Billie Holiday & Lester Young et al: Fine and Mellow (1957)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhdYoWhBKhM (8:27)
My man don't love me
Treats me oh so mean
My man, he don't love me
Treats me awful meanThe song was famously performed by Billie Holiday in 1957 in a television special, The Sound of Jazz. The lineup included several jazz legends (the first six are listed in the order of their solos):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_and_Mellow_(song)
Ben Webster – tenor saxophone
Lester Young – tenor saxophone
Vic Dickenson – trombone
Gerry Mulligan – baritone saxophone
Coleman Hawkins – tenor saxophone
Roy Eldridge – trumpet
Doc Cheatham – trumpet
Danny Barker – guitar
Milt Hinton – double bass
Mal Waldron – piano
Osie Johnson - drums
From 'The Sound of Jazz', 8 December 1957, one of the first major programs focusing on jazz to air on American network television (CBS).
Jazz critic Nat Hentoff recalled that during rehearsals, Billie Holiday and Lester Young kept to opposite sides of the room. During the performance of "Fine and Mellow", Hentoff recalled, "Lester got up, and he played the purest blues I have ever heard, and [he and Holiday] were looking at each other, their eyes were sort of interlocked, and she was sort of nodding and half — smiling. It was as if they were both remembering what had been — whatever that was. And in the control room we were all crying. When the show was over, they went their separate ways."
On the way to Lester Young's funeral in 1959, Billie Holiday said she thought she'd be next to go. She was dead less than four months later.
Lyrics http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/billie+hol ... 17850.htmlMy man don't love me
Treats me oh so mean
My man he don't love me
Treats me awfully mean
He's the lowest man
That I've ever see
He wears high draped pants
Stripes are really yellow
He wears high draped pants
Stripes are really yellow
But when he starts in to love me
He's so fine and mellow
Love will make you drink and gamble
Make you stay out all night long
Love will make you drink and gamble
Make you stay out all night long
Love will make you do things
That you know is wrong
But if you treat me right baby
I'll stay home everyday
But if you treat me right baby
I'll stay home everyday
But you're so mean to me baby
I know you're gonna drive me away
Love is just like the faucet
It turns off and on
Love is just like the faucet
It turns off and on
Sometimes when you think it's on baby
It has turned off and gone
Songwriters: BILLIE HOLIDAY
Fine & Mellow lyrics © CARLIN AMERICA INC
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· You Go To My Head
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