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I Wished on the Moon
2
What a Little Moonlight Can Do
3
Miss Brown to You
4
If You Were Mine
5
These N That N Those
6
You Let Me Down
7
Spreadin Rhythm Around
8
Life Begins When You're in Love
9
It's Like Reaching for the Moon
10
These Foolish Things
11
I Cried for You
12
Did I Remember?
13
No Regrets
14
Summertime
15
Billies Blues
16
A Fine Romance
17
One, Two, Button Your Shoe
18
Easy to Love
19
The Way You Look Tonight
20
Pennies from Heaven
21
That's Life I Guess
22
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
23
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
24
He Aint Got Rhythm
25
This Years Kisses
26
Why Was I Born?
27
I Must Have That Man
28
The Mood That Im in
29
You Showed Me the Way
30
My Last Affair
31
Moanin Low
32
Where Is the Sun?
33
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
34
They Can't Take That Away from Me
35
Don't Know If Im Comin or Goin
36
Ill Get By
37
Mena to Me
38
Foolin Myself
39
Easy Living
40
Ill Never Be the Same
41
Me, Myself, and I
42
A Sailboat in the Moonlight
43
Without Your Love
44
Travlin All Alone
45
He's Funny That Way
46
Nice Work If You Can Get It
47
Things Are Looking Up
48
My Man
49
Can't Help Lovin Dat Man
50
When You're Smiling
51
On the Sentimental Side
52
When a Woman Loves a Man
53
You Go to My Head
54
Im Gonna Lock My Heart
55
The Very Thought of You
56
I Can't Get Started
57
More Than You Know
58
Sugar
59
Long Gone Blues
60
Some Other Spring
61
Them There Eyes
62
Swing, Brother, Swing
63
Night and Day
64
The Man I Love
65
Body and Soul
66
Falling in Love Again
67
Laughing at Life
68
Time on My Hands
69
St. Louis Blues
70
Loveless Love
71
Let's Do It
72
Georgia on My Mind
73
All of Me
74
God Bless the Child
75
Am I Blue?
76
I Cover the Waterfront
77
Love Me or Leave Me
78
Gloomy Sunday
79
It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
80
Until the Real Thing Comes Along
Item UPC: 888750796028
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Label: IMPORTS
ABOUT THE ALBUM
It's fitting that singer Billie Holiday began the most celebrated part of her career with Columbia in 1933, when the country was in the throes of the depression, and ended it in 1942, when the world was gripped by war. Her anguished delivery fit in perfectly with the times. As she projected the torments of her life through music, she gave us an escape from our own troubles, by reminding us of how bad life could get. Regardless, Holiday's sublime Columbia recordings, which originally appeared on the Brunswick, Vocalion and Okeh labels, are among the true treasures of jazz. The complete recordings were released a few years ago in a mammoth box set. This four CD collection pares the material down considerably, although the producers have not just taken the cream of the crop. In the tradition of many "warts and all Columbia sets, this one features the master takes and singles released during the period. Without any true explanation of what this means (the remaining tracks from the original set weren't alternates) this gives a more complete picture of the recording landscape of the time. The majority of Holiday's records during the time were made for jukeboxes, and thus follow a fairly predictable format in presentation and length. In addition, almost everyone at the time had to record some inferior material, and Holiday was no exception; for every "Night And Day there are at least two songs that weren't worth much more than the paper that they were printed on.
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