Georgia on my mind -- Billie Holiday

[6669audrey]

I love you Lady Day!!!

[bluegibby7]

Queen Billie ,,,, what can i say ...

[Cosifantuttee]

3 ‎people are music ignorants

[donadalua1]

Papaiiiii...tem Billy ai no inferno??...Heimm???...Não entendi a resposta!!...M#*&...

[bettyboop19671]

this woman had the voice of an angel. Sublime

[giuffre714]

If she were perfect, it would be her only flaw.

[taureau20]

This is not a song... flip it the other way, you will see an entire world but only a grain of dust resting on its silky fabric.

[Aldebaron9]

@taureau20 very nice... born in May?

[all4musica]

Beautiful~~

[ThePogmahone]

Dedicated to MrRonnieG who returned home in 1970 from several strenuous years in the Army in Georgia

[julyarchives]

What a great tune .Sung by a genious

[83mpcc83]

What a voice, what a song, what a woman!

[ThisPrettyNerd]

timeless!

[GNYBerlin]

Just an old sweet song... 

[amrq85]

I love Georgia, every time I visit its a whole new wonderful world of experiences. I can see why anyone would have it in their mind :).

[JeffRebornNow]

This is an outtake from a session, it was not the released version, which is better.

[over18mya5s]

@JeffRebornNow Although this isn't the released version.. I prefer this one so much more. I don't know why - They're both brilliant! Her voice has that subtly "huskiness" to it, and I think that it's so much more present here.

Either way, they're both fabulous. She's fabulous. I was just giving an opinion, and I can't remember why..

[chelsearayl]

i love this version..........

[jazzgirl1986]

Love Billie for her soft singing. No yelling, just caress.

[monkeys350]

@jazzgirl1986 Yet you can still hear the soul in her voice. It's brilliant.

[clarrisina]

simply beautiful!

[RaceIsOpen]

very nice, very, very nice....and nice information @ Nd179!

[krmeegs]

BEST...  VERSION... EVER!!!!

[JNRoDz]

When I first heard this song, heard her voice, it just brought tears to my eyes, she has such a beautiful voice.

[TheKiddelish]

& I thank whatever stars may be

that i was graced to share this Earth,  - for a time- with such a great Heart

and the Courage to pour it out --to strangers -

like ourselves, who may have forgotten,

nor perhaps ever even tried to love. for real

Tears are salty. Salt is sweet

what a tangled web we weave .. you know the rest.

Strider

[pedjorge]

What a voice!!! Billie!

[brunoperrone1]

la voce piu sexi de jazz!!!!

[vegantrooper]

wow. wow. wow.

[pierluigibaglioni]

Certi babbani imberbi o implumi più sono ignoranti più cianciano o gracchiano...

[nannaDIluca]

UNA CARICATURA : "c'è cioè io l'ho sentita perchè cioè la volevo confrontare con quella di amici ma cioè che schifo che cos'è questa robba vecchia la fa molto meglio silvia che è un mito è bravissima esprime una cifra cioè mica questa che pare mia nonna io non le posso sentire ste canzoni meravigliose rovinate da sti vecchi ma poi cioè questa 'ndo va dovrebbe stare a casa a stirare mentre noi giovani votiamo amici " Ahahahhaha

[nannaDIluca]

aahahah bleah???babba bia che gente!!babba bia fammi chiudere gli occhi davanti a questo commento..babba bia come si può? :D

[Rose06Marie]

Maravilhosamente perfeita!!!!

[potatoepeter1]

Billie Holiday=the best absolut

[OldieMusicMan]

This song is my current obsession. It's wonderful to hear it in its up- and down-tempo performances. It's beautiful.

Finding this Billie Holiday performance is a wonderful treat!

[Nd179]

This song was written by a small town Indiana boy named Hoagy Carmichael in the late 1920's. He turned out to be one of the most influential song writers of the century, being named by many as "the first of the singer-song writers." Best known for writing Stardust, the world of music would be amiss if not for Hoagy and this beautiful recording of "Georgia."

[Nd179]

(PS: Even George Harrison loved Hoagy Carmichael and covered one of his songs, "The Hong Kong Blues.")

