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Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday  (Audio CD) 
by Billie Holiday

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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!

Product Details:
Audio CD Release Date: October 02, 2001
Studio: Sony
Number Of Discs: 2
Average Customer Rating: based on 16 reviews
Track Listing:
Disc: 1
1. What a Little Moonlight Can Do - Billie Holiday, Woods, Harry
2. These Foolish Things - Billie Holiday, Link, Harry
3. I Cried for You - Billie Holiday, Freed, Arthur
4. Summertime - Billie Holiday, Gershwin, George
5. Billie's Blues - Billie Holiday, Holiday, Billie
6. If You Were Mine - Billie Holiday, Malneck, Matty
7. A Fine Romance - Billie Holiday, Fields, Dorothy
8. Easy to Love - Billie Holiday, Porter, Cole
9. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm - Billie Holiday, Berlin, Irving
10. I Must Have That Man! - Billie Holiday, Fields, Dorothy
11. Me, Myself and I - Billie Holiday, Gordon, Irving
12. They Can't Take That Away from Me - Billie Holiday, Gershwin, George
13. Easy Living - Billie Holiday, Robin, Leo
14. A Sailboat in the Moonlight - Billie Holiday, Loeb, John Jacob
15. Trav'lin' All Alone - Billie Holiday, Johnson, J.C.
16. When a Woman Loves a Man - Billie Holiday, Hanighen, Bernie
17. You Go to My Head - Billie Holiday, Coots, J. Fred
18. My Man - Billie Holiday, Charles, Jacques
Disc: 2
1. I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me - Billie Holiday, Gaskill, Clarence
2. The Very Thought of You - Billie Holiday, Noble, Ray
3. I Can't Get Started - Billie Holiday, Duke, Vernon
4. Long Gone Blues - Billie Holiday, Holiday, Billie
5. Sugar - Billie Holiday, Pinkard, Maceo
6. Some Other Spring - Billie Holiday, Herzog, Arthur Jr.
7. Them There Eyes - Billie Holiday, Pinkard, Maceo
8. The Man I Love - Billie Holiday, Gershwin, George
9. Body and Soul - Billie Holiday, Eyton, Frank
10. Swing, Brother, Swing - Billie Holiday, Bishop, Walter
11. Night and Day - Billie Holiday, Porter, Cole
12. Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) - Billie Holiday, Porter, Cole
13. God Bless the Child - Billie Holiday, Herzog, Arthur Jr.
14. Solitude - Billie Holiday, DeLange, Eddie
15. I Cover the Waterfront - Billie Holiday, Green, Johnny
16. Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday, Javor, Laszlo
17. Until the Real Thing Comes Along - Billie Holiday, Cahn, Sammy
18. All of Me - Billie Holiday, Marks, Gerald
 
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Average Customer Review:4.5
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0 of 8 found the following review helpful:

1the best of billie holiday  Dec 09, 2007
This is not a good demonstration of Billie Holliday. First, too many songs squeezed into each side. Sound not good. For me, it was a waste of money. One of her best is the Billie Holiday-Lester Young CD " a musical romance"

5Lady Day  Oct 11, 2007
Excellent CD. A good purchase if you do not want to buy the box set. Has the essentials.

5born talent, from the heart  Aug 16, 2007
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.

2 of 2 found the following review helpful:

5Absolutely the best of Billie Holiday  Feb 24, 2007
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.

4 of 7 found the following review helpful:

5Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday  Jan 10, 2007
Bought this for my granddaughter. She's a Billie Holiday fan. She loved the CD.

 
 
 
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