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."

For the last 14 days:

250 tracks
230 stations
34 countries

Billy Eckstine top songs

1	Christmas Eve
2	I Apologize
3	My Foolish Heart
4	Blue Christmas
5	No One But You
6	Prisoner of Love
7	Passing Strangers
8	Without a Song
9	I Apologise
10	Imagination
11	Lullaby of Leaves
12	Cheek To Cheek
13	Skylark
14	I'm Beginning to See the Light
15	In The Still Of The Night
16	Fools Rush In
17	Jelly, Jelly
18	Everything I Have Is Yours
19	Stormy Weather
20	Gigi
21	As Time Goes By
22	Misty
23	I Want a Little Girl
24	Have a Song On Me
25	Always

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.