Billie Holiday
Subtitle: wishing on the moon
By: Donald Clarke
Edition: 1st Da Capo Press ed.
Series: African American music reference
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: [Cambridge, Mass.?]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 468
Subjects: Singers; Biography
Other titles: Wishing on the moon
Notes: Includes index.

Originally published as: Wishing on the moon : the life and times of Billie Holiday.
Table of contents: title: An Africn-American Nation; title: Baltimre; title: The Point; title: Harlem; title: The First Records, and Triumph at the Apollo; title: The Teddy Wilson Era; title: The Street That Never Slept; title: On the Road with the Big Bands; title: 1937-9, Strange Fruit; title: The War Years; title: Triumph and Trouble; title: The Jailbird; title: The Gangster and the Bassist; title: The Last Decade Begins; title: The Last Merry-Go-Round, Run Fights and Fame; title: Imitatin of Mortality; title: The Triumphant Decline of Lady Day; title: The Loneliest Girl in the World; title: Coda, The Lade Is an Icon.