Billie Holiday Unplugged (An Unaired 1956 Interview)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2024
- This is a very rare Billie Holiday interview that hasn't been heard since it was given (presumably in the summer of 1956). In it, Holiday promotes her newest album for Clef (later Verve) Records titled "Velvet Mood" as well as her best selling autobiography "Lady Sings the Blues." The reason for the interview not airing was because the radio station feared that listeners would think that Holiday was drunk during the interview because of her slurred speech.
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The interviewer treated Billy with complete respect. I didn't expect that.
But Harry Anslinger was hunting her down, even back then, because of a brilliant song about a horrible aspect of the American South.
“Unaired”.
billie*
Anslinger hated blacks period. Anslinger wanted to target all black jazz musicians. Armstrong was on the list too.
Why not???
It's so enjoyable hearing Miss Billie's voice so clear. Feels like she's sitting right in front of me. Thanks so much for sharing this treasure!!!!
Two big myths busted here - she listens to other singers' stuff more than her own, and she prefers concert halls...she breaks my heart, the horrible men and dealers sucking her life and all that Art away..the purest and most unaffected of singers. Hail the queen.
Hello 👋 Susie
How are you doing today
This is INDEED, WONDERFUL!
My heart is FULL...
I was addicted for decades and can tell you, it were not the men at the first place.
A full blown junkie would walk Mount Everest for a hit.
Let's not forget that her parents did not do her any favors! That's where all her hardships began and likely messed her up for life.
This woman never got the accolades she deserved. She was a true activist for black people. I love Billie Holiday because she loved black people.
Yes. Though Ella went through hell and never turned to drugs.
@@juliejensen7370 Why compare the two? Jerk.
So do I. A very talented woman who had two strikes against her....
@@juliejensen7370 Did Ella see a lynching and have a mother who had her daughter live in a brothel? Some people are stronger than others.
Steph..
How stupid does this sound?
I love any white person who loves white people.
Thats the same thing as what you said.
Anybody else here from the Hulu Documentary!? 😊🎶🍉🍑🍓🍍
Yup !
Me
The movie was pretty good
Yup now I’m googling her
Billie Holiday Are Jazz Herself 🎶 🎶.. Lady Day.. She Is 🌼 🌼.. Think GOD That She Told Her Story Then!! And That Our Black African American's Movie Star's Of Today 🎥 🎥 Are Telling Her Story 🙏 🙏.. R.I.P. Billie Holiday 🌼 🌼.
Andra Brought BILLIE ALLLLLLLLLL THE WAY BACK TO LIFE
Yes
Anybody else here after watching the The United states vs Billie Holiday on HULU?
Yes I just watched it it was deep I loved it!!I love lady sings the blues but this one puts more light on what was really going on in her life and why the government was on her. And lady sings the blues they didn't give too much detail and I damn sure didn't mention that song strange fruit. The lyrics to that song is so real and so dramatic, she truly captured our pain and I can see why the government didn't want her to sing that song. Is simply because some of their guilt they had to accept because they know they was bogus as hell
I watched it Sunday. Sad movie and too many men were evil and sellouts. But a great movie.
DURING
The movie tells so much I didn’t know. Billie Holiday is GREAT! And Andra Day did an incredible job!
@@javonasingleton1165 PREACH ON!! @Javona Singleton - That's Why Our Black African American Singer's!! Like Mrs. Diana Ross, Lady Sings The Blue's 🎶 1972.. And Andra Day, The United State's Vs. Billie Holiday 🎼2021.. Are Keeping Billie Holiday 🌼 🌼.. Memories Alive.. So The Whole World 🌎.. Can See And Know.
He did a good job interviewing her in
my opinion. He allowed her to speak and very respectful in her thought process and just a overall lovely interview.
The legendary Billie Holiday still lives on! Thanks to Lee Daniels and Audra Day for bringing her back into our lives.
YEEESSSSS!!!! I saw the movie on HULU they did an amazing job, thet need to get the NAACP Awards for best movie, director and actress.
Fuck Lee Daniels.
@@deborahfox3943 i was about to say the same thing fuck that demon
You mean "Andra Day"?
She’s very modest, it’s refreshing!
I just love her “ giggling” about herself! She’s so down to earth! She’s an Aries like me. She can laugh at herself and yet remain so humble! She always thought “ she could do it better” Yet, she was so awesome! Those are the best people! So modest and humble! I hope she finally found peace on the other side.
