BILLIE HOLIDAY / As Time Goes By

Music Herman Hupfeld

Billy remembers Billie ( Verve )

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This tune the Broadway musical in 1931 being something which
is written for "Everybody's Welcome" by Herman Hupfeld(1894-1951)
of American, with the stage was sung by Frances Williams,
also recording by Rudy Vallee was done. Eleven years later
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman coaction movie Casablanca
(the white house) with it was used in 1942 in the movie sang
by Dooley Wilson and became famous tune. it re-compiled the
original Rudy Vallee record there, sale when it does it became
large hit, after that many singers liking, because recording
it does this tune, it became the famous song of standard.
Herman Hupfeld made many tunes other than this tune, but we say
this tune that representative work after all. Billie Holiday
(1915-1959) sings this tune here with the Baltimore origin of
Maryland state, her grandfather being the white of Virginia,
he was one person among 17 children whom the owner of the farm
which used the slave makes the slave of the woman bear. her
mother Sadie was only 13 at the time of Billie's birth in
Philadelphia and had moved there in order to hide her out-of-
wedlock pregnancy, age 19 years old it lay, closely state
Pennsylvania state she gave birth to her in city Philadelphia
be of illegitimate birth. as for the mother who returns to
Baltimore she got married when Billie was three years old,
but she divorced soon, When Billie at the time of 13 years old
her mother accompanied her and moved to New York and lived
there. Billie there was scouted in the cat house and prostituted,
but from time of 15 years old she has sung with some night
clubs of Harlem, but finally she had scouted by John Hammond
of the record producer, she recorded with Benny Goodman by his
management, in order to sing with the famous club of some
New York, she became. After that she become the pioneer of
the singer who is sung for the first black singer with the
famous white big band, as a designates contract as the large
record company one after another and puts out many hit tunes.
She time of 25 years old "Strange Fruit" sale was done from
the Colombian record, that radical lyric ( written by Abel
Meeropol of the Judean person) from contents made sensation
in the All-American, her typical tune and became. It is
"As Time Goes By" she who is sung here is recorded at the
time of 29 years old at the New York studio. she became the
black songstress of legend by the unfortunate destiny and
social situation of that time (the slave system) and her
uniqueness depending upon jazz feeling.


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