Billie Holiday, My Man

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  • @DHL1930
    @DHL1930 15 ปีที่แล้ว +387

    There's a whole book in just that one phrase of her: "He beats me too." I had the very great honor of sitting with her between sets just months before she died. Rest in peace, Lovely Billie.

    • @xyz-kc9cs
      @xyz-kc9cs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      This is a french song (Mon Homme: lyrics Albert Willemetz/ Jacques Charles, music Maurice Yvain) and these lines are in the original french song

    • @sheilarobinson9210
      @sheilarobinson9210 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lovely

    • @ungradphysmath7438
      @ungradphysmath7438 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Woah!!!!
      How was she in real life?

    • @freddymaf7754
      @freddymaf7754 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      ​@@ungradphysmath7438 Hi. I'm not DHL1930 anymore. But back to Billie. I was a fifteen-year-old musician at the time, and went with two friends to see her at this little hole in the wall club in Newark named Sugar Hill. Anyway, one of my pals, a good-looking black guy, requested a song (I forget which), and Billie answered in that raspy voice of hers, "Man, that only sold one record." To which my pal answered, "Then I'm the guy who bought it." Anyway, that got a laugh out of her. She'd taken a liking to my friend, and so she'd sit with us between sets. But she was very high, strung out, and needed to be helped onto the stage by her piano player, Mal Waldron. Still, as always, she sang beautifully. While she was with us, she didn't speak much, mostly just sat, and with what seemed to me a deep sadness in her eyes. Remember, this was a time when she was being hunted out by the powers that be. That's why she was even there singing in that tiny club in the first place. They'd taken away her Cabaret license and wasn't allowed to perform in NY anymore. Anyway, those were the circumstances under which I met this loveliest of ladies, Lady Day. And I'll never forget her.

    • @therealdeal3820
      @therealdeal3820 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Wow that had to be a wonderful pleasure! 💯🥰 My grandmother met her also outside of the Cotton Club. They couldn't go in because it was segregated. Billie truly Sang from the heart. 😍

  • @primrose_m
    @primrose_m 3 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    When you recognise the man you love isn’t deserving of your love, yet you cannot deny that you love him still.

    • @BrendaTheeSolarGirl
      @BrendaTheeSolarGirl 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ❤️‍🔥💔❤️‍🩹

    • @ot7bg
      @ot7bg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Pure pain

    • @MarianMurphy-rz8ej
      @MarianMurphy-rz8ej 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The transparent pyramid is a deal breaker for me. There is ‘a man that is not worthy but you love him anyway’ and then there’s ‘so he’s committed all the worst crimes known to mankind in possessing that third eye in his head and inhabiting vicariously the vessels of others’. Also there’s a love triangle which might be a problem and then there’s millions of people are in that triangle and I’m cutting my losses. I miss when these songs meant something and human beings were free and not utterly vicious, ruthless and invasive..

  • @JassminaVellucci
    @JassminaVellucci 6 ปีที่แล้ว +500

    People may say she didn’t have a great voice, or it wasn’t as strong as Sarah Vaughn, or as sophisticated as Ella Fitzgerald. But Billie was Raw, and full of Emotions. She has so much pain and
    Sadness you can hear it her voice. She had the power to touch you with the emotions. That’s way she’s so great, and that’s why she’s my Favourite. She was the first jazz singer I fell in love with. And every time I hear a song, with that voice, I’m that’s Lady Day. My favourite Album is Lady in Satin. She was getting sick, and lost a lot of her voice. But if you hear the album. She still could move you.

    • @MrBilliefan
      @MrBilliefan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      You said it, Sweettasteofhoney -- and what a perfect assessment. Lady was one of a kind.

    • @ThomasAquinos
      @ThomasAquinos 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Yes, Ella is way way better than Billie if we're talking about vocal technique, but I like Billie's sound more.

