Billie Holiday, Abe Lyman's Orch - I Cried For You (1936)

Added: Sep 7, 2008

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Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 -- July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter.Nicknamed Lady Day by her sometime collaborator Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz, and pop singing. Her vocal style - strongly inspired by instrumentalists - pioneered a new way of manipulating wording and tempo, and also popularized a more personal and intimate approach to singing. Critic John Bush wrote that she "changed the art of American pop vocals forever." She co-wrote only a few songs, but several of them have become jazz standards, notably "God Bless the Child," "Don't Explain," and "Lady Sings the Blues."-----------------Abe Lyman (August 4, 1897 - October 23, 1957) was a popular bandleader from the 1920s to the 1940s. He made recordings, appeared in films and provided the music for numerous radio shows, including Your Hit Parade.His name at birth was Abraham Simon Lymon. Abe and his brother Mike changed their last name to Lyman because they both thought it sounded better. Abe learned to play the drums when he was young, and at the age of 14 he had a job as a drummer in a Chicago café. Around 1919, Abe was regularly playing music with two other notable future big band leaders, Henry Halstead and Gus Arnheim in California.Lyman moved the band to New York in 1933 and his orchestra began appearing on Your Hit Parade in 1937. He recorded into the 1940s before dying in Beverly Hills.Billie Holiday, Abe Lyman's California Ambassador Hotel Orchestra, Gus Arnheim, Arthur Fried - I Cried For You (1936)I hope my information is right. If not - please let me know it.

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