If I Could Be Like Billie Holiday...

Sooo, the shower is my official stage. Seriously. I love to sing in the shower. Why? Well, because it's liberating. So it's no surprise that I was singing in the shower today. And I was totally singing the blues, which happens to be my favorite type of music. There's just something about jazz and the blues that can calm me down and make me appreciate life. So I decided to make a list of some of my favorite songs from this genre. Lemme share it with you all, in no specific order:

1. "Good Morning Blues" - Billie Holiday (my fave singer!)
2. "La Vie en Rose" - Marlene Dietrich (we share the same first name!)
3. "This Can't Be Love" - Dinah Washington
4. "That Old Black Magic" - Sarah Vaughan
5. "The Other Woman" - Nina Simone
6. "Smile" - Madeleine Peyroux
7. "Keepin' Out of Mischief Now" - Dinah Washington
8. "Ac-Cent-U-Ate the Positive" - Charlie Spivak & His Orchestra
9. "Baby It's Cold Outside" -Ray Charles
10. "I Only Know" - Dinah Washington
11. "It Might As Well Be Spring" - Blossom Dearie (in French)
12. "Can't We Be Friends" - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
13. "Reckless Blues" - Madeleine Peyroux
14. "The Nearness of You" - Nancy Wilson
15. "This Time The Dream's on Me" - Nancy Wilson
16. "Tell Me More and More and Then Some" - Nina Simone
17. "The Man I Love" - Ella Fitzgerald
18. "The End of a Love Affair" - Billie Holiday
19. "No Good Man" - Billie Holiday
20. "You Hit the Spot" - Ella Fitzgerald
21. "We'll Be Together Again" - Billie Holiday
22. "The Very Thought of You" - Nat King Cole
23. "When I Fall in Love" - Nat King Cole
24. "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" - Etta James
25. "Easy Living" - Dinah Washington
26. "Midnight Sun" - Ella Fitzgerald

I know I put so many songs by Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington and Nina Simone, but those four beautiful ladies dominated (and continue to dominate) the jazz/blues genre. They sang with so much emotion, heart and soul.