Billy Eckstine

United States
July 8, 1914 – March 8, 1993

William Clarence Eckstine was an American jazz and pop singer, and a bandleader of the swing era. He was noted for his rich, resonant, almost operatic bass-baritone voice. Eckstine's recording of "I Apologize" (MGM, 1948) was awarded the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999. The New York Times described him as an "influential band leader" whose "suave bass-baritone" and "full-throated, sugary approach to popular songs inspired singers like Joe Williams, Arthur Prysock and Lou Rawls."

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209 tracks
187 stations
34 countries

Billy Eckstine top songs

1	I Apologize
2	No One But You
3	My Foolish Heart
4	Christmas Eve
5	Passing Strangers
6	Prisoner of Love
7	I'm Beginning to See the Light
8	Fools Rush In
9	I Apologise
10	Blue Christmas
11	Misty
12	Imagination
13	Without a Song
14	Skylark
15	In The Still Of The Night
16	That Old Black Magic
17	Tell Me Pretty Baby
18	All the Things You Are
19	Lullaby of Leaves
20	Stormy Weather
21	As Time Goes By
22	She's Got The Blues For Sale
23	Alright, Okay, You Win
24	Send My Baby Back to Me
25	Blowing the Blues Away

Billy Eckstine quotes

Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.