The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945–1959

Album by Billie Holiday

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Body and Soul (live at Philharmonic Hall, Los Angeles, 1945)
    3:24
  2. 2.
    Strange Fruit (live at Philharmonic Hall, Los Angeles, 1945)
    2:56
  3. 3.
    I Cried for You (live at Carnegie Hall/1946)
    2:18
  4. 4.
    Fine and Mellow (live at Carnegie Hall/1946)
    3:50
  5. 5.
    He’s Funny That Way (live at Carnegie Hall/1946)
    3:16
  6. 6.
    The Man I Love (live at Carnegie Hall, 1946)
    3:04
  7. 7.
    Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good to You? (live at Carnegie Hall, 1946)
    2:19
  8. 8.
    All of Me (live at Carnegie Hall, 1946)
    1:55
  9. 9.
    Billie’s Blues (live at Carnegie Hall, New York, 1946)
    3:35
  10. 10.
    Travelin’ Light (live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1946)
    3:28
  11. 11.
    He’s Funny That Way (live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1946)
    2:51
  12. 12.
    Norman Granz Announcement (live at Carnegie Hall/1947)
    0:09
  13. 13.
    You Better Go Now (live at Carnegie Hall/1947)
    2:55
  14. 14.
    You’re Driving Me Crazy (live at Carnegie Hall/1947)
    1:29
  15. 15.
    (There Is) No Greater Love (live at Carnegie Hall/1947)
    2:34
  16. 16.
    I Cover the Waterfront (live at Carnegie Hall/1947)
    2:58
  17. 17.
    Norman Granz Announcement of Billie Holiday and Intermission (live at Carnegie Hall/1947)
    0:24
  18. 18.
    East of the Sun (West of the Moon)
    2:54
  19. 19.
    Blue Moon
    3:28
  20. 20.
    You Go to My Head
    2:54
  21. 21.
    You Turned the Tables on Me
    3:26
  22. 22.
    Easy to Love
    2:59
  23. 23.
    These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
    3:33
  24. 24.
    I Only Have Eyes for You
    2:51
  25. 25.
    Solitude
    3:28

Disc 2

  1. 1.
    Everything I Have Is Yours (10″ version)
    3:45
  2. 2.
    Love for Sale
    2:56
  3. 3.
    Moonglow
    2:58
  4. 4.
    Tenderly
    3:23
  5. 5.
    If the Moon Turns Green
    2:45
  6. 6.
    Remember
    2:34
  7. 7.
    Autumn in New York
    3:41
  8. 8.
    Autumn in New York
    3:52
  9. 9.
    My Man
    2:36
  10. 10.
    Lover, Come Back to Me
    3:35
  11. 11.
    Stormy Weather
    3:41
  12. 12.
    Yesterdays
    2:49
  13. 13.
    He’s Funny That Way
    3:12
  14. 14.
    I Can’t Face the Music
    3:14
  15. 15.
    MC and Leonard Feather Announcements (live at Jazz Club USA, Cologne / 1954)
    0:37
  16. 16.
    Blue Moon (live at Jazz Club USA, Cologne / 1954)
    2:05
  17. 17.
    All of Me (live at Jazz Club USA, Cologne / 1954)
    1:43
  18. 18.
    My Man (live at Jazz Club USA, Cologne / 1954)
    2:51
  19. 19.
    Them There Eyes (live at Jazz Club USA, Cologne / 1954)
    1:28
  20. 20.
    I Cried for You (live at Jazz Club USA, Cologne / 1954)
    3:07
  21. 21.
    What a Little Moonlight Can Do (live at Jazz Club USA, Cologne / 1954)
    2:40
  22. 22.
    I Cover the Waterfront (live at Jazz Club USA, Cologne / 1954)
    3:17
  23. 23.
    Leonard Feather Announcement (live at Jazz Club USA, Cologne / 1954)
    0:21
  24. 24.
    Billie’s Blues (live at Jazz Club USA, Cologne / 1954)
    11:39

Disc 3

  1. 1.
    Lover, Come Back to Me (live at Jazz Club USA, Cologne / 1954)
    6:45
  2. 2.
    How Deep Is the Ocean?
    2:57
  3. 3.
    What a Little Moonlight Can Do
    3:10
  4. 4.
    I Cried for You
    2:26
  5. 5.
    Love Me or Leave Me
    2:33
  6. 6.
    P.S. I Love You
    3:34
  7. 7.
    Too Marvelous for Words
    2:11
  8. 8.
    Softly
    2:54
  9. 9.
    I Thought About You
    2:45
  10. 10.
    Willow Weep for Me
    3:05
  11. 11.
    Stormy Blues (single version)
    3:26
  12. 12.
    Say It Isn’t So (1955 “Stay With Me” version)
    3:01
  13. 13.
    I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
    3:55
  14. 14.
    I Wished on the Moon (1955 “Stay With Me” version)
    6:48
  15. 15.
    Always
    3:56
  16. 16.
    Everything Happens to Me
    6:20
  17. 17.
    Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me (1955 “Stay With Me” version)
    4:59
  18. 18.
    Ain’t Misbehavin’ (I’m Savin’ My Love for You)
    4:39

