Billie Holiday discography
| Billie Holiday discography | |
|---|---|
 Photo from Down Beat magazine, c. February 1947 | |
| Studio albums | 12 |
| Live albums | 3 |
| Compilation albums | 24 |
| Singles | 38 |
| Box sets | 6 |
The discography of Billie Holiday consists of 12 studio albums, three live albums, 24 compilations, six box sets, and 38 singles.
Holiday recorded extensively for six labels: Columbia Records (on its subsidiary labels Brunswick Records, Vocalion Records, and Okeh Records), from 1933 through 1942; Commodore Records in 1939 and 1944; Decca Records from 1944 through 1950; briefly for Aladdin Records in 1951; Verve Records and its earlier imprint Clef Records, from 1952 through 1957; again for Columbia Records from 1957 to 1958 and MGM Records in 1959. Many of Holiday's recordings were released on 78-rpm records, before the advent of long-playing vinyl records, and only Clef, Verve, and Columbia issued Holiday albums during her lifetime that were not compilations of previously released material. Many compilations have been issued since her death, including comprehensive box sets and live recordings.[1][2]
Studio albums[]
Clef Records and Verve Records, 1952–1958[]
| Year | Album details |
|---|---|
| 1952 | Billie Holiday Sings
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| 1953 | An Evening with Billie Holiday
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| 1954 | Billie Holiday
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| 1955 | Music for Torching
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| 1956 | Recital[3][4]
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Solitude[5][6]
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Velvet Mood
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Lady Sings the Blues
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| 1957 | Body and Soul
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Songs for Distingué Lovers
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| 1958 | Stay with Me
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All or Nothing at All
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Columbia Records and MGM Records, 1958–1959[]
| Year | Album details |
|---|---|
| 1958 | Lady in Satin
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| 1959 | Last Recording
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Live albums[]
| Year | Album details |
|---|---|
| 1954 | Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic
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| 1958 | Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport
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| 1961 | The Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert Recorded Live
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| 1962 | Ladylove[9][10]
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| 1964 | A Rare Live Recording of Billie Holiday
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| 1971 | Count Basie, At the Savoy Ballroom 1937[11]
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Compilation albums[]
Most of Holiday's albums prior to 1952 were made up of material previously released as singles.
| Year | Title | Label and number |
|---|---|---|
| 1946 | Billie Holiday (four 78-rpm records) | Commodore CR-2 |
| 1946 | Fancy Free (four 78-rpm records) | Decca DA-406 |
| 1947 | Teddy Wilson–Billie Holiday, Hot Jazz Classics (four 78-rpm records) | Columbia C-61 |
| 1947 | A Hot Jazz Classic Set, Vol. 1 (four 78-rpm records) | Columbia-135 |
| 1947 | Distinctive Song Stylings (four 78-rpm records) | Decca A-652 |
| 1949 | Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra Featuring Billie Holiday (10") | Columbia CL-6040 |
| 1950 | An Evening with Eddie Heywood and Billie Holiday (10") | Commodore FL 30001 |
| 1950 | Ella, Lena and Billie (10") | Columbia CL 2531 |
| 1950 | Billie Holiday Sings (10") | Columbia CL 6129 |
| 1950 | Billie Holiday Volume One (10") | Commodore 20005 |
| 1950 | Billie Holiday Volume Two (10") | Commodore 20006 |
| 1951 | Billie Holiday and Teddy Wilson (7") | Columbia ESDF 1038 |
| 1951 | Favorites (10") | Columbia CL 6163 |
| 1951 | Lover Man (10") | Decca DL 5345 |
| 1954 | Billie Holiday and Teddy Wilson Orchestras | Columbia 33 S 1034 |
| 1954 | Lady Day | Columbia CL 637 |
| 1954 | Billie Holiday Volume One | Jolly Roger 5020 |
| 1954 | Billie Holiday Volume Two | Jolly Roger 5021 |
| 1954 | Billie Holiday Volume Three | Jolly Roger 5022 |
| 1955 | A Collection of Classic Jazz Interpretations by Billie Holiday (10") | Columbia B-1949 |
| 1956 | A Recital by Billie Holiday | Clef MGC 686 |
| 1956 | Solitude | Clef MGC 690 / Verve V6-8074 |
| 1956 | Hall of Fame Series (7") | Columbia B-2534 |
| 1956 | Jazz Recital (partial reissue of Billie Holiday at JATP) | Verve MGC 718 |
| 1956 | The Lady Sings | Decca DL 8215 |
| 1957 (released 1999) | A Midsummer Night's Jazz at Stratford '57 | Baldwin Street 308 |
