Track Listing

1. That Old Devil Called Love
2. Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be)
3. No More
4. Don't Explain
5. I'll Look Around
6. My Sweet Hunk O' Trash - Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong
7. 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do
8. The Blues Are Brewin'
9. What Is This Thing Called Love
10. My Man (Mon Homme)
11. I Loves You Porgy
12. Big Stuff
13. There Is No Greater Love
14. Good Morning Heartache
15. Guilty
16. You Can't Lose A Broken Heart - Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong
17. Crazy He Calls Me
18. This Is Heaven To Me - Billie Holiday, The Gordon Jenkins Singers
19. Easy Living
20. God Bless The Child - Billie Holiday, The Gordon Jenkins Singers

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11351 in Music
• Released on: 2000-10-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds
• Running time: 61 minutes

Customer Reviews

A couple of jewels among the dross - especially "I love you Porgy"
These were recordings made for Decca in the 1940s. Sound quality is perfect, her voice immaculate, what could be wrong? Sadly, the arrangements were radio friendly commercial productions - fake sounding big band, horrid sugary strings, and worst of all a hideous backing choir like you might hear on a wartime Ovaltine advert - listen to the massacre of "God bless the child" and weep. So why 4 stars? Well, there are a couple of real jewels - "That ole devil called love" is a genuinely great pop production as is "Good Morning heartache". But I would recommend anyone buys this for "I love you Porgy" recorded at the same session as the aforementioned "God save the child" after the backing singers had gone. Billie, accompanied sensitively by her working trio with Bobby Tucker on piano, produces one of her greatest performances - understated and incredibly moving. This is one of the greatest vocal performances by anyone ever. Listen to this unadorned piece of true art and you'll understand why I mourn the overdramatic fake slush of the other accompaniments. In fact, this is a 5 star track. Miles Davis singled it out for praise and said he always got Billie to sing it whenever he saw her. "My man" gets similar trio treatment and both stand out a mile in this collection. Buy it and download the four or five great tracks onto your MP3 player and discard the rest.

Billie Holiday CD
Excellent CD, but the descriptive leaflet, with Billie's holiday's picture on the outside, has a description inside of 'Camel's' 'Breathless'!