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I had a CD with twenty some different recordings of the song “”Tain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do,” which I used as theme music for my radio show. Two of those cuts were by Billie Holiday. It hardly ever failed, when I used one of Billie’s recordings to open my show I would get a telephone call accusing me of promoting family violence. When Billie Holiday sang “I won’t call no copper if I’m beat up by my poppa” it was absolutely believable.

Here she is singing “My Man Blues” on a 1957 CBS television show, “The Sound of Jazz” hosted by Robert Herridge. You won’t see a band like this one very often. Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster are all playing tenor saxophones, Gerry Mulligan, looking very young, is on baritone sax. Roy Eldridge and Doc Cheatham are the trumpeters. Vic Dickenson plays the trombone. Also playing are Milt Hinton, bass, Mal Waldron piano, Danny Barker, guitar, Okie Johnson, drums.

The Best of Billie Holiday has a remastered recording of “My Man” along with “T’ain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do” and ten other songs.

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