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    The Ultimate Collection

    Billie Holiday - The Ultimate Collection

    04/05/2005 | Hip-o Records 

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    All Music Guide Review

    Although the title could only have been coined by a marketing department, The Ultimate Collection deserves the highest of praise. It is not only the first American compilation to survey Billie Holiday's entire 25-year career -- and astutely, at that -- but it also includes a DVD that presents the lion's share of her film and TV appearances, a full discography, and an interactive timeline. The audio discs spotlight all of Holiday's most innovative material, from the musically pioneering "Billie's Blues" and "Lover Man," in which she refined the perpetually coarse female blues form and virtually invented the slow-burn torch song, to the socially progressive "Strange Fruit" and "God Bless the Child," wherein she yoked reform concerns to beguiling pop songs and became a master of the protest song. (As it should be, the 1939 of Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" seems much more recent than the 1939 when a majority of Southerners felt lynching was justified in case of sexual assault.) The bulk of the material rightly comes from her Verve and Columbia libraries, but there are many inclusions from her breathtaking Decca and Commodore catalogs, as well as a superb version of "Trav'lin Light" from a 1942 Capitol session with accompaniment from (surprise) the outmoded but effective Paul Whiteman Orchestra. Fittingly, the program begins with one of Holiday's first sessions -- in 1933, when she provided a short vocal chorus over a reading of "Miss Brown to You" by Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra -- and it ends, on the DVD portion, with her reprising another 1933 title for the television program Art Ford's Jazz Party one year before her death. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide

    The Ultimate Collection Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • time
  • lyrics
  • 1
  • Miss Brown to You
  • 3:00
  • Sound Clip for Miss Brown to You from The Ultimate Collection


  • 2
  • What a Little Moonlight Can Do
  • 2:58
  • Sound Clip for What a Little Moonlight Can Do from The Ultimate Collection


  • 3
  • I Cried for You
  • 3:12
  • Sound Clip for I Cried for You from The Ultimate Collection


  • 4
  • Mean to Me
  • 3:08
  • Sound Clip for Mean to Me from The Ultimate Collection


  • 5
  • Strange Fruit
  • 3:11
  • Sound Clip for Strange Fruit from The Ultimate Collection


  • 6
  • Fine and Mellow
  • 3:16
  • Sound Clip for Fine and Mellow from The Ultimate Collection


  • 7
  • God Bless the Child
  • 2:57
  • Sound Clip for God Bless the Child from The Ultimate Collection


  • 8
  • Trav'lin' Light
  • 3:17
  • Sound Clip for Trav'lin' Light from The Ultimate Collection


  • 9
  • My Old Flame
  • 3:03
  • Sound Clip for My Old Flame from The Ultimate Collection


  • 10
  • I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)
  • 2:59
  • Sound Clip for I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You) from The Ultimate Collection


  • 11
  • Billie's Blues
  • 3:09
  • Sound Clip for Billie's Blues from The Ultimate Collection


  • 12
  • He's Funny That Way
  • 3:18
  • Sound Clip for He's Funny That Way from The Ultimate Collection


  • 13
  • Lover Man
  • 3:18
  • Sound Clip for Lover Man from The Ultimate Collection


  • 14
  • Don't Explain
  • 3:23
  • Sound Clip for Don't Explain from The Ultimate Collection


  • 15
  • Good Morning Heartache
  • 3:07
  • Sound Clip for Good Morning Heartache from The Ultimate Collection


  • 16
  • No Good Man
  • 3:06
  • Sound Clip for No Good Man from The Ultimate Collection


  • 17
  • The Blues Are Brewin'
  • 3:04
  • Sound Clip for The Blues Are Brewin' from The Ultimate Collection


  • 18
  • Solitude
  • 3:10
  • Sound Clip for Solitude from The Ultimate Collection


  • 19
  • Easy Living
  • 3:12
  • Sound Clip for Easy Living from The Ultimate Collection


  • 20
  • I Loves You Porgy
  • 2:56
  • Sound Clip for I Loves You Porgy from The Ultimate Collection


  • 21
  • My Man (Mon Homme)
  • 2:57
  • Sound Clip for My Man (Mon Homme) from The Ultimate Collection