    • @grammyj17988
      @grammyj17988 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      She wasn’t ‘polished’ ... She was raw but REAL (there is a difference) well done 🎙Lady Day. (Today’s ‘noise’ is just that ... and cheap imitations of🤷🏽‍♀️ ‘sumthin’ 🧠 weird but Not MUSIC. Having heard Three different versions of this song today, I’d have to rate Billie #1 and BOSS Diana Ross a very close #2. I guess that leaves Barbara Streisand.... last 🤷🏽‍♀️

    • @janetownley
      @janetownley 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      And she used it “like an instrument” as I heard her say in an interview - like one of those horns soloing

    • @hlengiwenkosazana5417
      @hlengiwenkosazana5417 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      joshua tobanus 🙄

  • @zrbailey
    @zrbailey 15 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    The best description of her voice is haunting. It makes you want to cry like she is pleading for a love that doesn't hurt. Her troubles came through her tone.

    • @nspector
      @nspector ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes.

    • @lindawade6816
      @lindawade6816 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Tamar had nerve to say ,"Oh we ain't talking bout no 1940s" when it came to putting Diana Ross in a top three category. But funky dineva put her in her place on the list which is nowhere that I can see. These wanabees that still has not arrived yet and don't know it. Ain't nothing New under the sun mar mar. Don't make me call Kimberly Michelle on you. Ms piggy. Tell Traci Ellis Ross that! As Reginae Carter say "don't play with it".. How dare her

  • @GodivaAmour
    @GodivaAmour 9 ปีที่แล้ว +323

    I loved her voice and the pain of her lyrics. the raw honesty.

    • @oldjazzy846
      @oldjazzy846 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Godiva Amour - Not just the pain of her lyrics - it's the pain in her voice/delivery. This is one of my all time favorites
      of Billie - gives me chills. She was one in a million.!!

    • @shobox27
      @shobox27 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Old Jazzy One in a life time..

    • @shilohtumo
      @shilohtumo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Billy219 Sound a bit schizophrenic my friend. Hope you are well.

    • @MijailCioran
      @MijailCioran 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Billy219 the version of Aileen is HORRIBLE jajajajajja boring and repetitive, many women of that time had the same voice. Billie had and has a unique voice

    • @johndoe6263
      @johndoe6263 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Billy Murray gan has made similar comments about Judy Garland on other videos ex. "She burn in hell now". But check out his favourite videos, esp. his 3rd favourite. Very revealing.

  • @responsetime3861
    @responsetime3861 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    In life there are few people that can really deliver hurt, pain and the desire for more. Label it Billie Holiday, RIP Queen, thank you

  • @joeanthony1456
    @joeanthony1456 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Love you Billie. I always will.

  • @yolisbortin9394
    @yolisbortin9394 9 ปีที่แล้ว +116

    Her voice and the lyrics, I think, capture the idea of tragic, imperfect love so well that its eerie. Billie Holiday seems like one of those people that comes around only once per fifty years and for years after her, everyone tries their best to be just like her.
    But no one ever can.
    The Tragedy of the Mediocre

    • @arijanaknezevic3334
      @arijanaknezevic3334 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I couldn't agree more...

    • @leonardobritto7538
      @leonardobritto7538 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Beautiful what you type!!!!

    • @odin925
      @odin925 9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      +Yolis Bortin The tragedy of the unique

    • @dragmio
      @dragmio 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Read something on Billie Holiday's life, or on any other "unique" artist's life, and then ask again.

  • @jennygreenwood1756
    @jennygreenwood1756 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Billie was beautiful, inside and out. She sang straight from her gorgeous soul. She will always be one of the greatist artists for all generations.

  • @joliethinks
    @joliethinks 14 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    This is my very first time SEEING Billie sing. Amid all the tears I'm wiping away, I thank you. This is my favorite song of all time.

  • @deeway1963
    @deeway1963 14 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Look into her eyes...and the story say's it all. This woman really lived this song. Rest in much peace Miss Billie. You were a beautiful soul when you were here on earth and you most certainly are in heaven above!

  • @jamesmonahanmusic
    @jamesmonahanmusic 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Holy-smoke, what an awesome performance. ❤❤❤

  • @natecrooklockacab9020
    @natecrooklockacab9020 6 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    You have to live it to sing it with all that emotion, and she sure lived it

  • @PrincessMioneKag
    @PrincessMioneKag 13 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I may be young, just 16, but I have always loved Billie Holiday. I have not been through everything she had but I've had a very hard life. I've had way too many homes and way too many parents. I can feel her pain and I can sing it, too. I hope one day I'll get to share it like did.

