Billie Holiday - IT'S THE SAME OLD STORY (The Quintessential - Volume 8)
M. Field / N. Oliphant
The same old story
It's as old as the stars above
The same old story
Of a boy and a girl in love
The scenes say more moonlight
The times say more June light
Romance's the thing
Two hearts away deep in a dream
The same old story
It's been told much too much before
The same old story
But it's worth telling just once more
It's all fun and laughter
They lived ever after in ecstacy
The same old story but it's new to me
Wanda Rogers of The Marvelettes - Don't Mess With Bill (02:49)
March 1989 with the same Wanda who they said would never sing again - too many years of rehab
clinics. But we persevered and got a vocal that sounded like the old Marvelettes that we knew and
loved. Then the song had to be performed on TV, and no way was Wanda up to it, so her fellow
Marvelette, Gladys Horton, decided to do it in her place. We had been recording Gladys anyway, and
did several songs using both Gladys and Wanda together, but the video of that song is the only time
you'll ...