‘But I was despondent because I loved it. It was so sad. It didn’t matter whether she sang the right note or the wrong note, because she sang twenty thousand wrong notes on that thing. But she poured her heart out. What she ended up doing was a recitation to the music, although I hadn’t realised it at the time.’b Ray Ellis also realised that on that record Billie made him ‘look good … She gave me the opportunity to be heard. If you listen to the album, you hear the orchestra very plainly.’
