The Essential Billie Holiday

Compilation by Billie Holiday

Released 2 September 2002

blues jazz

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Tracklist

CD 1
1
I Can't Give You Anything but Love
3:32
2
Loverman
3:20
4.0 ★
3
Back in Your Own Backyard
2:45
4
Your Mother's Son-In-Law
2:49
5
Miss Brown to You
3:07
6
On the Sunny Side of the Street
3:07
7
I Love My Man 'Billie's Blues'
4:17
8
I Wished on the Moon
3:07
9
Twenty-Four Hours a Day
3:05
1.0 ★
10
What a Little Moonlight Can Do
3:04
11
No More
2:51
3.0 ★
12
He's Funny That Way
3:06
13
Nice Work If You Can Get It
3:12
14
My Man 'Mon Homme'
3:06
4.0 ★
15
Lover, Come Back to Me
3:17
3.0 ★
16
I Must Have That Man
2:59
17
Easy Living
3:08
18
All of Me
3:05
19
You Go to My Head
2:56
20
Strange Fruit
3:07
4.0 ★
CD 2
1
God Bless the Child
3:01
2
I'll Get By
1:31
3
Them There Eyes
2:53
4
Some Other Spring
3:04
5
These Foolish Things
3:21
6
Don't Explain
3:27
7
Yesterdays
3:26
4.0 ★
8
Any Old Time
3:15
9
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
2:53
10
My Last Affair
3:13
11
Moanin' Low
3:07
12
That Ole Devil Called Love
2:57
4.0 ★
13
I Cried for You
3:19
14
The Way You Look Tonight
3:05
4.6 ★
15
Pennies From Heaven
3:20
16
I Cover the Waterfront
3:01
4.0 ★
17
A Sailboat in the Moonlight
2:56
18
Long Gone Blues
3:05
19
This Year's Kisses
3:14
5.0 ★
20
Carelessly
3:09
CD 3
1
They Can't Take That Away From Me
3:25
2
The Man I Love
3:09
3
Fine and Mellow
3:15
4
The Mood That I'm In
3:04
5
Mean to Me
3:12
6
I Can't Get Started
2:51
7
Ghost of Yesterday
2:55
8
Swing Brother Swing
1:53
9
Did I Remember?
2:55
10
I'll Never Be the Same
3:07
11
I'm Gonna Lock My Heart
2:12
12
No Regrets
2:41
13
A Fine Romance
2:55
4.0 ★
14
Who Loves You?
3:17
15
I'll Get By (alternate take)
3:15
16
Trav'lin Light
3:21
17
Solitude
3:14
18
I've Got My Love to Keep You Warm
3:00
19
Good Morning Heartache
3:07
20
These 'n' That 'n' Those
3:19
3.0 ★

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Release credits

Al Casey
guitar [16]
Allan Reuss
guitar [14, 20]
Ben Webster
tenor saxophone [14]
Benny Goodman
clarinet [19]
Billie Holiday
lead vocals [2], vocal [12, 14, 16, 19-20]
Buck Clayton
trumpet [19]
Carl Kress
guitar [1.2, 2.12]
Cootie Williams
trumpet [20]
Cozy Cole
drums (drum set) [20]
Dave Bowman
piano [2.12, 1.2]
Dave Harris
tenor saxophone [12]
Emmett Berry
trumpet [16]
Freddie Green
guitar [19]
Gene Krupa
drums (drum set) [14]
George Wettling
drums (drum set) [12]
Haig Stephens
double bass [1.2, 2.12]
Harry Carney
reeds [20]
Hymie Shertzer
alto saxophone [2.12, 2.16, 1.2], clarinet [16]
Irving Randolph
trumpet [14]
Irving “Babe” Russin
tenor saxophone [16]
J.C. Heard
drums (drum set) [16]
Jack Cressey
alto saxophone [1.2, 2.12]
Jimmy Hamilton
clarinet [16]
Jo Jones
drums (drum set) [19]
John Kirby
double bass [20]
Johnny Blowers
drums (drum set) [2]
Johnny Hodges
alto saxophone [20]
Johnny Williams
double bass [16]
Larry Binyon
tenor saxophone [2.12, 1.2]
Lester Young
tenor saxophone [19]
Milt Gabler
producer [2]
Milt Hinton
double bass [14]
Paul Ricci
tenor saxophone [2]
Russ Case
trumpet [2.12, 1.2]
Teddy Wilson
piano [14, 16, 19-20]
Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra
performing orchestra [16]
Toots Camarata and His Orchestra
performing orchestra [2]
Tutti Camarata
arranger [2], conductor [2]
Vido Musso
clarinet [14]
Walter Page
double bass [19]

Issues

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The Essential Billie Holiday
3x CD
2 September 2002