The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945–1959

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Tracks

1-1. Body and Soul (live at Philharmonic Hall, Los Angeles, 1945)
1-2. Strange Fruit (live at Philharmonic Hall, Los Angeles, 1945)
1-3. I Cried for You (live at Carnegie Hall/1946)
1-4. Fine and Mellow (live at Carnegie Hall/1946)
1-5. He’s Funny That Way (live at Carnegie Hall/1946)
1-6. The Man I Love (live at Carnegie Hall, 1946)
1-7. Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good to You? (live at Carnegie Hall, 1946)
1-8. All of Me (live at Carnegie Hall, 1946)
1-9. Billie’s Blues (live at Carnegie Hall, New York, 1946)
1-10. Travelin’ Light (live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1946)
1-11. He’s Funny That Way (live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1946)
1-12. Norman Granz Announcement (live at Carnegie Hall/1947)
1-13. You Better Go Now (live at Carnegie Hall/1947)
1-14. You’re Driving Me Crazy (live at Carnegie Hall/1947)
1-15. (There Is) No Greater Love (live at Carnegie Hall/1947)
1-16. I Cover the Waterfront (live at Carnegie Hall/1947)
1-17. Norman Granz Announcement of Billie Holiday and Intermission (live at Carnegie Hall/1947)
1-18. East of the Sun (West of the Moon)
1-19. Blue Moon
1-20. You Go to My Head
1-21. You Turned the Tables on Me
1-22. Easy to Love
1-23. These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
1-24. I Only Have Eyes for You
1-25. Solitude
2-1. Everything I Have Is Yours (10″ version)
2-2. Love for Sale
2-3. Moonglow
2-4. Tenderly
2-5. If the Moon Turns Green
2-6. Remember
2-7. Autumn in New York
2-8. Autumn in New York
2-9. My Man
2-10. Lover, Come Back to Me
2-11. Stormy Weather
2-12. Yesterdays
2-13. He’s Funny That Way
2-14. I Can’t Face the Music
2-15. MC and Leonard Feather Announcements (live at Jazz Club USA, Cologne / 1954)
2-16. Blue Moon (live at Jazz Club USA, Cologne / 1954)
2-17. All of Me (live at Jazz Club USA, Cologne / 1954)
2-18. My Man (live at Jazz Club USA, Cologne / 1954)
2-19. Them There Eyes (live at Jazz Club USA, Cologne / 1954)
2-20. I Cried for You (live at Jazz Club USA, Cologne / 1954)
2-21. What a Little Moonlight Can Do (live at Jazz Club USA, Cologne / 1954)
2-22. I Cover the Waterfront (live at Jazz Club USA, Cologne / 1954)
2-23. Leonard Feather Announcement (live at Jazz Club USA, Cologne / 1954)
2-24. Billie’s Blues (live at Jazz Club USA, Cologne / 1954)
3-1. Lover, Come Back to Me (live at Jazz Club USA, Cologne / 1954)
3-2. How Deep Is the Ocean?
