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There's almost no recordings of this period, because Billie Holiday and Count Basie were signed to competing record label contracts.
However the newspapers who covered the event very thoroughly said that, "Chick Webb kicked Count Basie's band's butt, but Billie won over Ella Fitzgerald
hands down." It seems like this would have been a match made in heaven, Billie Holiday and Count Basie.
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