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DON'T EXPLAIN

Created on 15/01/2008
Latest update on 28/11/2023

Artist: Billie Holiday
Author: Arthur Herzog/Billie Holiday
Label: Decca
Year: 1944

With Toots Camarata's Orchestra. Song about one of her no-good husbands, coming home late with cheap excuses.

Covers:

1954:: Helen Merrill
1956:: George Shearing
1957:: Abbey Lincoln
1958:: Charlie Byrd
1959:: John Coltrane
1959:: Wes Montgomery
1961:: Anita O'Day
1961:: Dinah Washington
1962:: Dexter Gordon
1964:: Nina Simone
1965:: Carmen McRae
1966:: Nina Simone
1966:: Lou Rawls
1973:: Diana Ross
1973:: Grover Washington Jr.
1977:: Blood, Sweat & Tears
1978:: Rosemary Clooney
1987:: Nikki Sudden & Rowland S. Howard
1990:: Carol Grimes & Ian Shaw
1990:: Robert Palmer
1993:: Natalie Cole
1993:: Mary Black
1993:: Elkie Brooks
1993:: Miki Howard
1994:: Etta James
1996:: Dakota Staton
2001:: Sarah-Jane Morris
2001:: Sarah Vaughan
2004:: Rita Reys
2005:: Herbie Hancock [with Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan]
2005:: Lisa Stansfield
2007:: Cat Power
2008:: Barbara Hendricks
2011:: Joe Bonamassa & Beth Hart [title track cd]
2012:: Carlo Marx [in film On The Road]
2015:: Cassandra Wilson
2017:: Patti Labelle

Other Lady Day compositions: Fine And Mellow and God Bless The Child.

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