Billie's Blues

"Billie's Blues"
Single by Billie Holiday
A-side"Summertime"
Released1936
RecordedJuly 10, 1936[1]
GenreBlues
Length2:37
LabelVocalion
Songwriter(s)Billie Holiday
Producer(s)Bernie Hanighen

"Billie's Blues" is a blues song written by jazz singer Billie Holiday, composing it just before being recorded in a session on July 10, 1936.[1] According to the article in Melody Maker, on August 1, 1936:

"Billie Holiday has her first solo recording at Brunswick last week...Bernie Hanighen,...suggested making a blues, so the blues it was". This blues was Billie's Blues.[2]

  1. ^ a b "78 Record: Billie Holiday - Summertime (1936)". 45worlds.com. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  2. ^ John Chilton: Billie's blues.Quarter Books 1977 ISBN 0-7043-3114-4