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"Don't threaten me with love, baby, let's just go walking in the torrential rain" (Billie Holiday break) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential numbers, but how a lot of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in enough time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long overlooked or never known. If Billie Holiday break wanted to become a jazz vocalist, she chose the best of all eras in which to try it. A influx of great jazz and jazz/pop crossover artists swept over the United States from the 1920s through the 1950s, creating a golden age group for the genre. This wondrous jazz era represented both dark-colored and white grasp artists, men, women, vocalists, and instrumentalists, and Billie Holiday break has stood the test of time as well as any of them, despite struggling with an environment that easily might have doomed such dreams. Appearing from such a robust group of accomplished vocalists had not been easy. The girl who has come to signify a model of great, instinctive jazz singing originated from nowhere, had nothing, and virtually possessed no one who was truly helpful in her record. She was raw and untrained, but proceeded to go forward, regardless, with limited and quirky vocal gift items, famous brands which possessed never been heard in the highest circles of jazz. This especially was true among women, where efficiency of phrasing and a soft design of delivery stood as the unspoken suggestions of vocal success. No female counterpart of Louis Armstrong, one of Holiday's idols, was ever going to survive in the female jazz world for long, except perhaps as a novelty.
