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The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve 1945-1959
Billie Holiday
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- Release Date: 3/9/1993
- Verve Records
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Disc 1
1
Body And Soul
2
Strange Fruit
3
I Cried For You
4
Fine And Mellow
5
He's Funny That Way
6
The Man I Love
7
Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You?
8
All Of Me
9
Billie's Blues (Aka I Love My Man)
10
Travelin' Light
11
He's Funny That Way
12
Norman Granz 'Announcement'
13
You Better Go Now
14
You're Driving Me Crazy
15
There Is No Greater Love
16
I Cover The Waterfront
17
Norman Granz 'Announcement'
18
East Of The Sun
19
Blue Moon
20
You Go To My Head
21
You Turned The Tables On Me
22
Easy To Love
23
These Foolish Things
24
I Only Have Eyes For You
25
Solitude
Disc 2
1
Everything I Have Is Yours
2
Love For Sale
3
Moonglow
4
Tenderly
5
If The Moon Turns Green
6
Remember
7
Autumn In New York (Common Take - LP)
8
Autumn In New York (Rare Take - 78 RPM)
9
My Man
10
Lover, Come Back To Me
11
Stormy Weather
12
Yesterdays
13
He's Funny That Way
14
I Can't Face The Music
15
MC and Leonard Feather 'Announcements'
16
Blue Moon
17
All Of Me
18
My Man
19
Them There Eyes
20
I Cried For You
21
What A Little Moonlight Can Do
22
I Cover The Waterfront
23
Leonard Feather 'Announcement'
24
Billie's Blues (aka I Love My Man)
Disc 3
1
Lover, Come Back To Me
2
How Deep Is The Ocean?
3
What A Little Moonlight Can Do
4
I Cried For You
5
Love Me Or Leave Me
6
P.S. I Love You
7
Too Marvelous For Words
8
Softly
9
I Thought About You
10
Willow Weep For Me
11
Stormy Blues
12
Say It Isn't So
13
I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
14
I Wished On The Moon
15
Always
16
Everything Happens To Me
17
Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
18
Ain't Misbehavin'
Disc 4
1
Nice Work If You Can Get It
2
Discussion; Nice Work If You Can Get It
3
Mandy Is Two
4
Prelude To A Kiss
5
I Must Have That Man!
6
Jeepers Creepers
7
Jeepers Creepers
8
Discussion/Jeepers Creepers
9
Discussion/Jeepers Creepers
10
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
11
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
12
Discussion/Moonlight In Vermont
13
Misery
14
Restless
15
Moonlight In Vermont
16
Everything Happens To Me
17
Discussion
18
I Don't Want To Cry Any More
19
I Don't Want To Cry Any More
20
Discussion/I Don't Want To Cry Any More
21
Everything Happens To Me
22
Discussion
23
When You Are Away, Dear
24
Discussion
25
It Had To Be You
26
The Mood That I'm In
27
Gone With The Wind
28
I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
29
Discussion
30
A Sunbonnet Blue
31
(I Dont' Stand A) Ghost Of A Chance
32
Discussion
33
I'm Walkin' Though Heaven With You
34
Discussion
35
Just Friends
36
The Nearness Of You
37
Discussion
38
It's Too Hot For Words
39
They Say
40
I Won't Believe It
Disc 5
1
I Don't Want To Cry Any More (Take 1 - False Start)
2
I Don't Want To Cry Any More (Take 2 - Master Take)
3
Studio Talk: Prelude To A Kiss (Take 1 - False Start)
4
Studio Talk: Prelude To A Kiss (Take 2 - Incomplete Take)
5
Prelude To A Kiss (Take 3 - Master Take)
6
(I Don't Stand A) Ghost Of A Chance
7
When Your Lover has Gone (Take 1 - Incomplete Take)
8
Studio Talk: When Your Lover Has Gone (Take 2 - Incomplete Take)
9
Studio Talk
10
When Your Lover Has Gone (Take 3 - Master Take)
11
Gone With The Wind
12
Studio Talk
13
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
14
It Had To Be You
15
Studio Talk
16
Nice Work If You Can Get It
17
Come Rain Or Come Shine
18
I Got A Right To Sing The Blues
19
What's New?
20
A Fine Romance (Take 1 - Incomplete Take)
21
A Fine Romance (Take 2 - Alternate Take)
22
A Fine Romance (Take 3 - False Start)
23
A Fine Romance (Take 4 - Incomplete Take)
24
A Fine Romance (Take 5 - Incomplete Take)
25
A Fine Romance (Take 6 - False Start)
26
A Fine Romance (Take 7 - Incomplete Take)
27
A Fine Romance (Take 8 - Master Take)
28
Studio Talk
29
I Hadn't Anyone Till You
Disc 6
1
I Get A Kick Out Of You
2
Everything I Have Is Yours
3
Isn't This A Lovely Day?
4
Discussion/Misery
5
Israel
6
Misery
7
Discussion
8
I Must Have That Man!
9
Discussion
10
Strange Fruit
11
Discussion: God Bless The Child
12
Discussion
13
God Bless The Child
14
God Bless The Child
15
Discussion
16
God Bless The Child
17
One Never Knows, Does One?
18
Discussion
19
Beer Barrel Polka (Aka Roll Out The Barrel)
20
Some Of These Days
21
A Yiddishe Momme
22
A Yiddishe Momme
23
Discussion
24
Lady's Back In Town
25
Discussion
26
Discussion
27
One Never Knows, Does One?
