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The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945–1959 Billie Holiday

Release: 09 Mar 1993 Europe, Language: English, Status: Official
Format: CD + CD + CD + CD + CD + CD + CD + CD + CD + CD, Tracks: 256, Length: 12:4:40, Barcode: 731451765827
Release type: Album - Compilation

Contents

CD #1
1 Body and Soul 3:24
2 Strange Fruit 3:01
3 I Cried for You 2:18
4 Fine and Mellow 3:50
5 He’s Funny That Way 3:21
6 The Man I Love 3:04
7 Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You 2:19
8 All of Me 1:55
9 Billie’s Blues (aka “I Love My Man”) 3:39
10 Travelin’ Light 3:28
11 He’s Funny That Way 2:56
12 Norman Granz Announcement 0:09
13 You Better Go Now 2:55
14 You’re Driving Me Crazy 1:29
15 There Is No Greater Love 2:34
16 I Cover the Waterfront 2:58
17 Norman Granz Announcement 0:28
18 East of the Sun (and West of the Moon) 2:56
19 Blue Moon 3:31
20 You Go to My Head 2:56
21 You Turn the Tables on Me 3:28
22 Easy to Love 3:01
23 These Foolish Things 3:35
24 I Only Have Eyes for You 2:54
25 Solitude 3:28
CD #2
1 Everything I Have Is Yours 3:45
2 Love for Sale 2:58
3 Moonglow 3:00
4 Tenderly 3:25
5 If the Moon Turns Green 2:46
6 Remember 2:36
7 Autumn in New York (common take — LP) 3:42
8 Autumn in New York (rare take — 78) 3:56
9 My Man 2:39
10 Lover, Come Back to Me 3:36
11 Stormy Weather 3:43
12 Yesterdays 2:50
13 He’s Funny That Way 3:13
14 I Can’t Face the Music 3:18
15 MC and Leonard Feather Announcements 0:47
16 Blue Moon 2:05
17 All of Me 1:43
18 My Man 2:51
19 Them There Eyes 1:40
20 I Cried for You 3:23
21 What a Little Moonlight Can Do 2:40
22 I Cover the Waterfront 3:17
23 Leonard Feather Announcement 0:21
24 Billie’s Blues (aka “I Love My Man”) 11:39
CD #3
1 Lover, Come Back to Me 6:51
2 How Deep Is the Ocean? 2:58
3 What a Little Moonlight Can Do 3:12
4 I Cried for You 2:30
5 Love Me or Leave Me 2:35
6 P.S. I Love You 3:37
7 Too Marvelous for Words 2:13
8 Softly 2:56
9 I Thought About You 2:47
10 Willow Weep for Me 3:07
11 Stormy Blues 3:30
12 Say It Isn’t So 3:03
13 I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm 3:57
14 I Wished on the Moon 6:49
15 Always 3:58
16 Everything Happens to Me 6:22
17 Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me 5:00
18 Ain’t Misbehavin’ 4:39
CD #4
1 Nice Work If You Can Get It 4:05
2 Discussion; Nice Work If You Can Get It 0:40
3 Mandy Is Two 4:32
4 Prelude to a Kiss 2:47
5 I Must Have That Man 1:05
6 Jeepers Creepers 2:13
7 Jeepers Creepers 0:50
8 Discussion; Jeepers Creepers 3:25
9 Discussion; Jeepers Creepers 2:28
10 Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone 1:57
11 Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone 2:57
12 Discussion; Moonlight in Vermont 0:52
13 Misery 0:35
14 Restless 2:45
15 Moonlight in Vermont 2:01
16 Everything Happens to Me 3:26
17 [discussion] 0:36
18 I Don’t Want to Cry Any More 4:25
19 I Don’t Want to Cry Any More 2:26
20 Discussion; I Don’t Want to Cry Any More 5:33
21 Everything Happens to Me 2:59
22 [discussion] 1:48
23 When You Are Away, Dear 1:40
24 [discussion] 0:49
25 It Had to Be You 1:55
26 The Mood That I’m In 0:32
27 Gone With the Wind 1:38
