Wishing on the Moon: Life and Times of Billie Holiday

by Donald Clarke (Author)

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  Paperback
  1995

  $3.25

  This biography of Billie Holliday describes the music business and club scene of her youth and her childhood in Baltimore (where the author suspects she was a teenage prostitute and an abused child) before she became a dancer and then a singer. The book presents her life and achievements in the context of the music industry of the period. With accounts of the recording sessions and club dates, in chronological order.