Holiday, Billie - How Deep Is The Ocean? Lyrics

Thank you Bklyngirl 1 never delete it! It is a treasure,a wonderful love song...i love it and still like listening to it!!Terrific!!

Tribute to Billie Holiday - Lady Day https://www.facebook.com/groups/BillieHolidayTribute/

haunting

God bless you Billie holiday.I never get tired of listening to your songs and music. They are jewels i will always treasure.. ..Greetings from FRANCE..

There have been get singers and interpreters since BH but not one has come close. She died too young and was the greatest.

love it honestly

According to the Jazz Discography project, Charlie Shavers is on trumpet. The rest of the group is Oscar Peterson (piano) Herb Ellis (guitar) Ray Brown (bass) Ed Shaughnessy (drums)  recorded for Norman Granz's Clef label, later released on Verve. NYC, April 14, 1954. This is one of her earlier 1950s sessions.

@Thomas .Hennessey people like you are my favourite demographic of youtube commenters.

If I ever lost you, I will find you..

yo soy de espana pero me encata billie holiday!

it's actually not that gen either, it's the executives and producers, who try to make generic music that most consumers will like and pay for

whose the trumpet player?

Not only your generation, the previous one too, thanks to the businessmen and cheap dealers mainly, I think. But there is always hope, you are evidence of it

not your fault kid. nowadays it's all about money. all quantity and no quality.

try Ska and Reggae. Alot of good bands are playing these days.
No negativity in the reggae beat

you sound very cold but what you say is true

I feel good.

One of the best and most significant pop songs ever written.
Sung with only the class that Billie Holiday could produce.
Some good people out three today who, unfortunately, will never be discovered
due to what is being passed off as"music" today.
Like her swing version - as opposed to many singer's dirge delivery on this.

If you put the quality to 240p it sounds nice and original.

@mareboom don't be so negative, good music from your generation is just waay harder to find :)

@DarthKrattus Simply because today's singers aren't sold via radio, they're sold on TV and on the internet, so imagery took music over as an artistic expression that's sellable through looks instead of sounds.

@mareboom it wasn't our generation... its our parents generation that runs the record companies... and also congress but I digress.

@mareboom we didn't. the part of your parent's generation who owns the music industry did. they knew what would make kids your age want to buy their music because they're greedy and insecure. but they won't win in the end because of kids like you, who know beautiful music no matter how bad the popular music is. keep doing what you do.

Money killed good music

@JakeVegaMusic LOL I totally agree sorry if you took me wrong :). Right

@JakeVegaMusic mine told me that too...did you by chance go to FIU?

@JMCyoungblood It's true, atleast that's what my evolution of jazz teacher told me, ever since she was 13.

@JakeVegaMusic Right
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@mareboom Cheers to that my friend

@DarthKrattus Funny you should say that considering she was stuck in prostitution her whole life.

@mareboom actually we didn't my friend. generation x, people who are in their 30s and 40s now, they run the big music corporations that distribute popular music----they ruined it. they only play music that sells. so it's up to us to bring good music back!

Wow. This is my first time hearing this song and the is awsome. Such beautiful lyrics : )

Ok so we have seen how Sade copied Julie Londons voice in her early work and adopted her style, now the second part of the branding was based on Billy Holiday, not just in the obvious ponytail she used to glue on in the early days but also in her persona or personality... Cheers Paul Cooke

@DarthKrattus You really need to read some history of Billie Holiday, nobody would want to live her life.

@DarthKrattus

eheheh technically Billie Holiday was a "whore", or better "prostiture".

When it comes to Lady Day&other greats like her,Youtube should have another option besides like/dislike..it should be ABSOLUTELY LOVVVVVE!!!!How anyone could hear her sing this and NOT get a chest full of a happy heart is BEYOND me!I could care less what others think,Brilliant,Beautiful IMPECCABLE music such as this will NEVER get old!TRULY,Music for the Millennias to come!! <3 <3 <3!to Lady day,Hope you can hear how much The World still loves you&in our Hearts hold you dear!How High is the Sky?

God... That makes me so happy!! People make fun of me at school, they call me ''old lady'' 'cause I dont really like nowadays music. Expecially music here in brazil... ahhh awful! hahaha THAT is music!!

I'm only 7, and I like this music!

@mustangred someone has a temper...

@aussiegirl1100 Because we are all perpetually happy!!! And if you dare avow that you are not so happy,you are defined as a loser.

Why can't our generation have good music like this!

appreciate the trumpet player, nice mute sound

Is that singer from south states? seriously why does she talk it such accent?

im only 17 and i LOVE this kind of music...im thinking of putting songs like this in my graduation ....can anyone recomend any other artist like this i need more songs lol :)

My Godfather use to sing this to me when iI was a little girl, boy what I would give to hear him sing this one more time :(

@mareboom Maybe the mainstream did but you're just missing out on really good music. Teenagers don't know shit, hahaha.

i love the snappy ending! How deep is the ocean...a-doobedee-do-bop...how much would I cry.....ba-doobedee-do-bop....how high is the skyyyyyyyyyyy!!!

