Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. I can't give you anything but love
2. Loverman
3. Back in your own backyard
4. Your mother's son-in-law
5. Miss Brown to you
6. On the sunny side of the street
7. I love my man "Billie's blues"
8. I wished on the moon
9. Twenty-four hours a day
10. What a little moonlight can do
11. No more
12. He's funny that way
13. Nice work if you can get it
14. My man "Mon homme"
15. Lover, come back to me
16. I must have that man
17. Easy living
18. All of me
19. You go to my head
20. Strange fruit

Disc 2:

1. God bless the child
2. I'll get by
3. Them there eyes
4. Some other spring
5. These foolish things
6. Don't explain
7. Yesterdays
8. Any old time
9. I gotta right to sing the blues
10. My last affair
11. Moanin' low
12. That ole devil called love
13. I cried for you
14. The way you look tonight
15. Pennies from heaven
16. I cover the waterfront
17. A sailboat in the moonlight
18. Long gone blues
19. This year's kisses
20. Carelessly

Disc 3:

1. They can't take that away from me
2. The man I love
3. Fine and mellow
4. The mood that I'm in
5. Mean to me
6. I can't get started
7. Ghost of yesterday
8. Swing brother swing
9. Did I remember?
10. I'll never be the same
11. I'm gonna lock my heart
12. No regrets
13. A fine romance
14. Who loves you?
15. I'll get by (alternate take)
16. Trav'lin light
17. Solitude
18. I've got my love to keep you warm
19. Good morning heartache
20. These 'n' that 'n' those

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3131 in Music
• Released on: 2002-09-02
• Number of discs: 3
• Format: Box set

Customer Reviews

Strange Fruit...the greatest song ever
I love Billie Holiday and have for a long time.
Her voice haunts my soul every time I hear it, it reminds me of the first time I heard it in a cafe in Soho London, time seem to stand still as she sang "Strange Fruit".
This box set is a perfect start to her music and you can see the all other music from jazz to hip hop flowing through it, if you have never heard her sing then I plead with you to buy this boxset and start a journey that will take you to new highs.

A good start to female jazz vocals and from the queen herself.

This is what music supposed to be
It's so sad that there's nothing like this is being produced anymore. The music is what MUSIC supposed to be: powerful, soulful, joyful, relaxing, entertaining, pleasuring... what else can I say! I'm like flying on the clouds. Now I'm angry at myself why I've been this late to listen to these songs.

The Lady Sings The Blues
Billie Holiday is simply one of the best jazz singers of the day, and remains a legend today in spite of having recieved no technical training. Her inimitable voice produces an acute and dramaticly intense sound. It is hard to imagine that this is the same women who had to be dragged physically to her first recording session, due to an attack of nerves. 'Strange Fruit' is perhaps the most famous song in this collection, written about the racist lynchings in the American South that were still very much a reality when she sang it. Her voice cuts angrily through the song with an anguish which feels very potently real. There are also tenderer moments, Holiday's love songs are some of the most moving you'll ever hear 'The man I love' and and 'I can't give you anything but love' are keynotes, but all the tracks on this box set have much to recommend them. This is music with real feeling, beautifully expressed and sung wonderfully well by a woman in her artistic prime.