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The Essential Billie Holiday [Box set]

~ Billie Holiday
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Product details

  • Audio CD (2 Sep 2002)
  • Number of Discs: 3
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: Soho
  • ASIN: B000077JRZ
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 660 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

    Popular in these categories:

    #1 in  Music > Jazz > Swing
    #1 in  Music > Jazz > Vocalists > Female
    #2 in  Music > Easy Listening > Nostalgia

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Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. I can't give you anything but love
2. Loverman
3. Back in your own backyard
4. Your mother's son-in-law
5. Miss Brown to you
6. On the sunny side of the street
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Disc: 2
1. God bless the child
2. I'll get by
3. Them there eyes
4. Some other spring
5. These foolish things
6. Don't explain
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Disc: 3
1. They can't take that away from me
2. The man I love
3. Fine and mellow
4. The mood that I'm in
5. Mean to me
6. I can't get started
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Strange Fruit...the greatest song ever, 2 Jun 2006
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.
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41 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Lady Sings The Blues, 24 Mar 2003
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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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23 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This is what music supposed to be, 23 Jun 2004
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.
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