[TheKiddelish]

@Nd179 yeah!

A necessary moment in the Quality of our culture.

we not only drink the Culture,

we MAKE it.

Strider

[ILiveOnMyBoat]

@Nd179 thanks for that info will be looking into this songwriter - is a great influence on so many there after.

[msreenie]

Ray Charles put such an imprint on this song, I didn't know it was this old. Lady Day's rendition more than does it justice though, I must say.

[liulao1]

DIVINA.

[alitalia5]

bleah

[TheRileyMurphy]

bleah?se non ci fosse stata lei molte delle porcherie di cantanti non avrebbero neanche motivo di esistere sappilo!

[salinlucio121]

what year?

[albatros777]

My most moving memory of this song was hearing it sung in France... I decided to wander in to a jazz club there. I was surprised to be treated with Jazz standards all in English. The accents were enough I wasn't sure of their command of English. But it was very moving to share the appreciation of the music with people so far from my home.

[charliebubblesoar]

never heard this before. wow, she can sing anything and make it my favourite version. she's got this power over music that will forever be. yes!

[NBP2811]

love it so so much.... make me sad and smile at same time :))

[frankbar007]

OLD SONG KEEPS GEORGIA IN MY EYES !!!

[78timothy]

Lady's interp is right on the money.

This song was written in 1930, by Hoagy Carmichael (I have the Victor 78 of this w/ Carmichael's orch. w/a great Cornet solo by Bix. back to Billie. She takes this song just right. Carmichael wrote this song, not as a tribute to the peachtree state, but as a love song to a woman named Georgia that he was invloved with while he was a Law Student.

[eternallyverdant]

@78timothy I'd pay good money for a copy of that. Bix and Billie are two of my favorite musicians.

[PressCheck]

The Lady was AWESOME!

[freakingpansies]

perfectt.

[adamsimmons59]

A lady

[LowOnCreativityy]

This is the first time I've heard it sung by Billie...she rocked it.

[maximusdudeus]

I just heard Alicia Keys and Jamie Foxx ruin this song and it's so reassuring to know that here is someone who sings it so beautifully.

[rockstarJ19]

that is so true =)

i love this song i sang it for my talent show :)

I personally think I sang it better than alicia keys:P

[margretpelovska]

An amazing voice,comming from an incredibly talented woman!!!!!

[sarvsen]

nice

[07500759370]

Billie holiday had do much soul it just pours out of her. Thanku God for her love. What a gift to sing the worlds joy and pain. There will never be another she was unbelievable real and so raw' I love you Billie you are blessed for what you gave the world.

[locinty]

Unfortunately,God has nothing to do,with Billie Holiday,read about the living condition of blacks,trapped in poor housing,during Ms. Holiday's upbringing,and you'll know..;listen to "Strange Fruit",this is pain,down deep,below,incomprehensible, to an anglo,(uk),borne 22 yeas after her death..

[themulefaceddoll]

All human suffering is relevant. FYI Look up highland clearances, my people (the celts) were ethnically clensed and enslaved for centuries. Just because someone is "anglo" by that Im sure you mean white, and was born long after a song doesnt mean they cant understand the pain and tragic beauty. Thats what people like you dont understand, music, especially music like this TRANSLATES no matter who you are!

[saharra22469]

IT's true, My white ancestors were being killed, tortured in Europe. One women with her six month old baby was being driven in a wagon to the water to be drowned because she was Mennonite. She held up her baby as the crowd in town jeered and threw stones and dirt and said, "will someone take my healthy baby boy". They did, to work him on their farms as a slave. She was drowned alive as the town cheered.

[Baltzley1]

My husband's family left Switzerland in the 1700s. They hooked up with a mass evacuation of German Mennonites to the United States. We don't have any specific horror stories but things must have been bad to submit your family to an Atlantic crossing in 1754.

[saharra22469]

Yes, they were cruel. I have more stories that were handed down to me. These stories were told amid a circle of relatives during family gatherings...to their young. In this way, everyone listened, everyone was juror and judge...so that only the exact truth was told. These gatherings were their history books....verbal and passed down from generation to generation. I am somewhat alienated from all religion today. I have morals. PPL can do good without all the brainwashing, killing and fear.