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Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday

Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday
Artist: Billie Holiday
Label: Sony
Category: Music

List Price: $24.98
Buy New: $14.97
You Save: $10.01 (40%)



Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 reviews
Sales Rank: 6076

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

MPN: 85979
UPC: 696998597921
EAN: 0696998597921
ASIN: B00005Q45Y

Release Date: October 2, 2001
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Tracks:

  Disc 1
  • What a Little Moonlight Can Do - Billie Holiday, Woods, Harry
  • These Foolish Things - Billie Holiday, Link, Harry
  • I Cried for You - Billie Holiday, Freed, Arthur
  • Summertime - Billie Holiday, Gershwin, George
  • Billie's Blues - Billie Holiday, Holiday, Billie
  • If You Were Mine - Billie Holiday, Malneck, Matty
  • A Fine Romance - Billie Holiday, Fields, Dorothy
  • Easy to Love - Billie Holiday, Porter, Cole
  • I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm - Billie Holiday, Berlin, Irving
  • I Must Have That Man! - Billie Holiday, Fields, Dorothy
  • Me, Myself and I - Billie Holiday, Gordon, Irving
  • They Can't Take That Away from Me - Billie Holiday, Gershwin, George
  • Easy Living - Billie Holiday, Robin, Leo
  • A Sailboat in the Moonlight - Billie Holiday, Loeb, John Jacob
  • Trav'lin' All Alone - Billie Holiday, Johnson, J.C.
  • When a Woman Loves a Man - Billie Holiday, Hanighen, Bernie
  • You Go to My Head - Billie Holiday, Coots, J. Fred
  • My Man - Billie Holiday, Charles, Jacques

  Disc 2
  • I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me - Billie Holiday, Gaskill, Clarence
  • The Very Thought of You - Billie Holiday, Noble, Ray
  • I Can't Get Started - Billie Holiday, Duke, Vernon
  • Long Gone Blues - Billie Holiday, Holiday, Billie
  • Sugar - Billie Holiday, Pinkard, Maceo
  • Some Other Spring - Billie Holiday, Herzog, Arthur Jr.
  • Them There Eyes - Billie Holiday, Pinkard, Maceo
  • The Man I Love - Billie Holiday, Gershwin, George
  • Body and Soul - Billie Holiday, Eyton, Frank
  • Swing, Brother, Swing - Billie Holiday, Bishop, Walter
  • Night and Day - Billie Holiday, Porter, Cole
  • Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) - Billie Holiday, Porter, Cole
  • God Bless the Child - Billie Holiday, Herzog, Arthur Jr.
  • Solitude - Billie Holiday, DeLange, Eddie
  • I Cover the Waterfront - Billie Holiday, Green, Johnny
  • Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday, Javor, Laszlo
  • Until the Real Thing Comes Along - Billie Holiday, Cahn, Sammy
  • All of Me - Billie Holiday, Marks, Gerald

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Editorial Reviews:

Album Description
Lady Day: The Best Of Billie Holiday is an ideal introduction to the Voice of Jazz in all its enduring glory. This incomparable collection draws on the 10-CD boxed set Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia (1933-1944) (CXK 85470), representing not only her finest work, but American jazz and pop singing at its zenith. Accompanied sublimely by a Who's Who of the Swing Era (including her soulmate Lester Young, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Buck Clayton, Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Jo Jones, and pianist-arranger Teddy Wilson, who was often at the helm when Holiday entered the studio), Billie Holiday masterfully renders a host of mostly-classic pop tunes. Fans are drawn to her musical triumphs and personal tragedies. She is a mysterious icon in the same vein as Miles Davis. Columbia possesses the first and finest recordings of her entire career! This material has never sounded clearer and more intimate!


Customer Reviews:   Read 12 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars Lady Day   October 11, 2007
Landis (Baltimore, MD USA)
Excellent CD. A good purchase if you do not want to buy the box set. Has the essentials.


5 out of 5 stars born talent, from the heart   August 16, 2007
Richard P. Hoffmann (pinedale, az)
If you love the blues, and its history, this is a must have. Billie Holiday had a voice, and a tempo, and delivery, followed by back-men who are jazz/blues icons today, that was new, and fresh, and inspiring in their time, and remains so today. I lost all my belongings in a wildfire, including an extensive collection of Billie's recordings. This was my first step back to remembering her, purchasing this wonderfully produced CD. I now consider it a treasured musical archive. If you love Lady Day, relax, and listen to this CD, and you will be entranced again, and again. Her gift to us, forever.


5 out of 5 stars Absolutely the best of Billie Holiday   February 24, 2007
Evagelia Fabian
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Anybody who likes Billie Holiday even part time needs this CD. Even great for those people who only know a few songs just by chance. Love the CD. Even got another as a gift for a friend.

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