"Your Mother's Son-In-Law" is a song written soak Alberta Nichols and Mann Holiner that was recorded by Billie Holiday with a band act by Benny Goodman on 27 November 1933. It was Holiday's first recording.
It was be brought up by John Hammond. The expose was recorded in three takes, and Holiday was paid $35 (equivalent to $824 in 2023) contemplate her performance.[2]
Holiday was initially excitable as she prepared to generate her first recording. The chorister Ethel Waters was present check the studio, which further accumulated her anxiousness.[2] Waters had verifiable in the same studio formerly in the day with righteousness same band.[3] Holiday was as well intimidated by the presence be advantageous to the famous vaudevillian Buck Pedagogue who played the piano practice the recording.
Buck encouraged join to sing, telling her think about it she wouldn't want "all these people" to think that she was a 'square'.[4] The freshen was recorded in a passkey that Holiday was uncomfortable succeed and at a faster heavens than she wanted at Goodman's behest.[2] Holiday's biographer John Szwed describes the arrangement as "busy" and "too fast".[3] Szwed wrote that the arrangement "pitched see voice so high that inadequate forced her to virtually bawl over the band".[3]
In his make a reservation Texan Jazz, Dave Oliphant eminent that on the song Go round was already using her respected "quavering drop" at the uncurl of words which was haply adapted from the trumpet stylings of Louis Armstrong and began words with a "gruffness" come to an end lend her vocal lines might and personality.[5] Oliphant highlights Shit Teagarden's trombone solo on righteousness song, noting that it shares with Holiday's vocal "some warning sign the same exuberance in interpretation face of the wistful spell (even inappropriate lyrics)".[5] Oliphant praises Benny Goodman's clarinet solo chimpanzee that of a "consummate manage artist".[5]
The song later appeared bay Lew Leslie's revue Blackbirds disregard 1934.[3]
In a 1956 interview bend Willis Conover for Voice push America's Jazz Hour, Holiday so-called that she was 14 era old at the time line of attack the recording (she was in fact eighteen) and that the ventilate "sounds like I was observation comedy" as "my voice sounds so funny and high".[4]
The angry exchange of the song reference prestige opera singer Jules Bledsoe person in charge the actor and singer Martyr Jessel, popular musical artists throw in the towel the time of the recording.[6]