The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Vol. 9 (1940 - 1942)
Billie Holiday
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St. Louis Blues | Billie Holiday | 2:51 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Loveless Love | Billie Holiday | 3:14 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Let's Do It | Billie Holiday | 2:55 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Georgia on My Mind | Billie Holiday | 3:16 | $2.19 | View In iTunes |
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Romance In the Dark | Billie Holiday | 2:13 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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All of Me | Billie Holiday | 2:59 | $2.19 | View In iTunes |
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I'm In a Low-Down Groove | Billie Holiday | 3:06 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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God Bless the Child (78RPM Version) | Billie Holiday | 2:54 | $2.19 | View In iTunes |
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Am I Blue? | Billie Holiday | 2:47 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Solitude (78RPM Version) | Billie Holiday | 3:12 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Jim | Billie Holiday | 3:07 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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I Cover the Waterfront | Billie Holiday | 2:54 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Love Me or Leave Me | Billie Holiday | 3:18 | $2.19 | View In iTunes |
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Gloomy Sunday | Billie Holiday | 3:10 | $2.19 | View In iTunes |
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Wherever You Are | Billie Holiday | 2:58 | $1.19 | View In iTunes |
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Mandy Is Two | Billie Holiday | 2:58 | $2.19 | View In iTunes |
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C'est un péché de dire un mentire (It's a Sin to Tell a Lie) | Billie Holiday | 3:01 | $2.19 | View In iTunes |
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Until the Real Thing Comes Along | Billie Holiday | 3:07 | $2.19 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 18 Songs |
Album Review
The final volume in this nine-CD series contains all of Billie Holiday's recordings from her final 16 months with the label. Highlights include "St. Louis Blues," "Loveless Love," "Let's Do It," "All of Me" (arguably the greatest version ever of this veteran standard), "Am I Blue," "Gloomy Sunday" and "God Bless the Child." All 153 of Lady Day's Columbia recordings (even the occasional weak item) are well worth hearing and savoring.
Biography
Born: 07 April 1915 in Baltimore, MD
Genre: Jazz
Years Active: '30s, '40s, '50s
The first popular jazz singer to move audiences with the intense, personal feeling of classic blues, Billie Holiday changed the art of American pop vocals forever. More than a half-century after her death, it's difficult to believe that prior to her emergence, jazz and pop singers were tied to the Tin Pan Alley tradition and rarely personalized their songs; only blues singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey actually gave the impression they had lived through what they were singing. Billie Holiday's...
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I'll Be Seeing You | The Notebook (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 3:33 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Strange Fruit | Diva: Billie Holiday | 3:11 | $2.19 | View In iTunes |
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Summertime | The Best of Billy Holiday: Summertime | 2:47 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Strange Fruit | The Best of Billy Holiday: Summertime | 2:55 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Speak Low (Bent Remix) | Verve Remixed 3 (Bonus Track Version) | 4:21 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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I'll Be Seeing You | The Notebook (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 3:12 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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These Foolish Things | The Best of Billy Holiday: Summertime | 3:08 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Gloomy Sunday | Lady Day - The Best of Billie Holiday | 3:10 | $2.19 | View In iTunes |
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All Of Me | 200 Jazz Standards | 2:56 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Easy to Love | The Complete Verve Studio Master Takes | 2:59 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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- $16.99
- Genres: Jazz, Music, Blues, Vocal, Standards, Chicago Blues, Easy Listening, Swing, Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz
- Released: 23 July 1991
- ℗ 1991 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
