Billie Holiday Sings

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Billie Holiday Sings
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Studio album by
Released1952
RecordedMarch 26, 1952
Studio Radio Recorders, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Genre Vocal jazz
Length25:57
Label Clef
Producer Norman Granz
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Solitude
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Studio album by
Released1956
RecordedMarch 26, 1952, at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, April 1952, Los Angeles, California
Genre Vocal jazz
Length38:57
Label Clef Records
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 by Clef Records in 1952. [5] It was her first album for the label, and her first album of original material, following several compilations of previously released 78rpm sides for Columbia, Commodore, and Decca.

Contents

In 1956, when the 10-inch format was phased out, the album was reissued by Clef Records as Solitude (MG C-690), [6] with four extra tracks recorded at a second session sometime in April 1952 (exact date unknown), with the same musicians. [7] 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).

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. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
  3. Solitude at AllMusic.
  4. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
  5. Billie Holiday Sings, Discogs.com, accessed December 20, 2015.
  6. Solitude, Discogs.com, accessed December 20, 2015.
  7. Billie Holiday Discography, accessed December 23, 2015.