3-3. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
3-4. I Cried for You
3-5. Love Me or Leave Me
3-6. P.S. I Love You
3-7. Too Marvelous for Words
3-8. Softly
3-9. I Thought About You
3-10. Willow Weep for Me
3-11. Stormy Blues (single version)
3-12. Say It Isn’t So (1955 “Stay With Me” version)
3-13. I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
3-14. I Wished on the Moon (1955 “Stay With Me” version)
3-15. Always
3-16. Everything Happens to Me
3-17. Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me (1955 “Stay With Me” version)
3-18. Ain’t Misbehavin’ (I’m Savin’ My Love for You)
4-1. Nice Work If You Can Get It (rehearsal version)
4-2. Discussion; Nice Work If You Can Get It
4-3. Mandy Is Two
4-4. Prelude to a Kiss
4-5. I Must Have That Man! (1955 rehearsal)
4-6. Jeepers Creepers (rehearsal 1)
4-7. Jeepers Creepers (rehearsal 2)
4-8. Discussion; Jeepers Creepers #1
4-9. Discussion; Jeepers Creepers #2
4-10. Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone (edit)
4-11. Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone (rehearsal 2)
4-12. Discussion; Moonlight in Vermont
4-13. Misery (1955 rehearsal)
4-14. Restless
4-15. Moonlight in Vermont (rehearsal)
4-16. Everything Happens to Me (rehearsal 1)
4-17. Discussion #1
4-18. I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore (rehearsal 1)
4-19. I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore (rehearsal 2)
4-20. Discussion; I Don’t Want to Cry Any More
4-21. Everything Happens to Me (rehearsal 2)
4-22. Discussion #2
4-23. When You Are Away, Dear
4-24. Discussion #3
4-25. It Had to Be You (rehearsal)
4-26. The Mood That I’m In
4-27. Gone With the Wind (rehearsal)
4-28. I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good)
4-29. Discussion #4
4-30. A Sunbonnet Blue
4-31. (I Don’t Stand a) Ghost of a Chance
4-32. Discussion #5
4-33. I’m Walkin’ Through Heaven With You
4-34. Discussion #6
4-35. Just Friends
4-36. The Nearness of You
4-37. Discussion #7
4-38. It’s Too Hot for Words
4-39. They Say
4-40. I Won’t Believe It
5-1. I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore (take 1 / false start)
5-2. I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore (take 2 / master take)
5-3. Studio Talk; Prelude to a Kiss #1
5-4. Studio Talk; Prelude to a Kiss #2
5-5. Prelude to a Kiss
5-6. I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
5-7. When Your Lover Has Gone (take 1)
5-8. Studio Talk; When Your Lover Has Gone
5-9. Studio Talk #1
5-10. When Your Lover Has Gone (take 2)
5-11. Gone With the Wind
5-12. Studio Talk #2
5-13. Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone
5-14. It Had to Be You
5-15. Studio Talk #3
5-16. Nice Work If You Can Get It
5-17. Come Rain or Come Shine
5-18. I Got a Right to Sing the Blues
5-19. What’s New
5-20. A Fine Romance (take 1 / incomplete)
5-21. A Fine Romance (take 2 / alternate)
5-22. A Fine Romance (take 3 / false start)
5-23. A Fine Romance (take 4 incomplete)
5-24. A Fine Romance (take 5 incomplete)
5-25. A Fine Romance (take 6 / false start)
5-26. A Fine Romance (take 7 / incomplete)
5-27. A Fine Romance (take 8 / master take)
5-28. Studio Talk #4
5-29. I Hadn’t Anyone Till You
6-1. I Get a Kick Out of You
6-2. Everything I Have Is Yours (“Velvet Mood” version)
6-3. Isn’t This a Lovely Day?
6-4. Discussion; Misery
6-5. Israel
6-6. Misery (1956 rehearsal)
6-7. Discussion #8
6-8. I Must Have That Man! (1956 rehearsal)
6-9. Discussion #9
6-10. Strange Fruit (rehearsal)
6-11. Discussion; God Bless the Child
6-12. Discussion #10
6-13. God Bless the Child (rehearsal 1)
6-14. God Bless the Child (rehearsal 2)
6-15. Discussion #11
6-16. God Bless the Child (rehearsal 3)
6-17. One Never Knows, Does One? (rehearsal 1)
6-18. Discussion #12
6-19. Beer Barrel Polka (aka “Roll Out the Barrel”)
6-20. Some of These Days
6-21. A Yiddishe Momme (rehearsal 1)
6-22. A Yiddishe Momme (rehearsal 2)
6-23. Discussion #13
6-24. Lady’s Back in Town
6-25. Discussion #14
6-26. Discussion #15
6-27. One Never Knows, Does One? (rehearsal 2)
6-28. Discussion #16
6-29. Unknown Title
7-1. Trav’lin’ Light
7-2. I Must Have That Man!
