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1939 single by Billie Holiday
"Fine and Mellow"
Single by Billie Holiday
A-side
"Strange Fruit"
Released
1939
Recorded
April 20, 1939
Genre
Jazz
Label
Commodore
Songwriter(s)
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday singles chronology
"I'm Gonna Lock My Heart" (1938)
"Fine and Mellow" (1939)
"God Bless the Child" (1942)
"Fine and Mellow" is a jazz standard written by Billie Holiday,[1] who first recorded it on April 20, 1939 on the Commodore label.[2] It is a blues lamenting the bad treatment of a woman at the hands of "my man".
^Jacobs, Dick & Harriet. Who Wrote That Song?, Writers Digest Books (1994), page 70 - ISBN 0-89879-639-3
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