Billie Holiday: Billie's Best 1945-1959 CD-Like New $16.99 - Brass Music Cafe Skip to navigation Skip to content My account Search for: Search Menu Shop About Brass Music Cafe Contact Refunds & Returns Shipping & Payment T-Shirts Shop $0.00 0 items Home / CD's / Billie Holiday: Billie’s Best 1945-1959 CD-Like New $16.99 Billie Holiday: Billie’s Best 1945-1959 CD-Like New $16.99 $16.99 Condition: 1CD Used Like New For Collectors, Billie Holiday: Billie’s Best 1945-1959 Remastered 1992 Verve Records Made In USA. 2 in stock Billie Holiday: Billie's Best 1945-1959 CD-Like New $16.99 quantity Add to cart SKU: D100135 Category: CD's Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Description Additional information Description Billie’s Best 1945-1959 There is no end in sight to the debate over Billie Holiday‘s career as a vocalist: Is the essence of her art to be found in her early recordings for Columbia or in the recordings she made for Verve at the end of her short and, by all accounts, miserable life? The early work finds her in clearer voice and singing with energy and conviction, while in the later recordings her voice is ravaged, yet more soulful and perhaps more nuanced. In 1992 Verve made its case for the latter position by releasing a monumental ten-disc box set containing everything Holiday recorded for the company between 1945-1959, and simultaneously released this 16-track sampler as a palliative to those who didn’t have 150 dollars lying around. Nothing here will settle the argument for good, but this album does offer a good cross section of the latter part of her career, from the small-ensemble work with pianists Oscar Peterson and Jimmy Rowles to a nice performance of “All the Way” with an orchestra conducted by Ray Ellis. This probably should not be anyone’s only Billie Holiday album, but it’s a valuable, and at times moving, document of the end of a sad but illustrious career. Video: Billie Holiday: Come Rain Or Come Shine 1955 Track Listing Title/Composer Performer Time 1 What a Little Moonlight Can Do Harry Woods Billie Holiday 3:10 2 A Foggy Day George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin Billie Holiday 4:40 3 Come Rain or Come Shine Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer Billie Holiday 4:21 4 Comes Love Lew Brown / Sam H. Stept / Charles Tobias Billie Holiday 4:00 5 He’s Funny That Way Neil Moret (Chas. N. Daniels) / Richard A. Whiting Billie Holiday 3:11 6 Stars Fell on Alabama Mitchell Parish / Frank Perkins Billie Holiday 4:29 7 Gone With the Wind Herbert Magidson / Allie Wrubel Billie Holiday 3:23 8 They Can’t Take That Away from Me George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin Billie Holiday 4:10 9 East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) Brooks Bowman Billie Holiday 2:54 10 Everything I Have Is Yours Harold Adamson / Burton Lane Billie Holiday 3:43 11 Stormy Blues Billie Holiday Billie Holiday 3:26 12 Speak Low Ogden Nash / Kurt Weill Billie Holiday 4:25 13 April in Paris Vernon Duke / E.Y. “Yip” Harburg Billie Holiday 3:02 14 I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Irving Berlin Billie Holiday 3:55 15 Some Other Spring Arthur Herzog, Jr. / Irene Kitchings Billie Holiday 3:36 16 All the Way Sammy Cahn / James Van Heusen Billie Holiday 3:23 Additional information Weight 5 oz Dimensions 7 × 7 × 1 in Artist Billie Holiday, Jimmy Rowies, Oscar Peterson, Ray Ellis Composer Allie Wrubel, Arthur Herzog, Jr., Billie Holiday, Brooks Bowman, Charles Tobias, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, Frank Perkins, George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Harry Woods, Herbert Magidson, Ira Gershwin, Irene Kitchings, Irving Berlin, James Van Heusen, Johnny Mercer, Kurt Weill, Lew Brown, Mitchell Parish, Neil Moret, Ogden Nash, Richard A. Whiting, Sam H. 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