Lady Day with Percy Faith

[medjuck]

I've just come across 2 cuts Billie Holiday recorded with Percy Faith's Orchestra on December 9 1957. (You Better Go Now and Them There Eyes.) They seem to be radio transcriptions for "The Woolworth's Jazz Hour", whatever that was. They're pretty god arrangements with Lady Day in fine form. Does anyone know anything about them?

[Chuck Nessa]

That would be recorded the day after the Sound of Jazz broadcast.

[JSngry]

..."The Woolworth's Jazz Hour", whatever that was...

I'd like to know that myself.

[medjuck]

That would be recorded the day after the Sound of Jazz broadcast.

Ooooops. My bad. Make that December 9, 1956.

[Claude Schlouch]

That would be recorded the day after the Sound of Jazz broadcast.

Chuck,

Please send me your email address. Thank!

Claude Schlouch

[marcello]

..."The Woolworth's Jazz Hour", whatever that was...

I'd like to know that myself.

It seems that Percy Faith was the musical director of a show called The Woolworth Hour or The F.W. Woolworth Hour in 1955 - 1956 on CBS. That's all I could find out.

[Ted O'Reilly]

From the website www.billieholidaysongs.com/live_songs.htm comes:

Live Session #52 [radio broadcast] New York, 9/December/1956 Percy Faith And the Woolworth Orchestra

Unknown Band, Billie Holiday (v)

Percy Faith was a popular arranger and conductor. From 1955 to 1957 he worked as musical director for the CBS show "Woolworth Jazz Hour", where this radio broadcast took place. This is the only session she ever did with Faith. Count Basie was also in the show.

(LR 176) You Better Go Now

(LR 177) Them There Eyes

Tracks in the box Perfect Complete Collection vol.11

[Randy Twizzle]

The show was simply called The Woolworth Hour

[Randy Twizzle]

A small blurb about the show from a Syracuse newspaper on 9/22/1957

[JSngry]

A small blurb about the show from a Syracuse newspaper on 9/22/1957

So Billie did the show at least twice, then, eh?