    • @jaimeerivera8217
      @jaimeerivera8217 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You’re now probably 26 and I hope you’re happy, at peace, finally settled too and the world can hear your talent and gifts. I too had many parents and many homes - I’ve learnt that home is where all our attempts to escape, cease x

    • @ppegah
      @ppegah 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jaimeerivera8217 your last line. it really got me. thank you.

    • @ppegah
      @ppegah 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      it’s been 11 years since you left that comment. sending love from my corner to yours.

    • @ber334
      @ber334 ปีที่แล้ว

      To well here it is 12 years later what are you doing?

    • @debbiestoutamire6172
      @debbiestoutamire6172 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hang in there sweety

  • @soniajones869
    @soniajones869 10 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    love this song but hope i never love a man that much!!!!!!!!

    • @hattiewhitson7736
      @hattiewhitson7736 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Sonia Jones I hope you love a better man, but just as much. 😊

    • @nadyarossi5102
      @nadyarossi5102 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Every one of her lovers/ husbands was worse than the users/abusers that came before.

    • @reginaldsmithers3468
      @reginaldsmithers3468 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      with any luck, no man will ever love you that much either!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @EssettaAllen-lu7rh
    @EssettaAllen-lu7rh หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I wasn’t born yet during her time but I’m truly an old soul and I love Billie Holiday she paved the way for us young people and I love her for that even with her challenges back then

  • @southsydesasha7268
    @southsydesasha7268 8 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    I love the raw emotion and i love watching her eyes for that, she gives a little but not too much, classy Lady Day. Timeless nobody can compare to her shes my favorite jazz singer bc shes unique.

    • @mitchgrube2480
      @mitchgrube2480 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Lady Day was not the greatest Jazz singer--she IS the single Greatest singer of any genre-any style---humbles me to hear her...........

    • @monicabella7894
      @monicabella7894 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mitch Grube wonderful said

    • @nicodelao3437
      @nicodelao3437 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm glad that you enjoyed it I've actually watched it over and over and perhaps the other guy said that she wasn't the best jazz singer but she was at her time

  • @deborahpaley21
    @deborahpaley21 ปีที่แล้ว

    Haven't heard this for years. I love her so. I feel like crying, it's so painful, the emotions.

  • @oxford172
    @oxford172 14 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    When she sings, it's like all the air has been sucked out of the room and all you can hear is that voice. As though you are teetering on the edge, truly unsafe and yet so exhilarating. Wow.

    • @nspector
      @nspector ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, good description

  • @SmokinGun55
    @SmokinGun55 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    One of the Greatest Female Stylists ever. Simply Brilliant! Often copied but NEVER duplicated. Truly one of a kind.

  • @Madmarsha
    @Madmarsha 11 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    My heart bleeds, even now, for Ms. Holiday. I see and feel the pain that was her and her life and her soul.

  • @ClaudiaReneFuentes
    @ClaudiaReneFuentes 10 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    When I listen to this song, I feel myself choke up. Though I've never been in her situation, I've seen it happen plenty of times. This song speaks for the women that love their significant other, even if he's mistreated her, and the optimism towards the end is what breaks me. Because that's exactly how these things go down. The woman suffers but then tricks herself in to thinking it's okay (maybe she thinks she can change his ways) and sticks around because she is still hopeful and still loves him. Such a sad song. Billie sings from the heart.

    • @motoknivesandgunsbyjt
      @motoknivesandgunsbyjt 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Now go listen to Diana Ross’s version.

    • @looneyloon2528
      @looneyloon2528 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes as a man I understand her side and the man's side. I love Billie and would have treated her the best , but women mess us up too.

    • @looneyloon2528
      @looneyloon2528 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Or the woman before,messes up the best guy and they turn into who she's talking about.

  • @Martika264
    @Martika264 11 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Oh Lady Day, how sad your life was, but what a wonderful voice God blessed you with

  • @shroomcube
    @shroomcube 8 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Her voice envelopes the air and your emotions as does the perfume of the Gardenia blossom

  • @Bda277
    @Bda277 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    The emotion conveyed in her voice is incredible.

  • @arhondasmith967
    @arhondasmith967 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    So much pain and honesty,these's nothing like singing from the heart which she can do with perfection

  • @mpmg67
    @mpmg67 15 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    She had one of those rare and unique voices - no singer before or since sounds like her....and that's a good thing!

