Billie Holiday Sings

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Billie Holiday Sings
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Studio album by
Billie Holiday
Released1952
RecordedMarch 26, 1952
Studio Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, California
Genre Vocal jazz
Length25:57
Label
Producer Norman Granz
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Billie Holiday Sings
(1952)		 An Evening with Billie Holiday
(1953)
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Solitude
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Studio album by
Billie Holiday
Released1956
RecordedMarch 26, 1952, and April 1952
Studio Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, California
Genre Vocal jazz
Length38:57
Label Clef
Producer Norman Granz
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Billie Holiday Sings (MGC-118) is a 10-inch LP album made by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released in the United States on Mercury Records in 1952 and on Clef Records in 1953. [3] [6] It was her first album for Clef, and her first album of original material, following several compilations of previously released 78rpm sides on the Columbia, Commodore, and Decca record labels.

Contents

In 1956, when the 10-inch format was phased out, the album was reissued by Clef Records as Solitude (MG C-690), [7] with four extra tracks recorded at a second session sometime in April 1952 (exact date unknown), with the same musicians. [8] The final track, "Tenderly", had been previously released on her second 10-inch LP, An Evening with Billie Holiday (MG C-144). The other three new songs had been previously released on her third 10-inch LP, simply titled Billie Holiday (MG C-161). [9]

There is a compilation album with the same title, Billie Holiday Sings, released in 1950 by Columbia Records as a 10-inch vynil (CL 6129). [3] It includes old 78-rpm sides from the mid 1930s to the early 1940s, with Holiday accompanied by Lester Young, Teddy Wilson, Buck Clayton and Claude Thornhill among others. [10]

Track listing

1952 10" LP, Billie Holiday Sings

A side
  1. "I Only Have Eyes for You" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:57
  2. "You Turned the Tables on Me" (Louis Alter, Sidney D. Mitchell) – 3:29
  3. "Blue Moon" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:31
  4. "(In My) Solitude" (Eddie DeLange, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 3:31
B side
  1. "These Foolish Things" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) – 3:38
  2. "(You'd Be So) Easy to Love" (Cole Porter) – 3:01
  3. "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 2:56
  4. "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" (Brooks Bowman) – 2:54

1956 12" LP, Solitude

A side
  1. "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" (Brooks Bowman) – 2:54
  2. "Blue Moon" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:31
  3. "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 2:56
  4. "You Turned the Tables on Me" (Louis Alter, Sidney D. Mitchell) – 3:29
  5. "You'd Be So Easy to Love" (Cole Porter) – 3:01
  6. "These Foolish Things" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) – 3:38
B side
  1. "I Only Have Eyes for You" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:57
  2. "(In My) Solitude" (Eddie DeLange, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 3:31
  3. "Everything I Have Is Yours" (Harold Adamson, Burton Lane) – 3:43
  4. "Love for Sale" (Porter) – 2:56
  5. "Moonglow" (Eddie DeLange, Will Hudson, Irving Mills) – 2:58
  6. "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 3:23

Personnel

Performance

Production

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References

  1. ↑ Billie Holiday Sings at Allmusic.
  2. ↑ "Billie Holiday". DownBeat. Vol. 20, no. 1. January 14, 1953. p. 15.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 4 (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 322. ISBN   978-0195313734.
  4. ↑ Johnson, Zac. Solitude (1956) – Billie Holiday at AllMusic.
  5. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 716. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  6. ↑ "Clef Records Catalog: The Jazz Scene, JATP, 100, 500 series". www.jazzdisco.org. Retrieved February 1, 2025.
  7. ↑ Solitude, Discogs.com, accessed December 20, 2015.
  8. ↑ Billie Holiday Discography, accessed December 23, 2015.
  9. ↑ Millar, Jack (1979). Born to Sing: A Discography of Billie Holiday . Copenhagen: Jazzmedia. p. 97–98.
  10. ↑ "Record Reviews: Album and LP" (PDF). The Billboard . Vol. 62, no. 35. September 2, 1950. p. 41.

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