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The Very Best of Billie Holiday

~ Billie Holiday
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  • Audio CD (23 Oct 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Spectrum
  • ASIN: B00004Y32C
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 26,477 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. That Ole Devil Called Love 2:55£0.69
Listen  2. Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) 3:18£0.69
Listen  3. No More 2:48£0.69
Listen  4. Don't Explain 3:24£0.69
Listen  5. I'll Look Around 3:15£0.59
Listen  6. My Sweet Hunk O' Trash 3:21£0.69
Listen  7. 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do 3:22£0.69
Listen  8. The Blues Are Brewin' 3:03£0.69
Listen  9. What Is This Thing Called Love? 3:07£0.69
Listen10. My Man (Mon Homme) 2:58£0.69
Listen11. I Loves You, Porgy 2:58£0.69
Listen12. Big Stuff 2:29£0.69
Listen13. There Is No Greater Love 2:59£0.69
Listen14. Good Morning Heartache 3:09£0.69
Listen15. Guilty 3:14£0.69
Listen16. You Can't Lose A Broken Heart 3:16£0.69
Listen17. Crazy He Calls Me 3:06£0.69
Listen18. This Is Heaven To Me 2:54£0.69
Listen19. Easy Living 3:14£0.69
Listen20. God Bless The Child 3:12£0.69

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4.0 out of 5 stars A couple of jewels among the dross - especially "I love you Porgy", 13 Feb 2008
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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Billie Holiday CD, 11 Jul 2009
By Loppylugs (Kent, UK) - See all my reviews
Excellent CD, but the descriptive leaflet, with Billie's holiday's picture on the outside, has a description inside of 'Camel's' 'Breathless'!
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