Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday | 
 enlarge | Artist: Billie Holiday
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 2651
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 85979
UPC: 696998597921
EAN: 0696998597921
ASIN: B00005Q45Y
Release Date: October 2, 2001
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Disc 1
| • | What a Little Moonlight Can Do - Billie Holiday, Woods, Harry | | • | These Foolish Things - Billie Holiday, Link, Harry | | • | I Cried for You - Billie Holiday, Freed, Arthur | | • | Summertime - Billie Holiday, Gershwin, George | | • | Billie's Blues - Billie Holiday, Holiday, Billie | | • | If You Were Mine - Billie Holiday, Malneck, Matty | | • | A Fine Romance - Billie Holiday, Fields, Dorothy | | • | Easy to Love - Billie Holiday, Porter, Cole | | • | I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm - Billie Holiday, Berlin, Irving | | • | I Must Have That Man! - Billie Holiday, Fields, Dorothy | | • | Me, Myself and I - Billie Holiday, Gordon, Irving | | • | They Can't Take That Away from Me - Billie Holiday, Gershwin, George | | • | Easy Living - Billie Holiday, Robin, Leo | | • | A Sailboat in the Moonlight - Billie Holiday, Loeb, John Jacob | | • | Trav'lin' All Alone - Billie Holiday, Johnson, J.C. | | • | When a Woman Loves a Man - Billie Holiday, Hanighen, Bernie | | • | You Go to My Head - Billie Holiday, Coots, J. Fred | | • | My Man - Billie Holiday, Charles, Jacques |
Disc 2
| • | I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me - Billie Holiday, Gaskill, Clarence | | • | The Very Thought of You - Billie Holiday, Noble, Ray | | • | I Can't Get Started - Billie Holiday, Duke, Vernon | | • | Long Gone Blues - Billie Holiday, Holiday, Billie | | • | Sugar - Billie Holiday, Pinkard, Maceo | | • | Some Other Spring - Billie Holiday, Herzog, Arthur Jr. | | • | Them There Eyes - Billie Holiday, Pinkard, Maceo | | • | The Man I Love - Billie Holiday, Gershwin, George | | • | Body and Soul - Billie Holiday, Eyton, Frank | | • | Swing, Brother, Swing - Billie Holiday, Bishop, Walter | | • | Night and Day - Billie Holiday, Porter, Cole | | • | Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) - Billie Holiday, Porter, Cole | | • | God Bless the Child - Billie Holiday, Herzog, Arthur Jr. | | • | Solitude - Billie Holiday, DeLange, Eddie | | • | I Cover the Waterfront - Billie Holiday, Green, Johnny | | • | Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday, Javor, Laszlo | | • | Until the Real Thing Comes Along - Billie Holiday, Cahn, Sammy | | • | All of Me - Billie Holiday, Marks, Gerald |
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Album Description
Lady Day: The Best Of Billie Holiday is an ideal introduction to the Voice of Jazz in all its enduring glory. This incomparable collection draws on the 10-CD boxed set Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia (1933-1944) (CXK 85470), representing not only her finest work, but American jazz and pop singing at its zenith. Accompanied sublimely by a Who's Who of the Swing Era (including her soulmate Lester Young, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Buck Clayton, Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Jo Jones, and pianist-arranger Teddy Wilson, who was often at the helm when Holiday entered the studio), Billie Holiday masterfully renders a host of mostly-classic pop tunes. Fans are drawn to her musical triumphs and personal tragedies. She is a mysterious icon in the same vein as Miles Davis. Columbia possesses the first and finest recordings of her entire career! This material has never sounded clearer and more intimate!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 Terrible Remastering, Buy The Quintessential December 6, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Just because a recording is remastered, that doesn't mean it's been remastered well. Columbia's remastering of these Billie Holiday recording is a case in point. If you listen to Columbia's Quintessential Billie Holiday series that came out in 1989, you'll notice that those albums (with the same recordings that are on this CD) had infinitely better sound.
Simply put, these remastered versions sound awful. There's a constant, loud hissing in the background of every track that should NOT be there. It's amazing that such bad remastering work could come from Columbia (and on these legendary recordings, no less).
I'm surprised that none of the reviewers on this site seem to have noticed the shoddy sound quality on these remasters, but if you compare these recordings to the originals, the difference is glaringly obvious.
It's a real shame! Because if you want to hear the genius of these Billie Holiday recordings, you'll have to dig up the The Quintessential Billie Holiday series from '89 which is pristine, gorgeous, and mostly out of print now.
the best of billie holiday December 9, 2007
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is not a good demonstration of Billie Holliday. First, too many songs squeezed into each side. Sound not good. For me, it was a waste of money. One of her best is the Billie Holiday-Lester Young CD " a musical romance"
 Lady Day October 11, 2007
Excellent CD. A good purchase if you do not want to buy the box set. Has the essentials.
born talent, from the heart August 16, 2007
If you love the blues, and its history, this is a must have. Billie Holiday had a voice, and a tempo, and delivery, followed by back-men who are jazz/blues icons today, that was new, and fresh, and inspiring in their time, and remains so today. I lost all my belongings in a wildfire, including an extensive collection of Billie's recordings. This was my first step back to remembering her, purchasing this wonderfully produced CD. I now consider it a treasured musical archive. If you love Lady Day, relax, and listen to this CD, and you will be entranced again, and again. Her gift to us, forever.
Absolutely the best of Billie Holiday February 24, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Anybody who likes Billie Holiday even part time needs this CD. Even great for those people who only know a few songs just by chance. Love the CD. Even got another as a gift for a friend.
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