Columbus, OH

The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945–1959

Release year 1993

Tracklist

1
Body and Soul
2
Strange Fruit
3
I Cried for You
4
Fine and Mellow
5
He's Funny That Way
6
The Man I Love
7
Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good To You
8
All of Me
9
Billie's Blues
10
Travelin' Light
11
He's Funny That Way
12
(Norman Granz Announcement)
13
You Better Go Now
14
You're Driving Me Crazy
15
There Is No Greater Love
16
I Cover the Waterfront
17
(Norman Granz Announcement of Billie Holiday and Intermission)
18
East of the Sun (West of the Moon)
19
Blue Moon
20
You Go to My Head
21
You Turned the Tables on Me
22
Easy to Love
23
These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
24
I Only Have Eyes For You
25
Solitude
26
Everything I Have Is Yours (10’’ Version)
27
Love for Sale
28
Moonglow
29
Tenderly
30
If the Moon Turns Green
31
Remember?
32
Autumn in New York
33
Autumn in New York (78 rpm)
34
My Man
35
Lover Come Back to Me
36
Stormy Weather
37
Yesterdays
38
He's Funny That Way
39
I Can't Face the Music
40
MC and Leonard Feather Announcements
41
Blue Moon
42
All of Me
43
My Man
44
Them There Eyes
45
I Cried for You
46
What a Little Moonlight Can Do
47
I Cover the Waterfront
48
Leonard Feather Announcement
49
Billie's Blues
50
Lover Come Back to Me
51
How Deep Is the Ocean?
52
What a Little Moonlight Can Do
53
I Cried for You
54
Love Me or Leave Me
55
P.S. I Love You
56
Too Marvelous for Words
57
Softly
58
I Thought About You
59
Willow Weep for Me
60
Stormy Blues
61
Say It Isn't So
62
I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
63
I Wished On The Moon (1955 “Stay With Me” Version)
64
Always
65
Everything Happens to Me
66
Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
67
Ain’t Misbehavin’ (I’m Savin’ My Love For You)
68
Nice Work If You Can Get It (rehearsal version)
69
Discussion; Nice Work If You Can Get It
70
Mandy Is Two
71
Prelude to a Kiss
72
I Must Have That Man! (1955 rehearsal)
73
Jeepers Creepers (rehearsal 1)
74
Jeepers Creepers (rehearsal 2)
75
Discussion; Jeepers Creepers #1
76
Discussion; Jeepers Creepers #2
77
Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone (edit)
78
Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone (rehearsal 2)
79
Discussion; Moonlight in Vermont
80
Misery (1955 rehearsal)
81
Restless
82
Moonlight in Vermont (rehearsal)
83
Everything Happens to Me (rehearsal 1)
84
Discussion #1
85
I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore (rehearsal 1)
86
I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore (rehearsal 2)
87
Discussion; I Don’t Want to Cry Any More
88
Everything Happens to Me (rehearsal 2)
89
Discussion #2
90
When You Are Away, Dear
91
Discussion #3
92
It Had to Be You (rehearsal)
93
The Mood That I'm In
94
Gone With the Wind (rehearsal)
95
I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
96
Discussion #4
97
A Sunbonnet Blue
98
I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance
99
Discussion #5
100
I’m Walkin’ Through Heaven With You
101
Discussion #6
102
Just Friends
103
The Nearness of You
104
Discussion #7
105
It's Too Hot for Words
106
They Say
107
I Won’t Believe It
108
I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore (take 1 / false start)
109
I Don’t Want To Cry Anymore (Take 2 / Master Take)
110
Studio Talk; Prelude to a Kiss #1
111
Studio Talk; Prelude to a Kiss #2
112
Prelude to a Kiss
113
I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
114
When Your Lover Has Gone (take 1)
115
Studio Talk; When Your Lover Has Gone
116
Studio Talk #1
117
When Your Lover Has Gone (take 2)
118
Gone With the Wind
119
Studio Talk #2
120
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
121
It Had to Be You
122
Studio Talk #3
123
Nice Work If You Can Get It
124
Come Rain Or Come Shine
125
I Got a Right to Sing the Blues
126
What's New?
127
A Fine Romance (take 1 / incomplete)
128
A Fine Romance (Take 2 / Alternate)
129
A Fine Romance (take 3 / false start)
130
