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Performance TitleNew Musical Express (NME) - Billie Holiday with Jack Parnell and His Orchestra
Performance Date14 February 1954
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time19:00
Main PerformersBillie Holiday,
Dennis Hale,
Marion Davies
Secondary PerformersCarl Drinkard - piano,
Kenny Napper - bass,
Alan Ganley - drums
Orchestra or BandJack Parnell and His Orchestra
ConductorsJack Parnell
Set List'Hawk Talks' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Jealousy' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Answer Me' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Pennsylvania 6,5000' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Ricochet' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Don't Stop Now' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Lullaby of Birdland' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Hey Joe!' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Summer Time' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Seven Eleven' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Blowing Wild' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Black Magic' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Tenderly' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Sixty Minute Man' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Skin Deep' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Dragnet' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Oo! What You Do' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Always' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Young Blood' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Crying In The Chapel' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Devil's Eyes' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'The Creep' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Istanbul' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Night Train' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Perdido' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'My Heart Belongs To You' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Caravan' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'from Here To Eternity' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'Rachel' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'The Champ' (Parnell and His Orchestra),
'I Cover The Water Front' (Billie Holiday),
'All of Me' (Billie Holiday),
'I Love You Porgy' (Billie Holiday),
Blue Moon' (Billie Holiday),
'Them There Eyes' (Billie Holiday),
'My Man' (Billie Holiday),
'You Go To Me Head' (Billie Holiday),
'Billie's Blues' (Billie Holiday),
'I Only Have Eyes for You' (Billie Holiday),
'Fine And Mellow' (Billie Holiday),
'Lover Man' (Billie Holiday),
'Strange Fruit' (Billie Holiday)
Performance NotesLondon and Royal Albert Hall debut of Billie Holiday.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1954/13)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/BeBGhGBZoHV9
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1954/13Billie Holiday14 February 1954
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Yhagair_N_BaixNew Musical Express (NME) - Billie Holiday with Jack Parnell and His Orchestra1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/4738Holiday; Billie (7 April 1915-17 July 1959); African American jazz singer
DS/UK/7591Hale; Dennis (1922-1960); English vocalist
DS/UK/8577Davis; Marion (fl 1950s-1960s); British vocalist
DS/UK/7313Parnell; Jack (1923-2010); English bandleader, musician
DS/UK/9243Ganley; Allan (1931-2008); British jazz drummer, composer, arranger
DS/UK/9244Napper; Kenny (1933-); British jazz bassist
DS/UK/9245Drinkard; Carl (c1928-); American jazz pianist
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