[Dixielandjazz] Billie Holiday was 16 year old singer (All Of Me)

[Steve Barbone]

"c kirkwood" <dixielandsinger at hotmail.com>
> All of me
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3bnNL9Sc-0

Thanks for that site. She is not bad for 16. What I also liked about the
site was that if you stay on it, you get Billie Holiday singing "Strange
Fruit".

That was a very powerful song for her. She usually ended the evening with it
because she would drain emotionally whenever she sang it. I remember 2 of
those those performances which I saw. Depending upon who was in the club
audience, some people walked out because they couldn't, or wouldn't relate
to it back in the late 1940s early 1950.

See it below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQTWVgKZtlg&NR

Cheers,
Steve Barbone