The record sleeve -- The cardboard box -- The facts of childhood -- Freddie Green: 'I'm in your corner, girl!' -- Christine Scott: 'She never bothered with nobody.' -- Skinny 'Rim' Davenport: 'All the old-timers are dead.' -- Mary 'Pony' Kane: 'Around where the happenin's was.' -- Wee Wee Hill: 'I was her stepfather.' -- The pursuit of happiness -- Billie comes to Harlem -- Elmer Snowden: 'She'd call me her daddy.' -- Fanny Holiday and Clara Winston: 'She was a fat thing with big titties.' -- Pop Foster: 'It was only show people.' -- Bobby Henderson: 'The way she handled a fork.' -- Aaron and Claire Lievenson and Irene Kitchings: 'Afternoon of a Faun' -- Ruby Helena: 'She didn't have the right, being who she was.' -- 'Strange fruit' -- Harlem at war -- Lester Young -- Tallulah Bankhead -- James 'Stump' Cross: 'This is Stump Daddy talking.' -- Greer Johnson: 'Baby, will you hold this for me?' -- Jimmy Rowles: 'Oh, I loved her! Oh, how I loved her!' -- Bobby Tucker: 'You're not going to have any trouble with me.' -- John Levy, the bass player: 'I came in on the tail end.' -- The ecstasy of paranoia -- Jimmy Fletcher: 'She was the loving type.' -- Colonel White and Friends: 'A straight business thing.' -- Carl Drinkard: 'We were like a family.' -- Melba Liston: 'Strangers down South.' -- Memry Midgett: 'What tune is this, Memry?' -- Lady Sings the Blues -- Irving Townsend and Ray Ellis: 'She wanted that cushion under her voice.' -- Louis McKay: 'This bitch turns skunky overnight.' -- Endgame -- Earle Zaidins: 'She was very sensitive to bad publicity.' -- Alice Vrbsky: 'A woman of her word.' -- Laughin' to Keep from Cryin.'
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