Billie Holiday "Havin' Myself A Time" (1938) Ralph Rainger & Leo Robin song = Vocalion 4208 = LYRICS скачать в хорошем качестве

Billie Holiday "Havin' Myself A Time" (1938) Ralph Rainger & Leo Robin song = Vocalion 4208 = LYRICS

Vocalion 4208 1938 Song written by Ralph Rainger & Leo Robin I'm having myself a time I mean I'm having what I want Wanting what I have Doing what I like And liking what I do And I'm having myself a time I never could save a dime And so I'm living like a lord Acting like a loon Lying in the sun And sighing in the moon And I'm having myself a time When I hum songs They're all dumb songs Without reason nor rhyme But I'm certainly in my prime I mean I'm happy as a bird, flying up above Want a little love and get a little love And I'm having myself a time My rule of thumb for Billie Holiday records is the earlier, the better. I adore the very earliest recordings ("Your Mother's Son-In-Law" and "Riffin' The Scotch" from 1933). I also see 1937-1938 as a high point. The 1940s were uneven for Billie as an artist, and almost nothing by Billie from the 1950s holds my attention. Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan (or Eleanor Holiday? Eleanora Fagan Gough? Elinore DeViese?) on April 7, 1915, in Baltimore (if we trust her autobiography--perhaps that is not wise) or Philadelphia (more likely--see her birth registration). Eleanora Fagan--or Billie Holiday--was also known as "Lady Day" (a nickname given by Lester Young). Some writers in books complain that Billie was forced to work with trite songs in her early days, but I no longer read such jazz commentators because of this and similar silly pronouncements. The young Billie Holiday handles so-called "trite" songs in very interesting ways, and I prefer Billie's early "trite" material to her later recordings of songs by Cole Porter, Gershwin, and other composing giants. From 1935 until a recording ban on August 1, 1942, Billie sang on around 150 sides (153? 158?) that were or became Columbia property. Original labels include Brunswick and Vocalion. She made Commodore recordings, beginning on April 20, 1939. She made Decca recordings, starting in October 1944--by this time Billie was more of a chanteuse or star of song or cabaret singer, less of a jazz singer. This was Billie as a "serious artist" (paradoxically, she was better as an artist when she wasn't trying so hard to be a serious artist--in the early days she merely sang pop songs, and she shined). That means on Decca discs she dominated records, the background musicians staying in the background. From 1952 to 1957, she sang for Norman Granz's Verve label, but Billie's voice was a pale shadow of what it had been. Some of her late work is painful to hear. Holiday died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1959.