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The Essential Billie Holiday | 
| Artist: Billie Holiday
Label: Soho
Category: Music
List Price: £6.99
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 2304
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.6
UPC: 698458150226
EAN: 0698458150226
ASIN: B000077JRZ
Release Date: September 2, 2002
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | I can't give you anything but love | | • | Loverman | | • | Back in your own backyard | | • | Your mother's son-in-law | | • | Miss Brown to you | | • | On the sunny side of the street | | • | I love my man "Billie's blues" | | • | I wished on the moon | | • | Twenty-four hours a day | | • | What a little moonlight can do | | • | No more | | • | He's funny that way | | • | Nice work if you can get it | | • | My man "Mon homme" | | • | Lover, come back to me | | • | I must have that man | | • | Easy living | | • | All of me | | • | You go to my head | | • | Strange fruit |
Disc 2
| • | God bless the child | | • | I'll get by | | • | Them there eyes | | • | Some other spring | | • | These foolish things | | • | Don't explain | | • | Yesterdays | | • | Any old time | | • | I gotta right to sing the blues | | • | My last affair | | • | Moanin' low | | • | That ole devil called love | | • | I cried for you | | • | The way you look tonight | | • | Pennies from heaven | | • | I cover the waterfront | | • | A sailboat in the moonlight | | • | Long gone blues | | • | This year's kisses | | • | Carelessly |
Disc 3
| • | They can't take that away from me | | • | The man I love | | • | Fine and mellow | | • | The mood that I'm in | | • | Mean to me | | • | I can't get started | | • | Ghost of yesterday | | • | Swing brother swing | | • | Did I remember? | | • | I'll never be the same | | • | I'm gonna lock my heart | | • | No regrets | | • | A fine romance | | • | Who loves you? | | • | I'll get by (alternate take) | | • | Trav'lin light | | • | Solitude | | • | I've got my love to keep you warm | | • | Good morning heartache | | • | These 'n' that 'n' those |
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| Customer Reviews:
Strange Fruit...the greatest song ever June 2, 2006
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
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 June 23, 2004
21 out of 26 found this review helpful
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 March 24, 2003
39 out of 47 found this review helpful
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.
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