Billie Holiday - Lady Day, The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia [2009] + Complete Commodore & Decca Masters [2009] + Billie Holiday - The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve 1945-1959 [1992] (23 x CD's) + Lady Sings The Blues (50th Anniversary Edition) PDF Book

BILLIE HOLIDAY

Previously posted July 3, 2021

Billie Holiday - Lady Day, The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia [2009] + Complete Commodore & Decca Masters [2009] + Billie Holiday - The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve 1945-1959 [1992] (23 x CD's) + Lady Sings The Blues (50th Anniversary Edition) PDF Book

Billie Holiday - Lady Day, The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia [2009] (10 x CD's)

This 10 CD Version of the multi-award winning deluxe box set from the jazz great, released to mark the 50th anniversary of her death. This set is a European budget edition of the more lavish US box. CD's are in simple cardboard sleeves and the booklet fit neatly in a cardboard box the size of a thick jewel case. The sound is as good as the US edition. Extra tracks (alternative takes and airchecks) start on disc 7 and take up the last three discs, as on the US edition. The booklet contains full production notes, an alphabetical song index, and Gary Giddins' essay "Ladies Day". Another essay by Farah Jasmine Griffin describes literary references to Ms. Holiday. The sound on these remasters is excellent: hi-hats and bass are easily heard. The sound is possibly as open and natural as it will ever get.  Although Billie's Columbia recordings have been reissued many times and in many formats, the one used here with the sessions complete as far as master takes are concerned is most pleasing as it preserves the mood of those sessions without getting bogged down. Among the delights: songs that somehow never get featured on Billie Holiday compilations but contain stellar performances by the accompanists can be enjoyed side by side with the better known ones. Any of these ten discs (and especially the first six) can be appreciated as fine representations of the music of the era.  With her you also have encyclopedia of jazz artists backing her and soloing with great delicacy and beauty, saying just enough to match the beauty of her voice, Duke Ellington and his orchestra, Count Basie and his orchestra, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Benny Carter, Johny Hodges, Ben Webster, Gene Krup, Cosy Cole the list is emence over 65 star and prime movers in Jazz of that day are included in her line-Ups, to cover every mood you may come across in your life. Tales of love and joy told by a voice who as well as being great story teller, is also a very fine instrument as well.

If you have any interest in Jazz, Popular Music or Singing, you must have this recording. In Jazz, there is nothing better. Billie Holiday's influence in Popular Music and everything we now know and love about singing cannot be overstated and these recordings from Columbia in the 30's showcase her voice beautifully.(Amazon)

Billie Holiday - Complete Commodore & Decca Masters [2009] (3 x CD's)

Billie Holiday's music falls under three categories, her small band Columbia recordings of the thirties and early forties (some of the finest masterpieces in jazz), her achingly mature torch songs of the fifties produced by Norman Granz for the Verve labels and the middle period that this set covers...1939-1950. This was the era when Billie reached for a wider more populist audience, recording with strings for the first time and dominating each chorus without breaking for soloists. These recordings are previously available on other sets containing complete and multiple takes but here for the first time the masters from both Commodore and Decca are brought together on one collection. All Holiday fans have their own favourite era but there is something in all three to be valued and enjoyed. Milt Gabler's productions extend from his small Commodore sides to the lush Decca releases. Here we have the darkness of "Strange Fruit" the anti-lynching masterpiece and without question one of the songs of the century, the poignant romantic yearning of Billie's self penned "Don't Explain" and the heavy swinging lesser known tracks like "Baby Get Lost". Like all of Billie's work, evey range of emotion is covered. Limited edition, only available on-line and nicely designed with some fine photographs and full discography this is an accessible collection on what is perhaps a too underated period in Billie's catalogue. (Amazon)

Billie Holiday - The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve 1945-1959 [1992] (10 x CD's)

Ten CD's with everything Billie Holiday recorded on Verve Records between 1945 and her death in 1959 not only the songs, but concert introductions, some of the rehearsals, and between-take studio chatter, too. All of which makes for a definitive portrait of Lady Day in her final years. For a long time these recordings were disparaged because it was said her voice was no longer fine and mellow, "ravaged" by hard living, jail time, booze, and drugs. And there's no question that her later tone is darker, more brittle and unstable than it had been in the 30's, but somehow I find myself listening to this music more often than those Brunswick/Columbia or Decca sides, anyway. Like Frank Sinatra, who so often paid tribute to her influence, Holiday's artistry was never based on virtuosity; it was about interpretation, bringing out the emotions in a song and giving a personal reading. She never stopped doing that, and for all the "strange fruit" you'll find in this collection, it's a gold mine.

