1993

The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945–1959

Billie Holiday

Tracklist

Body and Soul

Strange Fruit

I Cried for You

Fine and Mellow

He’s Funny That Way

The Man I Love

Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good to You?

All of Me

Billie’s Blues

Travelin’ Light

He’s Funny That Way

Norman Granz Announcement

0:09

You Better Go Now

2:55

You’re Driving Me Crazy

1:29

(There Is) No Greater Love

2:34

I Cover the Waterfront

2:58

Norman Granz Announcement of Billie Holiday and Intermission

0:28

East of the Sun (West of the Moon)

2:56

Blue Moon

3:30

You Go to My Head

2:55

You Turned the Tables on Me

3:28

Easy to Love

3:01

These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)

3:35

I Only Have Eyes for You

2:54

Solitude

3:31

Everything I Have Is Yours (10″ version)

Love for Sale

Moonglow

Tenderly

If the Moon Turns Green

2:46

Remember

2:36

Autumn in New York

3:43

Autumn in New York (78 rpm)

3:52

My Man

2:38

Lover, Come Back to Me

Stormy Weather

Yesterdays

He’s Funny That Way

I Can’t Face the Music

3:16

MC and Leonard Feather Announcements

Blue Moon

All of Me

My Man

Them There Eyes

I Cried for You

What a Little Moonlight Can Do

2:40

I Cover the Waterfront

3:17

Leonard Feather Announcement

0:21

Billie’s Blues

11:39

Lover, Come Back to Me

6:45

How Deep Is the Ocean?

2:59

What a Little Moonlight Can Do

I Cried for You

Love Me or Leave Me

P.S. I Love You

Too Marvelous for Words

Softly

I Thought About You

Willow Weep for Me

Stormy Blues

Say It Isn’t So

I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm

3:58

I Wished on the Moon (1955 “Stay With Me” version)

6:49

Always

3:57

Everything Happens to Me

6:22

Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me

5:00

Ain’t Misbehavin’ (I’m Savin’ My Love for You)

4:39

Nice Work If You Can Get It (rehearsal version)

4:05

Discussion; Nice Work If You Can Get It

0:39

Mandy Is Two

4:30

Prelude to a Kiss

2:47

I Must Have That Man! (1955 rehearsal)

1:04

Jeepers Creepers (rehearsal 1)

2:13

Jeepers Creepers (rehearsal 2)

0:50

Discussion; Jeepers Creepers #1

3:25

Discussion; Jeepers Creepers #2

2:26

Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone (edit)

1:57

Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone (rehearsal 2)

2:56

Discussion; Moonlight in Vermont

0:52

Misery (1955 rehearsal)

0:35

Restless

2:45

Moonlight in Vermont (rehearsal)

2:00

Everything Happens to Me (rehearsal 1)

3:26

Discussion #1

0:36

I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore (rehearsal 1)

4:24

I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore (rehearsal 2)

2:25

Discussion; I Don’t Want to Cry Any More

5:33

Everything Happens to Me (rehearsal 2)

2:58

Discussion #2

1:47

When You Are Away, Dear

1:40

Discussion #3

0:48

It Had to Be You (rehearsal)

1:54

The Mood That I’m In

0:31

Gone With the Wind (rehearsal)

1:36

I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good)

3:17

Discussion #4

2:30

A Sunbonnet Blue

0:06

(I Don’t Stand a) Ghost of a Chance

1:32

Discussion #5

2:14

I’m Walkin’ Through Heaven With You

Discussion #6

Just Friends

The Nearness of You

Discussion #7

It’s Too Hot for Words

0:20

They Say

2:25

I Won’t Believe It

0:20

I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore (take 1 / false start)

0:29

I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore (take 2 / master take)

3:56

Studio Talk; Prelude to a Kiss #1

0:14

Studio Talk; Prelude to a Kiss #2

0:50

Prelude to a Kiss

5:35

(I Don’t Stand) A Ghost of a Chance With You

4:29

When Your Lover Has Gone (take 1)

0:48

Studio Talk; When Your Lover Has Gone

1:00

Studio Talk #1

0:22

When Your Lover Has Gone (take 2)

4:58

Gone With the Wind

3:25

Studio Talk #2

0:10

Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone

4:21

It Had to Be You

4:03

Studio Talk #3

0:08

Nice Work If You Can Get It

3:49

Come Rain or Come Shine

4:25

I Got a Right to Sing the Blues

5:54

What’s New?

