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Interview: Helen Merrill on Billie

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Marc Myers
Jan 09, 2015
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Following my post yesterday about a private audio recording at YouTube of Helen Merrill and Billie Holiday singing a duet at a New York party in November 1956, I had to know what was going on at the time of the recording. Why were they together. Why was Holiday so intent on singing the ending twice with Helen? Who was on piano? Was it Leonard Feather? S…

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