Billie Holiday, My Man

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gemurin

17 жыл бұрын

On of the best interpretation of Billie with Jimmy Rowles, and in very high quality, ..... take a look

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@zrbailey 15 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Yes.

@GodivaAmour 9 жыл бұрын

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

@oldjazzy846 9 жыл бұрын

+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 8 жыл бұрын

+Old Jazzy One in a life time..

@shilohtumo 3 жыл бұрын

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

@MijailCioran 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@joeanthony1456 2 жыл бұрын

Love you Billie. I always will.

@DHL1930 15 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

Lovely

@ungradphysmath7438 3 жыл бұрын

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

@freddymaf7754 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@BrendaTheeSolarGirl 2 жыл бұрын

❤️‍🔥💔❤️‍🩹

@ot7bg 2 жыл бұрын

Pure pain

@MarianMurphy-rz8ej 5 ай бұрын

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..

@jennygreenwood1756 2 ай бұрын

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.

@Martika264 11 жыл бұрын

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

@natecrooklockacab9020 6 жыл бұрын

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

@deeway1963 13 жыл бұрын

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!

@roselyneglowinski459 Жыл бұрын

❤

@thomasparsons3168 Жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree more. She was a gift. ❤

@mpmg67 14 жыл бұрын

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

@joliethinks 13 жыл бұрын

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.

@soniajones869 9 жыл бұрын

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

@hattiewhitson7736 6 жыл бұрын

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

@nadyarossi5102 3 жыл бұрын

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

@reginaldsmithers3468 3 жыл бұрын

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

@yolisbortin9394 9 жыл бұрын

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 9 жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree more...

@leonardobritto7538 9 жыл бұрын

Beautiful what you type!!!!

@odin925 8 жыл бұрын

+Yolis Bortin The tragedy of the unique

@dragmio 7 жыл бұрын

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

@JassminaVellucci 5 жыл бұрын

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 5 жыл бұрын

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

@ThomasAquinos 5 жыл бұрын

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

@jackiebessard7988 5 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

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

@hlengiwenkosazana5417 4 жыл бұрын

joshua tobanus 🙄

@CapriceSoulsister67 7 жыл бұрын

Nobody can give you more than her. NOBODY.

@oxford172 13 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Yes, good description

@Madmarsha 10 жыл бұрын

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

@ChristineRobakidze 9 жыл бұрын

happy 100th birthday, Billie ♥

@Bda277 4 жыл бұрын

The emotion conveyed in her voice is incredible.

@shroomcube6439 8 жыл бұрын

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

@ack848 13 жыл бұрын

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

@smstalter 14 жыл бұрын

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.

@pureluckomaha 12 жыл бұрын

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

@stephaniedeprima 7 жыл бұрын

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

@jazzytds 17 жыл бұрын

Her voice describes the angst and pain of her dysfunctional relationships and dependency on vice. She was a true performer, and her voice aged like a fine merlot. She will always be a brilliant chaunteuse.

@southsydesasha7268 8 жыл бұрын

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 8 жыл бұрын

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 7 жыл бұрын

Mitch Grube wonderful said

@nicodelao3437 2 жыл бұрын

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

@arhondasmith967 Жыл бұрын

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

@bluejazz44 13 жыл бұрын

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.

@jazzytds 10 жыл бұрын

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.

@liastalard40 8 жыл бұрын

Intoxicating performance

@PrincessMioneKag 13 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@ppegah Жыл бұрын

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

@ber334 Жыл бұрын

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

@debbiestoutamire6172 Ай бұрын

Hang in there sweety

@jamesmcateer3658 2 жыл бұрын

She makes me feel a lot of emotions.

@schnook11 12 жыл бұрын

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

@vickiesellers8214 7 жыл бұрын

She is the greatest.

@maggiemag0113 8 жыл бұрын

HER VOICE IS ONE OF THE FINEST

@Sweetserenei 13 жыл бұрын

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

@TheLorraine64 14 жыл бұрын

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

@busdriverman312 13 жыл бұрын

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.

@Mwpapillon 8 жыл бұрын

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

@frenchieseverine4514 9 жыл бұрын

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

@Pr3tty_daii 12 жыл бұрын

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

@stanlockhart1163 8 жыл бұрын

Oh my God it couldn't be better

@ClaudiaReneFuentes 9 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

Now go listen to Diana Ross’s version.

@looneyloon2528 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@potdog1000 8 жыл бұрын

WOW a truly brilliant singer

@margaridarussiano9663 7 жыл бұрын

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

@mzlkhadij5771 7 жыл бұрын

The same for me

@nuno.alex.vicente 7 жыл бұрын

same for me

@superdavico 7 жыл бұрын

i'm here

@acbd199 14 жыл бұрын

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!!!

@stargell777 14 жыл бұрын

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

@SuperNewhorizon 14 жыл бұрын

i just love her voice its so soothing

@garymeise673 Жыл бұрын

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

@terrancejones8321 Жыл бұрын

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

@oysterpippo 15 жыл бұрын

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

@iluvmorrissey 16 жыл бұрын

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

@lulubelle320 7 жыл бұрын

I love her she makes me cry and cry !