7-3. Some Other Spring
7-4. Lady Sings the Blues
7-5. Strange Fruit
7-6. God Bless the Child (1956 version)
7-7. Good Morning Heartache
7-8. No Good Man
7-9. Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me (1956 version)
7-10. Cheek to Cheek
7-11. Ill Wind
7-12. Speak Low
7-13. We’ll Be Together Again
7-14. All or Nothing at All
7-15. Sophisticated Lady
7-16. April in Paris
8-1. Lady Sings the Blues With Reading From Lady Sings the Blues (live at Carnegie Hall / 1956)
8-2. Lady Sings the Blues (live at Carnegie Hall, 1956)
8-3. Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do (live at Carnegie Hall, 1956)
8-4. Trav’lin’ Light With Reading From Lady Sings the Blues (live at Carnegie Hall / 1956)
8-5. Reading From Lady Sings the Blues #3 (live at Carnegie Hall / 1956)
8-6. Billie’s Blues (live at Carnegie Hall / 1956)
8-7. Body and Soul (live at Carnegie Hall, 1956)
8-8. Reading From Lady Sings the Blues #4 (live at Carnegie Hall / 1956)
8-9. Don’t Explain (live at Carnegie Hall / 1956)
8-10. Yesterdays (live at Carnegie Hall, 1956)
8-11. Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone (live at Carnegie Hall, 1956)
8-12. I’ll Be Seeing You (live at Carnegie Hall, 1956)
8-13. Reading From Lady Sings the Blues #5 (live at Carnegie Hall / 1956)
8-14. My Man (live at Carnegie Hall, 1956)
8-15. I Cried for You (live at Carnegie Hall, 1956)
8-16. Fine and Mellow (live at Carnegie Hall, 1956)
8-17. I Cover the Waterfront (live at Carnegie Hall, 1956)
8-18. What a Little Moonlight Can Do (live at Carnegie Hall, 1956)
8-19. I Wished on the Moon
8-20. Moonlight in Vermont
8-21. A Foggy Day
8-22. I Didn’t Know What Time It Was
8-23. Just One of Those Things (take 7 — incomplete take)
8-24. Studio Talk #5
8-25. Just One of Those Things (take 8 — master take)
8-26. Studio Talk #6
8-27. Comes Love (alternate take 1)
8-28. Comes Love (false start / take 2)
8-29. Comes Love (false start / take 3)
8-30. Comes Love (master take 4)
9-1. Day In Day Out
9-2. Darn That Dream
9-3. But Not for Me
9-4. Body and Soul
9-5. Studio Talk #7
9-6. Just Friends (instrumental)
9-7. Studio Talk #8
9-8. Stars Fell on Alabama (take 1 — incomplete)
9-9. Stars Fell on Alabama
9-10. Studio Talk; Say It Isn’t So
9-11. Say It Isn’t So
9-12. Studio Talk; Our Love Is Here to Stay
9-13. Our Love Is Here to Stay
9-14. Studio Talk; One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)
9-15. One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) (take 2 — incomplete)
9-16. One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)
9-17. They Can’t Take That Away From Me
9-18. Embraceable You
9-19. Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
9-20. Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You
10-1. Announcement by Willis Conover (live at the Newport Jazz Festival/1957)
10-2. Announcement by Johnny Mercer (live at the Newport Jazz Festival/1957)
10-3. Fanfare From Oh, Lady Be Good (live at the Newport Jazz Festival/1957)
10-4. Nice Work If You Can Get It (live at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1957)
10-5. Willow Weep for Me (live at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1957)
10-6. My Man (live at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1957)
10-7. Lover, Come Back to Me (live at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1957)
10-8. Lady Sings the Blues (live at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1957)
10-9. What a Little Moonlight Can Do (live at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1957)
10-10. Fanfare From Oh, Lady Be Good With Conover Announcement (live at the Newport Jazz Festival/1957)
10-11. Announcement by Leonard Feather (live From Seven Ages of Jazz Festival/1958)
10-12. I Wished on the Moon (live From Seven Ages of Jazz Festival/1958)
10-13. Lover Man (live From Seven Ages of Jazz Festival /1958)
10-14. All the Way
10-15. It’s Not for Me to Say
10-16. I’ll Never Smile Again
10-17. Just One More Chance
10-18. When It’s Sleepy Time Down South
10-19. Don’t Worry ’Bout Me
10-20. Sometimes I’m Happy
10-21. You Took Advantage of Me
10-22. There’ll Be Some Changes Made
10-23. ’Deed I Do
10-24. All of You
10-25. Baby Won’t You Please Come Home