Billie Holiday recorded what was almost her last hit song, “God Bless the Child," on this date in 1941,with the Eddie Heywood Orchestra featuring Roy Eldridge on trumpet. Shortly before this session, ...
Billie Holiday’s ‘God Bless the Child’ Gave Blacks Their Own Mournful But Hopeful ‘Over the Rainbow’
Of all the words of wisdom my mother has passed on to me, the earliest ones I remember have been the most useful. She told me I could achieve any goal I set for myself, but being Black, I would have ...
Billie Holiday’s “God Bless The Child” has a modernized and personal arrangement by Dudley with a funky and electric background. Her passionate singing is echoed by altoist Moses and they conclude the ...
A former member of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church interrogates her relationship with the movement, widely regarded as a cult. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an ...
Billie Holiday’s ‘God Bless the Child’ Gave Blacks Their Own Mournful But Hopeful ‘Over the Rainbow’
A columnist writes that "God Bless the Child" is at least as historically important as "Strange Fruit" to the Black community, with its bracing mixture of hard-scrabble practicality and hope. Of all ...
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