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Billie Holiday - The Complete Original American Decca Recordings (1944-1950)
EAC Rip | 2CD | APE - Log - Cue | Covers | Release: 1991 | 424 MB
Genre: Vocal, Vocal Jazz, Classic Jazz, Classic Female Blues | Label: MCA

Billie Holiday is heard at her absolute best on this attractive two-CD set. During her period on Decca, Lady Day was accompanied by strings (for the first time), large studio orchestras, and even background vocalists, so jazz solos from her sidemen are few. But her voice was at its strongest during the 1940s (even with her personal problems) and to hear all 50 of her Decca performances (including alternate takes and even some studio chatter) is a real joy. Among the high points of this essential set are her original versions of "Lover Man" (Holiday's biggest selling record), "Don't Explain," "Good Morning Heartache," "'Tain't Nobody's Business if I Do," "Now or Never," "Crazy He Calls Me," and remakes of "Them There Eyes" and "God Bless the Child."

Disc: 1
01. Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be)?
02. No More
03. No More (Alternate)
04. That Ole Devil Called Love
05. Don't Explain (First Version)
06. Big Stuff (First Version)
07. Don't Explain
08. Big Stuff (Second Version)
09. You Better Go Now
10. What Is This Thing Called Love
11. Good Morning Heartache
12. No Good Man (Previously Unissued Alternate)
13. No Good Man
14. Big Stuff (Previously Unissued Breakdown and Chatter)
15. Big Stuff (Previously Unissued Third Version)
16. Big Stuff
17. Baby, I Don't Cry Over You (Previously Unissued Alternate)
18. Baby, I Don't Cry Over You
19. I'll Look Around (Previously Unissued Alternate)
20. I'll Look Around
21. The Blues Are Brewin'
22. Guilty (Previously Unissued Alternate)
23. Guilty (Previously Unissued Breakdown and Chatter)
24. Guilty
25. Deep Song
26. There Is No Greater Love


Disc: 2
01. Easy Living
02. Solitude (Previously Unissued Alternate)
03. Solitude
04. Weep No More
05. Girls Were Made to Take Care of Boys
06. I Loves You Porgy
07. My Man (Mon Homme) (Previously Unissued Alternate)
08. My Man (Mon Homme)
09. 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do (Previously Unissued Alternate)
10. 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do
11. Baby Get Lost
12. Keeps An A-Rainin'
13. Them There Eyes
14. Do Your Duty
15. Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)
16. You Can't Lose A Broken Heart (with Louis Armstrong)
17. My Sweet Hunk O' Trash (with Louis Armstrong)
18. Now or Never
19. You're My Thrill
20. Crazy He Calls Me
21. Please Tell Me Now
22. Somebody's on My Mind
23. God Bless the Child
24. This Is Heaven to Me

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