Billie Holiday - More Hits Than Ever (2017)

The first popular jazz singer to move audiences with the intense, personal feeling of classic blues, Billie Holiday changed the art of American pop vocals forever. More than a half-century after her death, it's difficult to believe that prior to her emergence, jazz and pop singers were tied to the Tin Pan Alley tradition and rarely personalized their songs; only blues singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey actually gave the impression they had lived through what they were singing. Billie Holiday's highly stylized reading of this blues tradition revolutionized traditional pop, ripping the decades-long tradition of song plugging in two by refusing to compromise her artistry for either the song or the band. She made clear her debts to Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong (in her autobiography she admitted, "I always wanted Bessie's big sound and Pops' feeling"), but in truth her style was virtually her own, quite a shock in an age of interchangeable crooners and band singers.

TRACKLIST

01. Strange Fruit
02. Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be)
03. Summertime
04. Love for Sale
05. Easy Living
06. Stormy Weather
07. Everything I Have Is Yours
08. Do Nothin Till You Hear from Me
09. I Wished on the Moon
10. I Cried for You
11. Gone with the Wind
12. Darn That Dream
13. Mean to Me
14. For All We Know
15. Well Be Together Again
16. But Not for Me
17. Sometimes Im Happy
18. Yours and Mine
19. Lets Call a Heart a Heart
20. Embraceable You
21. If the Moon Turns Green
22. I Didnt Know What Time It Was
23. I Hadnt Anyone Till You
24. Getting Some Fun out of Life
25. Ill Be Around
26. Me, Myself And I
27. I Got a Right to Sing the Blues
28. These Foolish Things
29. Ill Wind (Youre Blowin Me No Good)
30. My Man
31. Day in, Day Out
32. Baby Wont You Please Come Home
33. Ive Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
34. Solitude
35. Moonglow
36. God Bless the Child
37. Its Easy to Remember
38. I Get a Kick out of You
39. Easy to Love
40. Love Is Here to Stay
41. Come Rain or Come Shine
42. Lets Call the Whole Thing Off
43. Violets for Your Furs
44. Tenderly
45. Always
46. How Could You
47. Glad to Be Unhappy
48. You Dont Know What Love Is
49. Hes Funny That Way
50. I Dont Want to Cry Anymore
51. Travlin Light
52. Say It Isnt So
53. When Its Sleepy Time Down South
54. Remember
55. You Turned the Tables on Me
56. Who Loves You
57. Im Gonna Lock My Heart
58. I Must Have That Man
59. Just One of Those Things
60. I Get Along Without You Very Well