Billie Holiday The Complete Commodore and Decca Masters Verve Music Group 2010
In 1959, Nina Simone made a black-pride point about her hit single, "I Loves You Porgy," very publicly proclaiming that she refused to use the (to her) demeaning dialect pronunciation "loves," substituting "love." It was the same year that Billie Holiday died, but few remembered that Holiday had, without fanfare, simply sang "love" instead of "loves" in her exquisite 1948 recording of the Gershwin song. That Decca recording, as well as 51 other recordings Holiday made between 1939 and 1950, many of them seminal classics, are collected in this 'limited edition,' clothbound 6" X 7 1/2" book set of three CDs, complete with illuminating essay by Ashley Kahn and a generous selection of photos, all presented on heavy glossy stock...
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