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Pacifica Radio Archives’ “From the Vault”
Each week the Pacifica Radio Archives chooses a program "From the Vault" of broadcasts in a half-hour program.
This week on From the Vault we feature Lady Day: Billie Holiday, a dramatic reading of Billie Holiday’s 1956 autobiography by Pauline Jones, with music by Holiday interspersed throughout the recording. This program was produced in 1963 as a memorial for the fourth anniversary of Billie Holiday’s death, and was broadcast on KPFA in Berkeley, California. Today, preserved as part of the preservation project collection “American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982″ funded in part by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission at the National Archives, Lady Day: Billie Holiday speaks to a new generation through the story and music of an American jazz legend. Songs include “Lady Sings the Blues,” “Trav’lin’ All Alone,” “Riffin’ the Scotch,” “Swing, Brother, Swing,” “I’ll Never Be the Same,” “Don’t Explain,” “Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do,” “Our Love is Here to Stay,” “Lover Come Back to Me,” and “My Man.”
