Billie Holiday - It Had To Be You Lyrics

What a voice reflects a Magic Epoche my birthday 1955....

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Good Song!!!!!

There’s no voices here today like this one. What happened??

That voice 👌.

Marla Hooch ruined this song in the funniest way.

On vinyl . .. glass of whiskey. Summer night, can't be beat.

Beautiful lady and singer. Don't like it don't know music.

She had a hard life... You hear the melancholy in her voice. I think that's one reason so many of us relate to Billie.

Still here in 2019

I don't like her version and I love Billie. She sounds drunk.

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I always go back to Billie , Tom Waits... everytime I'm stupidly hooked on someone. Lov ya Pau

Maybe Frank Sinatra learned from her , their phrasing seems similar on this

Not maybe! There's were he took his lessons.

Check out Mary Lou by the Creative Force amazing

This song sung by this wonderful lady makes you fall in Love all over again!

Una maravilla

I don't think her voice diminshed at all,she was the Queen!!

This is pretty random. I’m liking everyone who didn’t get enough likes but I love this song.🎼

She has torn me up since i was a boy.

absolutely wonderful!

Saneamento básico

👏👏👏👏👏

Lovely song/music

__''*:'*"BEAUTIFUL SONG & VOICE.,.,.,LOVE IT!!.,..,.THX.,.,.,me Gloria__

Fantastic lady.  Always have and always will think she had the best vocals of all.

BILLIE HOLIDAY WAS THE GREATEST.

Muito bom! <3

É um colírio pros ouvidos ...

👏👏👏👏👏
Mantendo minha sanidade ouvindo Lady Day.

👄💕

Good times brought me here

GOOD STUFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

L❤ V E BILLIE FOREVER!

Billie Holiday. Singer. 'Nuff said. Thank you and God bless. Thanks for the upload, RoundMidnightTV. Blessings

Magistral

OMG! Tooo good. Thank you!

I've loved her voice since I was a girl 50 years ago!

BILLIE BILLIE!

THIS is THE version.  Billie's voice and phrasing is bar none.  3.25 - 3.44  "because nobody else gave me a thrill"- and her emphasis on 'nobody'.

this song reminds me of the movie A legue of their Own.

<3 <3 <3 yesteryear

Its a rainy today...and I am listening Billie...to sooth my soul.

This heals the soul

marie marq

Aurelieeve

Are you kidding thumbs down? My my my!

She touches my soul with every note😍

NCIS New Orleans " The Last Stand " brought me here.

She was so amazing despite her horrible problems. She was unique. God bless her soul.

Benny Carter and the band sound exquisite ...

I'm taking a very risky guess that the saxophonist on this is the same player who plays in Quincy Jones led Count Basie band on the At The Sands Sinatra live album. Anyone know? The style is so much the same.

This still shows Lady could still reach great heights even by this stage in her life and career - beautiful.

"It Had To Be You"

It had to be you, it had to be you
I wandered around and finally found, that somebody
Who could make me be true
Could make me be blue
And even be glad just to be sad, thinking of you

Some others I've seen might never be mean,
Might never be cross, or try to be boss
But they wouldn't do

For nobody else gave me a thrill
With all your faults, I love you still
It had to be you, wonderful you
It had to be you

It had to be you, it had to be you
I wandered around and finally found, that somebody
Who could make me be true
Could make me be blue
And even be glad just to be sad, thinking of you

Some others I've seen might never be mean,
Might never be cross, or try to be boss
But they wouldn't do

For nobody else gave me a thrill
With all your faults, I love you still
It had to be you, wonderful you
It had to be you

Eu amo essa mulher...

Massavana

Wonderful, yes. Great jazz, yes. But the verse is omitted, sad.

Thank You...Aloha...

My favorite singer of all time. With her music I travel the universe.

Bellísima !

Flying without wing

28 morons must be tone deaf to give this a thumbs down.

Love that musical era...My dad played sax and my mother piano, organ, and sometimes accordian

Threre are always AssClowns who just don't get it!

Now, Billie Holiday is a jazz singer.

This queen of Jazz/blues' voice got better as she aged. 🤔 Incredible. She and the other wonderful Jazz pioneers make me feel like I was born a few centuries late. I enjoy every tune.

Not true! She lost her voice! But a few later songs are still great!

I really enjoy Billie Holiday but since I played Fallout for the first time it is in the back of my head whenever I listen to her

I love you Billie holiday I have a book project on you love you!

I feel like she could have been Peruvian

I think it's old Ben Webster on tenor and Sweets on trumpet

so beautiful it hurts.

Who is playing Tenor sax in this?

so i found out its Benny carter on Alto in this song

Benny Carter, alto sax!

Need to know who's on the Sax! Sounds like an alto so I doubt it's Lester

Not sure either, doesn't sound like Pres, sounds like someone who wants to sound like him (eg stan getz!)

Benny Carter

Sexy Vocalist

classic romance< -<@

there tree is so pretty.i wonder if they see what I see on just beautiful that tree really is.

