Billie Holiday (with Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Gerry Mulligan) - Fine and Mellow
My man don't love me Treats me oh so mean My man he don't love me Treats me awfully He's the lowest man That I've ever see
He wears high trimmed pan Stripes are really yellow He wears high trimmed pan Stripes are really yellow
But when he starts in to love me He's so fine and mellow
Love will make you drink and gamble Make you stay out all night long Love will make you drink and gamble Make you stay out all night long
Love will make you do things That you know is wrong
But if you treat me right baby I'll stay home everyday But if you treat me right baby I'll stay home everyday
But you're so mean to me baby I know you're gonna drive me away
Love is just like the faucet It turns off and on Love is just like the faucet It turns off and on
Sometimes when you think it's on baby It has turned off and gone!
Lester Young, a lyrical and innovative jazz saxophonist, was also famous as Billie Holiday's lover---she called him "Prez" and he called her "Lady Day." I think I can still see the "love light" in her eyes in this video as Lester solos.