I Wished on the Moon

Teddy Wilson featuring Billie Holiday · 1935 · Brunswick 7501, 2 juillet 1935

Context

Recorded on July 2, 1935 and released in August 1935 on Brunswick (7501) under the name Teddy Wilson with Billie Holiday. The vocal chorus is given to Holiday.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Swing, big bands. Among the origins and influences of Swing, big bands: Chicago, Stride (Harlem piano), Harlem: Henderson, Redman, Ellington, Kansas City, Boogie-woogie, Symphonic jazz, dance orchestras.

By the same artist

• What a Little Moonlight Can Do (1935)
• Strange Fruit (1939)
• Fine and Mellow (1939)
• God Bless the Child (1941)
• All of Me (1941)
• Lover Man (1944)

Sources

• EN: I Wished on the Moon

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