Disc 4

  1. 1.
    Nice Work If You Can Get It (rehearsal version)
    4:05
  2. 2.
    Discussion; Nice Work If You Can Get It
    0:39
  3. 3.
    Mandy Is Two
    4:30
  4. 4.
    Prelude to a Kiss
    2:46
  5. 5.
    I Must Have That Man! (1955 rehearsal)
    1:04
  6. 6.
    Jeepers Creepers (rehearsal 1)
    2:13
  7. 7.
    Jeepers Creepers (rehearsal 2)
    0:50
  8. 8.
    Discussion; Jeepers Creepers #1
    3:25
  9. 9.
    Discussion; Jeepers Creepers #2
    2:26
  10. 10.
    Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone (edit)
    1:57
  11. 11.
    Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone (rehearsal 2)
    2:56
  12. 12.
    Discussion; Moonlight in Vermont
    0:52
  13. 13.
    Misery (1955 rehearsal)
    0:35
  14. 14.
    Restless
    2:45
  15. 15.
    Moonlight in Vermont (rehearsal)
    2:00
  16. 16.
    Everything Happens to Me (rehearsal 1)
    3:26
  17. 17.
    Discussion #1
    0:36
  18. 18.
    I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore (rehearsal 1)
    4:24
  19. 19.
    I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore (rehearsal 2)
    2:25
  20. 20.
    Discussion; I Don’t Want to Cry Any More
    5:33
  21. 21.
    Everything Happens to Me (rehearsal 2)
    2:58
  22. 22.
    Discussion #2
    1:47
  23. 23.
    When You Are Away, Dear
    1:40
  24. 24.
    Discussion #3
    0:48
  25. 25.
    It Had to Be You (rehearsal)
    1:54
  26. 26.
    The Mood That I’m In
    0:31
  27. 27.
    Gone With the Wind (rehearsal)
    1:36
  28. 28.
    I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good)
    3:17
  29. 29.
    Discussion #4
    2:30
  30. 30.
    A Sunbonnet Blue
    0:06
  31. 31.
    (I Don’t Stand a) Ghost of a Chance
    1:32
  32. 32.
    Discussion #5
    2:14
  33. 33.
    I’m Walkin’ Through Heaven With You
    2:05
  34. 34.
    Discussion #6
    0:41
  35. 35.
    Just Friends
    1:00
  36. 36.
    The Nearness of You
    1:04
  37. 37.
    Discussion #7
    0:27
  38. 38.
    It’s Too Hot for Words
    0:20
  39. 39.
    They Say
    2:25
  40. 40.
    I Won’t Believe It
    0:20

Disc 5

  1. 1.
    I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore (take 1 / false start)
    0:29
  2. 2.
    I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore (take 2 / master take)
    3:53
  3. 3.
    Studio Talk; Prelude to a Kiss #1
    0:14
  4. 4.
    Studio Talk; Prelude to a Kiss #2
    0:50
  5. 5.
    Prelude to a Kiss
    5:32
  6. 6.
    I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
    4:26
  7. 7.
    When Your Lover Has Gone (take 1)
    0:48
  8. 8.
    Studio Talk; When Your Lover Has Gone
    1:00
  9. 9.
    Studio Talk #1
    0:22
  10. 10.
    When Your Lover Has Gone (take 2)
    4:55
  11. 11.
    Gone With the Wind
    3:23
  12. 12.
    Studio Talk #2
    0:10
  13. 13.
    Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone
    4:19
  14. 14.
    It Had to Be You
    4:00
  15. 15.
    Studio Talk #3
    0:08
  16. 16.
    Nice Work If You Can Get It
    3:47
  17. 17.
    Come Rain or Come Shine
    4:22
  18. 18.
    I Got a Right to Sing the Blues
    5:51
  19. 19.
    What’s New
    4:16
  20. 20.
    A Fine Romance (take 1 / incomplete)
    0:46
  21. 21.
    A Fine Romance (take 2 / alternate)
    2:44
  22. 22.
    A Fine Romance (take 3 / false start)
    0:18
  23. 23.
    A Fine Romance (take 4 incomplete)
    1:15
  24. 24.
    A Fine Romance (take 5 incomplete)
    3:18
  25. 25.
    A Fine Romance (take 6 / false start)
    0:25
  26. 26.
    A Fine Romance (take 7 / incomplete)
    3:12
  27. 27.
    A Fine Romance (take 8 / master take)
    3:32
  28. 28.
    Studio Talk #4
    0:06
  29. 29.
    I Hadn’t Anyone Till You
    4:02

