The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945–1959

The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945–1959

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Label Verve Reissues Release date Format 10×Digital Media Country 🌍 Worldwide Deezer https://www.deezer.com/album/70996362 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/0IDzonuhaUBQp0zB03t6tC Apple Music https://music.apple.com/us/album/1434137835

Tracklist 718:42

Digital Media 1

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

Digital Media 2

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

Digital Media 3

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

Digital Media 4

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

Digital Media 5

1 I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore (take 1 / false start) 0:29
2 I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore (take 2 / master take) 3:53
3 Studio Talk; Prelude to a Kiss #1 Billie Holiday, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Benny Carter, Jimmy Rowles, Barney Kessel, John Simmons & Larry Bunker 0:14
4 Studio Talk; Prelude to a Kiss #2 Billie Holiday, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Benny Carter, Jimmy Rowles, Barney Kessel, John Simmons & Larry Bunker 0:50
5 Prelude to a Kiss 5:32
6 I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You 4:26
7 When Your Lover Has Gone (take 1) 0:48
8 Studio Talk; When Your Lover Has Gone Billie Holiday, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Benny Carter, Jimmy Rowles, Barney Kessel, John Simmons & Larry Bunker 1:00
9 Studio Talk #1 Billie Holiday, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Benny Carter, Jimmy Rowles, Barney Kessel, John Simmons & Larry Bunker 0:22
10 When Your Lover Has Gone (take 2) 4:55
11 Gone With the Wind 3:23
12 Studio Talk #2 Billie Holiday, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Benny Carter, Jimmy Rowles, Barney Kessel, John Simmons & Larry Bunker 0:10
13 Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone 4:19
14 It Had to Be You 4:00
15 Studio Talk #3 Billie Holiday, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Benny Carter, Jimmy Rowles, Barney Kessel, John Simmons & Larry Bunker 0:08
16 Nice Work If You Can Get It 3:47
17 Come Rain or Come Shine 4:22
18 I Got a Right to Sing the Blues 5:51
19 What’s New 4:16
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) 1:15
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) 3:32
28 Studio Talk #4 Billie Holiday, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Benny Carter, Jimmy Rowles, Barney Kessel, John Simmons & Larry Bunker 0:06
29 I Hadn’t Anyone Till You 4:02

Digital Media 6

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

Digital Media 7

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

Digital Media 8

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

Digital Media 9

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

Digital Media 10

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