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Cole announced a new Kickstarter project on June 16, 2016, for a covers studio album, Ballads. It raised $76,899. The album was released on August 11, 2017. [36] The first single, a cover of Billie Holiday's "God Bless the Child", was released on June 1. [37] The album hit #9 on the Billboard Traditional Jazz Album Chart. [38]
"God Bless the Child" is a song written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr. in 1939. It was first recorded on May 9, 1941, by Billie Holiday and released by the Okeh Records in 1942. Holiday's version of the song was honored with the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1976. [ 2 ]
Of all the words of wisdom my mother has passed on to me, the earliest ones I remember have been the most useful. She told me I could achieve any goal I set for myself, but being Black, I would ...
“God Bless the Child,” which teeters between jazz and blues, was a quasi-self-help song for Black Americans, far less wide-eyed and optimistic than “Over the Rainbow.” It was a warning to ...
" – Paula Cole; Paula Cole, producer "Everyday Is a Winding Road" – Sheryl Crow; Sheryl Crow, ... "God Bless the Child" – Tony Bennett with Billie Holiday
Paula Cole learned an important lesson by going on The Masked Singer. “That I'm a snob and I need to get over myself,” she tells PEOPLE. The singer-songwriter, 56, refers to herself as a ...
The final track, "God Bless the Child", was an electronically created "duet" with the long-dead Lady Day and Count Basie; it received poor notices, unlike the rest of the album. On November 8, 2011, Sony Music Distribution included the CD in a box set entitled The Complete Collection. [4]
The film includes Billie Holiday performing "God Bless the Child" and "Now, Baby or Never", the Count Basie Sextet performing "One O'Clock Jump", and juvenile performer Frank "Sugar Chile" Robinson performing "Numbers Boogie" and "After School Boogie".