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Billie Holiday
Lady Day: Best of
Genres: Blues, Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists

Track Listings (18) - Disc #1
1. What a Little Moonlight Can Do - Billie Holiday, Woods, Harry
2. These Foolish Things - Billie Holiday, Link, Harry
3. I Cried for You - Billie Holiday, Arnheim, Gus
4. Summertime - Billie Holiday, Gershwin, George
5. Billie's Blues - Billie Holiday, Holiday, Billie
6. If You Were Mine - Billie Holiday, Malneck, Matty
7. A Fine Romance - Billie Holiday, Fields, Dorothy
8. Easy to Love - Billie Holiday, Porter, Cole
9. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm - Billie Holiday, Berlin, Irving
10. I Must Have That Man! - Billie Holiday, Fields, Dorothy
11. Me, Myself and I - Billie Holiday, Gordon, Irving
12. They Can't Take That Away from Me - Billie Holiday, Gershwin, George
13. Easy Living - Billie Holiday, Rainger, Ralph
14. A Sailboat in the Moonlight - Billie Holiday, Loeb, John Jacob
15. Trav'lin' All Alone - Billie Holiday, Johnson, J.C. [Comp
16. When a Woman Loves a Man - Billie Holiday, Hanighen, Bernie
17. You Go to My Head - Billie Holiday, Coots, J. Fred
18. My Man - Billie Holiday, Charles, Jacques
Track Listings (18) - Disc #2
1. I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me - Billie Holiday, Gaskill, Clarence
2. The Very Thought of You - Billie Holiday, Noble, Ray
3. I Can't Get Started - Billie Holiday, Duke, Vernon
4. Long Gone Blues - Billie Holiday, Holiday, Billie
5. Sugar - Billie Holiday, Alexander, Edna
6. Some Other Spring - Billie Holiday, Herzog, Arthur Jr.
7. Them There Eyes - Billie Holiday, Pinkard, Maceo
8. The Man I Love - Billie Holiday, Gershwin, George
9. Body and Soul - Billie Holiday, Eyton, Frank
10. Swing, Brother, Swing - Billie Holiday, Bishop, Walter
11. Night and Day - Billie Holiday, Porter, Cole
12. Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) - Billie Holiday, Porter, Cole
13. God Bless the Child - Billie Holiday, Herzog, Arthur Jr.
14. Solitude - Billie Holiday, DeLange, Eddie
15. I Cover the Waterfront - Billie Holiday, Green, Johnny [1]
16. Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday, Javor, Laszlo
17. Until the Real Thing Comes Along - Billie Holiday, Cahn, Sammy
18. All of Me - Billie Holiday, Marks, Gerald

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All Artists: Billie Holiday
Title: Lady Day: Best of
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 1
Label: Sony
Original Release Date: 1/1/1933
Re-Release Date: 10/2/2001
Genres: Blues, Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Vocal Blues, Traditional Blues, Swing Jazz, Traditional Jazz & Ragtime, Vocal Jazz, Oldies, Vocal Pop, Classic Vocalists, Cabaret, Traditional Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 696998597921

Synopsis

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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CD Reviews

Terrible Remastering, Buy The Quintessential

J. Cohen | 12/06/2008

(1 out of 5 stars)

"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."