  • @smstalter
    @smstalter 14 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hearing her makes you sit up, stop what you're doing, look at her with your undivided attention and listen to the story she's singing to you ... in her special way charged with so much pain and sorrow. She is a truly riveting singer.

  • @busdriverman312
    @busdriverman312 13 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    You can almost hear the tears in her voice. She is still one of the best song interpreters of all time. She could teach these so-called Divas of today a few things.

  • @terrancejones8321
    @terrancejones8321 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Goat🙏🏿🙏🏿❤️❤️🌹🌹 I'm not Worthy🙏🏿🙏🏿 My God Be Pleased🌹🌹👈🏿

  • @bluejazz44
    @bluejazz44 13 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Billie Holiday touches me so much that every time I hear his voice is like the first time. Billie is a phenomenon that will never be forgotten. Billie was and is the main voice of the soul of us all.

  • @notserp89m
    @notserp89m 14 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    This tune is perfect. It has the making of a great love song but with the disjointed consonant and dissonant harmonies you can hear the internal conflict of the words in the music itself. She sings with a restrained sense of happiness within despair. And the last word she sings sounds almost like crying. I am so happy you posted this and i found it. Thanks!

  • @pureluckomaha
    @pureluckomaha 12 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Incomparable - There has never been a voice like Billie's!

  • @ack848
    @ack848 13 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Billie peels away the outer layers of my being and enters the deepest recesses of my essence with this performance.

  • @frenchieseverine4514
    @frenchieseverine4514 10 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Awesome! This woman had a charism and the rythm in her blood.She gives so many emotions..

  • @nmolinaro62
    @nmolinaro62 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Oh, my! Wish she were still here performing.

  • @TheLorraine64
    @TheLorraine64 14 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I grew up listening to the only and only Billie Holiday, her voice is timeless, it moves me just like it did when i first heard her, many moons ago in good old east London. I adore her

  • @flutist9986
    @flutist9986 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lady day.... You sing with such emotion and feeling. These things are lacking in music today.

  • @jazzytds
    @jazzytds 11 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Billie makes you feel every note with her delivery, tone, timbre, and the lyrics. All of that talent and pain wrapped in a bow, and it can't be delivered by anyone other than Billie.

  • @rodolfopena6099
    @rodolfopena6099 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    She makes me cry with every song, cry for her for what the songs meant to her, to our loves lost, to her loves lost and the pain she felt.

  • @CapriceSoulsister67
    @CapriceSoulsister67 8 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Nobody can give you more than her. NOBODY.

  • @schnook11
    @schnook11 13 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    What an amazing performer...her voice conveys so much, and her influctions are so unique to herself. Billie Holiday was a true original.

  • @MikhnevichNatalya
    @MikhnevichNatalya ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Это неповторимо!Билли Холидей не во времени!❤️❤️❤️🌹это настоящий,старый джаз!не передать словами как это красиво;жемчужина!

  • @celsobatista2560
    @celsobatista2560 11 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    THIS IS WHAT WE CALL , IN BRASIL :"sing with the uterus" WHICH IS EVEN DEEPER THAN JUST THE HEART....THAT´S WHAT WE MEAN! AND THIS ADMIRABLE LADY AND EXTRAORDINARY INTERPRETER- NOT JUST A SINGER- DOES TO HER SONGS... SHE TALKS US INTO THE POETRY, THE FEELINGS, THE EMOTIONS... SHE MOVES ME. I LOVE HER.

    • @MegaHatLady
      @MegaHatLady 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jo Stafford buries this hag

    • @maggieedwards3951
      @maggieedwards3951 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      CELSO BATISTA I love her so much this was my repertoire for many years , sadly those days are over but her essence will always live on ,bless you yep I love her so

    • @iansyme3087
      @iansyme3087 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Pauli Dee too much ear-wax Pauli

    • @reginaldsmithers3468
      @reginaldsmithers3468 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@iansyme3087 It is good to know that there are Ear Nose and Throat specialists helping out people on youtube. I especially enjoy the requirement that one agrees with your opinion. I'm going to build a time machine so I can go back in time. I'm going to sign up with the Reich so they can tell me what to think and do and like and dislike. I'm bringing you with me.

