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The Complete Commodore & Decca Masters
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| Artist: Billie Holiday |
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| Label: Verve |
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Regular Price: $49.95
On Sale For: $32.97 |
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| Year: 2009 |
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Box Set
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When Columbia wouldn’t allow Billie Holiday to record the controversial “Strange Fruit,” for fear of reprisals by Southern distributors, the songstress turned to her friend Milt Gabler, owner/producer of Commodore Records. A deal was struck with Columbia for a four song one-off session for Commodore, and a decade-plus long producer/performer relationship was launched.
Milt viewed Billie Holiday as not only a great jazz singer, but also as a great pop songstress; and after she returned to Commodore in 1944 and signed with Decca later that year, the artist and the producer, who had joined Decca as an A&R man, created a series of vocal performances unrivaled since. Ms. Holiday was at the height of her vocal powers, as she rattled off one beautifully produced classic after another: “Fine And Mellow” and “Strange Fruit” for Commodore; “Lover Man,” “My Man,” “Good Morning Heartache,” “Don’t Explain,” etc. for Decca.
Here for the first time in one place is all 50 Milt Gabler produced Billie Holiday masters, plus two others completing her Decca contract. They’ve all been lovingly digitally disc transferred, sonically restored and remastered by the same team that produced the multi-Grammy Award winning “The Complete Decca Recordings,” and the Grammy-winning art director of that project, Vartan, again directed this classically handsome repackaging.
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ARTISTS
Billie Holiday |
TRACKS
Disc 1
1. Strange Fruit
2. Yesterdays
3. Fine And Mellow
4. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
5. How Am I To Know
6. My Old Flame
7. I’ll Get By
8. I Cover The Waterfront
9. I’ll Be Seeing You
10. I’m Yours
11. Embraceable You
12. As Time Goes By
13. He’s Funny That Way
14. Lover Come Back To Me
15. Billie’s Blues
16. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
Disc 2
1. Lover Man
2. Lover Man
3. That Ole Devil Called Love
4. Don’t Explain
5. You Better Go Now
6. What Is This Thing Called Love
7. Good Morning Heartache
8. No Good Man
9. Big Stuff
10. Baby, I Don’t Cry Over You
11. I’ll Look Around
12. The Blues Are Brewin’
13. Guilty
14. Deep Song
15. There Is No Greater Love
16. Easy Living
17. Solitude
18. Weep No More
19. Girls Were Made To Take Care Of Boys
Disc 3
1. I Loves You Porgy
2. My Man (Mon Homme)
3. ’Tain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do
4. Baby Get Lost
5. Keeps On A-Rainin’
6. Them There Eyes
7. Do Your Duty
8. Gimme A Pigfoot (And A Bottle Of Beer)
9. You Can’t Lose A Broken Heart
10. My Sweet Hunk O’ Trash
11. Now Or Never
12. You’re My Thrill
13. Crazy He Calls Me
14. Please Tell Me Now
15. Somebody’s On My Mind
16. God Bless The Child
17. This Is Heaven To Me |
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