The Essence of Billie Holiday

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  If You Were Mine
  3:15
• 2
  What a Little Moonlight Can Do
  3:00
• 3
  Twenty Four Hours a Day
  3:04
• 4
  Summertime
  2:53
• 5
  It's Like Reaching for the Moon
  3:20
• 6
  Let's Call a Heart a Heart
  2:59
• 7
  You Let Me Down
  2:54
• 8
  That's Life I Guess
  3:06
• 9
  Pennies From Heaven
  3:14
• 10
  The Way You Look Tonight
  3:01
  4.5 ★
• 11
  Who Loves You?
  3:13
• 12
  These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
  3:18
• 13
  A Sailboat in the Moonlight
  2:49
• 14
  This Is My Last Affair
  3:09
• 15
  Me, Myself and I
  2:34
• 16
  Moanin' Low
  3:04
• 17
  How Could You?
  2:31
• 18
  Yours and Mine
  3:16
• 19
  Please Keep Me in Your Dreams
  2:17
• 20
  Nice Work If You Can Get It
  3:08
• 21
  I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
  2:54
• 22
  Mean to Me
  3:07
• 23
  The Mood That I'm In
  2:59
• 24
  This Year's Kisses
  3:06
• CD 2
• 1
  The Very Thought of You
  2:44
• 2
  My Man (Mon Homme)
  3:02
• 3
  I'm Gonna Lock My Heart and Throw Away the Key
  2:08
• 4
  You Go to My Head
  2:53
• 5
  Fine and Mellow
  3:16
• 6
  The Man I Love
  3:06
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Strange Fruit
  2:26
• 8
  Night and Day
  2:59
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Body and Soul
  2:58
• 10
  Georgia on My Mind
  3:19
• 11
  Romance in the Dark
  2:15
• 12
  Travellin' Light
  3:16
• 13
  Lover Come Back to Me
  3:23
• 14
  On the Sunny Side of the Street
  3:03
• 15
  Embraceable You
  3:16
• 16
  Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be)?
  3:22
• 17
  That Ole Devil Called Love
  2:53
  4.0 ★
• 18
  Good Morning Heartache
  3:07
• 19
  Don't Explain
  3:21
• 20
  There Is No Greater Love
  3:00
• 21
  Easy Living
  3:02
• 22
  I Loves You Porgy
  2:54
• 23
  God Bless the Child
  3:09
• 24
  I Only Have Eyes for You
  2:53

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Release credits

• Allan Reuss
  guitar [9-10]
• Ben Webster
  tenor saxophone [9-10]
• Benny Goodman
  clarinet [9]
• Billie Holiday
  vocal [1.9-10, 2.6, 2.8, 2.17]
• Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra
  performing orchestra [6]
• Buck Clayton
  trumpet [6, 8]
• Carl Kress
  guitar [17]
• Cozy Cole
  drums (drum set) [9]
• Dave Bowman
  piano [17]
• Dave Harris
  tenor saxophone [17]
• Earle Warren
  alto saxophone [6, 8]
• Freddie Green
  guitar [6, 8]
• Gene Krupa
  drums (drum set) [10]
• George Wettling
  drums (drum set) [17]
• Haig Stephens
  double bass [17]
• Harry “Sweets” Edison
  trumpet [6, 8]
• Hymie Shertzer
  alto saxophone [17]
• Irving Randolph
  trumpet [10]
• Jack Cressey
  alto saxophone [17]
• Jack Washington
  alto saxophone [6, 8], baritone saxophone [6]
• Jo Jones
  drums (drum set) [6, 8]
• Joe Sullivan
  piano [6, 8]
• John Kirby
  double bass [9]
• Jonah Jones
  trumpet [9]
• Larry Binyon
  tenor saxophone [17]
• Lester Young
  tenor saxophone [6, 8]
• Milt Hinton
  double bass [10]
• Russ Case
  trumpet [17]
• Teddy Wilson
  piano [9-10]
• Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra
  performing orchestra [9]
• Vido Musso
  clarinet [10]
• Walter Page
  double bass [6, 8]
• Show all credits (32)

Issues

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  The Essence of Billie Holiday

  2x CD
  2006