Billie's Blues

"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]

"Billie's Blues"
Single by Billie Holiday
A-side	"Summertime"
Released	1936
Recorded	July 10, 1936[1]
Genre	Blues
Length	2:37
Label	Vocalion
Songwriter(s)	Billie Holiday
Producer(s)	Bernie Hanighen

Recording session

• "Did I Remember?"
• "Summertime"
• "No Regrets"
• "Billie's Blues"^[3]

Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, (Bunny Berigan, trumpet; Artie Shaw, clarinet; Joe Bushkin, piano; Dick McDonough, guitar; Arthur "Pete" Peterson, bass; Cozy Cole, drums)^[3]

Notable cover versions

• Blossom Dearie (1957)^[4]
• Carmen McRae (1986)^[5]
• Mary Coughlan (2000)^[6]
• Jazz at the Philharmonic (2004)^[7]