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The Complete Commodore/Decca Masters

Billie Holiday, Jimmy McLin (guitar), John Williams (upright bass), Eddie Dougherty (drums), Sonny White (piano), Stan Payne (tenor saxophone), Frank Newton (trumpet), Ted Smith (alto saxophone), Kenneth Hollon (tenor saxophone), John Simmons & His Orchestra, The Stardusters, John Levy (upright...

  • Release Date: 7th Dec 2018
  • Catalogue No: 7718598
  • Label: Decca
  • Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

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Contents

Lewis Allan: Strange Fruit

Work length3:12
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Sonny White (piano), Tab Smith (alto saxophone), John Williams (double bass), Eddie Dougherty (drums), Stanley Payne (tenor saxophone), Frank Newton (trumpet)
  • Recorded: 1939-04-20
  • Recording Venue: World Broadcasting Studio, New York City

Kern: Yesterdays (from Roberta)

Work length3:24
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Tab Smith (alto saxophone), John Williams (double bass), Eddie Dougherty (percussion), Jimmy McLin (guitar), Stanley Payne (tenor saxophone), Frank Newton (trumpet)
  • Recorded: 1939-04-20
  • Recording Venue: World Broadcasting Studio, New York City

Holiday: Fine and mellow

Work length3:16
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Frank Newton (trumpet), Tab Smith (alto saxophone), John Williams (double bass), Sonny White (piano), Eddie Dougherty (drums)
  • Recorded: 1939-04-20
  • Recording Venue: World Broadcasting Studio, New York City

Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler: I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues

Work length2:49
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Frank Newton (trumpet), Ted Smith (alto saxophone), Stan Payne (tenor saxophone), Kenneth Hollon (tenor saxophone), Sonny White (piano), Jimmy McLin (guitar), John Williams (upright bass), Eddie Dougherty (drums)
  • Recorded: 1939-04-20
  • Recording Venue: World Broadcasting Studio, New York City

Jack King, Dorothy Parker: How Am I To Know?

Work length2:43
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Lem Davis (alto saxophone), Sidney Catlett (drums), Teddy Walters (guitar), Vic Dickenson (trombone), Doc Cheatham (trumpet)
  • Recorded: 1944-03-25
  • Recording Venue: W.O.R. Studio, New York City

Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston: My Old Flame

Work length3:01
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Lem Davis (alto saxophone), John Simmons (double bass), Sidney Catlett (drums), Doc Cheatham (trumpet), Vic Dickenson (trombone), Eddie Heywood (piano)
  • Recorded: 1944-03-25
  • Recording Venue: W.O.R. Studio, New York City

Roy Turk, Fred E. Ahlert: I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You)

Work length2:58
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Lem Davis (alto saxophone), John Simmons (double bass), Sidney Catlett (drums), Teddy Walters (guitar), Eddie Heywood (piano), Vic Dickenson (trombone), Doc Cheatham (trumpet)
  • Recorded: 1944-03-25
  • Recording Venue: W.O.R. Studio, New York City

Edward Heyman, Johnny Green: I Cover The Waterfront

Work length3:29
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Lem Davis (alto saxophone), John Simmons (double bass), Sidney Catlett (drums), Teddy Walters (guitar), Eddie Heywood (piano), Vic Dickenson (trombone), Doc Cheatham (trumpet)
  • Recorded: 1944-03-25
  • Recording Venue: W.O.R. Studio, New York City

Fain: I'll Be Seeing You

Work length3:30
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday (vocals), Lem Davis (alto saxophone), John Simmons (double bass), Sidney Catlett (drums), Teddy Walters (guitar), Eddie Heywood (piano), Vic Dickenson (trombone), Doc Cheatham (trumpet)
  • Recorded: 1944-04-01
  • Recording Venue: W.O.R. Studio, New York City

E.Y. Harburg, John W. Green: I'm Yours

Work length3:16
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday
  • Recorded: 1944-04-01
  • Recording Venue: W.O.R. Studio, New York City

Gershwin: Embraceable You

Work length3:15
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday
  • Recorded: 1944-04-01
  • Recording Venue: W.O.R. Studio, New York City

Hupfeld: As Time Goes By

Work length3:10
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday (vocals)
  • Recorded: 1944-04-01
  • Recording Venue: W.O.R. Studio, New York City

