Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years

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Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years
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Greatest hits album by
Billie Holiday
Released1991
RecordedApril 1946–March 1959
Length127:42
Label Verve Records
Professional ratings
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Lady in Autumn: The Best of The Verve Years is a compilation album by the singer Billie Holiday.

Contents

Critical reception

The Rolling Stone Album Guide called the album "a bittersweet triumph." [4]

In 2000, it was voted number 527 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums . [5]

Track listing

Disc One

  1. "Body and Soul" – 3:25
  2. "Strange Fruit" – 2:57
  3. "Trav'lin' Light" – 3:27
  4. "All of Me" – 2:01
  5. "(There Is) No Greater Love" – 2:37
  6. "I Cover the Waterfront" – 2:52
  7. "These Foolish Things" – 3:34
  8. "Tenderly" – 3:21
  9. "Autumn in New York" – 3:52
  10. "My Man" – 2:37
  11. "Stormy Weather" – 3:39
  12. "Yesterdays" – 2:47
  13. "(I Got a Man, Crazy for Me) He's Funny That Way" – 3:09
  14. "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" – 3:11
  15. "I Cried for You (Now It's Your Turn to Cry Over Me)" – 2:27
  16. "Too Marvelous for Words" – 2:12
  17. "I Wished on the Moon" – 6:44
  18. "I Don't Want to Cry Anymore" – 3:54
  19. "Prelude to a Kiss" – 5:35
  20. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" – 3:50

Disc Two

  1. "Come Rain or Come Shine" – 4:20
  2. "What's New?" – 4:16
  3. "God Bless the Child" – 3:58
  4. "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me" – 4:13
  5. "April in Paris" – 3:01
  6. "Lady Sings the Blues" – 2:39
  7. "Don't Explain" – 2:25
  8. "Fine and Mellow" [live] – 3:21
  9. "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" – 5:58
  10. "Stars Fell on Alabama" – 4:27
  11. "One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)" – 5:38
  12. "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You" - 5:36
  13. "Lover Man" – 3:08
  14. "All the Way" – 3:22
  15. "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" – 3:09

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References

  1. ↑ Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years at AllMusic
  2. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 4 (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 322. ISBN   978-0195313734.
  3. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 716. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. 1 2 Evans, Paul (1992). "Billie Holiday". In DeCurtis, Anthony; Henke, James; George-Warren, Holly (eds.). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. pp. 322–323. ISBN   9780679737292.
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