Andra day spoke just like her in the movie 🙌🏾
Andra could be the reincarnation of Billie! I've never seen such a great biographical performance. I had to keep reminding myself I wasn't actually watching Billie.
@@bdonnici If she doesn't win an Oscar for her role then we know that something is really wrong.
I'm here after watching the movie, and I would've never guessed that this was her 1st acting role, she delivered hands down.
@@gjproducer313 Unfortunately she won't win because she's up against Viola Davis (whom will win) which is bitter sweet because Day nailed this role, not taking anything from Viola because she was also good & is deserving of the Oscar.
Apparently Whoever Decided She Was Drunk Didn’t Know A Harlem Dialect, Or Just Didn’t Listen To The Interview, Her Singing Voice Is The Same Just More Passionate, Her Voice Is That Of A Hard Life, But Well Lived, Lesser People Couldn’t Have Made Or Accomplished As Much. RIP Lady Day
I'm from NYC and have lived in Harlem. I love in Billie to DEATH, she's drunk. Drunk and high as hell. She sounds like a typical Harlem drug addict.
She sounds high on heroine.
She was high. And I think they should have aired it. Hearing her high wouldn't have made un-impressionable people run out to get heroine. She sang high. Hell most of the musicians then were high, also on heroine. They still performed. No one was afraid the audience would run out in droves to go buy heroine & get high. The interviewer knew she was high & he kept her on track & was very professional.
@@Juan35.29 And love her no matter what she is.... Wish she was able to live clean and sober. Love her music.
Thank you for that
Human beings can carry a lot of pain around in their bodies. Sad!
Yes, that is so true Vickie
So they do and when they express it we are all soothed
Billlie Hoilday aka Lady, Billie was so misunderstood All Billie wanted was Love All the triumph and Tribulation Billie was 1 of a kind so pure and genuine, This was a special treat her Billie Holiday in the radio I pray she found peace on the other side She will always be remembered and showed love through he music Rest on Paradise Mrs Billie Holiday ❤❤🥰😍
I loved her story but I hate the price she had to pay! Love is what she needed and all the people around her did was take from her and abuse her!
Andra was spot on with imitating her voice.... wow
I wish I could hug her
Me too
Me too. 😢
Same
Me too!
Like all the rarest legends of the arts, she sounds timeless and ahead of her time. Like someone from our time is speaking to a reporter from the 50's. He sounds so dated. She doesn't at all.
He comes across like a robot! Firing questions at her with no heart or soul and a complete lack of interest. Shame SMH!
@@nolovelost4020 I felt the same way 😟
@@courtneylia7383
Me too!
She’s plain spoken like a lot of Black Americans
The interviewer is completely inept; Billie, on the other hand, is honest, forthright and enjoyable to listen to.
Billie was one of the most talented and most beautiful people of all time. I pray her soul is resting in peace and love. She is incredible to listen to in an interview and singing.
MY FAVORITE SINGER IN THE WORLD!!! I WILL ALWAYS LOVE BILLIE HOLIDAY. IF BILLIE HOLIDAY LIVED TO AT LEAST 80 YEARS OLD, SHE WOULD OF HAD ALOT MORE GREAT RECORDINGS. BILLIE INSPIRED ME. WHEN I WAS ABOUT 11 I HEARD HER MUSIC FOR THE FIRST TIME, AND THATS WHEN I KNEW THAT I WANTED TO SING. SHE HAD SO MUCH EMOTION IN HER SONGS. I READ HER BOOK AND I CRIED ALOT. I KNOW THAT SHE SUFFERED, BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT SHE IS ONE OF THE GREATEST SINGERS TO ME OF ALL TIME. AND WILL ALWAYS B MY FAVORITE. FOREVER. R.I.P. BILLIE YOU WILL ALWAYS B LOVED!!!
She's my favorite singer in the world as well. No one else comes close.
Beautiful ❤️👑
@@nkululekonazo5755 Taurus
Her voice, singing or speaking, is pure.
'That's right, singing and, even more, talking.'
This is Billie's painful decline period and her voice was no longer "pure" at all. She was often raspy and would drink while recording during this time. You want to hear her sounding pure? try recordings of her in the 40's and 30's.
She was probably high again
@@stephanybayne7423 SHUT UP😤
@@ClearOutSamskaras Oh...so your'e a musicologist??
Amazing sound quality considering how old this is.
