Billie Holiday (29 page)

songs, naming of, 92–93

soul music, 122

“Sound of Jazz, The” (television show), 63, 124–25

“Speak Low,” 132

speech-song method, 112–14, 120–22, 131–32, 165, 183–84

spirituals, 78, 126, 142, 155, 158, 172

“St. Louis Blues,” 109, 115

Stafford, Jo, 99–100, 139

Stardusters, 186

Starr, Kay, 96

Still, William Grant, 150

“Stormy Weather,” 89, 110, 189

Story of Jazz
,
The
(film), 56–59

“storytelling” songs, 92, 101, 121–23, 168, 185

Strand Theatre, 34–36, 38, 187

“Strange Fruit,” 4, 27, 47, 69, 92, 107, 122, 126, 132, 157–69, 181

Sullivan, Maxine, 151

“Summertime,” 142

Supremes, 68, 71

swing music, 33, 90, 109, 112, 115, 117, 127, 136, 140, 146, 153, 155, 169, 172

Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life
(film), 55–56

Tan
magazine, 20, 49

Tanguay, Eva, 84–86

Tatum, Art, 42

television, 1, 62–63, 67, 95, 107, 120, 124–25, 187

“Tell Me More and More and Then Some,” 174

tent shows, 80, 85, 109

Terkel, Studs, 105

“Them There Eyes,” 41, 105, 132

“They Can't Take That Away from Me,” 147–48

“Things Are Looking Up,” 133, 145

Thornhill, Claude, 151

Time
magazine, 164, 166

Tin Pan Alley, 81–82, 93–94, 110, 141

Tone, Franchot, 28

torch singing

history of, 77, 91–96

by Holiday, 91–92, 94, 100, 127, 168, 182, 184, 187

by Libby Holman, 32, 93–95

Town Hall (New York City), 106, 184–86

Townsend, Irving, 194

“Trav'lin' Light,” 174–76

Trouville Club (Los Angeles), 30, 175, 188

Tucker, Earl, 55

Tucker, Sophie, 32, 84, 86–87, 89

Turner, Lana, 28, 30, 65

United Artists, 65–66

“Until the Real Thing Comes Along,” 171

V-Discs, 73, 176

Van Vechten, Carl, 71–72, 106

vaudeville/variety shows, 81, 85

Vaughan, Sarah, 78, 127, 155, 180

vernacular music/singing, 111, 114

Verve Records, 127, 184, 191

Victor Records, 81, 174

“Violets for Your Furs,” 193

vocalese, 112

Vocalion Records, 141, 147, 163–64, 171

Vrbsky, Alice, 195

Waldron, Mal, 192

Wallace, Mike, 100–1

Ward, Helen, 33

Washington, Buck, 136

Washington, Dinah, 2

Waters, Ethel, 61, 84, 93, 95, 111, 135–36, 148

autobiography of, 19, 24–25

career of, 88–89

criticizes Holiday, 88, 166

influences Holiday, 4, 87–90, 167, 195

Sadie Holiday works for, 60, 88

sings “Supper Time,” 157–58

Waters, Muddy, 80

Webb, Clifton, 28, 32

Webster, Ben, 100, 105, 124, 189

“Weep No More,” 186

Welch, Elizabeth, 94

Welles, Orson, 29–32, 56–59, 61, 67

Wells, Dickie, 28, 38, 134

Weston, Jay, 67–69, 71

“What a Little Moonlight Can Do,” 132, 140, 191

“What Is This Thing Called Love,” 118–19, 121

White, Beverly, 98

White House, 45–46

White, Josh, 73, 94, 165–66

White, Sonny, 160, 165

Whitman, Walt, 78

“Who Wants Love?,” 125

Wiley, Lee, 73, 96

Williams, Billy Dee, 70

Williams, Martin, 105

“Willow, Weep for Me,” 105, 132

Wilson, Irene, 182–83

Wilson, Jackie, 80

Wilson, Teddy, 33, 63, 73, 98, 117–18, 122, 125–26, 136–39, 141, 144, 146, 168, 171, 182–184

Winchell, Walter, 95, 153

women singers, 52, 93, 77–78, 87–91, 100, 150–51.
See also
blues: sung by black women;
specific names
; torch singing

Woody Herman band, 61–62

World War II, 57–58, 145, 157, 169, 176

“Yesterdays,” 128–29, 132, 167

“You'd Better Go Now,” 91

Young, Lester, 63, 122–26, 139, 146, 148, 155

Young, Trummy, 174–75

“Your Mother's Son-in-Law,” 90, 136

“You're My Thrill,” 187

“You've Changed,” 192–93

Zaidins, Earle, 191–92, 196

Ziegfeld Follies
, 83, 132, 183–84

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