Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
Billie Holiday sings the beautiful ballad "Yesterdays", accompanied by her "Lads Of Joy".
This transfer is taken from a 1952 Mercury 78 rpm record that was, as the label indicates, distributed to disc jockeys to play on radio shows (the black lettering on white background is reversed on the standard issue Mercury 78). The label also gives the personnel; trumpet player Joe Newman isn't heard, even though he is listed, and Oscar Peterson plays organ rather than piano.
BILLIE HOLIDAY AND HER LADS OF JOY
Billie Holiday, vocals, accompanied by: Oscar Peterson - organ / Paul Quinichette - tenor sax / Freddie Green - guitar / Ray Brown - string bass / Gus Johnson - drums
Recorded in New York, July 27, 1952
C-842-2…….Yesterdays…….Mercury 89037
Billie Holiday sings the beautiful ballad "Yesterdays", accompanied by her "Lads Of Joy".
This transfer is taken from a 1952 Mercury 78 rpm record that was, as the label indicates, distributed to disc jockeys to play on radio shows (the black lettering on white background is reversed on the standard issue Mercury 78). The label also gives the personnel; trumpet player Joe Newman isn't heard, even though he is listed, and Oscar Peterson plays organ rather than piano.
BILLIE HOLIDAY AND HER LADS OF JOY
Billie Holiday, vocals, accompanied by: Oscar Peterson - organ / Paul Quinichette - tenor sax / Freddie Green - guitar / Ray Brown - string bass / Gus Johnson - drums
Recorded in New York, July 27, 1952
C-842-2…….Yesterdays…….Mercury 89037
