Billie Holiday - What A Little Moonlight Can Do (1935)

Fantastic.

r.i.p. Lady Day Billie Holiday

Beautiful and exquisite. RIP Eleanora Fagan

Grand! Magic! ♥ you you forever, Billie!

Of many I love, this is my favourite Billie Holiday track of all

This sounds more like Ella Fitzgerald

Ouuu, what a little moon light can do. Beautiful song.

Benny Goodman, or Artie Shaw, makes it sublime.

Love ❤️

Mafia the city of lost heaven

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This really hops. Love it! Is there anybody that can play Clarinet like that today? Love me some Lady Day!

I love u Ms Holiday but Im more familiar with the Diana Ross version to many of songs. Im a total fan of LADY SINGS THE BLUES..you opened doors for many to sashay in today. May you always rest in peace

i LOVE you billiejzsksjjssjsj

worm handler: No it was Teddy Wilson and his orchestra that was performing in the background not Benny Goodman or Glenn Miller

Roy Eldridge (tp) Benny Goodman (cl) Ben Webster (ts) Teddy Wilson (p) John Truehart(g) John Kirby (b) Cozy Cole (d) Billie Holiday (v)

The definitive version of this wonderful song. Thank you Billie, Teddy and the band

Back up personnel included Benny Goodman here and I think Teddy Wilson. Wish I could find these early recordings the bands were top notch and Billie's voice was still fresh and not sapped by drugs and booze.

Reminds me of
Deddens Highland Fling.
(RIP)

I guess the first Billie Holiday song I ever heard. I worked in a record store and knew she was important so I found one of the early greatest hits releases on vinyl. 1973 or so. This was track one. Never looked back.

Reminds me of a very special someone. <3

Smooth smokin sweet Jazz ❤❤♩♩♩

She had such a sweet, rich voice, like a confection.

Recorded on July 2, 1935.

This song makes me wanna find a Partner and swing jump jive and waaale til my legs and feet hurt til i gotta walk hme wit no shoes . I think of my great aunts and my fathers mother i think of my grandmothers mother being young and from the south living in harlem as a young women

Marvellous

This is my favorite and goes out to my mom Amanda Scott at a nursing now facing some health challenges. She's going to a medical appointment today. She saw Ms. Billie Holiday in person at The Savoy in Harlem as a teenager. 8/7/19. (Wed.) 7:45 a.m. 🌟

good

Oh, man. Over 80 years later, this still swings so hard.

Ooh, what a little
Moonlight can do
Ooh, what a little moonlight
Can do to you
You're in love
Your hearts fluttering
All day long
You only stutter
'Cause your poor tongue
Just will not utter
The words, I love you
Ooh, what a little
Moonlight can do
Wait a while
Till a little moonbeam
Comes peepin' through
You'll get bored
You cant resist him
And all you'll say
When you have kissed him is
Ooh, what a little
Moonlight can do
Ooh, what a little
Moonlight can do
Ooh, what a little moonlight
Can do to you
You're in love
Your hearts fluttering
All day long
You only stutter
'Cause your poor tongue
Just will not utter
The words, I love you
Ooh, what a little
Moonlight can do
Wait a while
Till a little moonbeam
Comes peepin' through
You'll get bored
You cant resist him


(I love your taste in music <3) - Anjilena

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It's the middle of the corona virus everywhere and everything is closed . It's almost a full moon ... Thank God for Billie

Six feet under claire

Thanks to Nino Haratischwili for giving the hint to this beautiful little throwback in her book 🖤

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Fantástica Voz e um acompanhamento excepcional.

Probably sounded nice from large cabinet radios that homes had in them ages ago.

These cats were tough, and age definitely got that sultry voice that all great female jazz singers have!

Who’s here because of the biopic?

O Brasil é o pior país do mundo.

Imagine living back in the 30s listening to this. There’s no doubt that it made someone feel cool.