Description:
2 CD Set 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. 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. |
 A Sunbonnet Blue
What A Little Moonlight Can Do
Billie's Blues
Eeny Meeny Miney Mo
These 'n' That 'n' Those
One, Two, Button Your Shoe
The Way You Look Tonight
With Thee I Swing
The Man I Love
A Fine Romance
It's Like Reaching For The Moon
Let's Call A Heart A Heart
I Cried For You
No Regrets
Who Loves You?
That's Life, I Guess
On The Sentimental Side
What A Night, What A Moon, What A Boy
I Must Have That Man
Spreadin' Rhythm Around
You Go To My Head
Yankee Doodle Never Went To Town
Night And Day
Easy To Love
Yesterdays
That Ole Devil Called Love
Strange Fruit
Love Man
What Is This Thing Called Love?
Don't Explain
Good Morning Heartache
Solitude
Easy Living
I Love You Porgy
My Man (Mon Homme)
Them There Eyes
Do Your Duty
Gimme A Pigfoot (And A Bottle Of Beer)
Crazy He Calls Me
You're My Thrill
Now Or Never
God Bless The Child
Willow Weep For Me
Stormy Blues
I Get A Kick Out Of You
A Ghost Of A Chance
Isn't This A Lovely Day?
Gone With The Wind |
Personnel: Milt Raskin, Toots Camarata & His Orchestra, Bob Haggart & His Orchestra, Bobby Tucker & His Trio, Sy Oliver And His Orchestra, more |
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