Lady Sings the Blues - Billie Holiday

Lady Sings the Blues

Compilation by Billie Holiday

Released 2009

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CD 1: I Cried for You
1
Saddest Tale
2:59
2
I Cried for You (live)
2:35
3
They Can’t Take That Away From Me (live)
3:28
4
Swing, Brother, Swing
1:56
5
I Can’t Get Started
2:51
6
Jeepers Creepers
3:07
7
Fine and Mellow
3:16
8
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (alternative version)
2:51
9
Strange Fruit (alternative version)
3:18
10
Yesterdays
3:24
11
Strange Fruit
3:11
12
Yesterdays (alternative version)
3:00
13
I’ll Get By
1:45
14
Honeysuckle Rose
1:47
15
Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
3:38
16
Billie’s Blues (I.E. I Love My Man)
4:24
17
I’ll Be Seeing You (alternative version)
3:27
18
Embraceable You (alternative version)
3:12
19
I’m Yours (alternative version)
3:21
20
As Time Goes By (alternative version)
3:06
CD 2: Strange Fruit
1
Body and Soul
3:27
2
Strange Fruit
3:12
3
The Man I Love
3:10
4
Billie’s Blues (i.e. I Love My Man)
3:44
5
Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You?
2:27
6
All of Me
2:10
7
The Blues Are Brewin’
3:48
8
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
2:16
9
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
1:50
10
He’s Funny That Way
3:01
11
Trav’Lin’ Light
3:32
12
Solitude
3:18
13
My Man (Mon Homme)
3:10
14
My Man
2:37
15
Miss Brown to You
2:08
16
Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do
3:27
17
Baby Get Lost
3:22
18
Keeps on Rainin’?
2:53
19
Them There Eyes
2:25
CD 3: Do Your Duty
1
Keep on A‐Rainin’
3:20
2
Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer
2:48
3
Do Your Duty
3:20
4
(Interveiw)
1:51
5
All of Me
1:55
6
I Cover the Waterfront
3:50
7
My Sweet Hunk of Trash
3:24
8
You Can’t Lose a Broken Heart
3:18
9
Now or Never
3:21
10
My Sweet Hunk O’Trash
3:23
11
Somebody’s on My Mind
2:59
12
You’re My Thrill
3:26
13
Crazy He Calls Me
3:06
14
Please Tell Me Now
3:18
15
This Is Heaven to Me
2:56
16
God Bless the Child
3:14
17
You’re My Thrill
3:27
CD 4: Blue Turning Grey Over You
1
Detour Ahead
3:13
2
Blue Turning Over You
2:10
3
Rocky Mountain Blues
3:16
4
Be Fair to Me Baby
2:47
5
Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do
2:28
6
Lover Come Back to Me
2:25
7
You’re Driving Me Crazy
1:18
8
He’s Funny That Way
3:11
9
Miss Brown to You
2:04
10
Billie’s Blues (I.E. I Love My Man)
3:33
11
These Foolish Things
3:46
12
Solitude
3:39
13
I Only Have Eyes for You
3:02
14
Blue Moon
3:37
15
East of the Sun (West of the Moon)
3:03
16
You Go to My Head
3:03
17
Easy to Love
3:08
18
You Turned the Tables on Me
3:29
CD 5: If the Moon Turns Green
1
Autumn in New York
3:48
2
Love for Sale
3:07
3
Everything I Have Is Yours
3:56
4
Remember
2:44
5
Autumn in New York
3:47
6
Tenderly
3:33
7
If the Moon Turns Green
2:53
8
He’s Funny That Way
3:17
9
My Man
2:47
10
Stormy Weather
3:50
11
Yesterdays
2:55
12
I Can’t Face the Music
3:24
13
Lover Come Back to Me
3:41
14
Fine and Mellow
3:48
15
Lover Come Back to Me
1:57
16
I Cover the Waterfront
3:45
CD 6: God Bless the Child
1
My Man
2:58
2
Tenderly
2:59
3
God Bless the Child
2:36
4
(Annoucement)
0:27
5
Blue Moon
2:10
6
All of Me
1:45
7
My Man
2:49
8
Them There Eyes
1:39
9
I Cried for You
3:21
10
What a Little Moonlight Can Do
2:31
11
I Cover the Waterfront
3:32
12
Billie’s Blues (i.e. I Love My Man)
11:43
13
Lover Come Back to Me
6:43
14
I Cried for You
2:35
15
Stormy Blues
3:32
16
How Deep Is the Ocean? (How High Is the Sky?)
3:04
17
I Can’t Face the Music
3:18
CD 7: Willow Weep for Me
1
Too Marvelous for Words
2:20
2
I Thought About You
2:56
3
Willow Weep for Me
3:16
4
Love Me or Leave Me
2:42
5
Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
2:37
6
Them There Eyes
1:58
7
Stormy Weather
3:47
8
(I Don’t Stand a) Ghost of a Chance
4:32
9
Nice Work If You Can Get It
3:56
10
It Had to Be You
4:07
11
Gone With the Wind
3:30
12
When Your Lover Has Gone
5:06
13
I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore
3:59
14
Please, Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone
4:28
15
Prelude to a Kiss
5:36
CD 8: I Get a Kick Out of You
1
What’s New?
4:27
2
Everything I Have Is Yours
4:43
3
I Get a Kick Out of You
5:43
4
Isn’t This a Lovely Day
4:19
5
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
6:01
6
I Hadn’t Anyone Till You
4:14
7
Come Rain or Come Shine
4:28
8
A Fine Romance
3:38
9
(I Don’t Stand a) Ghost of a Chance
3:36
10
Trav’lin’ Light
3:18
11
Lady Sings the Blues
3:55
12
I Must Have That Man
3:14
13
Some Other Spring
3:40
CD 9: No Good Man
1
God Bless the Child
4:09
2
Good Morning Heartache
3:35
3
No Good Man
3:30
4
Strange Fruit
3:12
3.0 ★
5
Willow Weep for Me
3:31
6
I Only Have Eyes for You
1:54
7
Please, Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone
2:02
8
God Bless the Child
2:59
9
Please, Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone
1:59
10
(I Love You) Porgy
2:35
11
Nice Work If You Can Get It
5:28
12
My Man
8:54
13
What a Little Moonlight Can Do
5:18
14
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
3:29
5.0 ★
15
Comes Love
4:02
16
They Can’t Take That Away From Me
4:06
CD 10: A Foggy Day
1
Day in, Day Out
6:49
2
A Foggy Day
4:43
3.6 ★
3
Stars Fell on Alabama
4:33
4
One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)
5:41
5
Just One of Those Things
5:34
6
I Didn’t Know What Time It Was
6:04
3.0 ★
7
Embraceable You
6:48
5.0 ★
8
Fine and Mellow
6:21

