Preacher Boy

Not to be confused with Preacher's Boy or Preacher's Son (disambiguation).

Single by Billie Holiday

"Preacher Boy"

Single by Billie Holiday
Recorded| Never
Genre| Jazz
Songwriter(s)| Billie Holiday
Mal Waldron

"Preacher Boy" is a jazz song written by singer Billie Holiday, and composer Jeanne Burns and published by E.B. Marks. This is one of seven songs written by or co-written by Holiday that she never recorded.[1][2]

According to Holiday, she wrote the song as a tribute to her second husband, Louis McKay. Holiday met McKay's family in December 1951 and recalled: "His mother, she's eighty years old and she had this dog and she loved this dog so much. The dog died and he preached over the dog. One day, we were walking down the street (in his home town) and somebody says 'Hey Preach! Hey Preach! What's the matter? You don't know me anymore, man?' Well I asked Louis what he was talking about and he said 'he's talking about me,' so that's how I learned the story."[3] The song was published by E.B. Marks, but she never recorded it.[4][5]

## Notes

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1. ^ Stuart Nicholson (1995). Billie Holiday. Northeastern University Press. ISBN 1-55553-303-5.
2. ^ Billie Holiday (March 1984). THE BEST OF BILLIE HOLIDAY: Songs Recorded and Made Famous By Lady Day. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 0-7935-3687-1.
3. ^ interview|title=Mike Wallace Night Beat |November 8, 1956|Lady Day CD Box Set|New Sound Planet JUTB 3044|1989
4. ^ Stuart Nicholson (1995). Billie Holiday. Northeastern University Press. ISBN 1-55553-303-5.
5. ^ John Chilton (1989). Billie's Blues. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80363-1.

## References

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* Stuart Nicholson, Billie Holiday, ISBN 1-55553-303-5
* Billie Holiday, THE BEST OF BILLIE HOLIDAY: Songs Recorded and Made Famous By Lady Day. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 0-7935-3687-1.
* Donald Clarke, Wishing On the Moon. Viking. ISBN 0-670-83771-7.
* John Chilton, Billie's Blues. Da Capo Preess. ISBN 0-306-80363-1
* John White, Billie Holiday: Her Life and Times ISBN 0-87663-668-7
* Ken Vail, Lady Day's Diary. Sanctuary Publishing. ISBN 1-86074-131-2

## External links

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* MP Three Lyrics Website[usurped]
* Let It Resound website
* Earfloss, Best of Billie Holiday Sheet Music book reference

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Studio albums|

* Billie Holiday Sings/Solitude
* An Evening with Billie Holiday
* Billie Holiday
* Stay with Me
* Music for Torching
* Velvet Mood
* Lady Sings the Blues
* Body and Soul
* Songs for Distingué Lovers
* All or Nothing at All
* Lady in Satin
* Last Recording

Live albums|

* Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic
* Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport
* The Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert Recorded Live

Compilations|

* Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years
* Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933–1944
* Lady Day Swings
* Remixed and Reimagined
* The Complete Commodore & Decca Masters

Songs|

* "Ain't Nobody's Business"
* "As Time Goes By"
* "Billie's Blues"
* "Blue Moon"
* "Body and Soul"
* "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?"
* "Don't Explain"
* "Easy Living"
* "Embraceable You"
* "Everything Happens for the Best"
* "Everything Happens to Me"
* "Fine and Mellow"
* "Gloomy Sunday"
* "God Bless the Child"
* "Good Morning Heartache"
* "I Cover the Waterfront"
* "I Loves You, Porgy"
* "If You Were Mine"
* "I Thought About You"
* "I'll Be Seeing You"
* "I'll Get By"
* "I'll Never Be the Same"
* "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"
* "Just One of Those Things"
* "Lady Sings the Blues"
* "Left Alone"
* "Love for Sale"
* "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)"
* "Me, Myself, and I"
* "Miss Brown to You"
* "My Man"
* "Moonlight in Vermont"
* "Night and Day"
* "No More"
* "Now or Never"
* "Our Love Is Different"
* "P.S. I Love You"
* "Pennies from Heaven"
* "Please Don't Do It Here"
* "Preacher Boy"
* "Sophisticated Lady"
* "Stormy Blues"
* "Stormy Weather"
* "Strange Fruit"
* "Sugar"
* "Summertime"
* "That Ole Devil Called Love"
* "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)"
* "Too Marvelous for Words"
* "Trav'lin' Light"
* "What a Little Moonlight Can Do"
* "What Is This Thing Called Love?"
* "Why Was I Born?"
* "Willow Weep for Me"
* "You Go to My Head"
* "Your Mother's Son-In-Law"

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