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Billy Remembers Billie (CD)

By: Billie Holiday (Artist)


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DISC 1 for Billy Remembers Billie (CD) Album By Billie Holiday (Artist)
1   On The Sunny Side Of The Street
2   My Old Flame
3   Fine And Mellow
4   Embraceable You
5   As Time Goes By
6   He's Funny That Way
7   I'll Get By
8   I Cover The Waterfront
9   Yesterdays
10   I'll Be Seeing You
11   Lover, Come Back To Me
12   Strange Fruit
13   God Bless The Child
14   Don't Explain
15   Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
 


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Title Note

Personnel include: Billie Holiday (vocals); Bob Bain, Jimmy McLin (guitar); David Friscina, Joseph Quadri (violin); Maurice Perlmutter (viola); Kurt Reher (cello); Dick Eckles (flute); Lem Davis, Bill Stegmeyer (alto saxophone); Kenneth Hollon, Armand Camgras, Hank Ross (tenor saxophone); Stan Webb (baritone saxophone); Doc Cheatham, Joe Guy (trumpet); Vic Dickenson (trombone); Eddie Heywood, Sonny White, Charles La Vere (piano); John Simmons, Lou Butterman (bass instrument); Eddie Dougherty, Nick Fatool, Sid Catlett (drums); Gordon Jenkins Singers (background vocals).

Liner Note Authors: Ashley Kahn; Billy Crystal.

Recording information: 1939 - 1950.

Arrangers: Eddie Heywood; Gordon Jenkins.

This Verve sampler has actor/comedian Billy Crystal selecting his favorite tracks by the great Billie Holiday, an unlikely association if ever there was one. However, the connection is not merely arbitrary. Milt Gabler, a producer who helped craft some of Lady Day's most memorable releases in the 1940s, was Crystal's uncle. Consequently, Crystal's first-hand familiarity with Holiday's Gabler-produced recordings inform this fine compilation. (Only one of the 15 tracks here, "God Bless the Child," was not produced by Gabler).

Strange degrees of separation aside, BILLY REMEMBERS BILLIE is an outstanding compilation that brings together some of the finest performances Holiday ever put to tape. Included here are definitive versions of "Embraceable You," "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)," and the monumental "Strange Fruit," a highly controversial song exposing racist crimes (Gabler bravely recorded it when no one else would). The mid-'40s were arguably Holiday's peak; her voice had deepened and grown more textured than in her brighter early work, but was not yet as worn as it would become on later releases. In fact, these intimate sessions, in which Holiday's sweet, aching voice is urged on by a small combo, are essentially perfect.



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