I know I was kinda thinking the same thing it's pretty clear could've been today ya know.
It's from 1956., not 1806, there's no reason to expect it to not sound good.
Im pretty sure modern engineering has maid it possible to improve sound quality.
Good point... I'm 62 and this was about 3 years before I was born in late 1958! Then again, this was a professional radio studio?
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The actor who played her did a great job.
Yes she did loved it
Yes she did she sound just like Billie Holiday 😮
She sure did,as well as the guy who played the FBI agent. Excellent movie.
I love her, her music has transformed me in a lot of ways.
She sounds like a little girl to me, speaking or singing. Her laugh is so cute. Love u lady day always & forever. Happy born day & may God rest your soul. 4-7-20
Lady Day was truly a genuine and legendary performer who wasn't afraid to stand up for what she believed in and she paid a great price for standing up instead of being silenced, the government went through great lengths to silence her voice and art by even going to the lowest levels of exploiting her addiction to do so. Praying that her truth will be told and that she receives the honor due to her. In 1939 she was a powerful voice for civil rights through her rendition of Strange Fruit, which protested the injustices we see still today 82 years later. She was a voice of the people using her art to convey an important message of the need for equality, acknowledgement and justice. Looking forward to Hulu's new movie highlighting this part of her story
“Are you afraid of everything that wiggles?” Slick joker 🤣🤣🤣🤣
She speaks exactly as she sings
Billie was so hurt had a messed up childhood and u can hear it in her voice poor lady full of talent and was very much unhappy and in pain wish she could of got the help she needed 😔🌺rip lady day
Great interview i really love her laugh it's so cute she's an amazing Woman❤️RIP Lady Day🌹
One of the strongest, most talented, unique & inspirational talents of our time ... so hurt and taken advantage of by everything and everyone in her path.. truly sad..
That was a very classy interview, it's like they both have good manners
Her voice is one of the most distinctive in music history like DMX and Pavarotti.
my mom was a super fan and performed her songs. jazz was all in my house. I grew up listening to her. I'm 52 now and still listen to her all the time.
Andra bought the spirit of Billie Hoilday to life the govt targeted this woman for singing about lynching and when she wouldnt shut up and stop singing they made her life hell please watch the movie it was so good...RIP Ms. Holliday
I loved the movie
This movie is engraved in my soul! Andra really captured Billies presence and it’s a one of a kind piece of work, this project was truly amazing it’s like lee Daniels hardly ever misses !!
I have been a fan of Billie Holiday for years. Her short life was tragic from the start, but she was a tough lady that left this earth too soon. My heart breaks listening to this interview - she sounds so tired. Out of all the recordings that she's done, her last album "Lady in Satin" that was released months before her death, makes me cry. One of the greatest legends of the 20th century. RIP, Lady Day.
This is fantastic! What a treat to get to know Billie this way.
I have always loved her speaking voice.
Nice interview. I love the host. He has a great voice and he was very respectful. I appreciate that. Holiday is a legend.
Such a dear lady , so real and honest
Hilarious strokes, full with loving, emphatic attitude.❤
Andra had her voice down packed wow she really really pulled her voice off really well!!
She really did an amazing job. That's why i wish major studios or streaming channels would get the rights to black music biopics instead of freaking Lifetime. It's like Night and Day.
She sounded so much like her it’s downright scary. I would’ve never thought she hadn’t acted before! She was transformative as Billie
I love her so much. The first time I heard her voice I fell in love with her. She was raw and real. So much pain and sadness in her voice. She as the power to touch every emotions in you. She was the greatest ever.
Her speaking voice is musical - which shouldn't have been a surprise. Love the way she says "stahm" for storm. That's old NYC.
This interviewer was so on point, he allowed Ms. Holiday to answer her questions honestly and in a breezy manner. Shame on the radio station for not airing this wonderful conversation with the legend of my people , Ms. Billie Holiday.
omg i love her speaking voice, never heard her just have a conversation other than singing
I have loved this woman since I was 7 years old I’m almost 40 and I still love her.
The very same for me ♡
She sound so sweet and modest.
WOW 1956 SHE WAS AHEAD OF HER TIME ITS A GIFT
Both my parents were born in 56...lol!
She sounds so nice ,,I do enjoy her music. RIP BILLIE. I LOVE U ❤ 💙 💚 💜
Shes my favorite n like lady day says aint no bodys bussiness if i do
I love lady day. N like she says aint nobodys bussiness if. I do
She has a beautiful voice just talking! RIP Mrs Billy Holiday 🙏 💙 🎵
Oh my god I love her, she seems so nice, I want to give her a hug.