    • @iansyme3087
      @iansyme3087 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@reginaldsmithers3468 what the hell r u on about?

  • @2087pequawket
    @2087pequawket 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Billie remains one of America's best singer. There is such emotion the way she sings.

  • @idavo
    @idavo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The most beautiful singer, one of the finest voices - Billie Holiday.
    This song & your voice make the hairs on the back of my neck stand to attention.

  • @Pr3tty_daii
    @Pr3tty_daii 12 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The talent she had is indisputable. No one can compete with the emotion and subtlety she put in a song

  • @stewartops
    @stewartops 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wold have given anything to be in the room to hear her sing...Love you 4 Ever Lady Day!

  • @arielle333
    @arielle333 9 ปีที่แล้ว +156

    This song is for my ex. I loved you. You loved me. Our demons played well together but they were still demons and at times they hurt us beyond our control. RIP, My love, your demons were darker than mine. God is loving me while he has you with him.

    • @johanjarry7531
      @johanjarry7531 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +A. Cyler Demons and God don't do well together

    • @arielle333
      @arielle333 8 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      +Johan Jarry your comprehension is low and that is why I won't become bothered by your unsolicited opinion

    • @johanjarry7531
      @johanjarry7531 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I don't quite understand why, but ok

    • @huckleberrymat
      @huckleberrymat 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +A. Cyler Sje 'was in a class of her own'.

    • @faeryfeathers
      @faeryfeathers 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +A. Cyler tell him.

  • @kentallen3857
    @kentallen3857 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I discovered Billie in 1972 and have listened to her ever since. What a unique voice. Billie was her own muse.

  • @liastalard40
    @liastalard40 8 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Intoxicating performance

  • @Sweetserenei
    @Sweetserenei 13 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I just love her. Her voice is so amazing. I could listen to her all day

  • @luc3753
    @luc3753 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I heard her voice for the first time in a TV ad in Brazil. Fell in love at once. Spent some time trying to find out who that was. "Billie Holiday", told me a record store clerk months later. That's when I got my first record by Lady Day. Still get goosebumps when listening to her.

  • @stephaniedeprima
    @stephaniedeprima 8 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    ...She takes my breath away.....

  • @Mwpapillon
    @Mwpapillon 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I love Billie Holidayone of a kind A Beautiful talented soul!!!!!!!

  • @acbd199
    @acbd199 14 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I always felt that Billy's songs are coming so deep from her heart. And in this video she is so moving.. Love you Billy!!!

  • @tiramiller9805
    @tiramiller9805 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Love,tears,hurt, when she sing u know her hart has been broken many many times ladys love is wonderful thing, but make 🎶🎼🎶 from a 💔 ! This is why she will allways be the👑👑👑👑👑 love u Billy🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

  • @jeannettedejesus7386
    @jeannettedejesus7386 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love Billie Holiday, her music reminds me of my
    mother, who l really miss...

  • @stanlockhart1163
    @stanlockhart1163 8 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Oh my God it couldn't be better

  • @butfulmuzik
    @butfulmuzik 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Miss Billie wrapped her heart around a song, and she took your heart along for the ride. Another one of my favorites. It speaks to the deepest feelings and says a world of things about love and loss. Miss Billie, no one ever spoke to the soul like you. There was tenderness in the despair, love when none was there, and just that little bit of hope we all need to survive. Thanks again, sweet lady, for all the gifts you gave!

  • @stargell777
    @stargell777 15 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The changeover at 2:03 still brings tears to my eyes. The phrasing is seamless.

  • @emmanuelgarre3858
    @emmanuelgarre3858 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sublimissime Billie Holiday... la voix, le charme, la douceur, la douleur tout est dans cette voix magique...

  • @iluvmorrissey
    @iluvmorrissey 16 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This comforts me when i feel low, I never tire of Billie Holiday, and never will.

  • @butfulmuzik
    @butfulmuzik 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    @MrCFCarePOO Amen, amen and AMEN!!! I've been listening to and loving Miss Billie's music for more years than I care to mention. That love is as strong today as when I heard the very first song by Lady Day. What cruel people forget when they down her for drugs is that each of us has our own demons to deal with every day. People do the best they can to find a little dignity in their lives. Miss Billie found music. It's a pleasure to see comments from people like you who understand that.

