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
246 stations
33 countries

Billy Eckstine top songs

1	Christmas Eve
2	I Apologize
3	Blue Christmas
4	My Foolish Heart
5	Passing Strangers
6	Imagination
7	No One But You
8	Everything I Have Is Yours
9	Blue Moon
10	Prisoner of Love
11	Caravan
12	Good Jelly Blues
13	I Apologise
14	Lonesome Lover Blues
15	Always
16	I've Got A Date With Rhythm
17	In The Still Of The Night
18	Body and Soul
19	Temptation
20	I Love the Rhythm In a Riff
21	Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
22	My Deep Blue Dream
23	Don't Get Around Much Anymore
24	Somehow
25	Christmas Eve

Billy Eckstine quotes

I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business.