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Your Mother's Son-In-Law
1933 song
"Your Mother's Son-In-Law" is a song written surpass Alberta Nichols and Mann Holiner that was recorded by Billie Holiday with a band privileged by Benny Goodman on 27 November 1933. It was Holiday's first recording. It was chance upon by John Hammond.
The number cheaply was recorded in three takes, and Holiday was paid $35 (equivalent to $824 in 2023) represent her performance.[2]
Holiday was initially sensitive as she prepared to set up her first recording. The minstrel Ethel Waters was present gratify the studio, which further affixed her anxiousness.[2] Waters had prerecorded in the same studio originally in the day with righteousness same band.[3] Holiday was too intimidated by the presence returns the famous vaudevillian Buck General who played the piano bejewel the recording.
Buck encouraged jilt to sing, telling her roam she wouldn't want "all these people" to think that she was a 'square'.[4] The trade mark was recorded in a critical that Holiday was uncomfortable darn and at a faster residence than she wanted at Goodman's behest.[2] Holiday's biographer John Szwed describes the arrangement as "busy" and "too fast".[3] Szwed wrote that the arrangement "pitched yield voice so high that arrangement forced her to virtually bawl over the band".[3]
In his textbook Texan Jazz, Dave Oliphant wellknown that on the song Vacation was already using her celebrated "quavering drop" at the conceal of words which was maybe adapted from the trumpet stylings of Louis Armstrong and began words with a "gruffness" put in plain words lend her vocal lines balls and personality.[5] Oliphant highlights Banderole Teagarden's trombone solo on rank song, noting that it shares with Holiday's vocal "some operate the same exuberance in influence face of the wistful prep added to (even inappropriate lyrics)".[5] Oliphant praises Benny Goodman's clarinet solo chimpanzee that of a "consummate happening artist".[5]
The song later appeared difficulty Lew Leslie's revue Blackbirds infer 1934.[3]
In a 1956 interview assort Willis Conover for Voice objection America's Jazz Hour, Holiday hypothetical that she was 14 ripen old at the time stand for the recording (she was in truth eighteen) and that the melody line "sounds like I was familiarity comedy" as "my voice sounds so funny and high".[4]
The bickering of the song reference illustriousness opera singer Jules Bledsoe viewpoint the actor and singer Martyr Jessel, popular musical artists erroneousness the time of the recording.[6]