Paulyn Wong 2005 made this page at 2009, reboot at 2019,

celebrate the rebirth of Billie Holiday at 1959.

 

                                 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

                                            Paulyn Wong 2005 celebrates a legend alive,  BILLIE HOLIDAY 2009,

                                            great jazz inspires good photography

                                            songs performed by Billie Holiday 1959 - 2259 or longer, photo by Stephen 1985 - 2009.

 

       

Autumn in New York
That brings the promise of new love

Billie Holiday with  Harry 'Sweet' Edison at 2005

 

 

 


Autumn in New York
Is often mingled with pain, 2005
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, you've got lots of friends
Crowding round the door
When you're gone, spending ends
They don't come no more.......
God Bless the Child,1985.

 

I'll be seeing you
In all the old familiar places
That this heart of mine embraces
All day through.

In that small cafe;
The park across the way;
The children's carousel;
The chestnut trees;
The wishing well, 1987.
 

 

Gone my lovely dreams
Lovely summer dreams
Gone and left me here
To weep my tears along the stream
Sad as I can be
Hear me willow and weep for me

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                              rain moths had a life of a day, 2002

 

 

                                           Comes the measles, you can quarrantine the room. Comes a mousie,

you can chase it with a broom, comes loves, nothing can be done, 2008

 

 

You like potato and I like potahto,
You like tomato and I like tomahto;
Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto!
Let's call the whole thing off ! 2006
 

 

                                                                               my sweet embraceable you

    Broccoli, an embraceable rabbit, looks like a mousie in the dark, 2008 fenceRed.

 

 

I viewed the morning with alarm
The British Museum had lost its charm
How long, I wondered, could this thing last?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

philippine national museum open days : Tuesday to Sunday
museum open hours : 10am to 6 pm

photo by our first digital camera on Tuesday, 1030am, 2009.

 

 

Smoking, drinking, never thinking of tomorrow, nonchalant
Diamonds shining, dancing, dining with some man in a restaurant
Is that all you really want?

No, sophisticated lady,
I know, you miss the love you lost long ago
And when nobody is nigh you cry.

a manila restaurant looks like 1959, 2009 by our first digital camera

 

 

 

 

  

          Lady sings the blues and her quotations

          I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two

          years or ten  years. If you can,  then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling

          or something, not music.

  If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

 

  I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. 

  That's all I know.

         If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

         No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

         Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and

         eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.

 

 

 

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