ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1958
Jezik: Engleski
Oblast: Muzika
Autor: Strani

Billie Holiday, William Dufty - Lady Sings the Blues
Popular Giant, 1958
192 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro, potpis na predlistu.

G208

`The Autobiography Of The Foremost Living Singer Of The Blues... Skillful, Shocking, Brutal.` NEW YORK TIMES

`One of the most candid self-portraits ever painted on a typewriter.`
NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE

Billie Holiday describes her early childhood in an East Baltimore ghetto, her career as an internationally acclaimed jazz vocalist, and her years in bondage to a drug habit...

1. Some other spring
2. Ghost of yesterdays
3. Painting the town red
4. If my heart could only talk
5. Getting some fun out of life
6. Things are looking up
7. Good morning, Heartache
8. Trav`lin` Light
9. Sunny side of the street
10. The moon looks down and laughs
11. I can`t get started
12. Mother`s son-in-law
13. One never knows
14. I`m pulling through
15. The same old story
16. Too hot for words
17. Don`t know if I`m coming or going
18. Trav`lin` all alone
19. I`ll get by
20. No-good man
21. Where is the sun?
22. I must have that man
23. Dream of life
24. God bless the child

Lady Sings the Blues is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred autobiography of Billie Holiday, the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation. Taking the reader on a fast-moving journey from Holiday’s rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood (where she ran errands at a whorehouse in exchange for the chance to listen to Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith albums), to her emergence on Harlem’s club scene, to sold-out performances with the Count Basie Orchestra and with Artie Shaw and his band, this revelatory memoir is notable for its trenchant observations on the racism that darkened Billie’s life and the heroin addiction that ended it too soon. We are with her during the mesmerizing debut of “Strange Fruit”; with her as she rubs shoulders with the biggest movie stars and musicians of the day (Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Clark Gable, Benny Goodman, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and more); and with her through the scrapes with Jim Crow, spats with Sarah Vaughan, ignominious jailings, and tragic decline. All of this is told in Holiday’s tart, streetwise style and hip patois that makes it read as if it were written yesterday.


Nonfiction, Music