@keynatyler4767 5 жыл бұрын

Lulubelle Padieu me to sob sob 😂

@iluvmorrissey 16 жыл бұрын

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

@kentallen3857 2 жыл бұрын

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

@xtoffee92x 15 жыл бұрын

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

@rodolfopena6099 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@t77777 12 жыл бұрын

2:04 'He'll never know'... what a tragic line. And the emotion she conveys; said in such a knowing, yet resigned way.

@deprezzive 12 жыл бұрын

gosh this lady made me believe in love one more time....sigh...

@MillerMusicStudiosTV 15 жыл бұрын

Billie had such soul in all of her singing..... my favorite singer of all time.... 5*****

@deeknits 15 жыл бұрын

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

@2087pequawket 12 жыл бұрын

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

@luc3753 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@WakandaBabe 8 жыл бұрын

O.M.G. What a treat.

@idavo Жыл бұрын

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.

@spadge1able 13 жыл бұрын

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

@wseabuck 12 жыл бұрын

Lady Day's distinctive voice and phrasing are one of a kind.

@arielle333 8 жыл бұрын

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 8 жыл бұрын

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

@arielle333 8 жыл бұрын

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

@johanjarry7531 8 жыл бұрын

I don't quite understand why, but ok

@huckleberrymat 8 жыл бұрын

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

@faeryfeathers 8 жыл бұрын

+A. Cyler tell him.

@claudiosucks 13 жыл бұрын

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

@dolli818 16 жыл бұрын

I've heard this song probably a thousand times but I never realized how beautiful those lyrics were until just now. This her best interpretation of this song that I've heard. Perfection.

@MikhnevichNatalya Жыл бұрын

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

@JazieBeeGoddessBee 15 жыл бұрын

This song speaks for the batterec women even today that can't leave there man, even after the cheating and the beating. What a timeless song. I love Billie and she executes this song with some much feeling and soul. "MY IDOL"

@ChosenShootingStar 10 жыл бұрын

Her inspiring voice is satisfying soup for my quivering soul.

@jeannettedejesus7386 8 жыл бұрын

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

@saramarvulli6917 7 жыл бұрын

jeannette dejesus :'(

@MrPistolMason 11 жыл бұрын

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

@JDWASH35 16 жыл бұрын

Man I wish we could have more singers like that who are just real and have the voice of an angel.

@nspector Жыл бұрын

Oh, they're around. They're just very rare, as they always were.

@Droid760 10 жыл бұрын

Gorgeous!

@Ramon-ln3cq Жыл бұрын

It cost to be alive I won't say I'm king of the jungle, but, I survived🥵

@tiramiller9805 9 жыл бұрын

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🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

@satziebaby 15 жыл бұрын

I''ve been in love with Lady since the '40s. There is no singer that can wring you out like she can.. Alan Satz

@nzingha1 14 жыл бұрын

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

@celsobatista2560 10 жыл бұрын

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 9 жыл бұрын

Jo Stafford buries this hag

@maggieedwards3951 6 жыл бұрын

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 5 жыл бұрын

Pauli Dee too much ear-wax Pauli

@reginaldsmithers3468 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 3 жыл бұрын

@@reginaldsmithers3468 what the hell r u on about?

@smorris5638 Жыл бұрын

The legendary Miss Billie Holiday💕

@temperhollow7716 2 жыл бұрын

She is at her absolute best here. Unforgettable performance.

@unclepiak 9 жыл бұрын

"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

@somuchyarn 13 жыл бұрын

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

@suzle 5 жыл бұрын

Such a great singer, her kind is truly remarkable.

@brookegoslin 6 жыл бұрын

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

@harrythompson8135 3 жыл бұрын

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

@harrythompson8135 3 жыл бұрын

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?

@rociobpy 12 жыл бұрын

Love this music, love Billie too, she will always be the best.

@kaitlynzuniga 8 жыл бұрын

so beautiful

@andreasmodugno 3 жыл бұрын

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

@odeliolisboa7036 3 жыл бұрын

Her voice is Wonderful and unforgetable.

@cffpsych 13 жыл бұрын

This is my favorite song by Billie. She has different interpretations of it and it's hard to choose which I like best; they're all such liquid gold. The less accompaniment the better; putting an orchestra behind her voice is like gilding the lilly.

@riptonks 13 жыл бұрын

Billie's autobiography reads almost like a work of fiction, her life was so extraordinary and whirlwind, and by the end you are rooting for her self destructive self even though you're in the knowledge that she died a few years after publication. You can hear each ounce suffering dripping from her voice, people don't sing with soul like this anymore, and they'll never come close to matching Billie.

@djhvallejo 12 жыл бұрын

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

@chiriforever6535 Жыл бұрын

Classic 😊love her. The best

@notserp89m 14 жыл бұрын

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!

@isabele6412 7 жыл бұрын

Billie i miss you😔💔

@msreenie 15 жыл бұрын

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

@butfulmuzik 13 жыл бұрын

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!