Her Finest Studio Recordings

Compilation by Billie Holiday

Released 2009

blues

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Tracklist

CD 1
1
Billie’s Blues
2:39
2
I Must Have That Man
2:55
3
Mean to Me
3:07
4
My Man
3:02
5
Strange Fruit
3:08
6
Fine and Mellow
3:13
7
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
2:49
8
The Man I Love
3:05
9
God Bless the Child
2:55
10
Am I Blue
2:49
11
Solitude
3:13
12
Love Me or Leave Me
3:19
13
Trav’Lin’ Light
3:15
14
I Cover the Waterfront
3:30
15
As Times Goes By
3:11
16
Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
3:22
17
Don’t Explain
3:21
18
Good Morning Heartache
3:09
19
I’Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do
3:22
20
Craze He Calls Me
3:04
3.8 ★
CD 2
1
Solitude
3:31
5.0 ★
2
Love for Sale
2:57
3
Tenderly
3:23
4
My Man
2:38
5
Lover Com Back to Me
3:36
6
Stormy Weather
3:42
7
(I Gort a Man Crazy for Me) He’s Funny That Way
3:12
8
Too Marvellous for Words
2:12
9
P.S. I Love You
3:36
5.0 ★
10
I Thought About You
2:46
5.0 ★
11
Love Me or Leave Me
2:35
12
Willow Weep for Me
3:07
13
Stormy Blues
3:27
14
Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
4:13
15
Come Rain or Come Sunshine
4:23
16
I Gotto Right to Sing the Blues
5:51
17
Trav’Lin’ Light
3:08
18
I Must Have That Man
3:04
19
No Good Man
3:19
20
Strange Fruit
3:00
CD 3
1
Lady Sings the Blues
3:45
2
God Bless the Child
3:58
3
Good Morning Heartache
3:29
4
April in Paris
3:02
5
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
3:24
6
I Wished On the Moon
3:25
4.0 ★
7
They Can’t Take Thaw Away From Me
4:10
8
Cheek to Cheek
3:34
9
I’m a Fool to Want You
3:24
10
For Heaven’s Sake
3:27
11
You Don’t Know What Love Is
3:49
12
I Get Along Without You Very Well
3:00
13
For All We Know
2:54
14
Violets for Your Furs
3:25
15
You’ve Changed
3:18
16
It’s Easy to Remember
4:02
17
But Beautiful
4:30
18
Glad to Be Unhappy
4:08
19
I’ll Be Around
3:24
20
The End of a Love Affair
4:48

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Release credits

Alvin Stoller
drums (drum set) [2.1, 3.6, 3.8]
Barney Kessel
guitar [2.1, 2.9-10, 3.5-6, 3.6, 3.8]
Ben Webster
tenor saxophone [5-6, 6, 8]
Bernie Leighton
piano [20]
Billie Holiday
lead vocals [20], vocal [3.5-6, 3.6, 3.8, 1.20, 2.1, 2.3, 2.9-10, 2.17]
Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra
performing orchestra [3]
Bobby Hackett
trumpet [20]
Bobby Tucker
piano [9-10]
Charlie Shavers
trumpet [1]
Chico Hamilton
drums (drum set) [9-10]
Flip Phillips
tenor saxophone [1]
Harry “Sweets” Edison
trumpet [2.9-10, 3.5-6, 3.6, 3.8]
Jack Lesberg
double bass [20]
Jimmy Rowles
piano [5-6, 6, 8]
Joe Mondragon
double bass [8]
John Fulton
woodwind [20]
Larry Bunker
drums (drum set) [5]
Milt Yaner
reeds [20]
Norman Granz
producer [5-6]
Norris "Bunny" Shawker
drums (drum set) [20]
Oscar Peterson
piano [1]
Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
performing orchestra [17]
Ray Brown
double bass [1]
Ray Ellis and His Orchestra
performer [20]
Red Callender
double bass [9-10]
Red Mitchell
bass [6], double bass [5-6]
Tony Mottola
guitar [20]
Val Valentin
engineer [5-6]
Willie Smith
alto saxophone [9-10]

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Her Finest Studio Recordings
3x CD
2009