Best of Billie Holiday: 1935-1948

Original Release Date:  September 14, 1999

Track Listing

• 1. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
• 2. Eeny Meeny Miny Mo
• 3. You Let Me Down
• 4. It's Like Reaching for the Moon
• 5. These Foolish Things
• 6. Pennies from Heaven
• 7. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
• 8. This Year's Kisses
• 9. I Must Have That Man
• 10. The Mood That I'm In
• 11. Carelessly
• 12. They Can't Take That Away from Me
• 13. I'll Get By
• 14. Mean to Me
• 15. Easy Living
• 16. Born to Love
• 17. He's Funny That Way
• 18. Nice Work If You Can Get It
• 19. You Go to My Head
• 20. I'm Gonna Lock My Heart
• 21. The Very Thought of You
• 22. More Than You Know
• 23. Sugar
• 24. Strange Fruit
• 25. Fine and Mellow
• 26. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
• 27. Them There Eyes
• 28. Swing, Brother, Swing
• 29. Night and Day
• 30. The Man I Love
• 31. Body and Soul
• 32. Time on My Hands
• 33. Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)
• 34. Georgia on My Mind
• 35. All of Me
• 36. God Bless the Child
• 37. Solitude
• 38. I Cover the Waterfront
• 39. Gloomy Sunday
• 40. Mandy Is Two
• 41. My Old Flame
• 42. Embraceable You
• 43. Lover Come Back to Me
• 44. On the Sunny Side of the Street
• 45. Lover Man
• 46. That Ole Devil Called Love
• 47. Don't Explain
• 48. Good Morning Heartache
• 49. There Is No Greater Love
• 50. My Man

Credits

• George Gershwin: Composer
• Sigmund Romberg: Composer
• Irving Berlin: Composer
• Buster Bailey: Clarinet
• Danny Barker: Guitar
• Chu Berry: Sax (Tenor)
• Buck Clayton: Trumpet
• Harry "Sweets" Edison: Trumpet
• Roy Eldridge: Trumpet
• Benny Goodman: Clarinet
• Freddie Green: Guitar
• Tiny Grimes: Guitar
• Eddie Heywood: Piano
• Johnny Hodges: Sax (Alto)
• Jo Jones: Drums
• Jonah Jones: Trumpet
• John Kirby: Bass
• Mundell Lowe: Guitar
• Specs Powell: Drums
• Tab Smith: Sax (Alto), Sax (Soprano)
• Claude Thornhill: Piano
• Ben Webster: Sax (Tenor)
• Charlie Shavers: Trumpet
• Cootie Williams: Trumpet
• Lester Young: Sax (Tenor)
• Dave Barbour: Guitar
• Eddie Barefield: Sax (Alto)
• Billy Butterfield: Trumpet
• Cozy Cole: Drums
• Bob Haggart: Bass, Director
• Edmond Hall: Clarinet
• Al Klink: Sax (Alto)
• Carl Kress: Guitar
• Irving Mills: Composer
• Vido Musso: Sax (Tenor)
• Frankie Newton: Trumpet
• Babe Russin: Sax (Tenor)
• Edgar Sampson: Clarinet, Sax (Alto)
• Joe Sullivan: Piano
• George Wettling: Drums
• Jimmy McHugh: Composer
• Grachan Moncur III: Bass
• Vincent Youmans: Composer
• Stan Webb: Sax (Baritone)
• Walter Page: Bass
• Bernard Addison: Guitar
• Fred E. Ahlert: Composer
• Artie Bernstein: Bass
• Emmett Berry: Trumpet
• Denzil Best: Drums
• Billie Holiday: Composer, Vocals
• Larry Binyon: Sax (Tenor)
• Walter Bishop, Sr.: Composer
• Johnny Blowers: Drums
• Lester Boone: Sax (Alto)
• Bill Bowen: Sax (Alto)
• Toots Camarata: Arranger, Director
• Harry Carney: Clarinet, Baritone
• Russ Case: Trumpet
• Big Sid Catlett: Drums
• Doc Cheatham: Trumpet
• Kenny Clarke: Drums
• Shad Collins: Trumpet
• Lem Davis: Sax (Alto)
• Eddie DeLange: Composer
• Vic Dickenson: Trombone
• Eddie Dougherty: Drums
• Duke Ellington: Composer
• Dorothy Fields: Composer
• Gene Fields: Guitar
• Carl Frye: Sax (Alto)
• Gordon Griffin: Trumpet
• Joe Guy: Trumpet
• Oscar Hammerstein II: Composer
• Jimmy Hamilton: Clarinet
• J.C. Heard: Drums
• Milt Hinton: Bass
• Isham Jones: Composer
• Al Lewis: Composer
• Lawrence Lucie: Guitar
• Tom Mace: Clarinet
• Carmen Mastren: Guitar
• Nuncio "Toots" Mondello: Sax (Alto)
• Danny Perri: Guitar
• Cole Porter: Composer
• Allan Reuss: Guitar
• Hymie Schertzer: Sax (Alto)
• Cecil Scott: Clarinet, Sax (Tenor)
• Kermit Scott: Sax (Tenor)
• Norris "Bunny" Shawker: Drums
• Alphonse Steele: Drums
• Bill Stegmeyer: Clarinet, Director, Sax (Alto)
• Ted Sturgis: Bass
• Marty Symes: Composer
• Alain Thomas: Liner Notes
• Eddie Tompkins: Trumpet
• John Trueheart: Guitar
• Bobby Tucker: Piano
• Roy Turk: Composer
• Earle Warren: Sax (Alto)
• Jack Washington: Sax (Alto)
• Sonny White: Piano
• Albert Willemetz: Composer
• Clarence Williams: Composer
• Paul Ricci: Sax (Tenor)
• Kenneth Hollon: Sax (Tenor)
• Sammy Benskin: Piano
• Richard Clarke: Trumpet
• Joe Eldridge: Sax (Alto)
• Leslie Johnakins: Sax (Alto)
• Bernard Kaufman: Sax (Tenor)
• Joe Springer: Piano
• Terry Shand: Composer
• Armand Camgros: Sax (Tenor)
• Jimmy McLin: Guitar
• Ernie Powell: Clarinet, Sax (Tenor)
• Haig Stephens: Bass
• Stanley Payne: Sax (Tenor)
• Arthur Johnston: Composer
• Jack Cressey: Sax (Alto)
• Lewis Raymond: Composer
• Hal West: Drums
• Gilles Pétard: Reissue Producer
• Paul Chapman: Guitar
• Art Drellinger: Sax (Tenor)
• Sam Coslow: Composer
• Maceo Pinkard: Composer
• Edward Eliscu: Composer
• Jack Strachey: Composer
• Jacques Charles: Composer
• Doris Fisher: Composer
• Holt Marvell: Composer
• Sidney Mitchell: Composer
• Channing Pollack: Composer
• Doris Tauber: Composer
• William Tracey: Composer
• Maurice Yvain: Composer
• Al Sherman: Composer
• Joyce Waterhouse: Liner Note Adaptation
• Edna Alexander: Composer
• Jim Eaton: Composer
• Norman Ellis: Composer
• L. Allen: Composer
• Benny Morton's All Stars: Trombone
• John Collins: Guitar
• Allan Roberts: Composer
• Albert Casey: Guitar
• John Williams & the Tick Tocks: Bass
• Joe "Cornbread" Thomas: Sax (Tenor)
• Billy Rose: Composer
• Dave Harris: Sax (Tenor)
• Vassily Gerello: Composer
• James Sherman: Piano
• John Levy: Bass