Recently updated
Billie Holiday’s residence: Now with an apartment number and the 1940 census.
Billie Holiday’s residence
286 West 142nd Street.
The Holiday version
“A Sailboat in the Moonlight” is to my ears a beautiful song, especially in the chord changes of the first three bars. But I think it takes Billie Holiday and company to make the song’s beauty felt.
Billie Holiday, 1957
Photographs of Billie Holiday by Jerry Dantzic, taken during Holiday’s week-long engagement at the Sugar Hill nightclub in Newark, New Jersey, April 1957.
Billie Holiday, 29¢
Artistamp, by my dad.
Billie Holiday centenary
Eleanora Fagan, Billie Holiday, Lady Day, was born on April 7, 1915.
Billie Holiday, all day
On WKCR.
Billie Holiday, ED4-4058
In the 1940 New York City telephone directory.
Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister
A William P. Gottlieb photograph
"[T]hree days after Bastille day, yes"
Billie Holiday died on July 17, 1959
On December 8
Billie Holiday and John Lennon