Lady Sings (Mini Lp Sleeve)

Billie Holiday - Lady Sings (Mini Lp Sleeve)

Lady Sings (Mini Lp Sleeve)
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Artist: Billie Holiday
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Import, Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 2001-09-24
Music Label: Proper Box UK
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. I Wished on the Moon
  2. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
  3. Miss Brown to You
  4. A Sunbonnet Blue (And a Little Straw Hat)
  5. It's Like Reaching for the Moon
  6. These Foolish Things
  7. I Cried for You
  8. Did I Remember?
  9. Billie's Blues
  10. A Fine Romance
  11. The Way You Look Tonight
  12. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
  13. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
  14. This Year's Kisses
  15. Why Was I Born?
  16. I Must Have That Man!
  17. My Last Affair
  18. Carelessly
  19. How Could You?
  20. Moanin' Low
  21. Mean to Me
  22. Foolin' Myself
  23. Easy Living
  24. I'll Never Be the Same
  25. Me, Myself and I
Music CD 2
  1. A Sailboat in the Moonlight
  2. He's Funny That Way
  3. Nice Work If You Can Get It
  4. My Man
  5. When You're Smiling
  6. I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me
  7. On the Sentimental Side
  8. Back in Your Own Backyard
  9. When a Woman Loves a Man
  10. You Go to My Head
  11. I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (And Throw Away the Key)
  12. The Very Thought of You
  13. I Can't Get Started
  14. Say It with a Kiss
  15. That's All I Ask of You
  16. Dream of Life
  17. More Than You Know
  18. Sugar
  19. Strange Fruit
  20. Yesterdays
  21. Fine and Mellow
  22. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
  23. Some Other Spring
  24. Them There Eyes
  25. Night and Day
Music CD 3
  1. The Man I Love
  2. You're Just a No Account
  3. Ghost of Yesterday
  4. Body and Soul
  5. What Is This Going to Get Us?
  6. Laughing at Life
  7. Time on My Hands
  8. I Hear Music
  9. Practice Makes Perfect
  10. Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)
  11. Romance in the Dark
  12. All of Me
  13. God Bless the Child
  14. Am I Blue?
  15. Solitude
  16. Love Me or Leave Me
  17. Mandy Is Two
  18. It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
  19. Until the Real Thing Comes Along
  20. Trav'lin' Light
  21. How Am I to Know?
  22. My Old Flame
  23. I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)
  24. I Cover the Waterfront
  25. I'll Be Seeing You
Music CD 4
  1. I'm Yours
  2. Embraceable You
  3. As Time Goes By
  4. He's Funny That Way
  5. Lover, Come Back to Me
  6. Billie's Blues
  7. On the Sunny Side of the Street
  8. Lover Man
  9. That Old Devil Called Love
  10. Don't Explain
  11. You Better Go Now
  12. What Is This Thing Called Love?
  13. Good Morning Heartache
  14. Big Stuff
  15. There Is No Greater Love
  16. I Loves You, Porgy
  17. Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
  18. Baby Get Lost
  19. Them There Eyes
  20. Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)
  21. Now or Never
  22. You're My Thrill
  23. Crazy He Calls Me
  24. 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

Nobody sings the blues quite like Billie Holiday. This boxed set represents the best value for money, not only for the quantity of music and the extensive liner notes, but also for the sound quality and the fact that this contains music recorded for several different record labels (Brunswick, Vocalion, Commodore, Okeh, Columbia, Capitol, Decca) between 1935 and 1949. Billie continued to record great music in the fifties (for Verve, Clef and Norgran) but that music is not represented here.

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.

Lady Sings (Mini Lp Sleeve) Poster

UK box-set featuring 99 tracks that highlight the late jazz icon's career between 1935-49. Backed by small All Star bands under Teddy Wilson's & her own leadership & the more formal studio bands during her Decca days, Billie turns every song into poetry. Includes 56 page booklet with rare pictures, discography & story. Four standard jewel cases housed in a box. 2001.

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