“Billie Holiday [1947]” by Billie Holiday - album review
| features in: Album Chart of 1947 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1940s |
Often listed as a 1946 issue with some discographers, but can clearly be dated to June 1947 due to its’ review then in the new releases section of Billboard Magazine. A compilation, it consists of 8 of her single sides, 6 of which date to 1944 and 2 of which were as far back as 1939, requiring my discretion to label it as it her “A-list” debut. All eight songs are covers, mostly trawling stage productions published between 1928 and 1938 for material. It’s a set of tepid tinklers and easy-listening light-swingers, only occasionally saved by the attractive vocalisations from the smoky-voiced sultry one.
The Jukebox Rebel
23–May–2012
| Tracklist |
| A | [02:50]  Billie Holiday and her Orchestra - I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) Jazz |
| B | [03:24]  Billie Holiday and her Orchestra - Yesterdays (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach) Crooner / Cabaret |
| C | [03:30]  Billie Holiday and her Orchestra - I’ll Be Seeing You (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal) Crooner / Cabaret |
| D | [02:57]  Billie Holiday and her Orchestra - I’ll Get By (Roy Turk, Fred Ahlert) Jazz |
| E | [03:30]  Billie Holiday and her Orchestra - I Cover The Waterfront (Edward Heyman, Johnny Green) Jazz |
| F | [03:19] Billie Holiday and The Eddie Heywood Trio - Lover, Come Back To Me (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) Jazz |
| G | [03:14]  Billie Holiday and The Eddie Heywood Trio - She’s Funny That Way (Richard A. Whiting, Neil Moret) Jazz |
| H | [02:43]  Billie Holiday and Eddie Heywood and his Orchestra - How Am I To Know (Jack King, Dorothy Parker) Crooner / Cabaret |