20 people gave this a thumbs down....really?no class man.

people don't know music were do they think mus6 cuts from TODAY!!!!!!!!

Prolly hipsters trying to be different. "I don't like jazz" Slaps "Everyone loves jazz, shut up"

some people just like to be assholes, I guess they don't have any other hobbies

how can anyone not like Jazz?

Shame to say something bad about BILLIE HOLIDAY

Oh my....I really get emotional when I hear this cut. Sounds like Lester on sax. It doesn't get any better than these two together.

2myb&ofromme2thee...

so SWEET the PAIN...
WHITE knuckles...
toes CURLED...
U drive me 2
HEAVENLY bliss...
i AWAIT ur KISS...
SOON come SOON...
my DARLING...
LEAVES r TURNING...
failing UR attention...
i NEED U, come 2 me...
LDSC

sad that drugs killed her with the help of the government

ahahaha👌

robin argueta wheres your 2cents worth??

Perfect song for strong black Turkish coffee with red wine in the early morning. I enjoy. :)))

wonderful, blues and jaz.. made for each other

its so awsome

Perfect

My girl! 😆I'm such a fan, everything Lady Day sang just floors me.😰 Every time I think I have all her cds I need (and I have several), I find yet another song she kills me with! 😭'Love her music! 'Such a tragic life, but a true survivor till her untimely end. What a treat it must have been to see her onstage (I was born in'58; she died in '59😛)! Still, thanks to YouTube, and it's generous contributors,😚😚😚😚 we all get to enjoy what was, time and again.👍👍👍👍

I was born in 54....would have LOVED to hear her live!

What a solid lovely voice.

it had to be you!!!!!!!!!!!!

no words.. ♥
Ty

It will always be you!

"with all your faults, i love you still" <3

Tobin
Better look at your faults!!! You don't even deserve to hear one tune of her!!!

Lady...the best!!

Carlos Bracesco yes indeed

It was also sung in the movie Mr. Skeffington.  I don't know who the singer was.

'I'll be seeing you '  by billie, moves me to tears sometimes. Its so good, like a dream.
and I'm a hedero 22 yr old guy.
Its just that i can appreciate good music and that's Billie holiday.

Adam Nelson that's amazing that you love Billie and jazz music I'm 20 years old and I absolutely love her

Your orientation has nothing to do with it! BH's voice has this effect on many of us!

The unique sound of Billie Holiday accompanied as always by a superb musical group. A great era of music.

That voice is so beautiful

The best version.

Sono i soliti 5 di "April in Paris" !!!

Je préfère la version chantée par Chyvonne Scott

I was 15 when this album was released and was smitten with Billie.  I was president of a Joni James fan club and was not surprised when Joni told  me her musical heroines were Sarah, Billie, Ella and Dinah.  Billie's albums at that point were getting hard to find and her Columbia masterpieces nearly impossible to find.  A few years Columbia began reissuing everything in gorgeous boxed sets and Decca had put everything it had out on 12 inch LPs.  Heaven!  Billie loved recording for Norman Granz on Clef and Verve because he let her sing the way she felt, gave her the best musicians for accompaniment, and helped her select the very tip top quality songs.  Granz even let Billie rerecord songs for him within short periods of time because he knew every record of every song would be different.  For example she did two killer versions of "Say It Isn't So" that were chilling.  I have some tapes of the Verve recording sessions and it is fascinating to hear Billie schmoozing with other jazz greats, suggesting new ways to do a song and very happy because she was in her element.  She never imitates any other singer even though almost every other singer was imitating her and willingly admitting it.  There are some Peggy Lee records on Decca where you'd swear you are listening to Billie and Peg recorded several songs because she so loved Billie's recordings of them.  Though known now as a tragic, down on her luck walking trainwreck, Billie in real life was happy, amiable, sociable and enjoyed a great night out listening to great music and, well, drinking.  She was a very thoughtful, kind and socially conscious lady of regal bearing, one reason she was known as Lady.

@TeachinTV I think he's referring to Dinah Washington, not Dinah Shore.

@TheBilliefan Extamente. Dinah Washington did much of her recording here in Chicago and the musicians who worked with her said she was easy to pie to work with because every take of every song was just remarkable. She loved to chat with the musicians at sessions. As I remember Bob Shad did some of her producing and admired her greatly. Sarah was incredible. Mercury would lay these extravagant two-LP sets for her, 24 to 26 songs, and she'd come in never even heard many of them and just put them down pat on first try. I have the complete recordings of her show tune album including outtakes and she is a riot, joking, complaining and singing like an angel. I have a lot of Diana Ross outtakes and at heart she really is a jazz singer; it is fascinating to hear how she tries something different with every take without making a point of it. She is, at last, working on a new album.

@TheBilliefan Oh. Sorry. Never mind. (GOTCHA!)

Thank you for sharing your story there.

Thanks Wayne, for sharing those insights to illie's recordings. My favourite female singer.

Wonderful voice I think to my mother 

LA Diva.

sublime!!!

no one did this song justice like ms. holiday.

Bold, yet smooth and suave like raw cacao butter. Anyone know where I can find chords for her version?