I'm a Fool To Want You...

One of Billie Holiday's most requested song.
1958: "I'm a fool to want you" "is from orchestra sessions with arranger Ray Ellis. They represents Lady's first with strings since Toots Camarata's on Decca in the mid'40s. Her voice is sodden; the production big, making her appear small and vulnerable (she was); the re verb is on to help her sustain notes and lengthen their decay. But the cry, a plaintive one, is still in evidence." Arnold Jay Smith, The New School, March 1993


I'm A Fool To Want You lyrics
(J. Wolf / Herron / Frank Sinatra)

I'm a fool to want you
I'm a fool to want you
To want a love that can't be true
A love that's there for others too

I'm a fool to hold you
Such a fool to hold you
To seek a kiss not mine alone
To share a kiss that Devil has known

Time and time again I said I'd leave you
Time and time again I went away
But then would come the time when I would need you
And once again these words I had to say

Take me back, I love you
...I need you
I know it's wrong, it must be wrong
But right or wrong I can't get along

Without you

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• I'm
• Fool
• To
• Want
• You
• Billie
• Holiday

[beru1978]

Marvellous song...

[1947Rollo]

Grande Eleanora,di una bellezza che uccide.Gli effetti della vita,diciamo,un po' disordinata cominciano a segnare la sua voce che risulta ancora più intensa e straziata.Peccato che sotto c'è un Ray Ellis con una ochestrazione alquanto commerciale.

[Zirakist]

Sublime

[MissMartina95]

che meraviglia ! da brividi !

[missmaisyrosexx]

beau

[cucumber0022]

Brings a tear to my eye :'

[MissProperPosh]

A specail woman with a gorgeous voice who met a very sad end...