Billie Holiday – Lady Day: The Master Takes And Singles 1933-1944 New 4CDs $ 68.99

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Billie Holiday

Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), professionally known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed “Lady Day” by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills.

After a turbulent childhood, Holiday began singing in nightclubs in Harlem, where she was heard by the producer John Hammond, who commended her voice. She signed a recording contract with Brunswick in 1935. Collaborations with Teddy Wilson yielded the hit “What a Little Moonlight Can Do“, which became a jazz standard. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Holiday had mainstream success on labels such as Columbia and Decca. By the late 1940s, however, she was beset with legal troubles and drug abuse. After a short prison sentence, she performed at a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall, but her reputation deteriorated because of her drug and alcohol problems.

❤️ Billie Holiday’s story is so huge, her artistry so vast, and her impact so incalculable, that even attempting to corral a representative sampling of it within a single collection of recordings is an overwhelming, perhaps foolhardy task. Many have tried, of course, and literally hundreds of options of varying quality and legitimacy, scattered across dozens of labels, are available to the consumer. Neophytes, or those not willing to commit to a gargantuan listening session, can settle for any number of single- or double-CD best-ofs that adequately present Holiday’s most important, better-known music.

Track Listings

Disc: 1

  1. I Wished On the Moon – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  2. What a Little Moonlight Can Do – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  3. Miss Brown to You – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  4. If You Were Mine – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  5. These ‘N’ That ‘N’ Those – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  6. You Let Me Down – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  7. Spreadin’ Rhythm Around – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  8. Life Begins When You’re In Love – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  9. It’s Like Reaching for the Moon – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  10. These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  11. I Cried for You – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  12. Did I Remember? – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  13. No Regrets – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  14. Summertime – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  15. Billie’s Blues – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  16. A Fine Romance – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  17. One, Two, Button Your Shoe – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  18. Easy to Love – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  19. The Way You Look Tonight – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  20. Pennies from Heaven – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra

Disc: 2

  1. That’s Life I Guess – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  2. I Can’t Give You Anything but Love – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  3. I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  4. He Ain’t Got Rhythm – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  5. This Year’s Kisses – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  6. Why Was I Born? – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  7. I Must Have That Man – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  8. The Mood That I’m In – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  9. You Showed Me the Way – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  10. My Last Affair – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  11. Moanin’ Low – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  12. Where Is the Sun? – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  13. Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  14. They Can’t Take That Away from Me – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  15. Don’t Know If I’m Comin’ or Goin’ – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  16. I’ll Get By (As Long As I Have You) – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  17. Mean to Me – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  18. Foolin’ Myself – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  19. Easy Living – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  20. I’ll Never Be the Same – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra

Disc: 3

  1. Me, Myself and I – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  2. A Sailboat In the Moonlight – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  3. Without Your Love – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  4. Trav’lin’ All Alone – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  5. He’s Funny That Way – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  6. Nice Work If You Can Get It – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  7. Things Are Looking Up – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  8. My Man – Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  9. Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  10. When You’re Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You) – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  11. On the Sentimental Side – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  12. When a Woman Loves a Man – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  13. You Go to My Head – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  14. I’m Gonna Lock My Heart (And Throw Away the Key) – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  15. The Very Thought of You – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  16. I Can’t Get Started – Billie Holiday & Count Basie & His Orchestra
  17. More Than You Know – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  18. Sugar – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  19. Long Gone Blues – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  20. Some Other Spring – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra

Disc: 4

  1. Them There Eyes – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  2. Swing! Brother, Swing! – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  3. Night and Day – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  4. The Man I Love – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  5. Body and Soul – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  6. Falling In Love Again – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  7. Laughing at Life – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  8. Time On My Hands (You In My Arms) – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  9. St. Louis Blues – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  10. Loveless Love – Billie Holiday With Benny Carter & His All Star Orchestra
  11. Let’s Do It – Billie Holiday with Eddie Heywood & His Orchestra
  12. Georgia On My Mind – Billie Holiday with Eddie Heywood & His Orchestra
  13. All of Me – Billie Holiday with Eddie Heywood & His Orchestra
  14. God Bless the Child – Billie Holiday with Eddie Heywood & His Orchestra
  15. Am I Blue? – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  16. I Cover the Waterfront – Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
  17. Love Me or Leave Me – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  18. Gloomy Sunday – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  19. It’s A Sin To Tell A Lie – Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
  20. Until the Real Thing Comes Along – Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra

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Dimensions 14 × 7 × 1 in