By the time she got to Verve, Billie was in her fourth incarnation as a recording artist. I can't think of another so prominent singer who went through so many changes. On Columbia she was young, ebullient, startingly original and enjoyed hit after hit after hit with often unremarkable material she made remarkable. By the time she moved to Commodore she had become a glamorous and sophisticated supper club star and she was a more polished and mature artist. Then came Decca and Milt Gabler told her he wanted to try her as a pop singer. Drenched in strings by the brilliant Gordon Jenkins, who adored her as an artist and a person, and given topnotch material, she proved a vivid, luxurious stylist worthy of her international fame. Then came Verve. The voice was deeper, rougher, harder, her style had turned into a bag of affectations, her stylings were totally predictable and by all rights her recordings should have been unimportant. Not so. She had become a world-weary, wise actress in song and virtually everything she recorded for Norman Granz was compelling. Listening to song after song after song in this collection I realized, having never heard the music in order in its entirety, I had missed a point. I think the woman was simply incapable of being uninteresting. There isn't a record here that isn't just fascinating. By the time we get to the final album, on M-G-M, when she was literally on her last legs, the wonder is the album is so hypnotic (and at the time of its release was a big deal). Her life did not turn out the way it should have. She should have ended healthy and wealthy. At least she ended up celebrated and loved. The records can't show her beauty, elegance, terrific taste in fashion, beautiful grooming and hypnotic presence as a performer but this is music you can listen to over and over, year after year and still discover something new. (Amazon)

