July 6, 2012
Your Weekend Entertainment: Singing The Blues
We have pleasure in presenting to you Miss Billie Holiday as your entertainer for this weekend. After listening to these signature tunes by her, you will agree with us that Lady Day is the greatest female exponent of this All-American art form called the Blues. In this selection, she is accompanied by some of the best jazz men of all times.
Wikipedia–Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Harris ( April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed “Lady Day” by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo.
Critic John Bush wrote that Holiday “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“, “Fine and Mellow“, and “Lady Sings the Blues“. She also became famous for singing “Easy Living“, “Good Morning Heartache“, and “Strange Fruit“, a protest song which became one of her standards and was made famous with her 1939 recording.
Dr Kamsiah and I hope you enjoy listening to this fine and mellow voice who has become a jazz legend with few equals. –Dr. Kamsiah and Din Merican
The Lady Sings the Blues
What a Little Moonlight can do to You
Blue Moon
All or Nothing At All
All of Me
Stormy Weather
April in Paris
Crazy He Calls Me
Natalie Cole’s Version
How about this jazzy swinging tune?
Stupid idiot… he says he is having lambchop when the ISA detainees are on hunger strike – kenapa orang bijak macam Tun Hussein Onn bisa lahirkan seorang yang bangang lmacam Minister Lamb Chp ni…
This song is dedicated to Dato in his quest
~ That one man all covered with scars
still strove … `
How appropriate ” singing the blues is “. Anwar has just announced that this is his last attempt at power , Mahathir has suggested that Anwar’s announcement is all hogwash just like his stolen and wasted billions and last our bloghost has predicted that the UMNO Barisan scumbags will win GE13.
This is how bleak the future looks –
. So lets sing the blues together.
forget the politicians and enjoy the weekend guys.
at least the musicians give us something for the little what we pay them, on the contrary to the bloody politicians especially in countries like ours who misuse our trust.
To Mr. Bean, You ain’t heavy, my bro.
Dato : Thanks for posting these songs.
Ben Webster, Gerry Mulligan, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge accompanying the magical blues voice of Billie Holiday. I do not think there was ever such a combination again.
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I am sure you like Mr. Xavier Cugat. Cheers–Din Merican
Many thanks, Dato.
I’m sorry ladies ! Yesterdays teens are today’s grandmas. While we guys age like wine, the older we get the better we are and more attractive to the women folk, the gals just age over time. Have you ever wondered how our girldriends never get old? Our girlfriends get younger as we get older. Don’t believe? Ask Dato.
“To all the gals I loved before who now are someone else’s wives …”
I like that.