The phrase goes down...then then horns bounce it up again etc..inspirational! The playfully answer the rhetorical question and also take the register up to the beginning of the next phrase. The horns echo the uplifting sentiment you feel after you you think of your lover and sigh "how much do I love you"

GREAT music! (And I'm a 28yr old male)

Her voice is amazing, it just sticks in your head. Love blues.

beautiful :D

Irving Berlin, 1932.

Chrisette Michele sounds so much like her is amazing

amazing voice!!

@JeanLittle I agree, talent like this is timeless! I have heard her music come by before, but now i'm really discovering Billie Holiday. Gotta say that i love it, and i'm only 23 to!

Thanks God for Billie! <3
Hey 4 deaf people!!!

shut up and listen to the music!

But not to say that people who like oldies don't appreciate modern music! I love modern music, especially when hearing new things people haven't tried before! Human kind is nothing without exploration and experimentation! Although, the elements of jazz are incorporated into music we hear everyday! :)
So much culture, so little time! Music has no limits, @vanocor! We must learn to appreciate all!

Well, @vanocor I'd like to believe people who like jazz like it because we love the quality, the improvisation, and the pure emotion and dedication needed to pull off a good performance of it!
I'm sure many of us also like it's richness in culture and how many different people have performed it who have their own story to tell with these songs and the sheer number of people who can relate to the message that those people are conveying.
That is why people enjoy jazz. Not because it's old.
I'm 14.

Billie never met a song she couldn't transform. Tons of singers tried to imitate her or equal her but never came close. She was an original to the end.

I'm 17 years old, and I don't like where music is going nowadays. The further music progresses forwards, the further I step back to older music. I love the oldies, and the oldies love me.

Timeless indeed.

How so lovely song it is!

God bless you and all youngsters. I'm 86 and I never get enough of this kind of music.

I'm thinking about using an arrangement of this tune for an audition piece for a university music program... People these days would have more respect for jazz if they knew the virtuosity involved, including short love songs like this. I love the vulnerability and openness you can sense from Holiday, that's what all real art is about, the stuff we all feel but are too nervous to expose...

I am a 21-year-old who appreciates the music of Billie, Ella, Nat, Duke, and many others around that era. I just wish we had more music that sounds like this now, music like this that makes you feel what the artist is talking about.

a childhood memory for me my Mum used to sing this song to my sister and I as a lullaby....sweet memories....ty.....

@Rangiku0Haineko sometimes are the "gaps" in an artist's life that make
him as we know him...just like Edith Piaf's life..

My mum use to sing this to me when I was little - now I sing it to my babies :) One day they will be singing it to my Grandchildren.

I love this song, because it reminds me of a game me and my mom would play when I was little. We would ask each other "How much do you love me?" and the other would always think of something new ,"As many stars as are in the sky" "As many pedals on all the flowers in all the world" "As many drops of water in the ocean".

beautiful...

Such a staple in the list of the great Jazz pieces, and she made it such.

she was one of the best jazz singers ever along with all the greats of her era...Just a beautiful lady who died to to young and to soon......I just love her music

A TRUE CLASSIC... Billie H.
I would Love to see more videos of her

i myself prefer music like this, it makes me angry that people only listen to idiots such as 25 pence(50 cent) whoever call that shit music has no taste

A beautiful woman without mercy? What the fuck does your comment have to do with anything? Are you referring to the poem,which by the way, once again, has nothing to do with anything! Idiot.

year after year they
try to meet
thinking of each other constantly
and of the rumors of ressemblances between them"

W.S. MERWIN

(...) the earth itself is always between them
yet he leaves messages
concerning celestial bodies
as though he were telling of his own life
and in turn he finds
messages concerning
unseen motions of celestial bodies
movements of days of a life
and both navigators call out
passing the same places as the sunrise
and the sunset
waking and sleeping they call
but can't be sure whether they hear
increasingly they imagine echoes

"sigh"...
indeed!

Nobody before or since ever sang like Billie Holiday! So cool, so smooth, so filled with feeling no matter what she sang.

This is real music right here ! forget about hannah montana(miley cyrus) it's all about the 1930's though the 1990's and 2000's

my girlfirend reccomeded this to me,

im into grime and rap and acoustics and bassy stuff

but this is coool/

some of the best songwriting I have ever heard. I want to eventually write that well.I'm 17 and counting.

I love billie Holiday <3

you can HEAR her thinking about the lyrics as theyre coming out of her mouth

Billie Holiday was amazing. I love this version of How Deep. And I also wanna know who the trumpet player is!

listen to jonathan schwartz wnyc weekends noon-4 or podcast.

what do you mean when you say a music that doesn't love

wow what do you mean by your last line a music that almost don't love

great photos for a great song!

shes ok?.. you're an idiot

When Billie sings the ocean is deep indeed, but she takes me not to the sky but to heaven!

i love this song

billie holiday was a real singer .with the heart and the soul of an real artist

Oh yes, I love her aching version of "Night and Day". I find that it's best that I don't listen to her interpretations of songs until after I've heard a few others because if I listen to hers first the other renditions don't stand a chance of getting an unbiased evaluation :)

What year was this song recorded

I didn't grow up listening to that kind of music but I can still remember the first time I heard one of Billie's Songs "Stars fell on Alabama last night" & I instantly fell in love with her voice & started learning for her like I never did for any singer before in my life! She's a star now in the sky & no weakness can hurt her sensitive soul anymore!