The Complete Decca Recordings

~ Release by Billie Holiday (see all versions of this release, 2 available)

Annotation

Label: Verve - Catalog #: 601 - UPC: 011105060127 - Format: 2CD

Also published under the title "The Complete Original American Decca recordings"

Label: Verve - Catalog #: 601 - UPC: 011105060127 - Format: 2CD

Also published under the title "The Complete Original American Decca recordings"

Annotation last modified on 2009-07-14 17:11 UTC.

Tracklist

# Title Rating Length
  Medium 1
11 Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?)
3:18
22 No More
2:49
33 No More (alternate take)
3:07
44 That Ole Devil Called Love
2:55
55 Don't Explain (first version)
2:57
66 Big Stuff (first version) 2:29
77 Don't Explain
3:25
88 Big Stuff (second version) 3:00
99 You Better Go Now 2:37
1010 What Is This Thing Called Love
3:07
1111 Good Morning Heartache
3:09
1212 No Good Man (alternate take) 3:24
1313 No Good Man 3:08
1414 Big Stuff (breakdown and chatter) 0:23
1515 Big Stuff (third version) 2:47
1616 Big Stuff 2:33
1717 Baby, I Don't Cry Over You (alternate take) 3:14
1818 Baby I Don't Cry Over You 3:12
1919 I'll Look Around (alternate take)
3:16
2020 I'll Look Around
3:15
2121 The Blues Are Brewin' 3:04
2222 Guilty (alternate take) 2:53
2323 Guilty (breakdown and chatter) 1:07
2424 Guilty 3:14
2525 Deep Song 3:13
2626 There Is No Greater Love
2:57
  Medium 2
11 Easy Living 3:13
22 Solitude (alternate take) 3:15
33 Solitude 3:10
44 Weep No More 3:21
55 Girls Were Made to Take Care of Boys 3:14
66 I Loves You, Porgy
2:58
77 My Man (a.k.a. Mon homme) (alternate take) 3:11
88 My Man (a.k.a. Mon homme) 2:57
99 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do (alternate take)
3:18
1010 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do
3:21
1111 Baby Get Lost 3:16
1212 Keeps on A-Rainin' 3:16
1313 Them There Eyes
2:51
1414 Do Your Duty 3:17
1515 Gimme a Pigfoot (and a Bottle of Beer) 2:45
1616 You Can't Lose a Broken Heart
3:15
1717 My Sweet Hunk o' Trash 3:20
1818 Now or Never 3:17
1919 You're My Thrill 3:25
2020 Crazy He Calls Me 3:05
2121 Please Tell Me Now 3:15
2222 Somebody's on My Mind 2:58
2323 God Bless the Child
3:11
2424 This Is Heaven to Me 2:52

Relationships

composer:
Tutti Camarata (tracks 1.2–1.3)
George Cory (tracks 1.19–1.20)
George Gershwin (track 2.6)
Porter Grainger (tracks 2.9–2.10)
Arthur Herzog, Jr. (tracks 1.5, 1.7)
Billie Holiday (tracks 1.5, 1.7)
James P. Johnson (track 2.16)
Isham Jones (track 1.26)
Roger "Ram" Ramirez (track 1.1)
Everett Robbins (tracks 2.9–2.10)
Allan Roberts (track 1.4)
Cole Porter (1929) (track 1.10)
Doris Tauber (1930) (track 2.13)
Maceo Pinkard (1930) (track 2.13)
Jimmy Davis (1942) (track 1.1)
Jimmy Sherman (1942) (track 1.1)
lyricist:
Douglas Cross (tracks 1.19–1.20)
Doris Fisher (track 1.4)
Ira Gershwin (track 2.6)
Porter Grainger (tracks 2.9–2.10)
DuBose Heyward (track 2.6)
Flournoy E. Miller (track 2.16)
Bob Russell (US songwriter/lyricist Sidney Keith "Bob" Russell) (tracks 1.2–1.3)
Marty Symes (Lyricist) (track 1.26)
Cole Porter (1929) (track 1.10)
William Tracey (1930) (track 2.13)
Jimmy Sherman (1942) (track 1.1)
Roger "Ram" Ramirez (1942) (track 1.1)
Jimmy Davis (1942) (track 1.1)
writer:
Ervin Drake (track 1.11)
Dan Fisher (track 1.11)
Arthur Herzog, Jr. (track 2.23)
Irene Higginbotham (track 1.11)
Billie Holiday (track 2.23)
ASIN:
US: B000003N36 [info] [ Remove | Edit ]
recording of:
Don't Explain (tracks 1.5, 1.7)
God Bless the Child (track 2.23)
Good Morning Heartache (track 1.11)
I Loves You, Porgy (track 2.6)
I'll Look Around (tracks 1.19–1.20)
Lover Man (track 1.1)
No More (tracks 1.2–1.3)
T'ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do (tracks 2.9–2.10)
That Ole Devil Called Love (track 1.4)
Them There Eyes (track 2.13)
There Is No Greater Love (track 1.26)
What Is This Thing Called Love? (track 1.10)
You Can't Lose a Broken Heart (track 2.16)