"Billie's Blues" is a blues song written by jazz singer Billie Holiday, composing it just before being recorded in a session in 1936. According to the article in Melody Maker, 1 August 1936: "Billie Holiday has her first solo recording at Brunswick last week... Bernie Hanighen,...suggested making a blues, so the blues it was". This blues was Billie's Blues.
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