"Billie's Blues" is a blues song written by jazz singer Billie Holiday, composing it just before being recorded in a session on July 10, 1936. According to the article in Melody Maker, on August 1, 1936:
Recording session "Did I Remember?" "Summertime" "No Regrets" "Billie's Blues"
Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, (Bunny Berigan, trumpet; Artie Shaw, clarinet; Joe Bushkin, piano; Dick McDonough, guitar; Arthur "Pete" Peterson, bass; Cozy Cole, drums)
Notable cover versions Blossom Dearie (1957)Adapted on the 1957 Verve album, Blossom Dearie, as "Blossom's Blues". (Not released until CD reissue as a bonus track.) Carmen McRae (1986) Mary Coughlan (2000) Jazz at the Philharmonic (2004)
Footnotes
Resource Vladimir, Bogdanov. All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues, Backbeat Books (2003), p. 240,
External links The Unofficial Billie Holiday Website [ Song: Billie Blues]