A Fine Romance (take 4 incomplete)
131
A Fine Romance (take 5 incomplete)
132
A Fine Romance (take 6 / false start)
133
A Fine Romance (take 7 / incomplete)
134
A Fine Romance (take 8 / master take)
135
Studio Talk #4
136
I Hadn’t Anyone Till You
137
I Get a Kick Out of You
138
Everything I Have Is Yours (“Velvet Mood” Version)
139
Isn’t This A Lovely Day?
140
Discussion; Misery
141
Israel
142
Misery (1956 rehearsal)
143
Discussion #8
144
I Must Have That Man! (1956 rehearsal)
145
Discussion #9
146
Strange Fruit (rehearsal)
147
Discussion; God Bless the Child
148
Discussion #10
149
God Bless the Child (rehearsal 1)
150
God Bless the Child (rehearsal 2)
151
Discussion #11
152
God Bless the Child (rehearsal 3)
153
One Never Knows, Does One? (rehearsal 1)
154
Discussion #12
155
Beer Barrel Polka
156
Some of These Days
157
A Yiddishe Momme (rehearsal 1)
158
A Yiddishe Momme (rehearsal 2)
159
Discussion #13
160
Lady’s Back in Town
161
Discussion #14
162
Discussion #15
163
One Never Knows, Does One? (rehearsal 2)
164
Discussion #16
165
[unknown title]
166
Travelin' Light
167
I Must Have That Man
168
Some Other Spring
169
Lady Sings the Blues
170
Strange Fruit
171
God Bless the Child
172
Good Morning Heartache
173
No Good Man
174
Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
175
Cheek to Cheek
176
Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)
177
Speak Low
178
We’ll Be Together Again
179
All or Nothing at All
180
Sophisticated Lady
181
April in Paris
182
Lady Sings the Blues (with reading from “Lady Sings the Blues”)
183
Lady Sings the Blues
184
Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
185
Trav’lin’ Light (with reading from “Lady Sings the Blues”)
186
Reading From Lady Sings the Blues #3 (live at Carnegie Hall / 1956)
187
Billie's Blues
188
Body and Soul
189
Reading From Lady Sings the Blues #4 (live at Carnegie Hall / 1956)
190
Don't Explain
191
Yesterdays
192
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
193
I'll Be Seeing You
194
Reading From Lady Sings the Blues #5 (live at Carnegie Hall / 1956)
195
My Man
196
I Cried for You
197
Fine and Mellow
198
I Cover the Waterfront
199
What a Little Moonlight Can Do
200
I Wished on the Moon
201
Moonlight in Vermont
202
A Foggy Day
203
I Didn’t Know What Time It Was
204
Just One of Those Things (take 7 — incomplete take)
205
Studio Talk #5
206
Just One Of Those Things (Take 8 - Master Take)
207
Studio Talk #6
208
Comes Love (alternate take 1)
209
Comes Love (false start / take 2)
210
Comes Love (false start / take 3)
211
Comes Love (Master Take 4)
212
Day in, Day Out
213
Darn That Dream
214
But Not For Me
215
Body and Soul
216
Studio Talk #7
217
Just Friends (instrumental)
218
Studio Talk #8
219
Stars Fell on Alabama (take 1 — incomplete)
220
Stars Fell on Alabama
221
Studio Talk; Say It Isn’t So
222
Say It Isn't So
223
Studio Talk; Our Love Is Here to Stay
224
Our Love Is Here to Stay
225
Studio Talk; One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)
226
One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) (take 2 — incomplete)
227
One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)
228
They Can't Take That Away From Me
229
Embraceable You
230
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
231
Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good To You
232
Announcement by Willis Conover
233
Announcement by Johnny Mercer
234
Fanfare From Oh, Lady Be Good
235
Nice Work If You Can Get It
236
Willow Weep for Me
237
My Man
238
Lover Come Back to Me
239
Lady Sings the Blues
240
What a Little Moonlight Can Do
241
Fanfare From Oh, Lady Be Good With Conover Announcement
242
Announcement by Leonard Feather
243
I Wished on the Moon
244
Lover Man
245
All The Way
246
It's Not for Me to Say
247
I'll Never Smile Again
248
Just One More Chance
249
When It’s Sleepy Time Down South
250
Don't Worry 'Bout Me
251
Sometimes I’m Happy
252
You Took Advantage Of Me
253
There'll Be Some Changes Made
254
’Deed I Do
255
All Of You
256
Baby Won’t You Please Come Home