holiday doesn't sing with much versatility, she's not my type but her rendition of "strange fruit" is pretty amazing.
Wow, makes anxious for Fall to arrive! To be all comfy and cozy on my couch, listening to Ms. Holiday... While sipping on my Bailey's and coffee! Can't wait!
What does the evening breeze do? It caresses the trees, naturally. And in such a tender deeply soft way, of course. Holiday's carrying the torch with Peterson & C. One more masterpiece, gift of an angel dropped on earth or , better said, by a galaxy apart herself.
Billie just instincitvely knew what to do with a song. She always had time, and her phrasing was always true to the lyric. Her style is all her own. A one of a kind genius!
@HERBLANDZ Hey, great "mighty mouse" image! Especially the early recordings. But this is the definitive edition of "Tenderly," as everything she sings becomes the definitive edition! I have a friend who once--after intimate acquaintance with this version--heard Sarah Vaughan's perfectly lovely rendition, and he laughed aloud at it's superficiality. Yes, Billie "hits you hard". Well said!
@68shamoa I don't remember anything about her taking her name from an actress. I'm too lazy to look for it right now, it's 5 in the morning. She did take Holiday from her father tho, so dragshoter isn't entirely wrong. I really don't remember her saying she got it the "Billie" from Billie Dove but you're probably right. I thought it was more of a play on gender roles and her fondness of the name itself.
@Brilligant A-MEN!!! (JSCRIPT--29 :-) LOL this IS beautiful!!! absolutely!!! man, i could listen to her, just this song even, all day ANY day!!! sad life, but WOW, at least things SEEMED classy back then...as times go forward, we seem to get more and more backward (just look at "music" these days...no modesty ANYwhere--it's WAY more fun to be clean than dirty...i wish kids knew that now, or could learn it b4 they're spent...fast living--ages/killz yaChristcancleaneverything that's dirty tho
She was the Innovator. All others followed her lead ..building their careers (even with their own unique talents and skills) upon the classics that she first brought forth to this world from above.
Why can't they write songs like this any more instead of some of the vulgar crap that's out there. This is romantic, slow, breath on my neck, velvet touch foreplay!
@qbingrl1 I agree with you , they are making the Negro nation into one of curruption, vulgarity instead of having such beautiful songs from Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan etc - Hats of to you
@lmargetich "A distinctive style that will never again be heard except on her recordings." Well, there's some insightful analysis. Are you retarded or just slow?
Her voice is so beautifully distinctive. I love to hear when singers do not manhandle this song. To hear "Tenderly" sung forcefully just doesnt work. This is one of the beautiful versions.
Lord this woman could sing, she picked her name from the headlines of a newspaper. She rode busses on the tours, was spit on, ridiculed and laughed at. All part of what black entertainers had to take when Billie was coming up. These singers may be dead but their voices are preserved on some records and turn up on youtube sometimes like this song.
So true, but I hear Billie was of a different breed. They say she didn't take shit from anybody (except her abusive boyfriends). I read in her bio that a white man in a bar put his cigarette out on her fur coat and she took him outside and whooped his ass. Billie could throw down with any man she wasn't sleepin' with.
@68shamoa And she made the choice to take her father's last name, Clarence Halliday, who never married her mother. Billie Holiday was born with the name Eleanore Fagan.
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Kitkatklub04 3 days ago
Great!!
fredjmp 5 days ago
La signora avevo del divino nella voce!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MsViolad 2 months ago
What a beautiful voice *.*
But..why there's a photo of Clark Gable and Carole Lombard?
missEloise97 2 months ago
amy winehouse sonds like her but she was a greastest talnt of 21 century and billie holiday time before
agata911 3 months ago
I was born in 1992, but when i listen this songs i would have been born long before!!
unmusicante 3 months ago 4
it reminds me of my parents listening to her on the radio and thinking i will always love her music
Mirabellawitch 3 months ago 2
this is one beautiful song..... makes me think of my friend Wendell Johnson who taught it to me. RIP my friend
waynealarsen 3 months ago
PRECIOSO
nonatere 3 months ago
Lovely.
ray123ification 4 months ago
I have to admit. I'm in love with this song. Been listening to drum and bass all day then decided to kick back. First with Nina, now Billie. God what a voice. I am in a 1930's speakeasy. . .
MulBerrie 4 months ago
@MulBerrie
Haha! I was listening to Joesphine Baker, Nina Simone, Shirley Bassey, and now Billie!
tigereyes5 2 months ago
Masterful, Billie!
