Libby Holman - Love For Sale 1931 Cole Porter Songs "The New Yorkers"
(Brunswick) Recorded 1931-02-01
"Love for Sale" is a song by Cole Porter from the musical The New Yorkers which opened on Broadway on December 8, 1930 and closed in May 1931 after 168 performances. The song is written from the viewpoint of a prostitute advertising "love for sale".
When the song came out in 1930, a newspaper labelled it as 'in bad taste'. Radio stations avoided broadcasting it.
Elizabeth Lloyd Holzman, best known as Libby Holman (May 23, 1904 – June 18, 1971), was an American singer and actress who also achieved notoriety for her complex and unconventional personal life.
Elizabeth Lloyd Holzman was born May 23, 1904, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Holman was married three times and had a variety of intimate relationships with both men and women.
Her lesbian lovers included DuPont heiress Louisa d'Andelot Carpenter, actress Jeanne Eagels, and writer Jane Bowles.
Holman took an interest in one fan, Zachary Smith Reynolds, the heir to the R. J. Reynolds tobacco company..
They married on November 29, 1931 in the parlor of a house in Monroe, Michigan.
At a party at Reynolda in 1932, Holman told her husband she was pregnant. The party was for Charles Gideon Hill Jr., a friend of Reynolds and a cousin of his first wife, Anne Ludlow Cannon Reynolds. A tense argument ensued. Later in the evening a shot was heard. Friends discovered Reynolds bleeding and unconscious with a gunshot wound to the head. Authorities ruled the shooting a suicide, but a coroner's inquiry ruled it murder. Holman and Albert Bailey "Ab" Walker, a friend of Reynolds and an alleged lover of Holman, were indicted for murder. As many witnesses had been drunk, statements about the event were conflicting and muddled. Holman said she was unable to remember much of the night or the following day. The death was front page news.
The charges were dropped. On January 10, 1933, Holman gave birth to Christopher Smith "Topper" Reynolds.
On June 18, 1971, Holman was found nearly dead in the front seat of her Rolls Royce. She was taken to the hospital where she died hours later. Her death was ruled a suicide due to carbon monoxide poisoning.
She had a wild and amazing life. This is only a fragment of her story.
Lyrics:
Love for sale,
Appetizing young love for sale,
Love that's still fresh and unspoiled,
Love that's only slightly soiled.
Love for sale,
Who will buy?
Who would like to sample my supply?
Who's prepared to pay the price,
For a trip to Paradise?
Love for sale,
Let the poets pipe of love,
In their childish way,
I know every type of love,
Better far than they.
If you want the thrill of love,
I've been through the mill of love,
Old love, new love,
Every love but true love.
Love for sale,
Appetizing young love for sale,
If you want to buy my wares,
Follow me and climb the stairs.
Love for sale,
Love...for sale.
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