Billie Holiday surely bore and was able to communicate much the same kind of pain.

Billie Holiday performed the song on several records, first in 1944.

Billie Holiday gave a notable performance at the bar in the years after this.

People say bad things about Billie Holiday too but they still listen to her music.

Billie Holiday, she says, is only one of her influences.

Billie Holiday recorded it seven years before she died.

Billie Holiday would have known what to do with his feelings.

I asked her if she knew anything by Billie Holiday.

Billie Holiday, he said, stayed there for six months in the late 1930's.

It is said that he died listening to the music of Billie Holiday.