Richard A. Whiting, Neil Moret: He's Funny That Way

Work length3:15
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday
  • Recorded: 1944-04-08
  • Recording Venue: W.O.R. Studio, New York City

Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II: Lover, Come Back To Me

Work length3:19
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Eddie Heywood (piano), John Simmons (double bass), Sidney Catlett (drums)
  • Recorded: 1944-04-08
  • Recording Venue: W.O.R. Studio, New York City

Holiday: Billie's Blues

Work length3:07
$1.10
$1.50
  • Recorded: 1944-04-08
  • Recording Venue: W.O.R. Studio, New York City

Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields: On The Sunny Side Of The Street

Work length3:01
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Eddie Heywood (piano), John Simmons (double bass), Sidney Catlett (drums)
  • Recorded: 1944-04-08
  • Recording Venue: W.O.R. Studio, New York City

Roger J. "Ram" Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman, James Davis: Lover Man

Work length3:15
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday (vocals)
  • Camarata
  • Recorded: 1945

Camarata, Sidney Keith Bob Russell: No More

Work length2:45
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday
  • Camarata And His Orchestra
  • Recorded: 1946

Doris Fisher, Allan Roberts: That Ole Devil Called Love

Work length2:52
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday
  • Camarata
  • Recorded: 1944-11-08

Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday: Don't Explain

Work length3:20
$1.10
$1.50
  • Recorded: 1946

Irving Graham, Bix Reichner: You Better Go Now

Work length2:29
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday
  • Bob Haggart & His Orchestra
  • Recorded: 1946

Porter, C: What Is This Thing Called Love

Work length3:09
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday
  • Bob Haggart & His Orchestra
  • Recorded: 1946

Ervin Drake, Dan Fisher, Ervin M. Drake, Irene Higginbotham: Good Morning Heartache

Work length3:05
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday
  • Recorded: 1946

Sammy Gallop, Dan Fisher, Irene Higginbotham: No Good Man

Work length3:04
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday
  • Bill Stegmeyer's Orchestra
  • Recorded: 1946

Bernstein: Big Stuff

Work length2:29
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday
  • Recorded: 1946

Morton Krouse: Baby, I Don't Cry Over You

Work length3:09
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday
  • Recorded: 1991

George Cory, Douglas Cross, Cory Cross, George Douglas: I'll Look Around

Work length3:12
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday
  • Recorded: 1991
  • Recording Venue: Decca Studios, New York City

Alter, L: The Blues Are Brewin'

Work length3:02
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday (vocals), John Simmons (bass), Denzil Best (drums), Bobby Tucker (piano), Lem Davis (alto saxophone), Bob Dorsey (tenor saxophone), Rostelle Reese (trumpet)
  • John Simmons & His Orchestra
  • Recorded: 1946-12-27
  • Recording Venue: Decca Studios, New York City

Richard A. Whiting, Harry Akst: Guilty

Work length3:11
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, John Simmons & His Orchestra
  • John Simmons
  • Recorded: 1958
  • Recording Venue: New York City, NY

George C. Cory Jr., Douglass Cross: Deep Song

Work length3:10
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday
  • Bob Haggart & His Orchestra
  • Recorded: 1947

Isham Jones: There Is No Greater Love

Work length2:56
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday
  • Bob Haggart
  • Recorded: 1947-02-13

Rainger: Easy Living

Work length3:10
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday
  • Bob Haggart & His Orchestra
  • Recorded: 1947

Ellington: Solitude

Work length3:07
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday
  • Bob Haggart
  • Recorded: 1947-02-13
  • Recording Venue: New York City, NY

Tom Adair, Gordon Jenkins: Weep No More

Work length3:19
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, The Stardusters
  • Camarata
  • Recorded: 1949-12-10
  • Recording Venue: New York City, NY

Ralph Blane: Girls Were Made To Take Care Of Boys

Work length3:11
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, The Stardusters, Bobby Tucker (piano), Mundell Lowe (guitar), John Levy (upright bass), Denzil Best (drums)
  • Bob Haggart
  • Recorded: 1949-12-10
  • Recording Venue: New York City, NY

