78 RPM - Billie Holiday - What Is This Thing Called Love? / Don't Explain - Decca - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Billie Holiday
Label:	Decca
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	23565
Date:	3 Jun 1946
Format:	10"
Genre:	Vocal, Jazz
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	4 Own, 1 Wants
Price Guide:	$37
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PRICE GUIDE

$37

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Billie Holiday	What Is This Thing Called Love?	Cole Porter	Rate
B	Billie Holiday	Don't Explain	Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog Jr.	7.5 Rate

Notes

Also used as part of a four record album A-652 in 1948

A: Featured in Warner Bros. Picture "Night and Day"

Personnel:
Billy Holiday (vocals) with Bob Haggart and his Orchestra:
Joe Guy (trumpet); Bill Stegmeyer (alto sax); Hank Ross, Armand Camgros (tenor sax); Stan Webb (baritone sax); Sammy Benskin (piano); Tiny Grimes (guitar); Bob Haggart (bass, conductor); Specs Powell (drums); Morris Lefkowitz, Frank Siefiels, George Serloff, Leo Kruczek, Charles Jaffe (violin); Armand Kaproff (viola).

A mx: 73009; B mx: 73006.
Recorded New York, NY, August 14, 1945.

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Comments and Reviews


DeweyGill SUBS 26th Jun 2024		@ Mike Gann-Not sure how I missed it. It was getting quite late… Juke Jules’ comments from wikipedia are quite interesting. When I played the B side originally, the lyrics seemed so personal, I had to stop the record to see if she had a hand in the lyrics. What a sad tale of the state of her relationship and the acceptance of the unhappiness that would characterize her life. The song seems to have touched many an artist judging on the amount of remakes of the song.



Mike Gann 26th Jun 2024		@ Dewey Gill. I've moved your images to this entry that we already have.



paneity 26th Nov 2016		Although she did record Don't Explain on 8 November 1944 as mentioned in the comment below, both of the recordings on this record were made on 14 August 1945. This remake of Don't Explain uses the same Toots Camarata arrangement as in the 1944 session, though the band here (for both What Is This Thing Called Love? and Don't Explain) is directed by Bob Haggart.



BigBadBluesMan 1st Apr 2015



Juke Jules SUBS 17th Mar 2013		"It is said Billie wrote "Don't Explain" after her husband, Jimmy Monroe, came home one night with lipstick traces on his collar" Quoted from Wikipedia - Don't Explain (song) which credits the session and musicians: Session #52: New York, November 8, 1944, Decca, Toots Camarata and His Orchestra, with Russ Case (trumpet), Hymie Schertzer, Jack Cressey (alto saxophone), Larry Binyon and Dave Harris (tenor saxophone), Dave Bowman (piano), Carl Kress (guitar), Haig Stephens (bass), George Wettling (drums), Billie Holiday (vocals), and six strings. YT also offers a fine Piano trio version from the Carnegie Hall concert of Nov '56. This was one of Holliday's last performances and she was hardly able to perform, but for this number she gave a powerful performance accompanied by Carl Drinkard, Carson Smith and Chico Hamilton

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Linked Releases

UK - Brunswick - 1947