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Track lists

Lady Day, The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia [2009] CD01

1 Your Mother's Son-In-Law 2:47

2 Riffin' The Scotch 2:33

3 I Wished On The Moon 3:03

4 What A Little Moonlight Can Do 2:58

5 Miss Brown To You 3:00

6 A Sunbonnet Blue (And A Yellow Straw Hat) 2:52

7 What A Night, What A Moon, What A Girl 2:58

8 I'm Painting The Town Red 3:00

9 It's Too Hot For Words 2:47

10 Twenty Four Hours A Day 3:02

11 Yankee Doodle Never Went To Town 2:44

12 Eeny Meeny Meiny Mo 3:13

13 If You Were Mine 3:12

14 These 'N' That 'N' Those 3:14

15 You Let Me Down 2:54

16 Spreadin' Rhythm Around 2:56

17 Life Begins When You're In Love 3:04

18 It's Like Reaching For The Moon 3:22

19 These Foolish Things 3:19

20 I Cried For You 3:13

21 Guess Who 3:11

22 Did I Remember? 2:52

23 No Regrets 2:38

24 Summertime 2:55

25 Billie's Blues 2:39

Lady Day, The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia [2009] CD02

1 St. Louis Blues 2:55

2 Loveless Love 3:17

3 Let's Do It 2:58

4 Georgia On My Mind 3:01

5 Georgia On My Mind 3:08

6 Romance In The Dark 2:20

7 Romance In The Dark 2:16

8 Romance In The Dark 2:28

9 All Of Me 3:01

10 All Of Me 3:59

11 God Bless The Child 3:00

12 God Bless The Child 2:34

13 Am I Blue? 2:47

14 Am I Blue? 2:47

15 Jim 3:07

16 Gloomy Sunday 3:14

17 Wherever You Are 3:00

18 Mandy Is Two 3:01

19 It's A Sin To Tell A Lie 3:10

20 It's A Sin To Tell A Lie 3:09

21 Until The Real Thing Comes Along 3:20

22 Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me + I'll Get By 4:58

23 I Love My Man 4:05

Lady Day, The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia [2009] CD03

1 A Fine Romance 2:53

2 I Can't Pretend 3:06

3 One, Two, Button Your Shoe 2:51

4 Let's Call A Heart A Heart 3:01

5 Easy To Love 3:13

6 With Thee I Swing 3:18

7 The Way You Look Tonight 3:02

8 Who Loves You? 3:15

9 Pennies From Heaven 3:17

10 That's Life I Guess 3:10

11 I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Baby) 3:28

12 One Never Knows, Does One? 3:04

13 I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm 2:58

14 If My Heart Could Only Talk 3:05

15 Please Keep Me In Your Dreams 2:18

16 He Ain't Got Rhythm 2:51

17 This Year's Kisses 3:10

18 Why Was I Born? 2:52

19 I Must Have That Man 2:56

20 The Mood That I'm In 3:01

21 You Showed Me The Way 3:00

22 Sentimental And Melancholy 2:39

23 My Last Affair 3:09

Lady Day, The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia [2009] CD04

1 Carelessly 3:08

2 How Could You? 2:31

3 Moanin' Low 3:05

4 Where Is The Sun? 2:48

5 Let's Call The Whole Thing Off 2:39

6 They Can't Take That Away From Me 3:04

7 Don't Know If I'm Comin' Or Goin' 2:47

8 Sun Showers 3:08

9 Yours And Mine 3:17

10 I'll Get By 3:09

11 Mean To Me 3:08

12 Foolin' Myself 3:02

13 Easy Living 3:04

14 I'll Never Be The Same 3:04

15 Me, Myself And I 2:37

16 A Sailboat In The Mooonlight 2:51

17 Born To Love 2:41

18 Without Your Love 2:53

19 Getting Some Fun Out Of Life 3:03

20 Who Wants Love? 2:34

21 Travelin' All Alone 2:15

22 He's Funny That Way 2:39

Lady Day, The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia [2009] CD05

1 Nice Work If You Can Get It 3:09

2 Things Are Looking Up 3:22

3 My Man 3:03

4 Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man 3:16

5 My First Impression Of You 2:49

6 When You're Smiling 2:51

7 I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me 2:50

8 If Dreams Come True 3:04

9 Now They Call It Swing 3:00

10 On The Sentimental Side 3:05

11 Back In Your Backyard 2:42

12 When A Woman Loves A Man 2:25

13 You Go To My Head 2:54

14 The Moon Looks Down And Laughs 2:57

15 If I Were You 2:25

16 Forget If You Can 2:50

17 Having Myself A Time 2:30

18 Says My Heart 2:50

19 I Wish I Had You 2:51

20 I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (And Throw Away The Key) 2:08

