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The first popular jazz singer to move audiences with the intense, personal feeling of classic blues, Billie Holiday changed the art of American pop vocals forever. More than a half-century after her death, it's difficult to believe that prior to her emergence, jazz and pop singers were tied to the Tin Pan Alley tradition and rarely personalized their songs; only blues singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey actually gave the impression they had lived through what they were singing. Billie Holiday's highly stylized reading of this blues tradition revolutionized traditional pop, ripping the decades-long tradition of song plugging in two by refusing to compromise her artistry for either the song or the band. She made clear her debts to Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong (in her autobiography she admitted, "I always wanted Bessie's big sound and Pops' feeling"), but in truth her style was virtually her own, quite a shock in an age of interchangeable crooners and band singers.

Top Albums
1. Anthology - ..	2. Billie Holid..	3. Billy Rememb..	4. Lady Day - T..	5. Billie Holid..
6. Billie Holid..	7. 20th Century..	8. Lady In Sati..	9. The Diva Ser..	10. The Complete..
11. Love Songs: ..	12. Solitude	13. The Complete..	14. At Newport: ..	15. The Commodor..
16. A Musical Ro..	17. Songs for Di..	18. Jazz 'Round ..	19. Billie Holid..	20. All or Nothi..

Top Songs
	Name	Album	Time	Price
1.	I'll Be Seeing You (1944 Single)	Complete Commodore Recordin..	3:33	$1.29
2.	I'll Be Seeing You	Billy Remembers Billie	3:37	$1.29
3.	Strange Fruit (1939 Single Version)	Diva Series: Billie Holiday	3:11	$1.29
4.	God Bless the Child	Billie Holiday's Greate..	3:09	$1.29
5.	Good Morning, Heartache	Billie Holiday's Greate..	3:07	$1.29
6.	Very Thought of You	Lady Day - The Best of Bill..	2:44	$0.99
7.	'Tain't Nobody's Busines..	Billie Holiday's Greate..	3:20	$1.29
8.	Them There Eyes	Billie Holiday's Greate..	2:51	$1.29
9.	Crazy He Calls Me	Billie Holiday's Greate..	3:05	$1.29
10.	Sugar	Lady Day - The Best of Bill..	2:44	$0.99
11.	Summertime	Lady Day - The Best of Bill..	2:53	$0.99
12.	Autumn In New York	Billie Holiday	3:41	$1.29
13.	Embraceable You	Billy Remembers Billie	3:13	$0.69
14.	Lover Man (Single)	Complete Decca Recordings (..	3:18	$1.29
15.	Solitude	Billie Holiday's Greate..	3:09	$0.99
16.	I Love My Man (Billie's Blues)	Anthology - Deluxe Edition	3:08	$0.99
17.	When Your Lover Has Gone	Anthology - Deluxe Edition	1:56	$0.99
18.	Miss Brown to You	Anthology - Deluxe Edition	1:57	$0.99
19.	I Loves You Porgy	Anthology - Deluxe Edition	3:03	$0.99
20.	All of Me	Anthology - Deluxe Edition	1:42	$0.99
21.	Ain't Nobody's Business	Anthology - Deluxe Edition	2:55	$0.99
22.	Strange Fruit	Anthology - Deluxe Edition	3:16	$0.99
23.	Crazy He Calls Me	Anthology - Deluxe Edition	2:07	$0.99
24.	Them There Eyes	Anthology - Deluxe Edition	1:39	$0.99
25.	He's Funny That Way	Anthology - Deluxe Edition	3:08	$0.99

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