Lady Day Best Of

Product Details

Artist : Billie Holiday
Format : Best of
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0696998597921
Label : Sony Imports
Number of Discs : 2
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2006-04-03
UPC : 696998597921

ASIN : B00005Q45Y

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
2. These Foolish Things
3. I Cried for You
4. Summertime
5. Billie's Blues
6. If You Were Mine
7. Fine Romance
8. Easy to Love
9. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
10. I Must Have That Man!
11. Me, Myself and I
12. They Can't Take That Away from Me
13. Easy Living
14. Sailboat in the Moonlight
15. Trav'lin' All Alone
16. When a Woman Loves a Man
17. You Go to My Head
18. My Man

Disc-2
1. I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
2. Very Thought of You
3. I Can't Get Started
4. Long Gone Blues
5. Sugar
6. Some Other Spring
7. Them There Eyes
8. Man I Love
9. Body and Soul
10. Swing, Brother, Swing
11. Night and Day
12. Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)
13. God Bless the Child
14. Solitude
15. I Cover the Waterfront
16. Gloomy Sunday
17. Until the Real Thing Comes Along
18. All of Me

Customer Reviews

Descent Compilation (2004-05-09)

Apart from the fact that some of my favorite Billie Holiday songs are missing...its still a very good intro to those first timers. I first heart HOliday when I was 18 years old..and 5 years later...I still can't get enough of her ...she's such a great singer...along with Ella Fitzgerald she is the only one who can bring me to tears.

A "Politically Correct" Compilation? (2004-02-29)

A 2-CD "best of" compilation for Billie Holiday without "Strange Fruit" doesn't make sense, but historically record labels have been reluctant to include this song. I wonder whether their reasoning is that the song's lyrics, about the lynching and hanging of a black from a tree, are unsuitable for mainstream audiences, which implies that they thought Holiday had crossed the line from blues or jazz (I think she's a blues singer through and through) to pop. After all, many blues recordings contain lyrics just as if not more gruesome than "Strange Fruit", but that doesn't result in their getting left off the compilation disks. If we can't hear the Holiday version of "Strange Fruit", then the soundtrack to "Lady Sings the Blues" by Diana Ross has a version of the song that is pretty convincing.

Incomplete Sampler (2003-09-28)

Far from being a jazz buff, I'd still take issue with the other recommendations of this set to be a sufficient Billie Holiday sampler for the general public. The single most important reason - it's missing "STRANGE FRUIT".

It is Jazz's "Guernica", and therefore belongs in *any* Billie Holiday collection.

The Ultimate Billie Holiday collection!!! (2003-09-22)

I have so enjoyed this album! All the favorite jazz songs sung by the beautiful crooning voice of Holiday! If you are a jazz fan, you don't want to miss this CD!

The Quintessential Billie (2003-09-07)

It seems that I am always following Mr. Chell in my reviews, and he usually leaves me without any more to say! This case is no different - even down to the remark about the Complete Billie on Columbia. These are the gems, though. There are some great renditions of lesser tunes on both Basie compilations, and Lester compilations (I was just listening to "This year's Kisses" from "The Lester Young Story Vol. 1" - a really sappy tune rendered immediately listenable by Billie), and many people, myself included, find value in SOME of her later Verve recordings (they differ from track to track). However, if you get this, you get the best of the best.

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