QUEEN FOR A DAY
Songs to Break Your Heart (AND WIN PRIZES!!)
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Copy_right Jerry Meyer

A generation of boomers grew up watching women try to outdo one another with their tales of woe.

April 29, 2010
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When I was in high school listening to the radio I heard Mildred Bailey. Knocked my socks off. She preceded Billie Holiday as my favorite all time female vocalist (whom I first heard freshman year in college). And I guess she’s in QFAD because I ran out of great aunts and grandmothers to put in the piece. I am related to all of the other women, except Mildred Bailey and the woman next to her (found her photo in an urban salvage junk shop in Berkeley).

Dame_edith

I’ve always meant to ask you this— what’s Mildred Bailey doing there? Have you ever heard her?