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Billie Holiday – God Bless The Child

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Vendor: Power Plant Records

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Title: Billie Holiday – God Bless The Child

Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1972, Jazz, Blues, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / New York, New York 5/26

Matrix #: G 30782

Condition: VG+, sounds great TC | Members: Billie H (15' - 59')

Cultural Facts:

  1. Personal Struggle Holiday’s childhood included poverty, sexual assault, and time in reform school, giving her adult voice a lived-in weight that was never just “sad jazz singer” mythology.
  2. Legal Trouble After a narcotics conviction in 1947, Holiday lost her New York cabaret card, meaning she could sing at Carnegie Hall but not legally perform in many city nightclubs.
  3. Family Ties “God Bless the Child” reportedly grew from an argument with her mother over money, turning a painful family moment into one of her most enduring songs.