28 I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good) 3:17
29 [discussion] 2:30
30 A Sunbonnet Blue 0:07
31 (I Don’t Stand a) Ghost of a Chance 1:32
32 [discussion] 2:15
33 I’m Walkin’ Through Heaven With You 2:06
34 [discussion] 0:41
35 Just Friends 1:02
36 The Nearness of You 1:05
37 [discussion] 0:27
38 It’s Too Hot for Words 0:20
39 They Say 2:26
40 I Won’t Believe It 0:20
CD #5
1 I Don’t Want to Cry Any More (take 1 — false start) 0:31
2 I Don’t Want to Cry Any More (take 2 — master take) 3:55
3 Studio Talk; Prelude to a Kiss (take 1 — false start) 0:14
4 Studio Talk; Prelude to a Kiss (take 2 — incomplete) 0:52
5 Prelude to a Kiss (take 3 — master take) 5:35
6 (I Don’t Stand a) Ghost of a Chance 4:28
7 When Your Lover Has Gone (take 1 — incomplete) 0:49
8 Studio Talk; When Your Lover Has Gone (take 2 — incomplete) 1:01
9 [studio talk] 0:24
10 When Your Lover Has Gone (take 3 — master take) 4:58
11 Gone With the Wind 3:26
12 [studio talk] 0:10
13 Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone 4:21
14 It Had to Be You 4:02
15 [studio talk] 0:08
16 Nice Work If You Can Get It 3:51
17 Come Rain or Come Shine 4:23
18 I Got a Right to Sing the Blues 5:53
19 What’s New 4:17
20 A Fine Romance (take 1 — incomplete) 0:46
21 A Fine Romance (take 2 — alternate) 2:44
22 A Fine Romance (take 3 — false start) 0:18
23 A Fine Romance (take 4 — incomplete) 1:16
24 A Fine Romance (take 5 — incomplete) 3:18
25 A Fine Romance (take 6 — false start) 0:25
26 A Fine Romance (take 7 — incomplete) 3:12
27 A Fine Romance (take 8 — master take) 3:35
28 [studio talk] 0:06
29 I Hadn’t Anyone Till You 4:02
CD #6
1 I Get a Kick Out of You 5:42
2 Everything I Have Is Yours 4:31
3 Isn’t This a Lovely Day? 4:16
4 Discussion; Misery 1:26
5 Israel 2:17
6 Misery 4:38
7 Discussion 1:15
8 I Must Have That Man! 6:30
9 Discussion 0:27
10 Strange Fruit 5:48
11 Discussion; God Bless the Child 5:50
12 [discussion] 1:16
13 God Bless the Child 3:16
14 God Bless the Child 1:07
15 [discussion] 0:33
16 God Bless the Child 3:35
17 One Never Knows, Does One? 2:08
18 [discussion] 2:00
19 Beer Barrel Polka (aka “Roll Out the Barrel”) 1:19
20 Some of These Days 1:02
21 A Yiddishe Momme 0:39
22 A Yiddishe Momme 2:15
23 [discussion] 0:41
24 Lady’s Back in Town 2:36
25 [discussion] 4:34
26 [discussion] 1:13
27 One Never Knows, Does One? 2:38
28 [discussion] 1:19
29 [unknown title] 1:53
CD #7
1 Travelin’ Light 3:10
2 I Must Have That Man 3:06
3 Some Other Spring 3:39
4 Lady Sings the Blues 3:46
5 Strange Fruit 3:04
6 God Bless the Child 3:59
7 Good Morning Heartache 3:31
8 No Good Man 3:23
9 Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me 4:13
10 Cheek to Cheek 3:38
11 Ill Wind 6:17
12 Speak Low 4:29
13 We’ll Be Together Again 4:26
14 All or Nothing at All 5:41
15 Sophisticated Lady 4:51
16 April in Paris 3:01
CD #8
1 Lady Sings the Blues (with reading from “Lady Sings the Blues”) 2:52
2 Lady Sings the Blues 2:38
3 Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do 2:33
4 Travelin’ Light (with reading from “Lady Sings the Blues”) 0:44
5 [reading from “Lady Sings the Blues”] 2:06
6 Billie’s Blues (aka “I Love My Man”) 3:20