Disc 6

  1. 1.
    I Get a Kick Out of You
    5:39
  2. 2.
    Everything I Have Is Yours (“Velvet Mood” version)
    4:29
  3. 3.
    Isn’t This a Lovely Day?
    4:11
  4. 4.
    Discussion; Misery
    1:26
  5. 5.
    Israel
    2:17
  6. 6.
    Misery (1956 rehearsal)
    4:38
  7. 7.
    Discussion #8
    1:15
  8. 8.
    I Must Have That Man! (1956 rehearsal)
    6:29
  9. 9.
    Discussion #9
    0:27
  10. 10.
    Strange Fruit (rehearsal)
    5:48
  11. 11.
    Discussion; God Bless the Child
    5:50
  12. 12.
    Discussion #10
    1:16
  13. 13.
    God Bless the Child (rehearsal 1)
    3:15
  14. 14.
    God Bless the Child (rehearsal 2)
    1:07
  15. 15.
    Discussion #11
    0:33
  16. 16.
    God Bless the Child (rehearsal 3)
    3:34
  17. 17.
    One Never Knows, Does One? (rehearsal 1)
    2:07
  18. 18.
    Discussion #12
    1:59
  19. 19.
    Beer Barrel Polka (aka “Roll Out the Barrel”)
    1:19
  20. 20.
    Some of These Days
    1:02
  21. 21.
    A Yiddishe Momme (rehearsal 1)
    0:38
  22. 22.
    A Yiddishe Momme (rehearsal 2)
    2:16
  23. 23.
    Discussion #13
    0:41
  24. 24.
    Lady’s Back in Town
    2:36
  25. 25.
    Discussion #14
    4:32
  26. 26.
    Discussion #15
    1:13
  27. 27.
    One Never Knows, Does One? (rehearsal 2)
    2:38
  28. 28.
    Discussion #16
    1:19
  29. 29.
    Unknown Title
    1:53

Disc 7

  1. 1.
    Trav’lin’ Light
    3:07
  2. 2.
    I Must Have That Man!
    3:04
  3. 3.
    Some Other Spring
    3:36
  4. 4.
    Lady Sings the Blues
    3:44
  5. 5.
    Strange Fruit
    3:01
  6. 6.
    God Bless the Child (1956 version)
    3:58
  7. 7.
    Good Morning Heartache
    3:29
  8. 8.
    No Good Man
    3:18
  9. 9.
    Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me (1956 version)
    4:12
  10. 10.
    Cheek to Cheek
    3:34
  11. 11.
    Ill Wind
    6:14
  12. 12.
    Speak Low
    4:25
  13. 13.
    We’ll Be Together Again
    4:24
  14. 14.
    All or Nothing at All
    5:39
  15. 15.
    Sophisticated Lady
    4:48
  16. 16.
    April in Paris
    3:02