I do also enjoy the versions sung by Amy Winehouse (at student of
the great Billie Holiday without doubt) and by Nat King Cole.
hcwollaston 5 months ago 2
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@hcwollaston winehouse didn't like holiday, and i understand why. I think winehouse thought billie was too overrated. Holiday doesn't sing with much versatility, she's not my type but her rendition of "strange fruit" is pretty amazing.
XforeverlongingX 4 months ago
Wow, makes anxious for Fall to arrive! To be all comfy and cozy on my couch, listening to Ms. Holiday... While sipping on my Bailey's and coffee! Can't wait!
tiranchula 5 months ago 3
This touches my heart. There is no other music as romantic as this era and Billie herself
maddie021409 5 months ago
ooo this old sound of music ...
MYmusicoriginal 5 months ago
ouch! it hurts bad! deep down there ...my stranded heart can recognize this as a sheer gem..
moyahn56 6 months ago
Billie will always be in our memories
MrSilverwolves 6 months ago
I believe in love.
MightyMartel 6 months ago
What does the evening breeze do? It caresses the trees, naturally. And in such a tender deeply soft way, of course. Holiday's carrying the torch with Peterson & C. One more masterpiece, gift of an angel dropped on earth or , better said, by a galaxy apart herself.
oysterpippo 7 months ago
Billie just instincitvely knew what to do with a song. She always had time, and her phrasing was always true to the lyric. Her style is all her own. A one of a kind genius!
bolder2009 7 months ago 3
And people praise Amy Winehouse...
mtsn 7 months ago
@mtsn they just don't know true talent do they.
locsman 7 months ago
@mtsn The fact that Billie be fantastic not to say that Amy may not be as well. Both artists are unique and subjective. My two favorite singers!
Tchaikovsky31 5 months ago
Heart-wrenching - I just listened to Amy Winehouse's version and came here to listen to the Queen. Made me cry before knew it.
Sheerkat7 7 months ago
Michael in San Antonio: I love you - have been so tender to me, yet you have rocked my world. Love, Carolyn
mellorslover 8 months ago
Most singers get near, Billie gets there!
kevinastraw 8 months ago 4
@kevinastraw For damn sure!!!!
butfulmuzik 8 months ago
Her later recordings are very cool too. What a unique interpretation here.
Mr7group 8 months ago
It sounds like bambi's fist steps delicate as hell billie voice is like mighty mouse.Small but hits u hard.
HERBLANDZ 9 months ago
@HERBLANDZ Hey, great "mighty mouse" image! Especially the early recordings. But this is the definitive edition of "Tenderly," as everything she sings becomes the definitive edition! I have a friend who once--after intimate acquaintance with this version--heard Sarah Vaughan's perfectly lovely rendition, and he laughed aloud at it's superficiality. Yes, Billie "hits you hard". Well said!
princeandrey 7 months ago
did SO much within that limited range
roscoegino 10 months ago 4
I love clacical standar Jazz number. From Tokyo.
jay5hotdog 11 months ago
youtube.com/watch?v=Uf6xrAC3ye0
ashworth101202 11 months ago
3 people!!!!!
rouzbehazshab 11 months ago
@dragshoter...her father's name was clarence...you should read her biography
68shamoa 1 year ago
@68shamoa I don't remember anything about her taking her name from an actress. I'm too lazy to look for it right now, it's 5 in the morning. She did take Holiday from her father tho, so dragshoter isn't entirely wrong. I really don't remember her saying she got it the "Billie" from Billie Dove but you're probably right. I thought it was more of a play on gender roles and her fondness of the name itself.
MightyMartel 8 months ago
Lady Day is incomparable. So glad to see that young folks love her instead of fawning over nobodies like Bieber and Paris Hilton.
- Brilligant, age 75
Brilligant 1 year ago 4
@Brilligant A-MEN!!! (JSCRIPT--29 :-) LOL this IS beautiful!!! absolutely!!! man, i could listen to her, just this song even, all day ANY day!!! sad life, but WOW, at least things SEEMED classy back then...as times go forward, we seem to get more and more backward (just look at "music" these days...no modesty ANYwhere--it's WAY more fun to be clean than dirty...i wish kids knew that now, or could learn it b4 they're spent...fast living--ages/killz yaChristcancleaneverything that's dirty tho
J129Script 11 months ago 3
i can totally get laid with her singing
angelbuzz123 1 year ago 3
Ah Sookie .. Sista Day .. A Gift you Where
NappyChile 1 year ago
Love it,Lucrezia!
veritasvdire 1 year ago
Dá para viajar no tempo ouvindo Billie Holiday!
