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Violets For Your Furs

Music 'til Midnight - the best in easy listening sounds and timeless standards performed by the greatest artists from the past 60 years, including Nancy Wilson and Marty Paich.

Music 'til Midnight - the best in easy listening sounds and timeless standards performed by the greatest artists from the past 60 years including Nancy Wilson, Mark Murphy, Bobby Darin and Marty Paich.

This week's featured album is jazz legend Billie Holiday's 1956 Verve Release Lady Sings The Blues. Featuring the best of her later sessions the album includes Say It Isn't So, Everything Happens To Me and an updated version of the song that in many ways defined her career, Abel Meeropol's composition Strange Fruit.

57 minutes

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Sun 2 Nov 2014 23:00
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Music Played

  • Nancy Wilson

    I Had A Ball

    • From Broadway With Love.
    • EMI Gold 3512832.

  • Mark Murphy

    Sometime When You're Lonely

    • The Dream.
    • Jive 5637387812.

  • Billie Holiday

    Say It Isn't So

    • Lady Sings the Blues.
    • Verve 9884023.

  • Billie Holiday

    Everything Happens To Me

    • Lady Sings the Blues.
    • Verve 9884023.

  • Marty Paich

    Violets For Your Furs

    • The Modern Touch.
    • Lonehill Jazz LHJ10186.

  • Stacey Kent

    So Nice

    • Brazil.
    • Erato 0 825646 32043.

  • Bobby Darin

    Where Love Has Gone

    • Hello Dolly to Goodbye Charlie.
    • Capitol 724353520724.

  • Bobby Darin

    Roses Of Picardy

    • Oh! Look At Me Now.
    • Capitol 724353520724.

  • Billy May

    I Believe In You

    • Process 70.
    • Time Records S 2064.

  • Billie Holiday

    Strange Fruit

    • Lady Sings the Blues.
    • Verve 9884023.

  • Billie Holiday

    Always

    • Lady Sings the Blues.
    • Verve 9884023.

  • Dr. John

    Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me

    • Duke Elegant.
    • Parlophone 724352322022.

  • Duke Ellington

    Danke Schoen

    • Ellington Β‘65.
    • Warner 8122796625.

Billie Holiday: Lady Sings The Blues - Verve 1956

Billie Holiday: Lady Sings The Blues - Verve 1956

Mark Murphy: Jazz 625 - Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Television - March 1964

Mark Murphy: Jazz 625 - Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Television - March 1964

Marty Paich: The Broadway Bit - Warner 1959

Marty Paich: The Broadway Bit - Warner 1959

Billy May: Process 70 - Time Records 1962

Billy May: Process 70 - Time Records 1962

Duke Ellington: Ellington '65 - Reprise 1965

Duke Ellington: Ellington '65 - Reprise 1965

Broadcast

  • Sun 2 Nov 2014 23:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2