When It's Sleepy Time Down South [feat. Ray Ellis And His Orchestra]
When It's Sleepy Time Down South
Billie Holiday [feat. Ray Ellis & His Orchestra] Lyrics
Homesick tired All alone in a big city
Why should ev'rybody pity me,
Nighttime's falling, folks are a singin',
they dance till break of day
Dear Old Southland with it's dreamy songs
Takes me back there where I belong
How I'd love to be in mammy's arms
When It's Sleepy Time Down South
Why should ev'rybody pity me,
Nighttime's falling, folks are a singin',
they dance till break of day
Dear Old Southland with it's dreamy songs
Takes me back there where I belong
How I'd love to be in mammy's arms
When It's Sleepy Time Down South
Lyrics © OTIS RENE PUBLICATIONS, BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Shapiro Bernstein & Co Inc
Written by: Clarence Muse, Leon Rene, Otis Rene
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@keithfarrar
This must be one of her last recordings: 1959, Ray Ellis. Why is it that when Billie Holiday sang a song it instantly became the ultimate version of that song with more feeling, better phrasing, than anyone else. And that still goes.
@davisworth5114
Sorry, it was Louis' song and his version was definitive, check his version from December 1932.
@idiotsavant751
Fragile beauty
@lastrada52
Even though her famous voice was gone by this time there was still something special in this Billie Holiday voice. I could listen to this endlessly. Very good pics also to accompany this song -- which I feel Billie sincerely -- sang very well.
@anthonywest4173
I LOVE HER VOICE.
@stjohnofb
The famous voice just keep getting better at what she always did best: pour out raw emotion. Technically she never had a great voice, but nobody has ever sung any better.
@reneeransom2525
So true, when you listen to the 1930'S recordings her voice is as clear as a bell.
@bradrumph8031
@Renee Ransom That's true too. It's just that those 1930s recordings didn't grab me the way her 1950s ones did, when I first became aware of her music as a young boy. That Lady in Satin album just killed me. And the Verve recordings sounded so much more modern than her '30s and even '40s recordings to me. Even today.
@Khamomil
Her voice is shot and it's not long before she died -so young still- but the very brokenness of it makes the song even ore poignant. She lives forever in the heart of those who are "in touch with their feelings".
@markossss155
Amazing!🍷