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Title: Billie Holiday – History Of The Real Billie Holiday
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1973, Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Baltimore
Matrix #: 2 V6S-8816
Condition: VG+, sounds great, looks okay, lots of marks (CC)
Cultural Facts:
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Personal Struggle Holiday grew up poor in Baltimore and spent time in a Catholic reform school before moving to Harlem.
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Legal Trouble Her 1947 drug arrest cost her New York cabaret card and shut her out of nightclub work for years.
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Scene Ecology This 1973 2LP was part of Verve’s “History Of...” series, alongside catalog retrospectives for Jimmy Smith and Stan Getz.