Disc 8

  1. 1.
    Lady Sings the Blues With Reading From Lady Sings the Blues (live at Carnegie Hall / 1956)
    2:52
  2. 2.
    Lady Sings the Blues (live at Carnegie Hall, 1956)
    2:38
  3. 3.
    Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do (live at Carnegie Hall, 1956)
    2:30
  4. 4.
    Trav’lin’ Light With Reading From Lady Sings the Blues (live at Carnegie Hall / 1956)
    0:44
  5. 5.
    Reading From Lady Sings the Blues #3 (live at Carnegie Hall / 1956)
    2:06
  6. 6.
    Billie’s Blues (live at Carnegie Hall / 1956)
    3:20
  7. 7.
    Body and Soul (live at Carnegie Hall, 1956)
    2:38
  8. 8.
    Reading From Lady Sings the Blues #4 (live at Carnegie Hall / 1956)
    0:54
  9. 9.
    Don’t Explain (live at Carnegie Hall / 1956)
    2:26
  10. 10.
    Yesterdays (live at Carnegie Hall, 1956)
    1:16
  11. 11.
    Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone (live at Carnegie Hall, 1956)
    1:42
  12. 12.
    I’ll Be Seeing You (live at Carnegie Hall, 1956)
    2:28
  13. 13.
    Reading From Lady Sings the Blues #5 (live at Carnegie Hall / 1956)
    2:50
  14. 14.
    My Man (live at Carnegie Hall, 1956)
    3:13
  15. 15.
    I Cried for You (live at Carnegie Hall, 1956)
    3:08
  16. 16.
    Fine and Mellow (live at Carnegie Hall, 1956)
    3:14
  17. 17.
    I Cover the Waterfront (live at Carnegie Hall, 1956)
    3:45
  18. 18.
    What a Little Moonlight Can Do (live at Carnegie Hall, 1956)
    2:48
  19. 19.
    I Wished on the Moon
    3:25
  20. 20.
    Moonlight in Vermont
    3:49
  21. 21.
    A Foggy Day
    4:39
  22. 22.
    I Didn’t Know What Time It Was
    5:59
  23. 23.
    Just One of Those Things (take 7 — incomplete take)
    0:25
  24. 24.
    Studio Talk #5
    0:47
  25. 25.
    Just One of Those Things (take 8 — master take)
    5:31
  26. 26.
    Studio Talk #6
    0:28
  27. 27.
    Comes Love (alternate take 1)
    3:58
  28. 28.
    Comes Love (false start / take 2)
    0:36
  29. 29.
    Comes Love (false start / take 3)
    0:20
  30. 30.
    Comes Love (master take 4)
    3:59

Disc 9

  1. 1.
    Day In Day Out
    6:47
  2. 2.
    Darn That Dream
    6:18
  3. 3.
    But Not for Me
    3:48
  4. 4.
    Body and Soul
    6:22
  5. 5.
    Studio Talk #7
    0:44
  6. 6.
    Just Friends (instrumental)
    6:26
  7. 7.
    Studio Talk #8
    0:16
  8. 8.
    Stars Fell on Alabama (take 1 — incomplete)
    0:36
  9. 9.
    Stars Fell on Alabama
    4:28
  10. 10.
    Studio Talk; Say It Isn’t So
    0:24
  11. 11.
    Say It Isn’t So
    3:15
  12. 12.
    Studio Talk; Our Love Is Here to Stay
    0:25
  13. 13.
    Our Love Is Here to Stay
    3:41
  14. 14.
    Studio Talk; One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)
    0:27
  15. 15.
    One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) (take 2 — incomplete)
    1:55
  16. 16.
    One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)
    5:39
  17. 17.
    They Can’t Take That Away From Me
    4:10
  18. 18.
    Embraceable You
    6:47
  19. 19.
    Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
    3:23
  20. 20.
    Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You
    5:37

Disc 10

  1. 1.
    Announcement by Willis Conover (live at the Newport Jazz Festival/1957)
    0:53
  2. 2.
    Announcement by Johnny Mercer (live at the Newport Jazz Festival/1957)
    0:42
  3. 3.
    Fanfare From Oh, Lady Be Good (live at the Newport Jazz Festival/1957)
    0:10
  4. 4.
    Nice Work If You Can Get It (live at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1957)
    2:38
  5. 5.
    Willow Weep for Me (live at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1957)
    3:08
  6. 6.
    My Man (live at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1957)
    3:29
  7. 7.
    Lover, Come Back to Me (live at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1957)
    2:05
  8. 8.
    Lady Sings the Blues (live at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1957)
    2:59
  9. 9.
    What a Little Moonlight Can Do (live at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1957)
    2:53
  10. 10.
    Fanfare From Oh, Lady Be Good With Conover Announcement (live at the Newport Jazz Festival/1957)
    0:19
  11. 11.
    Announcement by Leonard Feather (live From Seven Ages of Jazz Festival/1958)
    0:47
  12. 12.
    I Wished on the Moon (live From Seven Ages of Jazz Festival/1958)
    2:43
  13. 13.
    Lover Man (live From Seven Ages of Jazz Festival /1958)
    3:01
  14. 14.
    All the Way
    3:23
  15. 15.
    It’s Not for Me to Say
    2:26
  16. 16.
    I’ll Never Smile Again
    3:23
  17. 17.
    Just One More Chance
    3:44
  18. 18.
    When It’s Sleepy Time Down South
    4:05
  19. 19.
    Don’t Worry ’Bout Me
    3:08
  20. 20.
    Sometimes I’m Happy
    2:46
  21. 21.
    You Took Advantage of Me
    3:08
  22. 22.
    There’ll Be Some Changes Made
    2:52
  23. 23.
    ’Deed I Do
    2:13
  24. 24.
    All of You
    2:30
  25. 25.
    Baby Won’t You Please Come Home
    3:03

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