21 The Very Thought Of You 2:46

22 I Can't Get Started 2:48

23 I've Got A Date With A Dream 2:43

24 You Can't Be Mine 2:22

Lady Day, The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia [2009] CD06

1 Everybody's Laughing 3:03

2 Here It Is Tomorrow Again 2:46

3 Say It With A Kiss 2:36

4 April In My Heart 3:08

5 I'll Never Fail You 3:00

6 They Say 3:13

7 You're So Desirable 2:54

8 You're Gonna See A Lot Of Me 2:59

9 Hello, My Darling 2:45

10 Let's Dream In The Moonlight 2:55

11 That's All I Ask Of You 2:59

12 Dream Of Life 2:45

13 What Shall I Say? 3:06

14 It's Easy To Blame The Weather 3:01

15 More Than You Know 3:07

16 Sugar 2:47

17 You're Too Lovely To Last 2:50

18 Under A Blue Jungle Moon 2:58

19 Everything Happens For The Best 2:51

20 Why Did I Always Depend On You? 2:33

21 Long Gone Blues 3:05

Lady Day, The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia [2009] CD07

1 Some Other Spring 3:03

2 Our Love Is Different 3:15

3 Them There Eyes 2:50

4 Swing, Brother, Swing 2:57

5 Night And Day 3:00

6 The Man I Love 3:06

7 You're Just A No Account 3:00

8 You're A Lucky Guy 2:46

9 Ghost Of Yesterday 2:39

10 Body And Soul 2:59

11 What Is This Going To Get Us? 2:41

12 Falling In Love Again 2:52

13 I'm Pulling Through 3:11

14 Tell Me More-More-Then Some 3:10

15 Laughing At Life 2:56

16 Time On My Hands (You In My Arms) 3:06

17 I'm All For You 3:10

18 I Hear Music 2:42

19 The Same Old Story 3:13

20 Practice Makes Perfect 2:37

21 St. Louis Blues 2:55

22 Loveless Love 3:17

23 Let's Do It 2:57

24 Georgia On My Mind 3:18

Lady Day, The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia [2009] CD08

1 Romance In The Dark 2:17

2 All Of Me 3:03

3 I'm In A Low Down Groove 3:10

4 God Bless The Child 2:57

5 Am I Blue? 2:52

6 Solitude 3:16

7 Jim 3:10

8 I Cover The Waterfront 2:57

9 Love Me Or Leave Me 3:22

10 Gloomy Sunday 3:13

11 Wherever You Are 3:02

12 Mandy Is Two 3:02

13 It's A Sin To Tell A Lie 3:04

14 Until The Real Thing Comes Along 3:11

15 Saddest Tale 2:55

16 No Regrets 2:37

17 The Way You Look Tonight 3:09

18 Who Loves You? 3:16

19 Pennies From Heaven 3:15

20 Thats Life I Guess 3:21

21 They Can't Take That Away From Me 2:56

22 Don't Know If I'm Comin' Or Goin' 2:47

23 I'll Get By 3:08

24 Mean To Me 3:06

Lady Day, The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia [2009] CD09

1 Me, Myself And I 2:37

2 Without Your Love 2:54

3 They Can't Take That Away From Me 3:24

4 Swing, Brother, Swing 1:51

5 I Can't Get Started 2:47

6 My First Impression Of You 2:52

7 When You're Smiling 3:01

8 I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me 2:51

9 If Dreams Come True 3:05

10 Now They Call It Swing 3:06

11 On The Sentimental Side 3:06

12 Back In Your Own Backyard 3:16

13 You Go To My Head 2:54

14 The Moon Looks Down And Laughs 2:56

15 If I Were You 2:29

16 Forget If You Can 2:51

17 Having Myself A Time 2:32

18 Says My Heart 2:45

19 I Wish I Had You 3:01

20 I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (And Throw Away The Key) 2:08

21 I Can't Get Started 2:48

22 I've Got A Date With A Dream 2:42

Lady Day, The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia [2009] CD10

1 April In My Heart 3:14

2 They Say 3:05

3 You're So Desirable 2:56

4 You're Gonna See A Lot Of Me 3:01

5 Hello, My Darling 2:44

6 Let's Dream In The Moonlight 2:56

7 I Cried For You 2:30

8 Jeepers Creepers 3:03

9 That's All I Ask Of You 3:01

10 More Than You Know 3:06

11 You're Too Lovely To Last 3:04

12 Under A Blue Jungle Moon 3:05

13 Night And Day 3:04

14 Falling In Love Again 2:49

15 Laughing At Life 2:56

16 I'm All For You 3:29

17 I Hear Music 2:42

18 The Same Old Story 3:12

19 The Same Old Story 3:12

20 Practice Makes Perfect 2:37

21 Practice Makes Perfect 2:44

22 Practice Makes Perfect 2:44

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Complete Commodore & Decca Masters [2009] CD01

