Billie Holiday: The Essential Collection on 2 CDs
The Essential Collection
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
- Label:
- Avid
- Item number:
- 7125511
- UPC/EAN:
- 5022810191124
- Release date:
- 23.4.2007
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Born in Baltimore in 1935 Billie Holiday, affectionately known as Lady Day is up there amongst the great iconic jazz giants of the 20th century. She booked her place alongside the immortals Bird, Prez, Miles, Duke, Satchmo, Diz, Ella, Bessie by both living the kind of life you could not have made up and singing with a such an anguished and emotive voice that reflected the life she was living!
AVID’s Essential Billie Holiday collection charts her rise to fame from 1935 as vocalist with Teddy Wilson to starting out on her own the following year, through to 1955, four years before her untimely death at just 44.
It was a measure of her stature that she was able to include as her sidemen such greats as Benny Goodman, Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges, Benny Carter and of course Lester “Prez” Young the man who had christened her Lady Day!
CD2 continues the story to 1955 and includes such classics as Strange Fruit, That Ol’ Devil Called Love, Lover Man and God Bless The Child a song co-written by Billie herself.
Listen and be blown away as the legend once more comes to life. In the current climate of female jazz vocalists from Norah Jones to Diana Krall , Billie Holiday still sounds as contemporary today as she did over 50 years ago and is still the best in our humble opinion!!
Disk 1 von 2 (CD)
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1 A sunbonnet blue
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2 What A Little Moonlight Can Do
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3 Billie's Blues
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4 Eeny Meeny Miney Mo
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5 These 'N' That 'N' Those
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6 One, two, button your shoe
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7 The Way You Look Tonight
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8 With Thee I Swing
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9 The Man I Love
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10 A fine romance
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11 It's Like Reaching For The Moon
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12 Let's Call A Heart A Heart
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13 I Cried For You
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14 No Regrets
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15 Who Loves You?
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16 That's Life I Guess
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17 On The Sentimental Side
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18 What A Night, What A Moon, What A Boy
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19 I Must Have That Man
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20 Spreadin' Rhythm Around
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21 You Go To My Head
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22 Yankee Doodle Never Went To Town
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23 Night And Day
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24 Easy to love
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25 Yesterdays
Disk 2 von 2 (CD)
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1 That ole devil called love
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2 Strange Fruit
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3 Lover man
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4 What Is This Thing Called Love?
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5 Don't explain
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6 Good Morning Heartache
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7 Solitude
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8 Easy Living
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9 I Loves You, Porgy
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10 My Man
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11 Them There Eyes
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12 Do Your Duty
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13 Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer
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14 Crazy He Calls Me
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15 You're My Thrill
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16 Now Or Never
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17 God Bless The Child
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18 Willow weep for me
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19 Stromy blues
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20 I get a kick out of you
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21 A ghost of a chance
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22 Isn't This A Lovely Day?
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23 Gone with the wind
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