Billie Holiday - The First Verve Sessions Album
Tracklist
| 1 | I Only Have Eyes For YouBass – Ray BrownDrums – Alvin StollerGuitar – Barney KesselPiano – Oscar PetersonTenor Saxophone – Flip PhillipsTrumpet – Charlie ShaversVocals – Billie HolidayWritten-By – Dubin, Warren | 2:50 |
| 2 | Love For SaleBass – Ray BrownDrums – J.C. HeardGuitar – Barney KesselPiano – Oscar PetersonTenor Saxophone – Flip PhillipsTrumpet – Charlie ShaversVocals – Billie HolidayWritten-By – Porter | 2:52 |
| 3 | Lover Come BackBass – Ray BrownDrums – Gus JohnsonGuitar – Freddie GreenPiano, Organ – Oscar PetersonTenor Saxophone – Paul QuinichetteTrumpet – Joe NewmanVocals – Billie HolidayWritten-By – Hammerstein II, Romberg | 3:34 |
| 4 | (I Got A Man Crazy For Me) He's Funny That WayBass – Ray BrownDrums – Gus JohnsonGuitar – Freddie GreenPiano, Organ – Oscar PetersonTenor Saxophone – Paul QuinichetteTrumpet – Joe NewmanVocals – Billie HolidayWritten-By – Moret, Whiting | 4:05 |
| 5 | Everything I Have Is YoursBass – Ray BrownDrums – J.C. HeardGuitar – Barney KesselPiano – Oscar PetersonTenor Saxophone – Flip PhillipsTrumpet – Charlie ShaversVocals – Billie HolidayWritten-By – Lane, Adamson | 2:40 |
| 6 | SolitudeBass – Ray BrownDrums – Alvin StollerGuitar – Barney KesselPiano – Oscar PetersonTenor Saxophone – Flip PhillipsTrumpet – Charlie ShaversVocals – Billie HolidayWritten-By – Ellington, Delange, Mills | 3:25 |
| 7 | Blue MoonBass – Ray BrownDrums – Alvin StollerGuitar – Barney KesselPiano – Oscar PetersonTenor Saxophone – Flip PhillipsTrumpet – Charlie ShaversVocals – Billie HolidayWritten-By – Rodgers / Hart | 3:25 |
| 8 | I Cried For YouDrums – Ed ShaughnessyGuitar – Herb EllisPiano – Oscar PetersonTrumpet – Charlie ShaversVocals – Billie HolidayWritten-By – Lyman, Freed, Arnheim | 2:27 |
| 9 | Stormy WeatherBass – Ray BrownDrums – Gus JohnsonGuitar – Freddie GreenPiano, Organ – Oscar PetersonTenor Saxophone – Paul QuinichetteTrumpet – Joe NewmanVocals – Billie HolidayWritten-By – Arlen, Koehler | 3:36 |
| 10 | These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)Bass – Ray BrownDrums – Alvin StollerGuitar – Barney KesselPiano – Oscar PetersonTenor Saxophone – Flip PhillipsTrumpet – Charlie ShaversVocals – Billie HolidayWritten-By – Link, Marvell, Strachey | 3:35 |
| 11 | I Can't Face The MusicBass – Ray BrownDrums – Gus JohnsonGuitar – Freddie GreenPiano, Organ – Oscar PetersonTenor Saxophone – Paul QuinichetteTrumpet – Joe NewmanVocals – Billie HolidayWritten-By – Bloom, Koehler | 3:14 |
| 12 | RememberBass – Ray BrownDrums – J.C. HeardGuitar – Barney KesselPiano – Oscar PetersonTenor Saxophone – Flip PhillipsTrumpet – Charlie ShaversVocals – Billie HolidayWritten-By – Berlin | 2:33 |
| 13 | MoonglowBass – Ray BrownDrums – J.C. HeardGuitar – Barney KesselPiano – Oscar PetersonTenor Saxophone – Flip PhillipsTrumpet – Charlie ShaversVocals – Billie HolidayWritten-By – Delange, Mills, Hudson | 2:34 |
| 14 | YesterdaysBass – Ray BrownDrums – Gus JohnsonGuitar – Freddie GreenPiano, Organ – Oscar PetersonTenor Saxophone – Paul QuinichetteTrumpet – Joe NewmanVocals – Billie HolidayWritten-By – Kern, Harbach | 2:47 |
| 15 | You Go To My HeadBass – Ray BrownDrums – Alvin StollerGuitar – Barney KesselPiano – Oscar PetersonTenor Saxophone – Flip PhillipsTrumpet – Charlie ShaversVocals – Billie HolidayWritten-By – Gillespie, Coots | 2:53 |
| 16 | TenderlyBass – Ray BrownDrums – J.C. HeardGuitar – Barney KesselPiano – Oscar PetersonTenor Saxophone – Flip PhillipsTrumpet – Charlie ShaversVocals – Billie HolidayWritten-By – Lawrence, Gross | 3:20 |
| 17 | How Deep Is The Ocean (How High Is The Moon)Drums – Ed ShaughnessyGuitar – Herb EllisPiano – Oscar PetersonTrumpet – Charlie ShaversVocals – Billie HolidayWritten-By – Berlin | 2:57 |
| 18 | You Turned The Tables On MeBass – Ray BrownDrums – Alvin StollerGuitar – Barney KesselPiano – Oscar PetersonTenor Saxophone – Flip PhillipsTrumpet – Charlie ShaversVocals – Billie HolidayWritten-By – Alter, Mitchell | 3:25 |
| 19 | What A Little Moonlight Can DoDrums – Ed ShaughnessyGuitar – Herb EllisPiano – Oscar PetersonTrumpet – Charlie ShaversVocals – Billie HolidayWritten-By – Woods | 3:11 |
