Billie Holiday - What A Little Moonlight Can Do

The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia Volume 1
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Charlie Teagarden, Shirley Clay (tp) Jack Teagarden (tb) Benny Goodman(cl) Art Karle (ts) Buck Washington (p)Dick McDonough(g) Artie Bernstein (b) Gene Krupa (d)Deane Kincaide (arr)Billie Holiday (v)
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Lyrics by: Harry Woods

Ooh, ooh, ooh
What a little moonlight can do
Ooh, ooh, ooh
What a little moonlight can do to you
You're in love
Your heart's fluttering all day long
You only stutter cause your poor tongue
Just will not utter the words
'I love you'
Ooh, ooh, ooh
What a little moonlight can do
Wait a while
Till a little moonbeam comes peepin' through
He'll get bored
You can't resist him
All you'll say
When you have kissed him is
Ooh, ooh, ooh
What a little moonlight can do
Ooh, ooh, ooh

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Music

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• billie
• holiday
• what
• little
• monnlight
• can
• do
• complete
• columbia

[fromthesidelines]

Actually, this is Teddy Wilson's band backing Billie here, from her first session with them, recorded on July 2, 1935:

Teddy Wilson, piano

Benny Goodman, clarinet

Ben Webster, tenor sax

Roy Eldridge, trumpet

John Kirby, string bass

John Trueheart, guitar

Cozy Cole, drums

[rth095]

Benny's opening clarinet solo.....EPIC

[gjc82071]

I have this CD set....comes with a DVD too right?

[MrBillhouston]

Flawless!! Especially Teddy Wilson on piano. He ends his solo like someone falling down a staircase, only to recover his balance at the last second, while making it all seem like it was planned that way from the beginning. I get the feeling he could do it while walking a tightrope across Niagara Falls.

[cambpete]

For me, 3 minutes of perfection. Why don't we hear this song played this way anymore? Rhythm section is SWINGING and the soloing is beautiful.

[SatchmoSings]

You've got the personnel all wrong!

That's from her first session in 1933!

[jeanmariefagon]

Swinging perfection. All the Teddy Wilson / Billie sides are phenomenal, and there are so many... This really lifts the soul.

[peoplesrepub0fEmily]

Ooh, ooh, ooh..*sigh*

[magpieeye]

OMG, this song is on the other side of "If you were mine" I have the 78, in fact I have 4 records. Never been able to listen to what they sound like, until NOW. Thank you so much for uploading these songs!