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| | Billie Holiday's Greatest Hits (Decca) | | | Music Artist : | | Billie Holiday | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Verve | | Release Date : | | 1995-06-06 | | Store Price : | | $11.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $10.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Easy Living
2. What Is This Thing Called Love?
3. Solitude
4. You're My Thrill
5. Them There Eyes
6. No More
7. God Bless the Child
8. My Man
9. Don't Explain
10. There Is No Greater Love
11. 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness if I Do
12. You Better Go Now
13. Big Stuff
14. Good Morning Heartache
15. I Loves You, Porgy [From Porgy and Bess]
16. Guilty
17. Lover Man
18. They Can't Take That Away from Me
19. That Ole Devil Called Love
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Billy at her finest!
Submitted on: 2009-05-09 |
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| I grew up listening to some of the great singers such as "Miss Holiday" You feel her pain and her truimph's she lived through her music. She will be remembered through her music forever more. She has been a major trail blazer. |
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My favourite Billie Holiday CD
Submitted on: 2009-04-09 |
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Interesting thing that Billie Holiday best remembered years were either early ones with "Columbia" (happy,swinging,small combos,Teddy Wilson on piano) or later ones for "Verve" (sad,melancholic,depressing) while nobody knows her middle years when she ruled the charts with recording for "Decca" (even lesser known are her "Commodore" recordings).
The thing is,on "Decca" Holiday was backed with strings and lush orchestras so people usually dismiss these records as "pop" rather than jazz,which is nonsense of course - she was vocally in her prime and her lazy growl was nothing if not seductive at its best.
As a "torch" singer Holiday was excellent - not a bad note here - songs all jewels ("Solitude","Crazy he calls me","That ole devil called love") and its fun to hear intro to "You're my thrill" copied note for note on Joni Mitchell's torch album "Both sides now" recorded decades later.
It has been said that strings were almost status symbol for singers at the time and nobody had to twist Holiday's arm to do it,she liked the strings,wanted them and enjoyed being surrounded with cinematic sweep.
Only strange choice is silly vocal chorus on "God bless the child" that betrays the time of recordings,everything else is first-class and luckily we even have spare original of that song recorded few years previously so even that is not bad thing.
If only for two breathtakingly beautiful Holiday singles collected here - "Don't explain" and "Lover man" - this CD is definitely worth purchase. This is the time when she actually had hits,was played on jukeboxes and finally was lifted above cult-status into big time,"Downbeat" awards as singer of the year on national level and so on,really great CD. |
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Big Unique Voice
Submitted on: 2008-10-03 |
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| The first time I heard Billie Holiday's voice was when my parents were visiting friends. I looked over their record collection and asked if I might play this Billie Holiday one. (I had never heard of her.) From the first song to the last, I was crazy about her. The cut called "You're My Thrill" was unlike anything I had ever heard before. All these years later, I never forgot that first experience and looked for this music at Amazon. Lucky for me, I found it. |
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easy on the ears....
Submitted on: 2008-01-06 |
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| Nineteen mellow arrangements and a laid back Ms Holiday make for a very pleasant hour of listening pleasure. It can set the mood for a relaxed dinner party by having this play in the background. |
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 Not even close to her Greatest
Submitted on: 2002-02-21 |
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| Although there are a few good cuts on this collection, despite the generally terrible arrangements, almost any other collection of Billie's is better. If you want a single disc Greatest Hits album, try an obscure Brit import called "Fine and Mellow." The only thing the DECCA CD has going for it is better sound quality, because it was recorded much later than most of her good recordings. |
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