| 1957 | The Sound of Jazz (various artists) | Columbia CL 1098 |
| 1957 | The Unforgettable Lady Day | Verve V 8338-2 2 LP |
| 1958 | The Blues Are Brewin' | Decca DL 8701 |
| 1958 | Lover Man | Decca DL 8702 |
| 1958 | Billie Holiday | Commodore 30008 |
| 1958 (released 1986) | At Monterey | Blackhawk 50701 |
| 1959 | Seven Ages of Jazz | Metrojazz 1009 |
| 1970 | Billie Holiday's Greatest Hits | Columbia CL 2666 |
| 1993 | 16 Most Requested Songs | Columbia/Legacy CK 53776 |
Box sets[]
| Year | Title | Label and catalogue number | Format and content |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Billie Holiday on Verve 1946–1959 | Polydor Japan 00MJ 3480/9 | 10 LPs with 134 monaural tracks, including four previously unreleased takes |
| 1992 | The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945–1959 | Verve 314 513 859-2 | 10 CDs, 256 tracks |
| 2001 | Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933–1944 | Columbia/Legacy CXK 85470 | 10 CDs, 230 tracks |
| 2005 | The Complete Verve Studio Master Takes | Verve B0004291-02 | 6 CDs, 100 tracks, recorded 1952–1959, 24-bit digital remastering, limited edition |
| 2007 | Lady Day: The Master Takes and Singles | Columbia 88697 | 4 CDs, 80 tracks |
| 2009 | The Complete Commodore & Decca Masters | Hip-O Select BC013146-02 | 3 CDs, 49 remastered tracks |
Singles[]
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Pop |
US R&B | |||||
| "Riffin' the Scotch" | 1934 | 6 | — | |||
| "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" | 1935 | 12 | — | |||
| "Twenty-Four Hours a Day" | 6 | — | ||||
| "If You Were Mine" | 12 | — | ||||
| "You Let Me Down" | 1936 | 18 | — | |||
| "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" | 5 | — | ||||
| "It's Like Reaching for the Moon" | 17 | — | ||||
| "No Regrets" | 9 | — | ||||
| "Summertime" | 12 | — | ||||
| "A Fine Romance" | 9 | — | ||||
| "Let's Call a Heart a Heart" | 18 | — | ||||
| "The Way You Look Tonight" | 3 | — | ||||
| "Who Loves You?" | 4 | — | ||||
| "That's Life, I Guess" | 20 | — | ||||
| "I Can't Give You Anything but Love (Dear)" | 5 | — | ||||
| "Pennies from Heaven" | 1937 | 3 | — | |||
| "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" | 4 | — | ||||
| "Please Keep Me in Your Dreams" | 13 | — | ||||
| "This Year's Kisses" | 8 | — | ||||
| "Carelessly" | 1 | — | ||||
| "How Could You" | 12 | — | ||||
| "Moanin' Low" | 11 | — | ||||
| "They Can't Take That Away from Me" | 12 | — | ||||
| "Mean to Me" | 7 | — | ||||
| "Easy Living" | 15 | — | ||||
| "Yours & Mine" | 16 | — | ||||
| "Me, Myself, and I" | 11 | — | ||||
| "A Sailboat in the Moonlight" | 10 | — | ||||
| "Getting Some Fun Out of Life" | 10 | — | ||||
| "Trav'lin' All Alone" | 18 | — | ||||
| "Nice Work If You Can Get It" | 14 | — | ||||
| "My Man" | 1938 | 12 | — | |||
| "You Go to My Head" | 20 | — | ||||
| "I'm Gonna Lock My Heart" | 2 | — | ||||
| "Strange Fruit" | 1939 | 16 | — | |||
| "God Bless the Child" | 1941 | 25 | — | |||
| "Trav'lin' Light" | 1942 | 23 | 1 | |||
| "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" | 1945 | 16 | 5 | |||
| "Don't Explain" | 1946 | — | — | |||
Compositions[]
- 1936: "Billie's Blues" (also known as "I Love My Man")
- 1939: "Our Love Is Different"
- 1939: "Long Gone Blues"
- 1939: "Fine and Mellow"
- 1939: "Everything Happens for the Best"
- 1940: "Tell Me More and More and Then Some"
- 1941: "God Bless the Child"
- 1944: "Don't Explain"
- 1949: "Somebody's on My Mind"
- 1949: "Now or Never"
- 1954: "Stormy Blues"
- 1956: "Lady Sings the Blues"
Never recorded
- 1939: "Lost at the Crossroads of Love"
- 1940: "Say I'm Yours Again"
- 1949: "Close Dem Eyes My Darlin'"
- 1952: "Please Don't Do It in Here"
- 1952: "You'd Do It Anyway"
- 1955: "Preacher Boy"
- 1957: "Left Alone"
- 1957: "Who Needs You (Baby)"
Notes[]
- ^ Billie Holiday Long Play Discography Archived February 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Billieholidaysongs.com. Retrieved 2010-11-13.
- ^ Billie Holiday. AllMusic.com. Retrieved 2010-11-13.
- ^ Discogs, 'Recital' entry https://www.discogs.com/Billie-Holiday-Recital-By-Billie-Holiday/release/4196672
- ^ AllMusic, 'Recital' entry https://www.allmusic.com/album/a-recital-mw0000912340
- ^ Discogs, 'Solitude' entry https://www.discogs.com/Billie-Holiday-Solitude/release/4617997
- ^ AllMusic, 'Solitude' entry https://www.allmusic.com/album/solitude-verve-mw0000102964
- ^ Discogs. Retrieved 2014-10-08
- ^ Discogs. Retrieved 2014-10-08
- ^ Record notes, Billie Holiday: Ladylove (or Lady Love), United Artists Records, UAL 8073; notes by Leonard Feather and LeRoi Jones.
- ^ Billie Holiday – Ladylove, discogs.com. Accessed 29 December 2014
- ^ Count Basie, At the Savoy Ballroom 1937. Discogs.com. Accessed April 6, 2016.
- ^ "Song artist 250 – Billie Holiday". Tsort. Retrieved November 13, 2010.
References[]
- Millar, Jack (1994). Fine and Mellow: A Discography of Billie Holiday. London: Billie Holiday Circle. ISBN 1-899161-00-7.
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