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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some of their best work was done with one another, especially classic recordings such as "I Must Have That Man" and "A Fine Romance" from 1937, as well as "Fine and Mellow", the blues tune they played together during a reunion twenty years later on the 1957 CBS-TV special, "The Sound of Jazz...

Author: By Lori J. Lakin, | Title: Lady's Day | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

Holiday co-wrote only three songs in her career, "Billie's Blues", "Fine and Mellow", and the now-perennial favorite "God Bless The Child", all inspired by personal experience. In her autobiography Lady Day knowingly said, "With me, it's got nothing to do with working or arranging or rehearsing. Give me a song I can feel, and it's never work...

Author: By Lori J. Lakin, | Title: Lady's Day | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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