7 Body and Soul 2:40
8 [reading from “Lady Sings the Blues”] 0:55
9 Don’t Explain 2:29
10 Yesterdays 1:16
11 Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone 1:42
12 I’ll Be Seeing You 2:28
13 [reading from “Lady Sings the Blues”] 2:50
14 My Man 3:13
15 I Cried for You 3:08
16 Fine and Mellow 3:14
17 I Cover the Waterfront 3:45
18 What a Little Moonlight Can Do 2:53
19 I Wished on the Moon 3:27
20 Moonlight in Vermont 3:52
21 A Foggy Day (stereo) 4:43
22 I Didn’t Know What Time It Was (stereo) 6:01
23 Just One of Those Things (take 7 — incomplete) 0:25
24 [studio talk] 0:47
25 Just One of Those Things (take 8 — master take) (stereo) 5:31
26 [studio talk] 0:28
27 Comes Love (take 1 — alternate) 4:00
28 Comes Love (take 2 — false start) 0:35
29 Comes Love (take 3 — false start) 0:22
30 Comes Love (take 4 — master take) 3:59
CD #9
1 Day In, Day Out (stereo) 6:49
2 Darn That Dream 6:20
3 But Not for Me 3:50
4 Body and Soul 6:26
5 [studio talk] 0:44
6 Just Friends (instrumental) 6:30
7 [studio talk] 0:16
8 Stars Fell on Alabama (take 1 — incomplete) 0:37
9 Stars Fell on Alabama (take 2 — master take) (stereo) 4:30
10 Studio Talk; Say It Isn’t So (take 1 — incomplete) 0:26
11 Say It Isn’t So (take 2 — master take) 3:18
12 Studio Talk; Our Love Is Here to Stay (take 1 — false start) 0:27
13 Our Love Is Here to Stay (take 2 — master take) 3:42
14 Studio Talk; One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) (take 1 — false start) 0:27
15 One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) (take 2 — incomplete) 1:55
16 One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) (take 3 — master take) (stereo) 5:42
17 They Can’t Take That Away From Me 4:12
18 Embraceable You 6:49
19 Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off 3:26
20 Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You? 5:36
CD #10
1 [Willis Conover announcement] 0:53
2 [Johnny Mercer announcement] 0:41
3 [fanfare from Oh, Lady Be Good] 0:10
4 Nice Work If You Can Get It 2:38
5 Willow Weep for Me 3:08
6 My Man 3:29
7 Lover, Come Back to Me 2:05
8 Lady Sings the Blues 2:59
9 What a Little Moonlight Can Do 2:53
10 [fanfare from Oh, Lady Be Good with Conover announcement] 0:22
11 [Leonard Feather announcement] 0:47
12 I Wished on the Moon 2:43
13 Lover Man 3:05
14 All the Way 3:26
15 It’s Not for Me to Say 2:28
16 I’ll Never Smile Again 3:26
17 Just One More Chance 3:47
18 When It’s Sleepy Time Down South 4:08
19 Don’t Worry ’Bout Me 3:10
20 Sometimes I’m Happy 2:49
21 You Took Advantage of Me 3:12
22 There’ll Be Some Changes Made 2:53
23 ’Deed I Do 2:15
24 All of You 2:33
25 Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home? 3:03

Other Releases in Group (1)

Official

  1. The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945–1959, [Worldwide] (17 Aug 2018), Digital Media + Digital Media + Digital Media + Digital Media + Digital Media + Digital Media + Digital Media + Digital Media + Digital Media + Digital Media (English)

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ASIN

  1. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000046P3

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/release/1184544