  • @iluvmorrissey
    @iluvmorrissey 16 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'm going thru a very difficult time at the moment, Billie Holiday's music is really helping me thru it.

  • @ninasimone8589
    @ninasimone8589 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Continue to REST EASY QUEEN! The world knows who you are and what a gift you gave the world for generations to come. 👑👑👑👑🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

  • @stephenie5839
    @stephenie5839 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Billie Holiday is a wonder beautiful person. I first learned of Ms. Holiday when I went into rehab and we watched "lady sings the blues" that movie was awesome. at that moment I felt a instant conection! love her voice and raw emotions when she sings. wish they would post a documentry on her life so I could see pictures and know more of her... Truly an amazing woman. so sad she was taken away so soon from drugs!!

  • @andreasmodugno
    @andreasmodugno 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Perfectly captures the desperation of never-ending, hopeless, unrequited love. A masterful interpretation of a classic.

  • @michaelchapman6466
    @michaelchapman6466 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is quite nice! first time I've seen it- Billie is in good form and voice. It was a pleasure to see a young Jimmy Rowles backing up Billie on piano and coloring her every note & in between, as Jimmy was exceptionally skilled at writing/arranging singing and a Heavyweight on piano who brought out the best in every vocalist he worked with and Jimmy worked with the best from Billie, Ella, Peggy Lee,
    Carmen MaCrae, Tony Bennett, Diana Krall & so many more.....

  • @alexdelaluna404
    @alexdelaluna404 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Such a wonderful lady... She knows love, and the deepest kind of all.

  • @nzingha1
    @nzingha1 14 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "He's not much on looks....he's no hero out of books..."
    Love her, one of my Favorite voices...ever!!
    Thanks for sharing!

  • @MrPistolMason
    @MrPistolMason 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just played this the other day . . . just a fabulous performance / vocal by the best all around jazz vocalist EVER!!! EVER!!!!!!!

  • @spadge1able
    @spadge1able 14 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    how can you not like this. sung with so much emotion & feeling.absolutely awesome.

  • @potdog1000
    @potdog1000 8 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    WOW a truly brilliant singer

  • @radmillerjr.6931
    @radmillerjr.6931 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is so incredible, I can't get enough. I switch back and forth between Diana Ross, (live) and it's never a comparison, Lady Day is raw and unfettered, Ms Ross is smooth updated. Awesome! Bravo both! the Radman

  • @tvkorzytv9817
    @tvkorzytv9817 8 ปีที่แล้ว +232

    It cost me a lot
    But there's one thing that I've got
    It's my man
    It's my man
    Cold or wet
    Tired, you bet
    All of this I'll soon forget
    With my man
    He's not much on looks
    He's no hero out of books
    But I love him
    Yes, I love him
    Two or three girls
    Has he
    That he likes as well as me
    But I love him
    I don't know why I should
    He isn't true
    He beats me, too
    What can I do?
    Oh, my man, I love him so
    He'll never know
    All my life is just a spare
    But I don't care
    When he takes me in his arms
    The world is bright
    All right
    What's the difference if I say
    I'll go away
    When I know I'll come back
    On my knees someday
    For whatever my man is
    I'm his forevermore

    • @rkegw3807
      @rkegw3807 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      【コージーTV / KORZY TV】
      Line 6 ... wrong

    • @AListPromo
      @AListPromo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yup this is correct! accept it's "Despair"

    • @reginaldsmithers3468
      @reginaldsmithers3468 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      thank you for taking the time to write the lyrics to this song. Arigato gozi masu.

    • @marinasantanna8851
      @marinasantanna8851 ปีที่แล้ว

      Obrigada por escrever essa letra me dá no no estômago .
      A maioria das mulheres ja passaram por relacionamentos abusivos e essa música é o hino.

  • @oysterpippo
    @oysterpippo 16 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Genius of deepness, meaning, her music is the sound of the soul.

  • @camlo2705
    @camlo2705 14 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've always loved this song sung by Billie. This is the first time I've ever actually seen her sing it, and I still have goose bumps as I write.
    Thank you for uploading this.

  • @WolfgangDuck
    @WolfgangDuck 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Impossibly expressive, and so moving...hit me like a ton of bricks...Thank you for posting!