| 20 | Autumn In New YorkBass – Ray BrownDrums – J.C. HeardGuitar – Barney KesselPiano – Oscar PetersonTenor Saxophone – Flip PhillipsTrumpet – Charlie ShaversVocals – Billie HolidayWritten-By – Duke | 3:49 |
| 21 | East Of The Sun (West Of The Moon)Bass – Ray BrownDrums – Alvin StollerGuitar – Barney KesselPiano – Oscar PetersonTenor Saxophone – Flip PhillipsTrumpet – Charlie ShaversVocals – Billie HolidayWritten-By – Bowman | 2:53 |
| 22 | My ManBass – Ray BrownDrums – Gus JohnsonGuitar – Freddie GreenPiano, Organ – Oscar PetersonTenor Saxophone – Paul QuinichetteTrumpet – Joe NewmanVocals – Billie HolidayWritten-By – Willemetz, Pollock, Charles, Yvain | 2:35 |
| 23 | Easy To LoveBass – Ray BrownDrums – Alvin StollerGuitar – Barney KesselPiano – Oscar PetersonTenor Saxophone – Flip PhillipsTrumpet – Charlie ShaversVocals – Billie HolidayWritten-By – Porter | 2:58 |
| 24 | If The Moon Turns GreenBass – Ray BrownDrums – J.C. HeardGuitar – Barney KesselPiano – Oscar PetersonTenor Saxophone – Flip PhillipsTrumpet – Charlie ShaversVocals – Billie HolidayWritten-By – Hanighen, Cates | 2:44 |
Credits
- Art Direction – Beverly Parker
- Artwork [Cover Art] – Stanislaw Zagorski
- Design [Album] – Carl S. Barile
- Engineer [Reissue] – Ed Outwater
- Liner Notes – Linda Kuehl
- Producer [Orignal] – Norman Granz
- Reissue Producer [Prepared] – Robert Hurwitz
- Vocals – Billie Holiday
Notes
Gatefold SleeveTracks A1 to B2 Recorded in Los Angeles, March 26, 1952.
Tracks B3 to C3 Recorded in Los Angeles, April 1952.
Tracks C4 to D3 Recorded in New York City, July 27, 1952.
Tracks D4 to D6 Recorded in New York City, April 14, 1954.
Fabriqué en France
Distribution exclusive Polydor S.A.
Imp. SIAT . Paris
Barcodes
- Rights Society: D.R.
- Matrix / Runout (Side A): VE-2-2503-AS CP1 T1
- Matrix / Runout (Side B): VE-2-2503-BS CP1 T1
- Other (No. Record 1): 2367 265
- Other (No. Record 2): 2367 266
Companies
- Distributed By – Polydor S.A.
- Printed By – S.I.A.T.
Short intro
Billie Holiday MG C-161 is the third 10 inch LP album of original material by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released on Clef Records in 1954 her final album would also be given the same title, prior to being changed to Last Recording instead. The recordings took place in 1952 and 1954. Holiday never entered the recording studio in 1953. In a 1954 review, Down Beat magazine praises the album, saying. First Verve Sessions. 24 tracks 79:49. 3: Studio Highlights and the Legendary Cologne Concert 1954. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie. Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra. All Time Jazz: Billie Holiday, as Time Goes By, Vol. Cole Porter. Язык: Русский. Страна: США. Посмотреть сведения об участниках альбома, рецензии, композиции и приобрести альбом 53, Gatefold Vinyl от The First Verve Sessions на First Verve Sessions 1952. Album by Billie Holiday. Yesterdays 1952 Version. was sampled in. Triptych Pt. 2 by Blockhead 2003. is a cover of. Yesterdays by Irene Dunne 1933. Songs in album Billie Holiday - The Complete Storyville Club Sessions 1951. Billie Holiday - You're Driving Me Crazy. Billie Holiday - Lover Come Back To Me. Billie Holiday - Ain't Nobody's Bizz-Ness If I Do. Billie Holiday - He's Funny That Way. Billie Holiday - Billie's Blues. Billie Holiday - Miss Brown To You. Billie Holiday Sings is Ladys first full-length album, released in the United States by Clef Records in 1952 in the 10-inch format. It was reissued in 1956 with four extra tracks recorded at the same sessions at the famed Radio Recorders in Hollywood, CA, where artists as diverse as Charlie Parker, Jimmie Rodgers, Louis Armstrong, Mario Lanza, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, & The Carpenters had recorded their classics. Billes album was renamed Solitude, given a dramatic new photographic album cover and issued as a 12-inch LP on Verve Records. Velvet Mood A Recital. Album Billie Holiday Music CassettesRelated to Billie Holiday - The First Verve Sessions
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