DuBose Heyward, Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin: Porgy

Work length2:54
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Bobby Tucker (piano), Mundell Lowe (guitar), John Levy (upright bass), Denzil Best (drums)
  • Bob Haggart
  • Recorded: 1948-12-10
  • Recording Venue: Decca Studios, New York City

Albert Lucien Willemetz, Channing Pollock, Jacques Charles, Maurice Yvain: My Man

Work length2:55
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Bobby Tucker (piano), Mundell Lowe (guitar), John Levy (upright bass), Denzil Best (drums)
  • Recorded: 1948-12-10
  • Recording Venue: Decca Studios, New York City

Porter Grainger, Everett Robbins: Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do

Work length3:19
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Horace Henderson (piano), Buster Harding, Shadow Wilson (drums), George Duvivier (upright bass), Mundell Lowe (guitar), Sol Moore (baritone saxophone), George Dorsey (alto saxophone), Rudy Powell (alto saxophone), George Matthews (trombone), Dicky Wells (trombone), Emmett Berry (trumpet), Buck Clayton (trumpet), Jimmy Nottingham (trumpet)
  • Recorded: 1949

Billy Moore, Leonard Feather: Baby Get Lost

Work length3:13
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Buster Harding & His Orchestra
  • Buster Harding
  • Recorded: 1949

Max Korlander, Clarence Williams: Keeps On A Rainin'

Work length3:14
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Sy Oliver & His Orchestra
  • Sy Oliver
  • Recorded: 1950

Maceo Pinkard, William Tracey, Doris Tauber: Them There Eyes

Work length2:49
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday
  • Sy Oliver & His Orchestra
  • Recorded: 1950

Wesley Sox Wilson: Do Your Duty

Work length3:14
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Sy Oliver & His Orchestra
  • Sy Oliver
  • Recorded: 1951

Wesley Sox Wilson: Gimme A Pigfoot And A Bottle Of Beer

Work length2:43
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Sy Oliver & His Orchestra
  • Recorded: 1950

Flourney E. Miller, James P. Johnson: You Can't Lose A Broken Heart

Work length3:13
$1.10
$1.50
  • Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Sy Oliver & His Orchestra
  • Recorded: 1949-09-30
  • Recording Venue: New York City, NY

Flourney E. Miller, James P. Johnson: My Sweet Hunk O' Trash

Work length3:18
$1.10
$1.50
  • Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Sy Oliver & His Orchestra, Everett Barksdale (guitar), Bernie Privin (trumpet)
  • Sy Oliver
  • Recorded: 1949-09-30

Billie Holiday, Curtis Reginald Lewis: Now Or Never

Work length3:15
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sy Oliver & His Orchestra, Billie Holiday (vocals), Bernie Privin (trumpet), Sid Cooper (alto saxophone), Johnny Mince (alto saxophone), Artie Drelinger (tenor saxophone), Pat Nizza (tenor saxophone), Billy Kyle (piano), Everett Barksdale (guitar), Joe Benjamin (bass), Jimmy Crawford (drums)
  • Sy Oliver
  • Recorded: 1949-09-30
  • Recording Venue: Decca Studios, New York City

Gorney: You're My Thrill

Work length3:22
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday
  • Gordon Jenkins
  • Recorded: 1949-10-19

Bob Russell, Carl Sigman: Crazy He Calls Me

Work length3:02
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday (vocals)
  • Gordon Jenkins
  • Recorded: 1949-10-19
  • Recording Venue: New York City, NY

Arnold Clawson, Toussaint L. Pope: Please Tell Me Now

Work length3:12
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday
  • Gordon Jenkins
  • Recorded: 1950-10-19

Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday: Somebody's On My Mind

Work length2:55
$1.10
$1.50
  • Gordon Jenkins' Orchestra
  • John Simmons
  • Recorded: 1950

Arthur Herzog Jr.: God Bless The Child

Work length3:08
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Nick Fatool (drums), Lou Butterman (upright bass), Bob Bain (guitar), Charles Lavere (piano), Dent Eckels (saxophone)
  • Recorded: 1950-03-08

Ernest Schweikert, Frank Reardon: This Is Heaven To Me

Work length2:51
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday
  • Bob Haggart
  • Recorded: 1950-03-08
  • Recording Venue: New York City, NY

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