"God Bless the Child" was written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog and initially released in 1942 on Okeh Records, the jazz and blues (then sometimes called Race music) subsidiary of Columbia. Holiday recorded it two more times for mainstream labels, Decca (1950) and Verve (1956). It was also a huge hit for Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1968. Diana Ross sang it in the 1972 Billie Holiday biopic "Lady Sings the Blues." (Yes, there was a Billie Holiday post with this song in December, but I thought it was also worth a post of its own.)
I cannot determine if Nikki Yanofsky is related to the late Zalman Yanofsky of the Lovin' Spoonful, though she is Canadian as was he.
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