O vídeo está perfeito,lindo, com uma simples imagem em preto e branco.
marlyci 1 year ago 2
SOULFUL CLASSIC
txcormorant 1 year ago 5
Billie will make a grown man cry.
roscoegino 1 year ago 12
She was the Innovator. All others followed her lead ..building their careers (even with their own unique talents and skills) upon the classics that she first brought forth to this world from above.
MultiVictorious1 1 year ago
Indeed! Perfect!!!
1972kev21 1 year ago
rip
redflare100 1 year ago
I love it so much.
DaleCredico 1 year ago
This was way before my time; but when something is marked in EXCELLENCE even if time goes by it is still beautiful. Thank you for posting it.
msolupi 1 year ago 3
Billy was the best, her vocal styling's and inflections are truly amazing !!
avilonmusic 1 year ago 2
Why can't they write songs like this any more instead of some of the vulgar crap that's out there. This is romantic, slow, breath on my neck, velvet touch foreplay!
qbingrl1 1 year ago 5
@qbingrl1 I agree with you , they are making the Negro nation into one of curruption, vulgarity instead of having such beautiful songs from Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan etc - Hats of to you
Sheila
00sheilagreasley100 1 year ago 4
Sorry for that picture !
Marcelsandja 1 year ago
perfect!
Ihugmoons 1 year ago
love her
who is the picture of?
celi88 1 year ago
@celi88
The picture is of Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, both actors and married to each other until her tragic death.
qbingrl1 1 year ago 2
billie fills the room,always.
si',i'd also like to know where you picked the background pic from.
resistanceXX1 1 year ago
I would love to be able to sing like her.
What picture did you use for the background?
ElectricAceXi 2 years ago
Think I've lived at this time in one on my previous lifes.
pemalodron 2 years ago 6
Jazz girls....las más hermosas, las más delicadas flores de la música, no hay comparación.
Kitkatklub04 2 years ago
Sim, muito lindas, charmosas, flores delicadas, comparação... talvez Elis Regina! Não jazzistica, mas maravilhosa!
pemalodron 2 years ago
One of the giants in singing. A distinctive style that will never again be heard except on her recordings.
lmargetich 3 years ago 80
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@lmargetich "A distinctive style that will never again be heard except on her recordings." Well, there's some insightful analysis. Are you retarded or just slow?
mustangred 7 months ago
@lmargetich Billie Holiday's best stuff was cut before WW2. Madeleine Peyroux is Holiday copy cat .
taariqtaariq 7 months ago
@lmargetich I can only agree with you !!
aerofredywr 3 months ago
@lmargetich Yes...and she sings like she`s singing just to you.
aerofredywr 2 months ago 4
Music "Standard" na incrivel voz de Billie Holiday
tonvides 3 years ago
Muito linda essa música!
Tchaikovsky31 3 years ago 3
I could listen to this forever, its absolutely wonderful!
prettyflesh 3 years ago 3
Her voice is so beautifully distinctive. I love to hear when singers do not manhandle this song. To hear "Tenderly" sung forcefully just doesnt work. This is one of the beautiful versions.
Reluctantwriter7 3 years ago 4
This tender voice singing Tenderly...beautiful!
kamaleoah 3 years ago 2
this is amazing....truly timeless
loopydeloop08 3 years ago 2
SUBLIME. the '50s were a dream and glamorous world.Great taste
bonanplu 3 years ago 2
Lord this woman could sing, she picked her name from the headlines of a newspaper. She rode busses on the tours, was spit on, ridiculed and laughed at. All part of what black entertainers had to take when Billie was coming up. These singers may be dead but their voices are preserved on some records and turn up on youtube sometimes like this song.
stillgotit01 3 years ago
So true, but I hear Billie was of a different breed. They say she didn't take shit from anybody (except her abusive boyfriends). I read in her bio that a white man in a bar put his cigarette out on her fur coat and she took him outside and whooped his ass. Billie could throw down with any man she wasn't sleepin' with.
martele85 3 years ago 2
@stillgotit01 She picked her name from her fav actress Billie Dove
68shamoa 2 years ago 30
@68shamoa Actually she took her name from her missing father, Billie.
dragshoter 1 year ago
@68shamoa And she made the choice to take her father's last name, Clarence Halliday, who never married her mother. Billie Holiday was born with the name Eleanore Fagan.
vaneargogh 6 months ago
What a 'Billie-Bridge' is being constructed - Tenderly...!
Dziękuję = Thank you
jurek46pink 4 years ago