1 Strange Fruit 3:11

2 Yesterdays 3:24

3 Fine And Mellow 3:16

4 I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues 2:49

5 How Am I To Know 2:43

6 My Old Flame 3:01

7 I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You) 2:57

8 I Cover The Waterfront 3:29

9 I'll Be Seeing You 3:29

10 I'm Yours 3:15

11 Embraceable You 3:14

12 As Time Goes By 3:10

13 He's Funny That Way 3:14

14 Lover, Come Back To Me 3:19

15 Billie's Blues 3:06

16 On The Sunny Side Of The Street 3:01

Complete Commodore & Decca Masters [2009] CD02

1 Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be) (Single Version) 3:15

2 No More (Single Version) 2:46

3 That Ole Devil Called Love (Single Version) 2:52

4 Don't Explain (Single Version) 3:20

5 You Better Go Now (Single Version) 2:29

6 What Is This Thing Called Love (Single Version) 3:08

7 Good Morning Heartache 3:05

8 No Good Man (Single Version) 3:04

9 Big Stuff 2:29

10 Baby, I Don't Cry Over You (1991 Box Set Version) 3:09

11 I'll Look Around (Edit) 3:13

12 The Blues Are Brewin' (Single Version) 3:02

13 Guilty 3:11

14 Deep Song (Single Version) 3:10

15 There Is No Greater Love (Single Version) 2:56

16 Easy Living (Single Version) 3:10

17 Solitude (Single Version) 3:07

18 Weep No More (Single Version) 3:19

19 Girls Were Made To Take Care Of Boys (Single Version) 3:12

Complete Commodore & Decca Masters [2009] CD03

1 I Loves You Porgy (Single Version) 2:54

2 My Man (Mon Homme) (Single Version) 2:55

3 'tain't Nobody's Business If I Do (Single Version) 3:18

4 Baby Get Lost (Single Version) 3:13

5 Keeps On A Rainin' (Papa He Can't Make No Time) (Single Version) 3:14

6 Them There Eyes (Single Version) 2:49

7 Do Your Duty (Single Version) 3:14

8 Gimme A Pigfoot And A Bottle Of Beer (Single Version) 2:42

9 You Can't Lose A Broken Heart (Single Version) 3:13

10 My Sweet Hunk O' Trash (Single Version) 3:18

11 Now Or Never (Single Version) 3:15

12 You're My Thrill (Single Version) 3:21

13 Crazy He Calls Me (Single Version) 3:01

14 Please Tell Me Now (Single Version) 3:12

15 Somebody's On My Mind (Single Version) 2:55

16 God Bless The Child (Single Version) 3:08

17 This Is Heaven To Me (Single Version) 2:50

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The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve 1945-1959 [1992] CD01