She's my most beloved lady of Jazz, and this interview was made when I was born, great staff.
The only thing I have to say for Ms. Audra Day is this: " lady walk up to the stage and collect your Academy Award"👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍
You know hollyweird won’t do that.
Stranger things have happened Ms. Wynn.
@@vernaburton7 lets hope! She certainly deserves it and thank you to the person who put the story together.
Know that you are admired amongst the hispanic community Queen 👑 of Jazz
It's great to see Billy Holiday smiling. She had a hard life
and she certainly deserves our love and respect.
This is my idol. I love billie
I just 💙 her voice & giggle.
I just watched the Hulu bellie holiday documentary movie: wow is all I can say. Thank you bellie for your heroic efforts and truthful words. Rize up high and higher for ever.💗
At age 42, when she recorded this interview, you can hear disturbing weakness in her voice due to smoking, drinking and drug abuse. she died 2 years later. R.I.P.
lloyd bonardi , really idiot, what are you a ghost Doctor. Incredibly obtuse to even comment as such. We watch the piece because we respect and are influenced by the art. If I could I'd delete this ignorant comment
Well they are just staying an obvious fact.
@@musicfeign6349 I think you are the idiot for saying what you said. It seems to me that you are living in a fantasy world and don't know a thing about real life. This is real life and we all are humans and overcome adversities in our live. I think you should apologize for that harsh rude out of place comment of yours.
Yes she's faded you can hear the weakness in her voice. Billie was a tortured soul
Actually any abuse she had was only one trying to SUSTAIN against all the afflictions hurled at her, as if she were meat to Piranha’s!!! Xo
My love to Billie....what a woman.
Billy comes around for ever generation .
VERY good quality & clear for an old interview! She sounds a little tired though like she's out of breath sometimes. Thanks for this information it's wonderful!!! 😊
I love her voice, it’s so soothing.
I truly appreciate her so much no one is perfect she was awesome
Something in my heart tells me she loved animals... 😍
Bless you billie
I feel so emotional now listening to this in 2021 and the movie 🍿 about her is out and it's winning awards...she live a beautiful and tragic life at the same time...but thank God the truth about her is being told on film 🎥 Shout-out to #AndraDay for a stellar performance.
RIP Billie.. no matter what you did in your life, NOBODY can take Lady Days talent away.. 💕
I’m just here. That’s all. I wake up, acknowledge and praise God, give Him the care of what that day would bring, and I go on. That’s all. So now I’m eating listening to Lady Day 💕
That poor woman sounds like a old lady & was a young woman. Her life was so tragic
But lived
I said the same thing 😒sound like my 85 year old granny so sad
Addiction is tragic !
So damn true
@Tonette Lewis I get you, brilliant thought and I think it’s probably true
My heart is full when I saw her life story to see how one man truly loved her
Hello 👋 Renne
How are you doing today?
Thanks for another great hidden gem.
Just saw the movie. I had no idea what she was into offstage or her background. She’s even more interesting to men now that I know about her pains and struggles. What an authentic person.
She not drunk lol listen to any of her interveiws thats just how she talk. Love you Lady Day!!!💋💋💋💋❤️
yea she not
she sho is
southsyde Sasha your right shes fabulous and i have mad love& respect for her& folks wan talk about her !? Thats they problem I LOVE HER TO HELL WITH THE SHIT TALKERS THEY WOULDNT HAVE SAID ANY OF IT TO HER FACE I KNOW THATS RIGHT!!God bless Miss Billie Holiday
listen to her closely, and how she breathes...she's drunk. She gets drunk to numb the pain of her past
I love Billie Holiday but I truly feel sympathy for her because she been on herion drug, it not her fault and I understand where Ms. Holiday coming from... purely, silky smooth voice make me relaxing and listen to music. R.I.P. ❤💋
Her voice sounds as it does when she sings. melodic
I’m here thanks to the United States vs Billie Holiday🔥🔥🔥
Unbelievable- she was a true legend in her own time.. a living angel 🌹💗🌹
She sounds so sweet! RIP precious 💜🕊🌹
Andra Day knocked it out of the park!!! Can’t believe this was first film. She did a wonderful job. Miss Lawrence did good too.
