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  1. Didn’t hurt the precious girl’s chances that Hollliday’s voice sounded like a little girl and immediately draws us in to a Hungarian rhapsody.

  2. I had a girlfriend who used to play Billie Holiday during her period. Depressing as Hell, but that is what she seeking, it fit her mood.

  3. Sorry, I want to like this kid and her singing, but more and more taken in context its just another act in the ever expanding freak show that was once culture. It’s just another brick in the wall.

  4. there is a great movie called “Gloomy Sunday” – a dramatization of the story of the writing of this iconic song. Once upon a time it was available for free play on Netflix, but today I see one has to have the DVD sent out. It’s very much worth watching. Set in WWII, made in 1999.

  5. Okay, call me an old prude, or something, but I think it’s wrong for little kids to be learning and singing a world-weary blues song.

    And I’m not really sure exactly how this is different from dressing up a little girl in the manner of, say, poor little JonBenét Ramsey.

  6. “Susan Boyle was probably the most famous of the genre”

    how would you entitle the genre?

    Wouldn’t Jim Nabors be more famous?
    Jim Nabors sang opera.

    but that would depend on how you titled it. no?

    Tomorrow Never Comes By Jim Nabors
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGsy6Ynu-pw

    Gomer Pyle(Jim Nabors) Impossible Dream
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqJ2jYumJJo

    note that on the left bar of you tube with this above excerpt from film was a recording by Susan Boyle.

    i will say its a lot better than the albums each of the star trek cast put out, ranging from “old green eyes is back” (spinner/data), to twinkle twinkle (Nemoy/Spock), to several albums by William Shatner that could almost stand up for Vogon poetry the third worst poetry in the Universe.

    The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England, in the destruction of the planet Earth.

  7. Holiday recorded the song in 1941, and it is overtly about suicide..,

    so is lead belly’s Goodnight Irene
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn50JSI0W-E

    and for led zepplin fans you can hear him sing gallows pole.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye2N_2ce3QE

    i am more a fan of blind willie mctell
    ‘Lord, Send Me An Angel’ BLIND WILLIE McTELL (1933)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qux0DTr_28

    Blind Willie McTell – Statesboro Blues
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnWxZtI3ONY

    i wonder where they lie in the whole of it given their songs became hits, but they are mostly unknown, barely alive in obscurity.

    “I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.” Banksy

  8. There’s a scene in Schindler’s List (the book) that has two camp inmates brought in to play music for one of Amon Goeth’s dinners. They play Gloomy Sunday for one seriously depressed SS officer–over and over, until he excuses himself, goes outside, and shoots himself

  9. Artfldgr:

    Nabors would have come under the title, “People Whose Appearance and Demeanor Makes Their Singing Voice a Surprise”

    But the genre title I’m talking about here is, “People Who Got Their Start on Singing Reality Shows Whose Appearance and Demeanor Makes Their Singing Voice a Surprise.”

    A sub-genre of the first, if you will.

  10. Because I got rid of Adobe Flash, I needed to go to YouTube to listen to Angelina. I wouldn’t have bothered, but mention of Gloomy Sunday got my attention. I was amazed how much Angelina Jordon sounds like Billy Holiday,

    Maybe waitforit has it right:

    Didn’t hurt the precious girl’s chances that Hollliday’s voice sounded like a little girl.

  11. Well speaking as an Olson, and therefore a fellow Norskie, Ive to tell you chaps that she is really not that gloomed out, she is merely pining for the fjords.

  12. More than anything else, this child seems a gifted mimic. I suspect that she is brighter than average, and quite observant.

  13. “An alternate theory has the lyric as having been written during or immediately after WWII. Whichever it is, these were not the lyrics that became part of the song when it was released in 1933.”

    I’m pretty sure the alternate theory has the lyric being written around WW I, The Great War.

    But yes, Gloomy lyrics, great Billie … and fine mimic, who missed a bit on the English sometimes. (I listened to Billie first).

    I can imagine her folks listening to this, among other blues songs, and a little girl hearing in Billie’s voice more of an echo of her own than in any other singer’s voices. Plus, it’s the meaning of lyrics that are so very gloomy, the music and the tones of the voice are more … matter of fact? just another day? missing that certain je ne sais quoi of most more gloomy songs?

  14. What M of H says: “Gloomy Sunday” is a terrific movie, not least because it shows the descent of the German character from shyness to brutality. Great film.

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