Billie Holiday
Legacy
1950: 'Sugar Chile' Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet
1947: New Orleans
1935: "Symphony in Black", short (with Duke Ellington)
1933: The Emperor Jones, appeared as an extra
Television appearances
Year Program Host Songs
1949
Adventures in Jazz
Fred Robbins
Unknown Songs
8/27/1949
Arlene Francis Show, NY (1)
Arlene Francis
"The Man I Love", "All of Me", "Lover Man"
8/27/1949
Eddie Condon's Floor Show, NY (1)
Eddie Condon
"I Love My Man", "Keeps on Rainin'", "Lover Man"
9/3/1949
Eddie Condon's Floor Show, NY (1)
Eddie Condon
"Fine & Mellow", "Porgy", "Them There Eyes", "I Love My Man"
9/10/1949
Art Ford Show, NY (1)
Art Ford
"Lover Man", "I Cover the Waterfront", Two-Minute Interview, "All of Me"
10/15/1949
Art Ford Show, NY (1)
Art Ford
"Them There Eyes", "Detour Ahead", "Now or Never"
1/7/1950
Eddie Condon's Floor Show, NY
Eddie Condon
Unknown
5/24/1950
Apollo Theatre Show, NY (1)
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"You're My Thrill"
7/25/1951
Apollo Theatre Show, NY (1)
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"My Man"
12/10/1952
Apollo Theatre Show, NY (1)
Count Basie
"Tenderly"
10/16/1953
The Comeback Story, NY (1)
George Jessel
Twenty-Minute Interview, "God Bless the Child"
2/8/1955
The Tonight Show, NY (1)
Steve Allen
"My Man", "Them There Eyes", "Lover Man"
2/10/1956
The Tonight Show, NY (1)
Steve Allen
"Please Don't Talk About Me", Two-Minute Interview, "Ghost of a Chance"
8/19/1956
Stars of Jazz, LA, CA (2)
Bobby Troup
"Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone", "Billie's Blues", "My Man"
10/29/1956
Bandstand USA, NY (1)
Bert Parks
"Willow Weep for Me", "I Only Have Eyes for You", "My Man", "Please Don't Talk About Me"
11/7/1956
Night Beat, NY (1)
Mike Wallace
Fifteen-Minute Interview
11/8/1956
Peacock Alley, NY (1)
Tex McCleary
Twenty-Minute Interview
11/8/1956
The Tonight Show, NY (1)
Steve Allen
"Porgy"
3/11/1957
Live Broadcast from Mr. Kelly's, Chicago (1)
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"Good Morning Heartache", "You Better Go Now"
12/8/1957
The Seven Lively Arts: The Sound of Jazz, LA (2)
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"Fine & Mellow"
4/12/1958
Club Oasis, NY (1)
Martha Raye
"You've Changed", "My Man"
5/26/1958
Telethon, NY
Dean Martin
Unknown Songs
5/29/1958
Art Ford's Jazz Party, NY (2)
Art Ford
"You've Changed", "I Love My Man", "When Your Lover Has Gone"
6/5/1958
Art Ford's Jazz Party, NY
Art Ford
"All of Me", "Good Morning Heartache", "Travelin’ Light"
7/10/1958
Art Ford's Jazz Party, NY (2)
Art Ford
"What a Little Moonlight Can Do", "Foolin' Myself", "It's Easy to Remember"
7/17/1958
Art Ford's Jazz Party, NY (2)
Art Ford
"Moanin' Low", "Don't Explain", "When Your Lover Has Gone"
9/25/1958
Today Show
Dave Garroway
"My Funny Valentine"
11/18/1958
Mars Club, Music Hall Parade Voyons Un Peu, Paris France (2)
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"I Only Have Eyes for You"
11/20/1958
Gilles Margaritis Programme, Paris France (2)
Gilles Margaritis
"Trav'lin' Light"
1/7/1959
Timex All-Star Jazz Show IV, NY
Jackie Gleason
Unknown
2/23/1959
Chelsea at Nine, London, England (2)
Robert Beatty
"Porgy", "Please Don't Talk About Me", "Strange Fruit"
Billie Holiday was posthumously inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least 25 years old and that have "qualitative or historical significance."
Billie Holiday: Grammy Hall of Fame Awards
Year Recorded Title Genre Label Year Inducted Notes
1949 "Crazy He Calls Me" Jazz (single) Decca 2010
1944 "Embraceable You" Jazz (single) Commodore 2005
1958 Lady in Satin Jazz (album) Columbia 2000
1945 "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" Jazz (single)
Decca 1989
1939 "Strange Fruit" Jazz (single) Commodore 1978 Listed also in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2002
1941 "God Bless the Child" Jazz (single) Okeh 1976
The Grammy Award for Best Historical Album has been presented since 1979.
Year Title Label Result
2002 Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday Columbia
1933–1944 Winner
1994 The Complete Billie Holiday Verve 1945–1959 Winner
1992 Billie Holiday — The Complete Decca Recordings
Verve 1944–1950 Winner
1980 Billie Holiday — Giants of Jazz Time-Life Winner
2004 Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame[102] Inducted Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York
2000 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inducted Category: "Early Influence"
1997 ASCAP Jazz Hall of Fame Inducted
1947 Esquire Magazine Gold Award Best Leading Female Vocalist Jazz award
1946 Esquire Magazine Silver Award Best Leading Female Vocalist Jazz award
1945 Esquire Magazine Silver Award Best Leading Female Vocalist Jazz award
1944 Esquire Magazine Gold Award Best Leading Female Vocalist Jazz award
1972, Diana Ross portrayed Holiday in the film Lady Sings the Blues, which is loosely based on the 1956 autobiography of the same name. The film earned Ross a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
She was portrayed by Ernestine Jackson in the play Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill by Lanie Robertson.
Singer Miki Howard released the Holiday tribute album, Miki Sings Billie: A Tribute to Billie Holiday in 1993.
Paula Jai Parker portrayed Holiday in a Season 7 episode of the TV series Touched by an Angel, entitled "God Bless the Child," the title derived from a song which Holiday had written and performed.
Jazz pianist Mal Waldron perform as Holiday's accompanist and released several tribute albums including:
Left Alone (Bethlehem, 1959)
Blues for Lady Day (Black Lion, 1972)
Left Alone '86 with Jackie McLean (Paddle Wheel, 1986)
No More Tears (For Lady Day) (Timeless, 1989)
Billie Hollidy, Croatian National Theatre in Split by A.Ostojić & Ksenia Prohaska (2006
1987, Billie Holiday was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
1993, R&B singer Miki Howard released an album dedicated to Holiday titled Miki Sings Billie.
1994, the United States Postal Service introduced a Billie Holiday postage stamp.
1999, Holiday ranked No. 6 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock n' Roll.
2000, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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Over the years, there have been many tributes to Billie Holiday, including "The Day Lady Died," a 1959 poem by Frank O'Hara.
In 1988 the group U2 released "Angel of Harlem" in her honor.
Arthur Phillips features Holiday's 1953 concert in New York in his novel The Song is You (2009).
"My Only Friend" by The Magnetic Fields is a tribute to Billie Holiday.
Grammy Hall of Fame
Grammy Best Historical Album
Awards
Tributes
Honors
Filmography
