Essential Original Albums

Compilation by Billie Holiday

Released 2016

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Tracklist

CD 1
1
It Had to Be You
4:03
2
Come Rain or Come Shine
4:25
3
I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore
3:56
4
I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
4:30
5
A Fine Romance
3:35
6
Gone With the Wind
3:27
7
I Get a Kick Out of You
5:42
8
Isn’t This a Lovely Day?
4:16
4.0 ★
9
Prelude to a Kiss
5:35
10
When Your Lover Has Gone
5:00
11
Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone
4:21
12
Nice Work If You Can Get It
3:51
13
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
5:55
14
What’s New?
4:18
15
I Hadn’t Anyone Till You
4:05
16
Everything I Have Is Yours
4:29
CD 2
1
Trav’lin’ Light
3:12
2
I Must Have That Man!
3:08
3
Some Other Spring
3:41
4
Lady Sings the Blues
3:48
5
Strange Fruit
3:06
6
God Bless the Child
4:01
7
Good Morning, Heartache
3:33
8
No Good Man
3:20
9
Love Me or Leave Me
2:36
10
Too Marvelous for Words
2:14
11
Willow Weep for Me
3:08
12
I Thought About You
2:48
5.0 ★
13
East of the Sun
2:58
14
Blue Moon
3:33
15
You Go to My Head
2:58
16
You Turned the Tables on Me
3:30
17
Easy to Love
3:03
18
These Foolish Things
3:37
5.0 ★
19
I Only Have Eyes for You
2:56
20
Solitude
3:30
5.0 ★
21
Everything I Have Is Yours
3:47
22
Love for Sale
3:00
23
Moonglow
3:02
24
Tenderly
3:25
CD 3
1
Day In, Day Out
6:51
2
A Foggy Day
4:42
3.5 ★
3
Stars Fell On Alabama
4:34
4
One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)
5:44
5
Just One of Those Things
5:35
6
I Didn’t Know What Time It Was
6:04
7
Body and Soul
6:28
8
They Can’t Take That Away From Me
4:16
9
Darn That Dream
6:25
10
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
3:28
11
Comes Love
4:01
12
Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good to You
5:43
13
Embraceable You
6:51
5.0 ★
14
Moonlight in Vermont
3:55
15
I Wished On the Moon
3:27

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Release credits

Alvin Stoller
drums (drum set) [2.18, 2.20, 3.2]
Barney Kessel
electric guitar [3.2, 1.8], guitar [2.12, 2.18, 2.20, 3.13]
Ben Webster
tenor saxophone [2, 13]
Benny Carter
alto saxophone [8]
Billie Holiday
vocal [2.12, 2.18, 2.20, 3.2, 3.13, 1.8]
Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra
performing orchestra [18]
Bobby Tucker
piano [12]
Charlie Shavers
trumpet [20]
Chico Hamilton
drums (drum set) [12]
Flip Phillips
tenor saxophone [20]
Harry “Sweets” Edison
trumpet [2.12, 3.2, 3.13, 1.8]
Jimmy Rowles
piano [1.8, 3.2, 3.13]
John Simmons
double bass [8]
Larry Bunker
drums (drum set) [1.8, 3.13]
Norman Granz
producer [2, 13]
Oscar Peterson
piano [18, 20]
Ray Brown
double bass [18, 20]
Red Callender
double bass [12]
Red Mitchell
double bass [2, 13]
Val Valentin
engineer [13]
Willie Smith
alto saxophone [12]

Issues

E
Essential Original Albums
3x CD
2016