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“You took the part that once was my heart
So why not take all of me”

Billie,,, https://youtu.be/ygczl3nBrU8?list=RDGMEMTmC-2iNKH_l8gQ1LHo9FeQ
Billie Holiday

– Come Rain Or Come Shine (1955)

https://youtu.be/bWtUzdI5hlE?list=RDGMEMTmC-2iNKH_l8gQ1LHo9FeQ
Billie Holiday – The Blues Are Brewin’

https://youtu.be/tK4XwBrAZSs?list=RDMM
Nina Simone- “Mississippi Goddam” Live 1968

https://youtu.be/3gmwuE9ft8o?list=RDMM
Billie Holiday – Billie’s Blues (Live @ New York’s Metropolitan Opera House) Commodore Records 1944
“Billie’s Blues” is a blues song written by jazz singer Billie Holiday, composing it just before being recorded in a session in 1936. According to the article in Melody Maker, 1 August 1936:
https://youtu.be/3gmwuE9ft8o?list=RD3gmwuE9ft8o

Billie’s accompanied by All-Star Jam Band… Roy Eldridge (tp) Jack Teagarden (tb) Coleman Hawkins (ts) Barney Bigard (cl) Art Tatum (p) Al Casey (g) Oscar Pettiford (b) Sidney Catlett (d) Billie Holiday (v)…This session celebrates a very special evening – this was Billie Holiday’s first presentation in a major concert hall and those lucky enough to have concert tickets saw her become the first black woman to sing on stage at the Metropolitan. The show was the “Esquire” magazine’s All-American First Annual Jazz Concert and there Billie was presented with the 1943 female vocalist of the year. The show was partially broadcast. The slow tempo track is almost ruined by Catlett out-of-mood interventions and loud comments behind also don’t help, making the audience laugh, but Billie in true fashion is not deturred by such antics.

I love my man I’m liar if I say I don’t 
I love my man I’m liar if I say I don’t
But I’ll quit my man
I’m liar if I say I won’t
I’ve been your slave baby 
Ever since I’ve been your babe
 I’ve been your slave
Ever since I’ve been your babe 
But before I’ll be your dog
I’ll see you in your grave

https://youtu.be/jEH6eDpjgRw?list=RD3gmwuE9ft8o
(1925) Josephine Baker dancing the original charleston

https://youtu.be/P9BFVeZr5Sc?list=RD3gmwuE9ft8o&t=11
Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Up Above My Head (France 1965)

https://youtu.be/D6mFGy4g_n8?list=RD3gmwuE9ft8o
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra – Take The A Train (1962)