1 Body and Soul 3:24

2 Strange Fruit 3:01

3 I Cried for You 2:18

4 Fine and Mellow 3:50

5 He's Funny That Way 3:21

6 The Man I Love 3:04

7 Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You 2:19

8 All of Me 1:55

9 Billie's Blues (Aka 'i Love My Man') 3:39

10 Travelin' Light 3:28

11 He's Funny That Way 2:56

12 Norman Granz Announcement #1 0:09

13 You Better Go Now 2:55

14 You're Driving Me Crazy 1:29

15 There is No Greater Love 2:34

16 I Cover the Waterfront 2:58

17 Norma Granz Announcement #2 0:28

18 East of the Sun 2:56

19 Blue Moon 3:31

20 You Go to My Head 2:56

21 You Turned the Tables on Me 3:28

22 Easy to Love 3:01

23 These Foolish Things 3:35

24 I Only Have Eyes for You 2:54

25 Solitude 3:29

The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve 1945-1959 [1992] CD02

1 Everything I Have is Yours 3:45

2 Love for Sale 2:58

3 Moonglow 3:00

4 Tenderly 3:25

5 If the Moon Turns Green 2:46

6 Remember 2:36

7 Autumn in New York (Common Take - LP) 3:42

8 Autumn in New York (Rare Take - 78) 3:56

9 My Man 2:39

10 Lover, Come Back to Me 3:37

11 Stormy Weather 3:43

12 Yesterdays 2:50

13 He's Funny That Way 3:13

14 I Can't Face the Music 3:18

15 Mc and Leonard Feather Announcements 0:48

16 Blue Moon 2:05

17 All of Me 1:43

18 My Man 2:51

19 Them There Eyes 1:40

20 I Cried for You 3:23

21 What a Little Moonlight Can Do 2:40

22 I Cover the Waterfront 3:17

23 Leonard Feather Announcement 0:21

24 Billie's Blues (Aka, I Love My Man') 11:39

The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve 1945-1959 [1992] CD03

1 Lover, Come Back to Me 6:51

2 How Deep is the Ocean 2:58

3 What a Little Moonlight Can Do 3:12

4 I Cried for You 2:31

5 Love Me Or Leave Me 2:35

6 P.S. I Love You 3:37

7 Too Marvelous for Words 2:13

8 Softly 2:56

9 I Thought About You 2:47

10 Willow Weep for Me 3:07

11 Stormy Blues 3:30

12 Say it Isn't So 3:03

13 I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm 3:57

14 I Wished on the Moon 6:49

15 Always 3:59

16 Everything Happens to Me 6:22

17 Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me 5:00

18 Ain't Misbehavin' 4:39

The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve 1945-1959 [1992] CD04

1 Nice Work If You Can Get It 4:05

2 Discussion; Nice Work If You Can Get It 0:41

3 Mandy is Two 4:32

4 Prelude to a Kiss 2:47

5 I Must Have That Man! 1:05

6 Jeepers Creepers #1 2:13

7 Jeepers Creepers #2 0:51

8 Discussion; Jeepers Creepers #1 3:25

9 Discussion; Jeepers Creepers #2 2:28

10 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone #1 1:57

11 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone #2 2:57

12 Discussion; Moonlight in Vermont 0:52

13 Misery 0:35

14 Restless 2:45

15 Moonlight in Vermont 2:01

16 Everything Happens to Me #1 3:26

17 Discussion #1 0:36

18 I Don't Want to Cry Any More #1 4:25

19 I Don't Want to Cry Any More #2 2:27

20 Discussion; I Don't Want to Cry Any More 5:34

21 Everything Happens to Me #2 2:59

22 Discussion #2 1:48

23 When You Are Away, Dear 1:40

24 Discussion #3 0:49

25 It Had to Be You 1:55

26 The Mood That I'm In 0:32

27 Gone With the Wind 1:38

28 I Got it Bad (And That Ain't Good) 3:17

29 Discussion #4 2:30

30 A Sunbonnet Blue 0:07

31 (I Don't Stand A) Ghost of a Chance 1:32

32 Discussion #5 2:15

33 I'm Walkin' Through Heaven With You 2:06

34 Discussion #6 0:42

35 Just Friends 1:02

36 The Nearness of You 1:05

37 Discussion #7 0:27

38 It's Too Hot for Words 0:20

39 They Say 2:26

40 I Won't Believe It 0:20

The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve 1945-1959 [1992] CD05

1 I Don't Want to Cry Any More (Take 1 - False Start) 0:31

2 I Don't Want to Cry Any More (Take 2 - Master Take) 3:55

3 Studio Talk; Prelude to a Kiss (Take 1 - False Start) 0:14

4 0studio Talk; Prelude to a Kiss (Take 2 - Incomplete) 0:52

5 Prelude to a Kiss (Take 3 - Master Take) 5:35

6 (I Don't Stand A) Ghost of a Chance 4:29

7 When Your Lover Has Gone (Take 1 - Incomplete) 0:49

8 Studio Talk; When Your Lover Has Gone (Take 2 - Incomplete) 1:01

9 Studio Talk #1 0:24

10 When Your Lover Has Gone (Take 3 - Master Take) 4:59

11 Gone With the Wind 3:26

12 Studio Talk #2 0:10

13 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone 4:21

14 It Had to Be You 4:02

15 Studio Talk #3 0:08

16 Nice Work If You Can Get It 3:51

17 Come Rain Or Come Shine 4:23

18 I Got a Right to Sing the Blues 5:53

19 What's New 4:17

20 A Fine Romance (Take 1 - Incomplete) 0:46

21 A Fine Romance (Take 2 - Alternate) 2:44

22 A Fine Romance (Take 3 - False Start) 0:18

23 A Fine Romance (Take 4 - Incomplete) 1:16

24 A Fine Romance (Take 5 - Incomplete) 3:18

25 A Fine Romance (Take 6 - False Start) 0:25

26 A Fine Romance (Take 7 - Incomplete) 3:12

27 A Fine Romance (Take 8 - Master Take) 3:35

