The Complete Commodore Recordings

Compilation by Billie Holiday

Released 28 January 1997

Tracklist

Digital Media 1
1
Strange Fruit
Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
3:13
4.0 ★
2
Strange Fruit (take 2)
3:21
3
Yesterdays
3:26
4
Yesterdays (take 2)
3:00
5
Fine and Mellow
Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
3:18
6
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
2:51
7
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (take 2)
2:51
8
How Am I to Know? (take 3)
2:31
9
How Am I to Know? (take 2–1)
2:36
10
How Am I to Know? (take 2–2)
2:40
11
How Am I to Know?
2:47
12
My Old Flame (#3)
3:21
13
My Old Flame (take 2)
3:07
14
My Old Flame (#2)
3:12
15
My Old Flame
3:05
16
I’ll Get By (as Long as I Have You)
3:01
17
I’ll Get By (take 2)
3:00
18
I Cover the Waterfront (take 3)
3:52
19
I Cover the Waterfront (take 2)
3:44
20
I Cover the Waterfront (take 1)
3:24
21
I Cover the Waterfront
3:33
4.0 ★
22
I’ll Be Seeing You (take 3)
3:39
23
I’ll Be Seeing You
3:33
24
I’ll Be Seeing You (take 2)
3:27
Digital Media 2
1
I’m Yours (take 3)
3:14
2
I’m Yours (take 2)
3:25
3
I’m Yours
3:18
4
Embraceable You (take 3)
3:15
5
Embraceable You
3:18
6
Embraceable You (take 2)
3:14
7
As Time Goes By
3:14
8
As Time Goes By (take 2)
3:17
9
(I’ve Got a Man, Crazy for Me) He’s Funny That Way (take 2)
3:34
10
He’s Funny That Way (take 2)
3:17
11
He’s Funny That Way (1944 version)
3:18
12
He’s Funny That Way (take 4)
3:05
13
She’s Funny That Way (take 3)
3:05
14
Lover, Come Back to Me (take 2–1)
3:25
15
Lover, Come Back to Me (take 3)
3:17
16
Billie’s Blues (take 2)
3:30
17
Billie’s Blues (take 3)
2:55
18
Lover, Come Back to Me
3:22
19
Billie’s Blues
3:10
20
On the Sunny Side of the Street
3:04
21
Lover, Come Back to Me (take 2)
3:18

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Release credits

Billie Holiday
vocal [2.3, 2.5, 2.7, 2.11, 2.19, 1.1, 1.3, 1.5, 1.11, 1.15, 1.21, 1.23]
Doc Cheatham
trumpet [2.3, 2.5, 2.7, 1.11, 1.15, 1.21, 1.23]
Eddie Dougherty
drums (drum set) [1, 3, 5]
Eddie Heywood
arranger [2.3, 2.5, 2.7, 2.11, 2.19, 1.11, 1.15, 1.21, 1.23], piano [2.3, 2.5, 2.7, 2.11, 2.19, 1.11, 1.15, 1.21, 1.23]
Frankie Newton
trumpet [1, 5]
Frankie Newton and Orchestra
performing orchestra [5]
Jimmy McLin
guitar [1, 3, 5]
John Simmons
double bass [2.3, 2.5, 2.7, 2.11, 2.19, 1.11, 1.15, 1.21, 1.23]
Johnny Williams
double bass [1, 3, 5]
Kenneth Hollon
tenor saxophone [1, 3, 5]
Lem Davis
alto saxophone [1.11, 1.15, 1.21, 1.23, 2.3, 2.5, 2.7]
Milt Gabler
producer [2.3, 2.5, 2.7, 2.11, 2.19, 1.1, 1.3, 1.5, 1.11, 1.15, 1.21, 1.23]
Sid Catlett
drums (drum set) [2.3, 2.5, 2.7, 2.11, 2.19, 1.11, 1.15, 1.21, 1.23]
Sonny White
piano [1, 3, 5]
Stanley Payne
tenor saxophone [1, 5]
Tab Smith
alto saxophone [1, 5], saxophone [1]
Teddy Walters
guitar [11, 15, 21]
Vic Dickenson
trombone [1.11, 1.15, 1.21, 1.23, 2.3, 2.5, 2.7]

Issues

T
The Complete Commodore Recordings
2x CD
28 January 1997
T
The Complete Commodore Recordings
2x CD
1997
C
Complete Original American Commodore Recordings
2x CD
2001
T
The Complete Commodore Recordings
2x Digital Media
17 August 2018
T
The Complete Commodore Recordings
2x CD (reissue, remastered)
2022