2x CD

The Complete Commodore Recordings

Compilation by Billie Holiday

Released 28 January 1997

Tracklist

CD 1
1
Strange Fruit
3:12
4.0 ★
2
Yesterdays
3:26
3
Fine and Mellow
3:17
4
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
2:54
5
How Am I to Know
2:48
6
My Old Flame
3:05
7
I’ll Get By
3:01
8
I Cover the Waterfront
3:34
9
I’ll Be Seeing You
3:35
10
Strange Fruit (alternate take)
3:20
11
Yesterdays (alternate take)
3:01
12
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (alternate take)
2:49
13
How Am I to Know (alternate take 1)
2:33
14
How Am I to Know (alternate take 2)
2:40
15
How Am I to Know (alternate take 3)
2:42
16
My Old Flame (alternate take 1)
3:23
17
My Old Flame (alternate take 2)
3:08
18
My Old Flame (alternate take 3)
3:14
19
I’ll Get By (alternate take)
3:01
20
I Cover the Waterfront (alternate take 1)
3:53
21
I Cover the Waterfront (alternate take 2)
3:45
22
I Cover the Waterfront (alternate take 3)
3:25
23
I’ll Be Seeing You (alternate take 1)
3:40
24
I’ll Be Seeing You (alternate take 2)
3:27
CD 2
1
I’m Yours
3:19
2
Embraceable You
3:19
3
As Time Goes By
3:13
4
He’s Funny That Way
3:19
5
Lover Come Back to Me
3:22
6
I Love My Man (Billie’s Blues)
3:10
7
On the Sunny Side of the Street
3:05
8
I’m Yours (alternate take 1)
3:15
9
I’m Yours (alternate take 2)
3:26
10
Embraceable You (alternate take 1)
3:17
11
Embraceable You (alternate take 2)
3:14
12
As Time Goes By (alternate take)
3:18
13
He’s Funny That Way (alternate take 1)
3:08
14
He’s Funny That Way (alternate take 2)
3:06
15
He’s Funny That Way (alternate take 3)
3:19
16
He’s Funny That Way (alternate take 4)
3:36
17
Lover Come Back to Me (alternate take 1)
3:27
18
Lover Come Back to Me (alternate take 2)
3:18
19
Lover Come Back to Me (alternate take 3)
3:20
20
I Love My Man (Billie’s Blues) (alternate take 1)
3:30
21
I Love My Man (Billie’s Blues) (alternate take 2)
2:54

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Release credits

Billie Holiday
vocal [1.1, 1.3, 1.5-6, 1.9, 2.1-6, 2.12]
Doc Cheatham
trumpet [1.5-6, 1.9, 2.1-3, 2.12]
Eddie Dougherty
drums (drum set) [1, 3]
Eddie Heywood
arranger [2.1-4, 2.6, 2.12, 1.5-6, 1.9], piano [2.1-4, 2.6, 2.12, 1.5-6, 1.9]
Frankie Newton
trumpet [1, 3]
Frankie Newton and Orchestra
performing orchestra [3]
Jimmy McLin
guitar [1, 3]
John Simmons
double bass [1.5-6, 1.9, 2.1-4, 2.6, 2.12]
Johnny Williams
double bass [1, 3]
Kenneth Hollon
tenor saxophone [1, 3]
Lem Davis
alto saxophone [2.1-3, 2.12, 1.5-6, 1.9]
Milt Gabler
producer [2.1-4, 2.6, 2.12, 1.1, 1.3, 1.5-6, 1.9]
Sid Catlett
drums (drum set) [2.1-4, 2.6, 2.12, 1.5-6, 1.9]
Sonny White
piano [1, 3]
Stanley Payne
tenor saxophone [1, 3]
Tab Smith
alto saxophone [1, 3], saxophone [1]
Teddy Walters
guitar [5-6]
Vic Dickenson
trombone [2.1-3, 2.12, 1.5-6, 1.9]

Issues

T
(Combined release view)
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