Recital by Billie Holiday

by Billie Holiday

Recital by Billie Holiday cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1956
  • Label: Clef
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 37:02
  • Community rating: 4.25/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Expanding a previous 10-inch release, this Clef Records compilation documents a pivotal 1952 session featuring a stellar sextet that included Oscar Peterson and Charlie Shavers. The intimate, conversational swing of these tracks successfully reinvigorated her recording career in the early 1950s.

Genres

Descriptors: sophisticated, bluesy, nostalgia, storytelling, delicate

Tracklist

  1. If The Moon Turns Green (2:48)
  2. Remember (2:36)
  3. Autumn In New York (3:44)
  4. My Man (2:37)
  5. Lover, Come Back To Me (3:34)
  6. Stormy Weather (3:42)
  7. Yesterdays (2:50)
  8. He's Funny That Way (3:11)
  9. I Can't Face The Music (3:14)
  10. How Deep Is The Ocean? (2:59)
  11. What A Little Moonlight Can Do (3:13)
  12. I Cried For You (2:26)

Credits

  • AC/DC - primary artist
  • Billie Holiday - Primary Artist
  • Bernie Hanighen - Written-By
  • Paul Coates - Written-By
  • Irving Berlin - Written-By
  • Vernon Duke - Written-By
  • Albert Willemetz - Written-By
  • Channing Pollock - Written-By
  • Jacques Charles - Written-By
  • Maurice Yvain - Written-By
  • Oscar Hammerstein II - Written-By
  • Sigmund Romberg - Written-By
  • Harold Arlen - Written-By
  • Ted Koehler - Written-By
  • Jerome Kern - Written-By
  • Otto Harbach - Written-By
  • Neil Moret - Written-By
  • Richard Whiting - Written-By
  • Rube Bloom - Written-By
  • Harry Woods - Written-By
  • Abe Lyman - Written-By
  • Arthur Freed - Written-By
  • Gus Arnheim - Written-By

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