The Originals © by Arnold Rypens

FINE AND MELLOW

Created on 16/04/2002
Latest update on 27/12/2022

Artist: Billie Holiday
Author: Billie Holiday
Label: Commodore
Year: 1939

Same session as Strange Fruit (see there).

Covers:

1953:: Ella Fitzgerald
1959:: Nina Simone
1973:: Diana Ross [in film Lady Sings The Blues]
1983:: Carmen McRae
1991:: Ruth Brown [on cd Fine And Mellow]
1991:: Champion Jack Dupree
1993:: Wild Billy Childish & The Black Hands [along with Billie Holiday's I Love My Man (Billie's Blues) as I Love My Woman]
1996:: Eva Cassidy
1997:: Deborah Coleman
2000:: Mary Coughlan
2000:: Blue Largo
2004:: Marie-Laure Béraud
2010:: Dee Dee Bridgewater
2015:: José James

If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:

Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)