Just Jazz with Ed Beach (featuring Billie Holiday)
WRVR FM, 106.7
New York Ciy, NY

The late great Billie Holiday, aka Lady Day, in multiple recording sessions from 1933-1949. Broadcast on the Just Jazz radio series around 1966 (exact date unknown) on KRVR 106.7 FM ("The River") in New York City, hosted by Ed Beach.
Many of Ed Beach's WRVR radio broadcasts are in the Library of Congress, but this historical treasure is not. Update: The exact date of this recording is in dispute, it is likely some time between 1963 to 1967 per Marc Myers (JazzWax),
not 1961 as originally indicated.

As depicted in the 2021 movie, The United States vs. Billie Holiday, the singer was harrassed and arrested multiple times. The Federal Bureau of Narcotics under Harry J. Anslinger had been targeting Holiday since at least 1939,
when she started to perform "Strange Fruit". Nonetheless, she continued to perform "Strange Fruit" throughout her singing career, until her untimely death in 1959.

Ed Beach recorded and broadcast over 1000 Just Jazz episodes on WRVR, from 1961 to 1973, and this is currently one of the oldest broadcasts on FM Radio Archive.
WRVR-FM was a public radio station owned and operated by The Riverside Church in the New York City that began broadcasting on January 1, 1961, and continued as a commercial radio station from September 1971 until 1976.

Thanks to John Levene (aka Papa John) for sharing this from his collection.


01 The Mood That I'm In (02/18/37)
02 They Way You Look Tonight (10/36)
03 That's All That I Ask Of You (01/20/39)
04 Dream Of Life (01/20/39)
05 Body And Soul (1949 Live)
06 Strange Fruit (1949 Live)
07 Travelin' Light (1949 Live)
08 Long Gone Blues (03/21/39)
09 How Am I To Know (1944)
10 I'm Yours (1944)
11 My Old Flame (1944)
12 Some Other Spring (07/05/39)
13 If You Were Mine (10/25/35)
14 The Man I Love (12/15/39)
15 Summertime (07/10/36)
16 Billie's Blues (07/10/36)
17 Ghost Of Yesterday (02/29/40)
18 Body And Soul (02/29/40)
19 Announcement of upcoming songs
20 I Hear Music (09/12/40)
21 Practice Makes Perfect (09/12/40)
22 I'm Pulling Through
23 Tell Me More
24 Laughing At Life
25 Keeps On Raining
26 Gimme A Pigfoot (And A Bottle Of Beer)
27 Baby, I Don't Cry Over You
28 Love Me Or Leave Me
29 Too Marvelous For Words
30 Willow Weep For Me
31 I Thought About You
32 Somebody's On My Mind
33 Guilty
34 My Sweet Hunk O' Trash
35 He's Funny That Way (Live)
36 The Man I Love (Live)
37 Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You (Live)
38 All Of Me (Live)
39 Them There Eyes
40 Without Your Love
41 Getting Some Fun Out Of Life
42 Travelin' All Alone
43 These Foolish Things
44 When Your Smiling
45 If Dreams Come True
46 Did I Remember
47 No Regrets
48 Can't Get Started (11/37)
49 Your Mother's Son-In-Law (12/18/33)
50 Riffin' The Scotch (12/18/33)
51 They Can't Take That Away From Me (06/30/37)
52 Swing Brother Swing (06/30/37)
53 A Fine Romance (10/28/36)
54 Easy To Love (10/28/36)
55 Time On My Hands (06/07/40?)
56 Travelin' Light (1943 or 1944)
57 God Bless The Child (05/09/41)
58 Am I Blue (05/09/41)
59 I'll Get By (1944)
60 I'll Be Seeing You (1944)
61 Embraceable You (1944)
62 I Cover The Waterfront (08/07/41)
63 Love Me Or Leave Me (08/07/41)
64 Gloomy Sunday (08/07/41)
65 I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (1936 or 1937)
66 Strange Fruit (1939)
67 Georgia On My Mind (03/21/41)


Broadcast in the 60's (exact date unknown)
source: fm 7" reel masters @ 3.75 ips, no nr
lineage: r.m. playback on Sony TC-850>sbm1>cdr>soundforge 4.5>cdr>eac>flac
notes: considering the source is a 40 year old reel, this sounds nice.

Many of jazz maven Ed Beach's WRVR broadcasts are in the Library of Congress,
this one, however, is not.