Billie Holiday - Lady Sings (Mini Lp Sleeve): MusicNear.com

Music CD 1

I Wished on the Moon
What a Little Moonlight Can Do
Miss Brown to You
A Sunbonnet Blue (And a Little Straw Hat)
It's Like Reaching for the Moon
These Foolish Things
I Cried for You
Did I Remember?
Billie's Blues
A Fine Romance
The Way You Look Tonight
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
This Year's Kisses
Why Was I Born?
I Must Have That Man!
My Last Affair
Carelessly
How Could You?
Moanin' Low
Mean to Me
Foolin' Myself
Easy Living
I'll Never Be the Same
Me, Myself and I

Music CD 2

A Sailboat in the Moonlight
He's Funny That Way
Nice Work If You Can Get It
My Man
When You're Smiling
I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me
On the Sentimental Side
Back in Your Own Backyard
When a Woman Loves a Man
You Go to My Head
I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (And Throw Away the Key)
The Very Thought of You
I Can't Get Started
Say It with a Kiss
That's All I Ask of You
Dream of Life
More Than You Know
Sugar
Strange Fruit
Yesterdays
Fine and Mellow
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
Some Other Spring
Them There Eyes
Night and Day

Music CD 3

The Man I Love
You're Just a No Account
Ghost of Yesterday
Body and Soul
What Is This Going to Get Us?
Laughing at Life
Time on My Hands
I Hear Music
Practice Makes Perfect
Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)
Romance in the Dark
All of Me
God Bless the Child
Am I Blue?
Solitude
Love Me or Leave Me
Mandy Is Two
It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
Until the Real Thing Comes Along
Trav'lin' Light
How Am I to Know?
My Old Flame
I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)
I Cover the Waterfront
I'll Be Seeing You

Music CD 4

I'm Yours
Embraceable You
As Time Goes By
He's Funny That Way
Lover, Come Back to Me
Billie's Blues
On the Sunny Side of the Street
Lover Man
That Old Devil Called Love
Don't Explain
You Better Go Now
What Is This Thing Called Love?
Good Morning Heartache
Big Stuff
There Is No Greater Love
I Loves You, Porgy
Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
Baby Get Lost
Them There Eyes
Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)
Now or Never
You're My Thrill
Crazy He Calls Me
Somebody's on My Mind

Free Music Notes for Lady Sings (Mini Lp Sleeve)

Free Music Review: Better appreciated now than in her lifetime
Hit: 5 Stars

Billie had plenty of hits on the American pop charts between 1935 and 1938 (when she was with Teddy Wilson), after which she had just four more hits, none of them reaching the top ten. However, the passage of time has added substantially to her credibility as many blues, jazz and R+B singers cite Billie as one of their influences. Her first hit was What a little moonlight can do, a song I first came across via a Crystal Gayle cover. I didn't realize the song's origin at the time but I've heard several versions since. I love them all but Billie's is the definitive version.

Billie's other classic hits included here are These foolish things, A fine romance, The way you look tonight, I can't give you anything but love, I've got my love to keep you warm, This year's kisses, Carelessly (her only number one hit), How could you, Moaning low. Mean to me, Easy living, Me myself and I, Sailboat in the moonlight, Nice work if you can get it, My man, You go to my head, I'm gonna lock my heart, Strange fruit, God bless the child and Trav'lin' light. Some big hits are omitted including Twenty-four hours a day, Who loves you and Pennies from heaven, but I'm not complaining. Some of the songs that Billie is best remembered for didn't chart at all.

Although the hits became rare after 1938, this was not due to the quality of the music. Listen to Billie's versions of such classic standards as I gotta right to sing the blues, Night and day, Body and soul, Let's do it, All of me, Love me or leave me, It's a sin to tell a lie, As time goes by and You're my thrill (to name a few). And, of course, there's the classic That old devil called love, revived by Alison Moyet in the eighties, when it became a UK number two hit for Alison.

If you only buy one collection of Billie's music, make it this one. You might begin by asking yourself if you really want five hours worth of Billie's music - but eventually, you are likely to ask yourself if it's enough.