  • 22
  • 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness if I Do
  • 3:19
  • Sound Clip for 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness if I Do from The Ultimate Collection


  • 23 (2)
  • Them There Eyes
  • 2:51
  • Sound Clip for Them There Eyes from The Ultimate Collection


  • 24 (2)
  • You Can't Lose a Broken Heart
  • 3:15
  • Sound Clip for You Can't Lose a Broken Heart from The Ultimate Collection


  • 25 (2)
  • You're My Thrill
  • 3:24
  • Sound Clip for You're My Thrill from The Ultimate Collection


  • 26 (2)
  • Crazy He Calls Me
  • 3:04
  • Sound Clip for Crazy He Calls Me from The Ultimate Collection


  • 27 (2)
  • Detour Ahead
  • 3:03
  • Sound Clip for Detour Ahead from The Ultimate Collection


  • 28 (2)
  • These Foolish Things
  • 3:36
  • Sound Clip for These Foolish Things from The Ultimate Collection


  • 29 (2)
  • You Go to My Head
  • 2:56
  • Sound Clip for You Go to My Head from The Ultimate Collection


  • 30 (2)
  • Love Me or Leave Me
  • 2:36
  • Sound Clip for Love Me or Leave Me from The Ultimate Collection


  • 31 (2)
  • Willow Weep for Me
  • 3:07
  • Sound Clip for Willow Weep for Me from The Ultimate Collection


  • 32 (2)
  • I Thought About You
  • 2:48
  • Sound Clip for I Thought About You from The Ultimate Collection


  • 33 (2)
  • I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
  • 3:58
  • Sound Clip for I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm from The Ultimate Collection


  • 34 (2)
  • Come Rain or Come Shine
  • 4:23
  • Sound Clip for Come Rain or Come Shine from The Ultimate Collection


  • 35 (2)
  • It Had to Be You
  • 4:03
  • Sound Clip for It Had to Be You from The Ultimate Collection


  • 36 (2)
  • What's New?
  • 4:17
  • Sound Clip for What's New? from The Ultimate Collection


  • 37 (2)
  • Lady Sings the Blues
  • 3:44
  • Sound Clip for Lady Sings the Blues from The Ultimate Collection


  • 38 (2)
  • I Cover the Waterfront (Live)
  • 3:45
  • Sound Clip for I Cover the Waterfront (Live) from The Ultimate Collection


  • 39 (2)
  • Body and Soul
  • 6:20
  • Sound Clip for Body and Soul from The Ultimate Collection


  • 40 (2)
  • But Not for Me
  • 3:50
  • Sound Clip for But Not for Me from The Ultimate Collection


  • 41 (2)
  • One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
  • 5:40
  • Sound Clip for One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) from The Ultimate Collection


  • 42 (2)
  • I'm a Fool to Want You
  • 3:24
  • Sound Clip for I'm a Fool to Want You from The Ultimate Collection


  • 43 (3)
  • Saddest Tale (DVD)

  • 44 (3)
  • The Blues Are Brewin' (DVD)

  • 45 (3)
  • Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans (DVD)

  • 46 (3)
  • My Man (Mon Homme) (DVD)

  • 47 (3)
  • Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone (DVD)

  • 48 (3)
  • Billie's Blues (DVD)

  • 49 (3)
  • Fine and Mellow (DVD)

  • 50 (3)
  • What a Little Moonlight Can Do (DVD)

  • 51 (3)
  • St. Louis Blues (DVD)

  • 52 (3)
  • I Cover the Waterfront (DVD)

  • 53 (3)
  • Swing! Brother, Swing! (DVD Audio)

  • 54 (3)
  • They Can't Take That Away from Me (DVD Audio)

  • 55 (3)
  • Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me (DVD Audio)

  • 56 (3)
  • I'll Get By (DVD Audio)

  • 57 (3)
  • I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone (DVD Audio)

  • 58 (3)
  • Jeepers Creepers (DVD Audio)

  • 59 (3)
  • Bonus Materials (DVD)(*)

    • Credits of The Ultimate Collection

    • Lois
    • Soprano (Vocal)

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