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Billy Weeks Libby Holman, Ballads and Sinsongs (8) Libby Holman, Ballads and Sinsongs 01 Apr 15


Sorting through some old programmes, I found one for a Libby Holman concert at the old Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith in July 1952. She was accompanied by Gerald Cook, who wrote or arranged four of the songs (starred below).

She sang:

Good Morning Blues
Smokey
Baby Baby (blues)
Handsome Winsome Johnny (from Carolina)
Rolly Trudum
Barbara Allen
Cindy
In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down
For Sometime
Fare Thee Well
Careless Love
Riddle song
Can't go to Heaven
Johnny is Gone for a Soldier
*Sugar in the Can
* (arr) Tornado Blues
*Cabin
*Lonesome Fool
The Blues (Ellington)
Buked & Scorned (spiritual)
Number Twelve Train (blues)
Evil-hearted Me (holler)
House of the Rising Sun ('an impolite song')

My pencil notes show that she also sang:

Came Home Drunk
There Ain't no Sweet Man (that's worth the salt of my tears)
Can't Use it No More

Apart from the last three, the titles given above are just as printed. In most cases there are two or three lines of description.

I remember being quite impressed that a long-established torch singer should be able to deliver such pleasing versions (as I judged them to be) of these songs. Her presentation was dramatic, to suit a theatre ambience, but not excessively so. She was good.


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