* 1915 – Billie Holiday, American singer and songwriter ( d. 1959 )

Other key traditional pop and jazz ballads include: " Body and Soul " by Johnny Green ; " Misty " by Erroll Garner ; " The Man I Love " by George Gershwin ; " My Funny Valentine " by Rodgers and Hart, " God Bless the Child " by Billie Holiday, " Ev ' ry Time We Say Goodbye " by Cole Porter, the instrumental ballad " Naima " by John Coltrane, " In a Sentimental Mood " by Duke Ellington and " Always " by Irving Berlin.

Notable performers there included among others: Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Burl Ives, Leadbelly, Anita O ' Day, Charlie Parker, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Paul Robeson, Kay Starr, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Josh White, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, and The Weavers, who also in Christmas 1949, played at the Village Vanguard.

She began singing in the local choir and expanded her listening to blues singers such as Odetta, Billie Holiday and Big Mama Thornton.

Jazz stars in the 1950s who came into prominence in their genres called Bebop, Hard bop, Cool jazz and the Blues, at this time included Lester Young, Ben Webster, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Art Tatum, Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, Oscar Peterson, Gil Evans, Jerry Mulligan, Cannonball Adderley, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Art Blakey, Max Roach, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, and Billie Holiday.

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* April 20 – Billie Holiday records " Strange Fruit ", the first anti-lynching song.

* July 17 – Billie Holiday, American singer ( b. 1915 )

** Billie Holiday, African-American singer ( d. 1959 )

" The romantic notion of the doomed jazz genius can be traced back at least as far as Beiderbecke, and lived on in Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, and many more.

It introduced Billie Holiday, and won an Academy Award as the best musical short subject.

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Once at the studio, producer Milt Gabler ( Uncle of actor Billy Crystal, who had produced Louis Jordan as well as Billie Holiday ), insisted the band work on a song entitled " Thirteen Women ( and Only One Man in Town )" ( previously written and recorded by Dickie Thompson ), which Gabler wanted to promote as the A-side of the group's first single for Decca.

Notable singers who have performed and recorded their songs have included Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie, and Carly Simon.

The album Far Cry contains his famous performance of the Gross-Lawrence standard " Tenderly " on alto saxophone, and his subsequent tour of Europe quickly set high standards for solo performance with his exhilarating bass clarinet renditions of Billie Holiday's " God Bless the Child " ( the earliest known version was recorded at the Five Spot during his residency with Booker Little ).

* Lyrics to " Strange Fruit " a protest song about lynching, written by Abel Meeropol and recorded by Billie Holiday

Artists signed to American Decca in the 1930s and 1940s included Louis Armstrong, Charlie Kunz, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Jane Froman, The Boswell Sisters, Billie Holiday, The Andrews Sisters, Ted Lewis, Judy Garland, The Mills Brothers, Billy Cotton, Guy Lombardo, Chick Webb, Louis Jordan ( the No. 1 R & B artist of the 1940s ), Bob Crosby, Bill Kenny & The Ink Spots, Dorsey Brothers ( and subsequently Jimmy Dorsey after the brothers split ), Connee Boswell and Jack Hylton, Victor Young, Earl Hines, Claude Hopkins, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the original ' soul sister ' of recorded music.

Included in this group are Bing Crosby's original recording of ' White Christmas ' and thousands more by Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Judy Garland, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, the Andrews Sisters and other famous and lesser-known musicians who recorded during this time period.

He later recorded with other musicians, including a notable session with the 1944 Esquire Jazz All-Stars, which included Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and other jazz greats, at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.

James signed with Private Music Records in 1993 and recorded the Billie Holiday tribute album Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday.

On June 12, the orchestra recorded five more songs, including one side with Billie Holiday.

Versions have been recorded by Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Tommy Dorsey, Tex Beneke with The Glenn Miller Orchestra ( Recorded in New York City on February 1, 1947 and released by RCA Victor Records as catalogue number 20-2016B and by EMI on the His Master's Voice label as catalogue number BD 5968 ), Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Doris Day, Jan Garber, Fumio Nanri, Dizzy Gillespie, Nat King Cole, Mel Tormé, Connie Francis, Jean Sablon, Keely Smith, Terumasa Hino, Harry Connick Jr, Ella Fitzgerald, Olavi Virta, The Peanuts, Django Reinhardt, Barry Manilow, John Coltrane, Earl Grant, Willie Nelson, Billy Ward and His Dominoes, George Benson, Mina, Ken Hirai, Los Hombres Calientes and many others.

In September 1940, he had an eight bar solo on " Practice Makes Perfect ", recorded by Billie Holiday.

Some of the more celebrated renditions of these songs include Sarah Vaughan's " It Ain't Necessarily So " and the versions of " Summertime " recorded by Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Jascha Heifetz in his own transcriptions for violin and piano.

* Night and Day ( Roxanne Seeman and Billie Hughes song ), a 1990 song recorded by Bette Midler

Billie Holiday also recorded for Commodore ( in 1939 and 1944 ), with " Strange Fruit " and " Fine and Mellow " first appearing on that label.

Artists who recorded for Musicraft include singer Mel Torme, vocalist Sarah Vaughan, Duke Ellington, bebop comic Harry " the Hipster " Gibson, pianist Teddy Wilson, blues pioneer Leadbelly, poet Carl Sandburg, Dizzy Gillespie, Georgie Auld, Artie Shaw, Buddy Greco, Billie Rogers, and others.

He composed the jazz and pop standards " Snowfall " and " I Wish I Had You ", the last recorded by Billie Holiday.

Claude Thornhill's compositions included the standard " Snowfall ", " I Wish I Had You ", recorded by Billie Holiday and Fats Waller, " Let's Go ", " Shore Road ", " Portrait Of A Guinea Farm ", " Lodge Podge ", " Rustle Of Spring ", " It's Time For Us To Part ", " It Was A Lover And His Lass ", " The Little Red Man ", " Memory Of An Island ", and " Where Has My Little Dog Gone?

In 1965, he moved to Atlantic Records and recorded his most successful singles, " Memphis Soul Stew " and " Ode to Billie Joe " ( 1967 ).

Billie Holiday recorded " Strange Fruit " in 1939.

His songs were recorded by such artists as Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland ( who ended up dying only one month after McHugh's ), Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Chet Baker, Dinah Washington, June Christy, Peggy Lee, Deanna Durbin, and Ella Fitzgerald.

Norvo recorded with Mildred Bailey ( his wife ), Billie Holiday, Dinah Shore and Frank Sinatra, among others.

* In 1938 the Noble composition You're So Desirable was recorded by Billie Holiday and Teddy Wilson

His Swing, Brother, Swing was recorded by Billie Holiday with Count Basie, among other performers.