Sometimes people Come into this life with a fixed amount of energy & they’re not able to regenerate along the way, therefore leave WAY too soon! I’m reminded of Judy Garland listening to Lady Day & breaks my heart all the vultures that just tore into these ladies, never giving them a chance. They had too much heart & it’s so sad!! Still, Legends are Forever!!! 🔥 Xo
True! The most delicate talented souls have been destroyed by abuse, drug abuse and excess.
The wages of sin are death. Case closed.
@@AlphaOmeg-y3h I've got news for you, the end result of all lives, pious or profane, is death. Case closed.
@@jajaelleshabazz1867 and what exactly comes before drugs and excess? Destruction. It began long before a narcotic. Nobody numbs a pain that doesn't exists.
Yes, her and Judy’s stories are very similar except for the additional burden of racism.
Incredible ... to be tuning in to an unheard radio interview from 60 years ago. Inane questions. Lovably tolerant answers by one of the Very Greats of Jazz.
I love this! Way before my time in life but i love her 🎶 jazz voice ♥
Excellent sound. Thank you! Billie's a doll.
She most certainly had "jazz".
The quality of this is amazing. Makes me wonder if Andra Day studied this to match her vocal cadences. Lady Day.
She is so talented!❤️❤️❤️❤️
She was a brilliant talent. God bless her soul.
Such clear quality! Sounds like it was just recorded
She sounds like a typical Maryland lady to me. I thought my great aunt was speaking, lol
I KNOW RIGHT
Nappy Bunny how so. If she was raised in nyc
@@RicharddtheStar she grew up in Baltimore.
She was born in Philly
I was thinking the same thing! I had a aunt who was a heavy drinker they speak exactly the same
Great interview! Billie wrote & released her own music as well as a best selling novel, but ended up broke. Another example of the industry stealing from artist. Billie’s music will live forever. RIP🙏🏾
No sis that wasn't the case here... Billie was making gudd money but she spent as fast as she got it and her last husband robbed her blind....she wore the finest clothes/accessories and partied hard...I saw an video where a close associate said she spent a gudd amount of her earnings on drugs/alcohol and that she didn't even have a night gown that she slept in a old evening gown or a silk robe...
So appreciative of the opportunity for exposure to this rare historical documentation of Legendary Lady Day!
THAAAAAAAANKKK YOU!!!!!!! I love to hear these vintage recordings.
Salute to this beautiful woman 🖤❤️✊🏿🙏
Thank you for uploading this & sharing!
IMMORTAL LADY DAY 🙏🏾🙏🏾⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Wow she sounds so sad....and tired. What a lady and a talent.
She's not high here. If she were, she wouldn't have answered these questions coherently. Interesting she cites Ella as one of her favorites in spite of people thinking she didn't enjoy Ella's music.
if you take as much heroin as her you won't notice if she did one shot before, the tolerance goes is can be quite high after years of use. Bill Evans for example shot up almost every 45 minuts according to a friend of his (mentioned in the documentary about him by Bruce Spiegel). Billie for sure wasn't much better at her worst time.
Thanks
I can tell yes she is
There are different levels of H ..i waa a user and I had a full functioning life my friend . Even managed a Hotel a big hotel it didn't stop me from doin anything. The longer the use the more you come to live with it. As I noted I don't knock her..look at all the artist who used in this world. Even Bela Lagoscy . SADE . EXC..WE ALL HAVE ARE DEMONS AND IM NOT GLORIFYING THE AFLICTION. WOULD NEVER TELL ANY ONE TO USE EITHER CAUSE ITS A BEAST. SOME HAVE BEEN SO RICH THAT HARDLY EVRR KNEW WHAT IT WAS TO BE SICK UNTIL THEY DETOXED. BY TODAY STANDARDS THEY. HAVE MEDS THAT BRING YOU DOWN WITH OUT A SCRATCH. JUST DONT BELIEVE PPL THAT GET HIGH CANT DO A INTERVIEW.. GET DOWN HOW YOU LIVE ,
This was in the 40s and 50s wasn't it? I bet heroin was different back then
Thank you Billie Holiday! ❤
I know women used to wear orchid corsages etc etc back in this time, but some of the photos of her and Frida Kahlo with all the flowers in the hair look amazingly similar.
RIGHT?!?
I've noticed she had that look down probably cause she's like that in a lot of photos it's a nice look
She wore a gardenia in her hair
she was so smart ( which makes sense , that's why she's still on top , although gone on over 60 years )