Frank O' Hara's "The Day Lady Died" is a tribute to this black singer
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Frank O'Hara on Billie Holiday - JazzWax  Oct 22, 2010 ... If you're unfamiliar with Frank O'Hara, you're in for a treat. ... Here's one of my favorite O'Hara poems, dedicated to singer Billie Holiday. ... I got us to reprint "The Day Lady Died" in a special Lester Young-Billie Holiday memorial issue ... A long while ago I wrote this poem as a tribute to O'Hara: .... Black Keys
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The Day Lady Died by Frank O'Hara | Poetry Foundation  Related Poem Content Details. By Frank O'Hara. It is 12:20 in New York a Friday. three days after Bastille day, yes. it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine. because I...
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The Day Lady Died - Shmoop  The Day Lady Died by Frank O'Hara. The Day ... The jazz singer Billie Holiday died of liver disease in a New York hospital early in the day on July 17, 1959.
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Frank O'Hara: Poet among Painters  When Frank O'Hara: Poet Among Painters was published twenty years ago, .... the gay speaker as well as his black friend, given the raids on gay bars so frequent in ... are raised by Andrew Ross's provocative essay on "The Day Lady Died". ..... artists) than to the openly emotive and expressive gestures of Action Painting or...
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On "The Day Lady Died" - English  The extreme vividness of "The Day Lady Died" depends not so much on ... From "Everything the Opposite" in Frank O'Hara: To Be True to a City. ... One night Koch had read his poems with the accompaniment of Mal Waldron, a black pianist who ..... still manages to pay an intensely moving tribute to the great jazz singer.
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1000+ images about Strange Fruit the Strength of Lady Day on ...  Explore Donna Golder's board "Strange Fruit the Strength of Lady Day" on ... Circa 1939 recording "Strange Fruit" ... Billie Holiday, NYC, 1949 by Herman Leonard .... Celebrating Black History Month, The Black History Moment Series #10: Black ... Billie Holiday was a true artist of her day and rose as a social phenomenon in.
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CORETTA SCOTT KING ANOTHER STRONG BLACK WOMAN ...  Moneta Sleet was the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who took the famous shot. ... Harry Belafonte and Martin Luther King Jr. I love this image because we get to ..... 1963) and Soror Coretta Scott King at Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 funeral. .... In 1969, Moneta Sleet, Jr. became the first African-American male to win a...
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Billie Holiday - Lady Sings The Blues - YouTube  Mar 7, 2012 - 4 min - Uploaded by REBEL SONGBIRDBILLIE HOLIDAY LYRICS: Lady sings the blues She's got them bad She feels so  sad Wants ...
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Frank Sinatra Dies at 82; Matchless Stylist of Pop - The New York ...  May 16, 1998 ... Frank Sinatra, singer and actor whose extraordinary voice elevated popular ... The skinny blue-eyed crooner, quickly nicknamed The Voice, made ..... in the Sands Hotel, and eventually became a corporate vice president.
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A Prized Photo Fit for a King | Newseum  Sep 9, 2016 ... Moneta Sleet's photo of Coretta Scott King and her daughter ... taken by Moneta Sleet Jr., the Ebony magazine veteran photographer who died ... at Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral in 1968 made him the first black man to ... win the award in 1950), and the first African American to win the prize for journalism.
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Billie Holiday's Biography  Free listening, videos, concerts, stats ...  Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan Gough, Philadelphia, PA, April 7, 1915  New ... Over the years, there have been many tributes to Billie Holiday, including "The ... poem by Frank O'Hara, and "Angel of Harlem", a 1988 release by the group U2.
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History Matters: The U.S. Survey on the Web  Died on My Lap": One Women Recalls the Memorial Day Massacre of 1937  "80 Rounds in Our .... "Chicago and Its Eight Reasons": Walter White Considers the Causes of the 1919 Chicago Race Riot .... Song of Garveyism  "If You Believe the Negro Has a Soul": "Back to Africa" with Marcus Garvey ...... No laughing matter.
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Billie Holiday - Singer - Biography.com  Jul 8, 2014 ... Originally: Elinore Harris; Nickname: Lady Day; Full Name: Billie Holiday ... Billie Holiday was one of the most influential jazz singers of all time. ... She followed her mother who had moved to New York City in the late 1920s and .... the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues with famed singer Diana Ross playing the...
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Billie Holiday | About the Singer | American Masters | PBS  Jun 8, 2006 ... Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day ... In 1959, after the death of her good friend Lester Young and with almost nothing to her name,...
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Hugh Jackman sings moving tribute at mother-in-law's funeral  Sep 1, 2016 ... The US singer and actress revealed she once called the late Apple .... Hugh Jackman pays loving tribute to his late mother-in-law Fay Duncan .... close by Hollywood star Hugh Jackman singing the Peter Allen song, "Quiet ... song 'Quiet Please, There's A Lady On Stage' from the musical 'The Boy from Oz'.
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Billie Holiday - Wikipedia  Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915  July 17, 1959), professionally known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz musician and singer-songwriter with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, ... While there were other jazz singers with equal talent, Billie Holiday had a...
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The Death of Bessie Smith - All About Blues Music  Sep 15, 2011 ... ... 1959 when Edward Albee wrote a one-act play titled 'The Death of Bessie ... death was a tragedy and a huge loss to African-American culture, but ... Bessie Smith was The Empress of the Blues and the First Black Superstar.
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Billie Holiday - Wikipedia  Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915  July 17, 1959), professionally known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz musician and singer-songwriter with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, ... For the 1959 album originally titled Billie Holiday, see Last Recording.
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Then and Now: The Jazz Singer | The Scoop Entertainment  Jun 3, 2015 ... We start with The Jazz Singer, originally made in 1927, starring Al Jolson as Jakie ... Rabinovitch to be a cantor, in service to God through holy song. ... in 1980 to introduce the world to America, Love on the Rocks and Hello Again. ... In Jolson's day, blackface (the art of applying dark makeup to one's face)...
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Tupac Shakur's Sudden Death and the Life He Left Behind | Vanity ...  Tupac Shakur had a lot to live forhis devoted fans, his fiance, Kidada Jones, and a ... Otto Preminger, Donald Sutherland, and Jane Fonda proclaimed her innocent. .... Upon arrival, Afeni phoned Legs in prisonand was informed he'd died, at age ... What he did have, after door knocking by Afeni, was admission to the...
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Hugh Jackman performs a moving tribute at funeral for mother-in-law  Sep 1, 2016 ... It's not yet known why the Wolverine star chose to sing Peter Allen's famed ballad, but ... Poignant: Hugh penned a touching tribute to his mother-in-law, Fay, in the wake of her death. 'She was one of the greatest women I've ever met. ... the song Quiet Please, There's a Lady on Stage in his Boy From Oz tour.