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Here's a rarely heard recording of Billie made the year before her death in 1959 (she died in a New York hospital from cirrhosis of the liver). Born Eleanora Fagan in Harlem, New York on the 7th April 1915, Billie lived a turbulent and often tragic life, and much has been posted on YouTube about her life and of her singing. However, I think her rendition of this ballad, by Hoagy Carmichael, shows that she still had that certain something, even at the end of her troubled life.
The orchestra includes; Urbie Green; Tom Mitchell; Jay Jay Johnson; Tom Fasrhley; Romeo Penque; Phil Bodner; Mal Waldrom; Barry Galbraith; Milt Hinton; Don Lamond; Bradley Spinney and Janet Putnam.