I have been listening to Billie Holiday songs from 1933 up till the end of 1937. That gal could really sing. Also the cats around her could really play their instruments. Some of them became famous in their own right. Just to inform you I am 75 years young. So her beginnings were before I was born in 1942. Try listening.

Here is one website I use.

http://www.billieholiday.be/other/mp3.html

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