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 78-rpm sides on the Columbia, Commodore, and Decca record labels.
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]
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