Music CD, Musical Sound Recording, Sound Recording

Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959.

The Billie Holiday songbook [sound recording] / Billie Holiday.

[New York, N.Y.] : Verve, [p1986]

1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Verve great American songbooks.

Jazz vocals.

Popular music -- United States -- 1951-1960.

Blues (Music) -- 1951-1960.

Compact disc.

Analog recording.

Program notes by Gary Giddins and Richard Seidel inserted in container.

Issued also as analog disc (823 246-1) and cassette (823 246-4).

Billie Holiday, vocals, with accompanying musicians.

Recorded July 1952-September 1958, principally in New York.

Good morning heartache / Fisher, Higginbotham, Drake (3:28) -- My man / Charles, Yvain, Willemitz, Pollock (2:36) -- Billie's blues / Holiday (3:26) -- What a little moonlight can do / Woods (3:11) -- Don't explain / Holiday, Herzog (2:33) -- Lady sings the blues / Holiday, Nichols (3:44) -- Lover man /Davis, Ramirez, Sherman (2:57) -- God bless the child /Holiday, Herzog (3:58) -- Fine and mellow / Holiday (3:25) -- I cried for you / Freed, Arnheim, Lyman (2:27) -- Strange fruit / Allan (3:03) -- Stormy blues / Holiday (3:24) -- Trav'lin' light / Mercer, Young, Mundy (3:08) -- I cover the waterfront / Green, Heyman(3:47)

823 246-2

823 246-4

823 246-1

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