Billie Holliday - The Ultimate Collection - 2006 The future "Lady Day" first heard the music of Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith on a Victrola at Alice Dean's, the Baltimore "house of ill repute" where she ran errands and scrubbed floors as a young girl. She made her singing debut in obscure Harlem nightclubs (borrowing her professional name from screen star Billie Dove), then toured with Count Basie and Artie Shaw before going solo. Benny Goodman dragged the frightened singer to her first studio session. Between 1933 and 1944, she recorded over 200 "sides," but she never received royalties for any of them.
Despite a lack of technical training, Holiday's unique diction, inimitable phrasing and acute dramatic intensity made her the outstanding jazz singer of her day
Disc: 1
01 god bless the child 3:05
02 miss brown to you (vers 1) 1:47
03 why not take all of me 1:43
04 strange fruit 3:25
05 my man (vers 1) 2:51
06 billie's blues 2:55
07 lover come back to me 3:20
08 everything a good man needs 3:09
09 ain't no body's business 2:21
10 them there eyes 1:42
11 nce work if you can get it 2:36
12 don't be late 3:15
13 what a little moonlight can do 2:28
14 when your lover has gone 2:01
15 just friends 3:08
16 i'm restless 1:59
Disc: 2
01 i cover the waterfront 3:33
02 i loves you porgy 1:46
03 crazy they call me 2:10
04 detour ahead 2:16
05 lover man 3:12
06 all of mine 2:59
07 he's funny that way 2:56
08 you're driving me crazy 1:08
09 moonlight in vermont 1:37
10 don't explain 3:19
11 foolin' myself 2:29
12 fine and mellow 8:46
13 moanin'low 1:56
14 eazy to remember 3:28
15 ghost of chance 1:04
16 please don't talk about me when i gone 1:55
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