Billie's Blues cover
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Billie Holiday wrote this blues composition shortly before its recording session on July 10, 1936. According to a Melody Maker article from August 1, 1936, this was Holiday's initial solo recording for Brunswick Records. The session was arranged at the suggestion of Bernie Hanighen, who proposed recording a blues number, which became this song.

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