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The Essential Billie Holiday |
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| Styles: |
Easy Listening - Nostalgia - Jazz - Vocalists - Female |
| Media: |
Audio CD |
| Features: |
Box set |
| Release Date: |
28 October 2002 |
| Label: |
Soho |
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| UPC Catalogue No: |
698458150226 |
| Amazon Sales Ranking: |
7190 |
| Number of Discs: |
3 |
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Tracks |
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| 1 |
I can't give you anything but love |
| 2 |
Loverman |
| 3 |
Back in your own backyard |
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Your mother's son-in-law |
| 5 |
Miss Brown to you |
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On the sunny side of the street |
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I love my man "Billie's blues |
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I wished on the moon |
| 9 |
Twenty-four hours a day |
| 10 |
What a little moonlight can do |
| 11 |
No more |
| 12 |
He's funny that way |
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Nice work if you can get it |
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My man "Mon homme |
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Lover, come back to me |
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I must have that man |
| 17 |
Easy living |
| 18 |
All of me |
| 19 |
You go to my head |
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Strange fruit |
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God bless the child |
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I'll get by |
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Them there eyes |
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Some other spring |
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These foolish things |
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Don't explain |
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Yesterdays |
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Any old time |
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I gotta right to sing the blues |
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My last affair |
| 11 |
Moanin' low |
| 12 |
That ole devil called love |
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I cried for you |
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The way you look tonight |
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Pennies from heaven |
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I cover the waterfront |
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A sailboat in the moonlight |
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Long gone blues |
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This year's kisses |
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Carelessly |
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They can't take that away from me |
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The man I love |
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Fine and mellow |
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The mood that I'm in |
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Mean to me |
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I can't get started |
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Ghost of yesterday |
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Swing brother swing |
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Did I remember? |
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I'll never be the same |
| 11 |
I'm gonna lock my heart |
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No regrets |
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A fine romance |
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Who loves you? |
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I'll get by (alternate take) |
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Trav'lin light |
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Solitude |
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I've got my love to keep you warm |
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Good morning heartache |
| 20 |
These 'n' that 'n' those |
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Customer Reviews |
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This is what music supposed to be |
Rating: 5.0 |
It's so sad that there's nothing like this is being produced anymore. The music is what MUSIC supposed to be: powerful, soulful, joyful, relaxing, entertaining, pleasuring... what else can I say! I'm like flying on the clouds. Now I'm angry at myself why I've been this late to listen to these songs. |
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The Lady Sings The Blues |
Rating: 5.0 |
Billie Holiday is simply one of the best jazz singers of the day, and remains a legend today in spite of having recieved no technical training. Her inimitable voice produces an acute and dramaticly intense sound. It is hard to imagine that this is the same women who had to be dragged physically to her first recording session, due to an attack of nerves. 'Strange Fruit' is perhaps the most famous song in this collection, written about the racist lynchings in the American South that were still very much a reality when she sang it. Her voice cuts angrily through the song with an anguish which feels very potently real. There are also tenderer moments, Holiday's love songs are some of the most moving you'll ever hear 'The man I love' and and 'I can't give you anything but love' are keynotes, but all the tracks on this box set have much to recommend them. This is music with real feeling, beautifully expressed and sung wonderfully well by a woman in her artistic prime. |
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