Showing posts with label Bessie Smith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bessie Smith. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer (hold the pig's foot)

Billie Holiday

I've actually never tried a pigfoot, pickled or otherwise. So maybe after a few bottles of beer I could give it a go. It's just that feet don't sound too appetizing right now. Beer pretty much always does, though.

What can I say about Billie? She was one of the alltime greats. Look it up. One of her main influences was Bessie Smith. Here's her version of one of Smith's standards:

Billie Holiday – Gimme A Pigfoot (And A Bottle Of Beer) (buy album)

And here is the original:

Bessie Smith - Gimme A Pigfoot (buy album)

For today's songs, any bottle of beer will do.


One more One For My Baby:

You've already heard Frank's version (a few posts ago). Here's Billie's version. For those keeping score, Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra are my two favorite vocalists of the 20th Century. And they both sang my favorite drinking song. Life is good.

Billie Holiday - One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) (buy album)

This torch that I've found must be drowned...

Bessie Smith