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A talented and expressive jazz vocalist who recorded in the 1950s to great reviews but poor record sales, Johnny Holiday was nonetheless an artist with a distinct, natural style. A case in point would be Blue Holiday, Johnnys 1961 album originally released on the small Contract Records label, where Johnnys mellow voice inhabits the songs with a slow burning intensity and a genuine intimacy usually reserved for a smoky late night performance in a small club. The song selections are outstanding as well; from the sultry standard You Dont Know What Love Is, which begins the album, to Rodgers & Hammersteins beautiful ballad It Might as Well Be Spring which ends the album, Blue Holiday delivers on all fronts. All selections have been newly remastered.