Musical Accompaniment: The Very Thought of You by Billie Holiday.
Customers at. an unidentified Mobile Alabama barbershop were photographed by William E. Wilson in 1900.
Historic Mobile Preservation Society
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Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan Cough. Her father, Clarence Holiday, was a teenaged jazz guitarist and banjo player. She was not a direct product of Tin Pan Alley but was influenced by Tin Pan Alley’s Louie Armstrong and Lester Young, her favorite horn players. She often said she tried to sound like their horn sounds. Billie Holiday also toyed with Tin Pan Alley songs, putting her own style to the songs. Tin Pan Alley singers rarely personalized their songs, but Billie’s music was personalized. She was the precursor to modern blues singers.
Imagine dozens of pianists playing a different song on a piano like the one in this Billie Holiday recording and you realize how the name “Tin Pan Alley” was born.
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