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Release credits

Alvin Stoller
drums (drum set) [2, 6]
Barney Kessel
electric guitar [2], guitar [9.14, 10.6-7]
Ben Webster
tenor saxophone [10.2, 10.6-7, 9.14]
Billie Holiday
vocal [3.1, 10.2, 10.6-7, 9.4, 9.14, 2.17]
Buck Clayton
trumpet [17]
Buster Harding
conductor [17]
Dicky Wells
trombone [17]
Eddie Condon
spoken vocals [1]
Eddie Dougherty
drums (drum set) [4]
Emmett Berry
trumpet [17]
Frankie Newton
trumpet [4]
George Dorsey
alto saxophone [17]
George Duvivier
double bass [17]
George Matthews
trombone [17]
Harry “Sweets” Edison
trumpet [9.14, 10.2, 10.6-7]
Horace Henderson
piano [3.1, 2.17]
Jimmy McLin
guitar [4]
Jimmy Nottingham
trumpet [17]
Jimmy Rowles
piano [10.2, 10.6-7, 9.14]
Joe Mondragon
double bass [14]
Joe Thomas
tenor saxophone [17]
Johnny Williams
double bass [4]
Kenneth Hollon
tenor saxophone [4]
Larry Bunker
drums (drum set) [9.14, 10.7]
Lester Young
tenor saxophone [17]
Milt Gabler
producer [4]
Mundell Lowe
guitar [17]
Norman Granz
producer [10.2, 10.7, 9.14]
Red Mitchell
double bass [2, 6-7]
Rudy Powell
alto saxophone [17]
Shadow Wilson
drums (drum set) [17]
Sol Moore
baritone saxophone [17]
Sonny White
piano [4]
Stanley Payne
tenor saxophone [4]
Tab Smith
alto saxophone [4], saxophone [4]
Val Valentin
engineer [7]

Issues

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Lady Sings the Blues
10x CD
2009