28 Studio Talk #4 0:06

29 I Hadn't Anyone Till You 4:02

The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve 1945-1959 [1992] CD06

1 I Get a Kick Out of You 5:42

2 Everything I Have is Yours 4:31

3 Isn't This a Lovely Day 4:16

4 Discussion; Misery 1:26

5 Israel 2:17

6 Misery 4:38

7 Discussion #1 1:15

8 I Must Have That Man! 6:30

9 Discussion #2 0:27

10 Strange Fruit 5:48

11 Discussion; God Bless the Child 5:50

12 Discussion #3 1:16

13 God Bless the Child #1 3:16

14 God Bless the Child #2 1:07

15 Discussion #4 0:33

16 God Bless the Child #3 3:35

17 One Never Knows, Does One #1 2:08

18 Discussion #5 2:00

19 Beer Barrel Polka (Aka 'roll Out the Barrel') 1:19

20 Some of These Days 1:02

21 A Yiddishe Momme #1 0:38

22 A Yiddishe Momme #2 2:16

23 Discussion #6 0:41

24 Lady's Back in Town 2:36

25 Discussion #7 4:34

26 Discussion #8 1:13

27 One Never Knows, Does One #2 2:38

28 Discussion #9 1:19

29 (Unknown Title) 1:53

The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve 1945-1959 [1992] CD07

1 Travelin' Light 3:10

2 I Must Have That Man! 3:06

3 Some Other Spring 3:39

4 Lady Sings the Blues 3:46

5 Strange Fruit 3:04

6 God Bless the Child 3:59

7 Good Morning Heartache 3:31

8 No Good Man 3:23

9 Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me 4:14

10 Cheek to Cheek 3:37

11 Ill Wind 6:17

12 Speak Low 4:29

13 We'll Be Together Again 4:26

14 All Or Nothing at All 5:41

15 Sophisticated Lady 4:51

16 April in Paris 3:02

The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve 1945-1959 [1992] CD08

1 Lady Sings the Blues (With Reading From 'lady Sings the Blues') 2:52

2 Lady Sings the Blues 2:38

3 Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do 2:33

4 Travelin' Light (With Reading From 'lady Sings the Blues') 0:44

5 Reading From 'lady Sings the Blues' #1 2:06

6 Billie's Blues (Aka 'i Love My Man') 3:20

7 Body and Soul 2:40

8 Reading From 'lady Sings the Blues' #2 0:54

9 Don't Explain 2:29

10 Yesterdays 1:16

11 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone 1:42

12 I'll Be Seeing You 2:28

13 Reading From 'lady Sings the Blues' #3 2:50

14 My Man 3:13

15 I Cried for You 3:08

16 Fine and Mellow 3:14

17 I Cover the Waterfront 3:45

18 What a Little Moonlight Can Do 2:53

19 I Wished on the Moon 3:27

20 Moonlight in Vermont 3:52

21 A Foggy Day (Stereo) 4:43

22 I Didn't Know What Time it Was (Stereo) 6:02

23 Just One of Those Things (Take 7 - Incomplete) (Stereo) 0:25

24 Studio Talk #1 0:47

25 Just One of Those Things (Take 8 - Master Take) 5:32

26 Studio Talk #2 0:28

27 Comes Love (Take 1 - Alternate) 4:00

28 Comes Love (Take 2 - False Start) 0:36

29 Comes Love (Take 3 - False Start) 0:22

30 Comes Love (Take 4 - Master Take) 4:00

The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve 1945-1959 [1992] CD09

1 Day In, Day Out (Stereo) 6:49

2 Darn That Dream 6:20

3 But Not for Me 3:50

4 Body and Soul 6:26

5 Studio Talk #1 0:45

6 Just Friends (Instrumental) 6:30

7 Studio Talk #2 0:16

8 Stars Fell on Alabama (Take 1 - Incomplete) 0:37

9 Stars Fell on Alabama (Take 2 - Master Take) (Stereo) 4:30

10 Studio Talk; Say it Isn't So (Take 1 - Incomplete) 0:26

11 Say it Isn't So (Take 2 - Master Take) 3:18

12 Studio Talk; Our Love is Here to Stay (Take 1 - False Start) 0:27

13 Our Love is Here to Stay (Take 2 - Master Take) 3:42

14 Studio Talk; One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) (Take 1 - False Start) 0:27

15 One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) (Take 2 - Incomplete) 1:55

16 One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) (Take 3 - Master Take) (Stereo) 5:42

17 They Can't Take That Away From Me 4:12

18 Embraceable You 6:49

19 Let's Call the Whole Thing Off 3:26

20 Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You 5:37

The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve 1945-1959 [1992] CD10

1 Willis Conover Announcement 0:53

2 Johnny Mercer Announcement 0:42

3 Fanfare From Oh, Lady Be Good 0:10

4 Nice Work If You Can Get It 2:38

5 Willow Weep for Me 3:08

6 My Man 3:29

7 Lover, Come Back to Me 2:05

8 Lady Sings the Blues 2:59

9 What a Little Moonlight Can Do 2:53

10 Fanfare From Oh, Lady Be Good With Conover Announcement 0:22

11 Leonard Feather Announcement 0:47

12 I Wished on the Moon 2:43

13 Lover Man 3:05

14 All the Way 3:26

15 It's Not for Me to Say 2:28

16 I'll Never Smile Again 3:26

17 Just One More Chance 3:47

18 When It's Sleepy Time Down South 4:08

19 Don't Worry 'bout Me 3:10

20 Sometimes I'm Happy 2:49

21 You Took Advantage of Me 3:12

22 There'll Be Some Changes Made 2:54

23 'deed I Do 2:15

24 All of You 2:33

25 Baby, Won't You Please Come Home 3:03

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