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RENEE MONTAGNE, host: The new CD-DVD set is called "Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection." And no one can argue with that. It contains every song Billie Holiday ever wrote, plus TV, radio and ...
Recordings from all phases of Billie Holiday's career have been widely reissued on CD, from single and double-disc "best of" collections to 10-CD box sets packed with alternate takes, photos and ...
His images comprise the largest collection of photos from any single Holiday club engagement. The exhibit titled, Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic, challenges the tragic ...
With a formidable voice and a heroin addiction to match, Billie Holiday was the textbook example ... drug use and troubling images. Running time: 2 hours 10 minutes. When and where: Begins ...
“Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday,” Legacy. A two-CD set containing many of the classic sides Holiday cut for Columbia and its Brunswick, Vocalion and Okeh labels in the 1930s and early ...
Singer Billie Holiday records her penultimate album, Lady in Satin, at the Columbia Records studio in December 1957 in New York City. [Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images] Abel Meeropol ...
Back in the 1950s, when the American people were buying television sets and driving gas guzzlers on brand new superhighways under the threat of nuclear war, singer Billie Holiday was still turning out ...
Moore Billie Holiday is one of the foremost vocalists ... a Jewish American who was moved to write it after seeing images of a lynching in a newspaper. All the pain of the world and Billie ...