First Issue: Great American Songbook Billie Holiday

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  • Release Date: 06/21/1994
  • 2 Disc Set
  • Sales Rank: 60,090
  • Label: POLYGRAM RECORDS
  • UPC: 731452300324

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First Issue: Great American Songbook

Disc 1
1LISTENBlue Moon 3:28
2LISTENNice Work If You Can Get It 3:47
3LISTENYesterdays 2:49
4LISTENEasy to Love 2:59
5LISTENPrelude to a Kiss 5:32
6LISTENDay In, Day Out 6:47
7LISTENI've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm 3:55
8LISTENEmbraceable You 6:47
9LISTENLove Is Here to Stay 3:41
10LISTENToo Marvelous for Words 2:11
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Disc 2
1LISTENDo Nothing Till You Hear from Me 5:00
2LISTENI Get a Kick out of You 5:40
3LISTENSay It Isn't So 3:16
4LISTENHow Deep Is the Ocean? 2:57
5LISTENTrav'lin' Light / Tony Scott's Orchestra 3:07
6LISTENRemember 2:34
7LISTENStormy Weather 3:41
8LISTENOne for My Baby (And One More for the Road) 5:39
9LISTENBut Not for Me 3:48
10LISTENSolitude 3:29
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For this double-disc set commemorating her American postage stamp (and patterned after Ella Fitzgerald's Songbook series), Verve compiled two discs of Billie Holiday covering the best of American popular song, from Ellington to Gershwin to Berlin to Porter and others. Though most of the material comes from the late '50s, when Holiday's voice was often in poor shape, her versions never fail to stir the heart -- often because her voice was in such bad repair. All of the tracks are familiar standards, including light-hearted songs like "A Fine Romance," "Embraceable You," "Prelude to a Kiss," and "I Get a Kick Out of You," as well as darker fare like "But Not for Me," "Stormy Weather," "One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)," and "I Got a Right to Sing the Blues." John Bush, All Music Guide

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