Music CD - Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection

	Music CD: The Ultimate Collection Artist: Billie Holiday List Price: $39.98 Our Price: $30.69 Your Save: $ 9.29 ( 23% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Hip-O Records
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Tracks: 1. Miss Brown to You - Billie Holiday, , Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra 2. What a Little Moonlight Can Do 3. I Cried for You 4. Mean to Me 5. Strange Fruit 6. Fine and Mellow 7. God Bless the Child 8. Trav'lin' Light - Billie Holiday, , Paul Whiteman Orchestra 9. My Old Flame 10. I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You) 11. Billie's Blues 12. He's Funny That Way 13. Lover Man 14. Don't Explain 15. Good Morning Heartache 16. No Good Man 17. Blues Are Brewin' 18. Solitude 19. Easy Living 20. I Loves You Porgy 21. My Man (Mon Homme) 22. 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness if I Do
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0075021034006 Label: Hip-O Records Manufacturer: Hip-O Records Number Of Discs: 3 Publisher: Hip-O Records Release Date: 2005-04-05 Studio: Hip-O Records
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: excellent collection - video clips are a nice touch Comment: This is a lovely collection of Ms. Holiday's finest. My dad wanted a copy of the 20th Century Masters Collection I have of hers and since Christmas was coming up, I decided to buy him his own copy of the disc rather than just burning him a copy. I came to [...] and looked for that disc, but saw a ad for this one - this not only had all of the songs on the other album, but a whole other CD worth, too! Plus, it has a great DVD full of concert clips and interviews. My dad was stoked when he got his present and has been listening to it nonstop for a few days now :) Customer Rating: Summary: Rip-Off Comment: The Ultimate Collection This one is a rip-off. There are not enough songs on the CD and they try to compensate by sending a DVD which freezes all over the place. Buy Lady Day instead which has tons of her songs and is a superb value. Customer Rating: Summary: A few good songs Comment: There are some good songs on this collection. Overall a good Billie Holiday presentation. Also descent quality. Customer Rating: Summary: A Collector's Must Have Comment: If you are addicted to the music and sound of Lady Day, then you must include this collection in your music porfolio. One can never get too much of Holiday. Customer Rating: Summary: You want Billie and you get Billie Comment: Loved the compilation. Nice mix of tunes and certainly hits som eof her more contreversial works. Nice packaging too, lots of music in a small and neat package. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Billie Holiday (1917-59) wore gardenias, was a teenaged prostitute, did drugs, and died with a cop posted outside her hospital bed. But with her gravel-like vocals, and behind-the-beat phrasing, she was one of the greatest singers of the twentieth century. This multimedia collection commemorates her ninetieth birthday. Two CDs contain forty two of her greatest hits, from her 1935 stint with Benny Goodman, to her chilling 1958 strings album, Lady in Satin. It features her signature songs like "Good Morning Heartache," "God Bless the Child," and her unforgettable anti-lynching number "Strange Fruit." The DVD includes film cameos with Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, photographs, posters, rehearsals and interviews with friends and musicians, including a rediscovered 1956 radio broadcast with a young Mike Wallace. Her achy artistry is timeless, and as Ashley Kahn wrote in his superb liner notes, "Billie will be there tonight, tomorrow night and a long time to come." --Eugene Holley, Jr.