  • @brookegoslin
    @brookegoslin 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The ability to convey such deep emotion that rips inside your soul deeeeeeep !

    • @harrythompson8135
      @harrythompson8135 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello👋 beautiful how are you doing today hope you're safe over there?

    • @harrythompson8135
      @harrythompson8135 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I hope this year brings happiness and prosperity and love💕 to all american and to the worldwide🌍. I'm Dwayne Henderson by name. and if I may ask where are you from?

  • @cuedini
    @cuedini 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Who is the ppl that dislike this???? That is pure hate you shown....... this is raw beautiful talent from the heart! I love billie!

  • @unclepiak
    @unclepiak 10 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    "My Man"
    It cost me a lot
    But there's one thing that I've got
    It's my man
    It's my man
    Cold or wet
    Tired, you bet
    All of this I'll soon forget
    With my man
    He's not much on looks
    He's no hero out of books
    But I love him
    Yes, I love him
    Two or three girls
    Has he
    That he likes as well as me
    But I love him
    I don't know why I should
    He isn't true
    He beats me, too
    What can I do?
    Oh, my man, I love him so
    He'll never know
    All my life is just a spare
    But I don't care
    When he takes me in his arms
    The world is bright
    All right
    What's the difference if I say
    I'll go away
    When I know I'll come back
    On my knees someday
    For whatever my man is
    I'm his forevermore

  • @claudiosucks
    @claudiosucks 13 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    i love this woman, she don´t have to scream to make me feel what she feels, just love it

  • @djhvallejo
    @djhvallejo 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One of my top 5 songs, have to listen to this song once a week. Brings a tear to the eye.

  • @deeknits
    @deeknits 15 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    wow...this one brought me to tears...just the amount of emotion she sings with.

  • @bmunk88
    @bmunk88 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is real music, live on miss holiday love Debbie from southphilly ,your music has meaning like no other,

  • @ChristineRobakidze
    @ChristineRobakidze 9 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    happy 100th birthday, Billie ♥

  • @annemieketenhave4611
    @annemieketenhave4611 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Billy, you're still the greatest Lady of Harlem! I love your voice and performance. You where a very special woman.... I want to thank you for that.

  • @somuchyarn
    @somuchyarn 13 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This version cuts me right to the heart. It really transcends words.

  • @xtoffee92x
    @xtoffee92x 16 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    you can feel everything she sings, just close your eyes and listen to that .. it's timeless!

  • @garymeise673
    @garymeise673 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    One thing people forget about Billie Holiday, is not just the unbelievably inequality of her voice, but goodness gracious she could she enunciate a phrase. She made it look so easy this idea that it was almost lazy and yet her enunciation of every word everything she did was off the charts. Who here doesn't know every lyric she sang, and in that unique way but it was fucking crystal clear

  • @mklambatsea
    @mklambatsea 15 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Out of this world
    Her voice is magic sensual and her perfection stays through the Eternity
    Thank you Billie for what I try to learn from you

  • @lulubelle320
    @lulubelle320 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I love her she makes me cry and cry !

    • @keynatyler4767
      @keynatyler4767 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lulubelle Padieu me to sob sob 😂

  • @MrDecival
    @MrDecival 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am Brazilian, I like good music. It was the myth of the music made ​​her mark with her ​​voice and beautiful songs. I am twenty eight years when I see artists of that rarity, my heart is glad and my aqueta.

  • @SuperNewhorizon
    @SuperNewhorizon 15 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    i just love her voice its so soothing

  • @jarijuhani1
    @jarijuhani1 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Rocsil! Your experience of this song tells me that you still can enjoy of things you Felt when you were young which means that you haven`t lost all of that original and pure sincerityness we all Feel in early childhood. That`s ability most people should think about. I Think there`s lot honesty in you. Makes me feel good to know there`s persons like you in this world. Thank you!

  • @margaridarussiano9663
    @margaridarussiano9663 8 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Oh billie, I'm still waiting for my man!

  • @msreenie
    @msreenie 15 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Truly a gifted artist, who put her imprint on whatever she sang. This performance is so on point, it's one of my favorites.

  • @vickiesellers8214
    @vickiesellers8214 8 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    She is the greatest.

  • @msswerve
    @msswerve 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    My absolute favorite of Ms. Holiday!!! Thank you soooo much for posting.