Lady Day's 25 Greatest: 1933-1944

Billie Holiday | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 19, 1996)
• Original Release Date: March 19, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Asv Living Era
• ASIN: B000001HJ3
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114,187 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Your Mother's Son-In-Law

2. Miss Brown To You

3. What A Little Moonlight Can Do

4. Did I Remember?

5. I Can't Give You Anything But Love

6. I Must Have That Man

7. My Last Affair

8. Moanin' Low

9. Easy Living

10. I'll Never Be The Same

11. Swing, Brother, Swing

12. They Can't Take That Away Form Me

13. Back In Your Own Backyard

14. You Go TO My Head

15. Long Gone Blues

16. Fine And Mellow

17. Some Other Spring

18. Them There Eyes

19. Ghost Of Yesterday

20. I'll Get By

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get It For the Sound Quality, December 21, 2000

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Peter (East of Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lady Day's 25 Greatest: 1933-1944 (Audio CD)

Why purchase another Billie Holiday compilation CD when you probably already own dozens? Well, for one, the sound quality on this compilation is certainly a cut or two above the rest. Hisses are noticeably absent while preserving the highs often missing from most of Billie's compiled stuff. Since it's officially an import CD from England sold at an "unimported" price, affordable--that is, the Billie fan should get it for its bargain value. It collects songs from Billie's golden period from her Columbia days (most in 1930s) and adds several tracks from her Decca period (mid '40s), so you know the songs all show Billie well before her publicized decline. It really is refreshing hearing the same tracks on this CD sounding totally different (and better) than ones on your old Columbia and Decca's. Of interest are also two live tracks taken from a concert in 1944, so you get to hear a peak Billie in a concert setting. Worth the effort getting this.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For All Fans of Billie, April 7, 2002

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Charles Andrews (Fort Worth, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lady Day's 25 Greatest: 1933-1944 (Audio CD)

The only disappointment is the omission of "Autumn in New York" my personal favorite, although I believe recorded outside the scope of this album.