28
Discussion
29
(Unknown Title)
Disc 7
1
Travelin' Light
2
I Must Have That Man!
3
Some Other Spring
4
Lady Sings The Blues
5
Strange Fruit
6
God Bless The Child
7
Good Morning Heartache
8
No Good Man
9
Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
10
Cheek To Cheek
11
Ill Wind
12
Speak Low
13
We'll Be Together Again
14
All Or Nothing At All
15
Sophisticated Lady
16
April In Paris
Disc 8
1
Lady Sings The Blues (With Reading From 'Lady Sings The Blues')
2
Lady Sings The Blues
3
Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
4
Travelin' Light (With Reading From 'Lady Sings The Blues')
5
Reading From 'Lady Sings The Blues'
6
Billie's Blues (Aka I Love My Man)
7
Body and Soul
8
Reading From 'Lady Sings The Blues'
9
Don't Explain
10
Yesterdays
11
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
12
I'll Be Seeing You
13
Reading From 'Lady Sings The Blues'
14
My Man
15
I Cried For You
16
Fine And Mellow
17
I Cover The Waterfront
18
What A Little Moonlight Can Do
19
I Wished On The Moon
20
Moonlight In Vermont
21
A Foggy Day (Stereo)
22
I Didn't Know What Time It Was
23
Just One Of Those Things (Take 7 - Incomplete Take)
24
Studio Talk
25
Just One Of Those Things (Take 8 - Master Take)
26
Studio Talk
27
Comes Love (Take 1 - Alternate Take)
28
Comes Love (Take 2 - False Start)
29
Comes Love (Take 3 - False Start)
30
Comes Love (Take 4 - Master Take)
Disc 9
1
Day In, Day Out (Stereo)
2
Darn That Dream
3
But Not For Me
4
Body And Soul
5
Studio Talk
6
Just Friends (Instrumental)
7
Studio Talk
8
Stars Fell On Alabama (Take 1 - Incomplete Take)
9
Stars Fell On Alabama (Take 2 - Master Take) (Stereo)
10
Studio Talk: Say It Isn't So (Take 1 - Incomplete Take)
11
Say It Isn't So (Take 2 - Master Take)
12
Studio Talk: Our Love Is Here To Stay (Take 1 - False Start)
13
Our Love Is Here To Stay (Take 2 - Master Take)
14
Studio Talk: One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) (Take 1 - False Start)
15
One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) (Take 2 - Incomplete Take)
16
One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) (Take 3 - Master Take)
17
They Can't Take That Away From Me
18
Embraceable You
19
Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
20
Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You?
Disc 10
1
Willis Conover Announcement
2
Johnny Mercer Announcement
3
Fanfare From: Oh, Lady be Good
4
Nice Work If You Can Get it
5
Willow Weep For Me
6
My Man
7
Lover, Come Back To Me
8
Lady Sings The Blues
9
What A Little Moonlight Can Do
10
Fanfare From: Oh, Lady Be Good/Conover Announcement
11
Leonard Feather Announcement
12
I Wished On The Moon
13
Lover Man
14
All The Way
15
It's Not For Me To Say
16
I'll Never Smile Again
17
Just One More Chance
18
When It's Sleepy Time Down South
19
Don't Worry 'Bout Me
20
Sometimes I'm Happy
21
You Took Advantage Of Me
22
There'll Be Some Changes Made
23
'Deed I Do
24
All Of You
25
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?
The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve 1945-1959
The Session
Includes a 220-page book with liner notes, photographs, reproductions of Billie Holiday's Verve album covers, and extensive interviews with Oscar Peterson, Jimmy Rowles, Harry "Sweets" Edison and Barney Kessel. Of 10 CDs contained in the set, 8 are of studio and concert recordings, including her Carnegie Hall debut concert, Jazz At The Philharmonic recordings, Lady Day's last recording session, and 2 unissued alternate takes. The other 2 CDs contain rehearsal sessions.
Personnel includes: Billie Holiday (vocals); Willie Smith, Benny Carter (alto saxophone); Illinois Jacquet, Wardell Gray, Charlie Ventura, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Flip Phillips (tenor saxophone); Howard McGee, Buck Clayton, Charlie Shavers, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Roy Eldridge (trumpet); Trummy Young (trombone); Red Norvo (vibraphone); Milt Raskin, Ken Kersey, Oscar Peterson, Sonny Clark, Billy Taylor, Jimmy Rowles, Wynton Kelly, Tony Scott, Mal Waldron (piano); Freddie Green (guitar); Tiny Grimes, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis (electric guitar); Charles Mingus, Curly Russell, Al McKibbon, Ray Brown, Red Mitchell, Milt Hinton, Joe Benjamin (bass); David Coleman, J.C. Heard, Alvin Stoller, Ed Shaughnessy, Cozy Cole, Jo Jones (drums).
Producers include: Norman Granz, Ray Ellis, Leonard Feather, Leroy Lovett, Tony Scott.
Compilation producer: Phil Schaap.
Includes liner notes by Buck Clayton, Phil Schaap, Bob Porter, and Joel E. Siegel.
Digitally remastered by Thomas "Curly" Ruff, Suha Gur, Andrew Nicholas, Joseph M. Palmaccio, Patrick Ryan (Polygram Studios).
THE COMPLETE BILLIE HOLIDAY ON VERVE, 1945-1959 won the 1994 Grammy Award for "Recording Package," "Album Notes" and "Historical Album."
