Billie Holiday: Glad To Be Unhappy

[atepope2]

I heard this song at a nightclub and Shazammed it, great job.

[honeybee7700]

makes me cry

[EdNortonisMineLol]

You can't beat Miss Holiday

[ladykind21]

so great....so very very great

[rdw7300]

She is the greatest singer in all of human history.

[jetit]

@rdw7300 next to Ella that is..lol smile

[dannybrazil07]

Wondeful!!!

[ursomtl]

I cry mostly every time I ear this song! So much life and love experience!

[demarcos69]

*what a voice....

[damone77]

The beautiful strings and the voice told a story like no other. thank you for the post.

[archduke55]

No one has written a better son than this - music and lyrics - for the 80 years since it was penned.

And Billie's version, of all the great ones, it perhaps the zenith. Who else perfected the art of Being Unhappy in an ecstatic way more thoroughly than she?

[cosmos34]

Billie was the best. :-)

[Ballatadelleroe]

@cosmos34 Billie IS the best (:

[BigTabby33]

One of the best performances by Lady Day, paired with an effective and sweeping orchestral score. This ballad hits deep and haunts you well after the last note.

[Lorenzovic]

@BigTabby33 Ehm... BigT... writing this is one of the best performances by BH is rather rash, in my opinion...

Actually, it was recorded few months before her death, when her voice and timbre had almost completely been spoiled. This recording is well-known just because was her last but one, and has been recently reissued.

We can call it moving, intense, still strong in spite of everything, but certainly not BH at her best.

Perhaps the last great BH is on "Songs for distingué lovers" (1956).