4:17

A Fine Romance (take 1 / incomplete)

0:46

A Fine Romance (take 2 / alternate)

2:44

A Fine Romance (take 3 / false start)

0:18

A Fine Romance (take 4 incomplete)

1:15

A Fine Romance (take 5 incomplete)

3:18

A Fine Romance (take 6 / false start)

0:25

A Fine Romance (take 7 / incomplete)

3:12

A Fine Romance (take 8 / master take)

3:34

Studio Talk #4

0:06

I Hadn’t Anyone Till You

4:02

I Get a Kick Out of You

5:42

Everything I Have Is Yours (“Velvet Mood” version)

4:33

Isn’t This a Lovely Day?

4:16

Discussion; Misery

1:26

Israel

2:17

Misery (1956 rehearsal)

4:38

Discussion #8

1:15

I Must Have That Man! (1956 rehearsal)

6:29

Discussion #9

0:27

Strange Fruit (rehearsal)

5:48

Discussion; God Bless the Child

5:50

Discussion #10

1:16

God Bless the Child (rehearsal 1)

3:15

God Bless the Child (rehearsal 2)

1:07

Discussion #11

0:33

God Bless the Child (rehearsal 3)

3:34

One Never Knows, Does One? (rehearsal 1)

Discussion #12

Beer Barrel Polka

Some of These Days

A Yiddishe Momme (rehearsal 1)

0:38

A Yiddishe Momme (rehearsal 2)

Discussion #13

Lady’s Back in Town

Discussion #14

Discussion #15

One Never Knows, Does One? (rehearsal 2)

Discussion #16

[unknown title]

Travelin' Light

I Must Have That Man!

Some Other Spring

Lady Sings the Blues

Strange Fruit

God Bless the Child

Good Morning, Heartache

3:31

No Good Man

3:20

Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me

4:15

Cheek to Cheek

3:37

Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)

6:17

Speak Low

4:28

We’ll Be Together Again

4:26

All or Nothing at All

5:41

Sophisticated Lady

4:51

April in Paris

3:05

Lady Sings the Blues (with reading from “Lady Sings the Blues”)

2:52

Lady Sings the Blues

2:38

Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do

2:30

Trav’lin’ Light (with reading from “Lady Sings the Blues”)

0:44

Reading From Lady Sings the Blues #3 (live at Carnegie Hall / 1956)

2:06

Billie’s Blues

3:20

Body and Soul

2:38

Reading From Lady Sings the Blues #4 (live at Carnegie Hall / 1956)

0:54

Don’t Explain

2:29

Yesterdays

1:16

Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone

1:42

I’ll Be Seeing You

2:28

Reading From Lady Sings the Blues #5 (live at Carnegie Hall / 1956)

My Man

I Cried for You

Fine and Mellow

I Cover the Waterfront

3:45

What a Little Moonlight Can Do

I Wished on the Moon

Moonlight in Vermont

A Foggy Day

I Didn’t Know What Time It Was

6:01

Just One of Those Things (take 7 — incomplete take)

0:25

Studio Talk #5

0:47

Just One of Those Things (take 8 — master take)

5:34

Studio Talk #6

0:28

Comes Love (alternate take 1)

4:01

Comes Love (false start / take 2)

0:35

Comes Love (false start / take 3)

0:20

Comes Love (master take 4)

Day In, Day Out

Darn That Dream

But Not for Me

Body and Soul

Studio Talk #7

Just Friends (instrumental)

6:26

Studio Talk #8

0:16

Stars Fell on Alabama (take 1 — incomplete)

0:36

Stars Fell on Alabama

4:30

Studio Talk; Say It Isn’t So

0:24

Say It Isn’t So

3:18

Studio Talk; Our Love Is Here to Stay

0:25

Our Love Is Here to Stay

3:42

Studio Talk; One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)

0:27

One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) (take 2 — incomplete)

1:55

One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)

5:42

They Can’t Take That Away From Me

4:12

Embraceable You

6:49

Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off

3:26

Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You?

5:37

Announcement by Willis Conover

0:53

Announcement by Johnny Mercer

0:41

Fanfare From Oh, Lady Be Good

0:10

Nice Work If You Can Get It

2:37

Willow Weep for Me

3:08

My Man

3:30

Lover, Come Back to Me

2:06

Lady Sings the Blues

3:00

What a Little Moonlight Can Do

2:53

Fanfare From Oh, Lady Be Good With Conover Announcement

0:22

Announcement by Leonard Feather

I Wished on the Moon

Lover Man

All the Way

It’s Not for Me to Say

2:29

I'll Never Smile Again

3:27

Just One More Chance

3:47

When It’s Sleepy Time Down South

4:08

Don’t Worry ’Bout Me

3:11

Sometimes I’m Happy

2:49

You Took Advantage of Me

3:12

There’ll Be Some Changes Made

2:55

’Deed I Do

2:17

All of You

2:33

Baby Won’t You Please Come Home

3:04

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