Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Your Mother's Son in Law
2. Riffin' the Scotch
3. I Wished on the Moon
4. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
5. Miss Brown to You
6. Sunbonnet Blue and a Yellow Straw Hat
7. What a Night, What a Moon, What a Girl
8. I'm Painting the Town Red
9. It's Too Hot for Words
10. Twenty-Four Hours a Day
11. Yankee-Doodle Never Went to Town
12. Eeny Meeny Miney Moo
13. If You Were Mine
14. These'n That N' Those
15. You Let Me Down
16. Spreadin' Rhythm Around
17. Life Begins When You're in Love
18. It's Like Reaching for the Moon
19. These Foolish Things

Disc 2:

1. I Cried for You
2. Guess Who
3. Did I Remember
4. No Regrets
5. Summertime
6. Billie's Blues
7. Fine Romance
8. I Can't Pretend
9. One, Two, Button Your Shoe
10. Let's Call a Heart a Heart
11. Easy to Love
12. With Thee I Swing
13. Way You Look Tonight
14. Who Loves You
15. Pennies from Heaven
16. That's Life I Guess
17. I Can't Give You Anything ButLove
18. One Never Know, Does One?
19. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm

Disc 3:

1. If My Heart Could Only Talk
2. Please Keep Me in Your Dreams
3. He Ain't Got Rhythm
4. This Year's Kisses
5. Why Was I Born?
6. I Must Have That Man
7. Mood That I'm In
8. You Showed Me the Way
9. Sentimental and Melancholy
10. My Last Affair
11. How Could You?
12. Moanin' Low
13. Where Is the Sun?
14. Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
15. They Can't Take That Away from Me
16. I Don't Know If I'm Coming orGoing
17. Sun Showers
18. Yours and Mine

Disc 4:

1. I'll Get By
2. Mean to Me
3. Foolin' Myself
4. Easy Livin'
5. I'll Never Be the Same
6. Me, Myself and I
7. Sailboat in the Moonlight
8. Born to Love
9. Without Your Love
10. Getting Some Fun out of Life
11. Who Wants Love?
12. Trav'lin' All Alone
13. He's Funny That Way
14. Nice Work If You Can Get It
15. Things Are Looking Up
16. My Man
17. Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
18. My First Impression of You
19. When You're Smiling

Disc 5:

1. I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me
2. If Dreams Come True
3. Now They Call It Swing
4. On the Sentimental Side
5. Back in Your Own Backyard
6. When a Woman Loves a Man
7. You Go to My Head
8. Moon Looks Down and Laughs
9. If I Were You
10. Forget If You Can
11. Having Myself a Time
12. Says My Heart
13. I Wish I Had You
14. I'm Gonna Lock My Heart
15. Very Thought of You
16. I Can't Get Started
17. I've Got a Date with a Dream
18. You Can't Be Mine
19. Everybody's Laughing

Disc 6:

1. Here It Is Tomorrow Again
2. Say It with a Kiss
3. April in My Heart
4. I'll Never Fail You
5. They Say
6. You're So Desirable
7. You're Gonna See a Lot of Me
8. Hello, My Darling
9. Let's Dream in the Moonlight
10. That's All I Ask of You
11. Dream of Life
12. What Shall I Say
13. It's So Easy to Blame the Weather
14. More Than You Know
15. Sugar
16. You're So Lovely to Last
17. Under a Blue Jungle Moon
18. Everything Happens for the Best
19. Why Did I Always Depend on You

Disc 7:

1. Long Gone Blues
2. Some Other Spring
3. Our Love Is Different
4. Them There Eyes
5. Swing, Brother, Swing
6. Night and Day
7. Man I Lvoe
8. You're Just a No Account
9. You're Just a Lucky Guy
10. Ghost of Yesterday
11. Body and Soul
12. What Is This Going to Get Us
13. Falling in Love Again
14. I'm Pulling Through
15. Tell Me More
16. Laughing at Life
17. Time N My Hand
18. I'm All for You
19. I Hear Music

Disc 8:

1. Same Old Story
2. Practise Makes Perfect
3. St. Louis Blues
4. Loveless Love
5. Let's Do It
6. Georgia on My Mind
7. Romance in the Dark
8. All of Me
9. I'm in a Low-Down Groove
10. God Bless the Child
11. Am I Blue?
12. Solitude
13. Jim
14. I Cover the Waterfront
15. Love Me or Leave Me
16. Gloomy Sunday
17. Wherever You Are
18. Mandy Is Two
19. It's a Sin to Tell a Lie

Disc 9:

1. Trav'lin' Light
2. Do Nothin' Till You Hear fromMe
3. How Am I to Know
4. My Old Flame
5. I'll Get By
6. I Cover the Waterfront
7. I'll Be Seeing You
8. I'm Yours
9. Embraceable You
10. As Time Goes By
11. He's Funny That Way
12. Lover Come Back to Me
13. Billie's Blues
14. On the Sunny Side of the Street
15. Lover Man
16. No More
17. That Old Devil Called Love

Disc 10:

1. Don't Explain
2. You Better Go Now
3. What Is This Thing Called Love?
4. Good Morning Heartache
5. No Good Man
6. Big Stuff
7. Baby I Don't Cry Over You
8. I'll Look Around
9. Blues Are Brewin'
10. Guilty
11. Deep Song
12. There Is No Greater Love
13. Easy Living
14. Solitude
15. Weep No More
16. Girls Were Made to Take Care of Boys
17. Porgy
18. My Man

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #69699 in Music
• Released on: 2005-06-20
• Number of discs: 10
• Formats: Box set, Import
• Dimensions: .64 pounds

Album Description
10 disc set features all of Billie's hits including 'I Wished On The Moon', 'I Can't Get Started', 'April In My Heart', 'Our Love Is Different', 'Good Morning Heartache', 'When A Woman Loves A Man', 'You're Just A No Account' and many more. Packaged in a wallet box. Membran. 2005.

Customer Reviews

great for the price
Is there such a thing as too much Billie Holiday? This box consists of 10 discs and over 180 songs from Billies early career. Great stuff, clean recordings, but, no documentation except song titles. (Suggestion: go on line for Billie's discographies that list details (such as date, band etc.) Good deal if you'd like to really explore the actual music.

THE Jazz Singer of All Time
For my money, Billie Holiday is the greatest jazz singer of all time who completely changed the way music is performed. This box set is an amazing collection of the Lady Day from the 1930's through the 1940's. It's interesting and enjoyable to listen to Billie Holiday as she perfected her craft over the years. The sound of these recordings are in really good condition especially when you consider that some of these songs were recorded over 70 years ago! I highly recommend this box set - it has given me hours and hours of enjoyment.

Lady Sings all Hues
This ten CD box set released by the Documents Classics label
consists mostly of over 180 of the classic Columbia label recordings done by the great Billie Holiday at the outset of her career, from roughly 1933 until the early 1940s.

There are no liner notes, recording personel, dates, or photos save the cover picture. Each CD comes in a cardboard sleeve with the correctly numbered song titles printed on the back.

But the good news is that these are THE classic recordings that made her reputation and started her career. Most of these sides are done with pianist Teddy Wilson and various small groups of top flight all-stars. Despite Ms. Holiday's later won reputation as a blues/torch singer many of these over 180 recordings are of all types of songs, from slow tempo to stomping swing and just about everything in between.

For a very reasonable price this box set is a remarkable bargain and if you like classic recordings of American popular music this one is worth owning. Again. a bare bones collection but the sound is okay and the music makes it more than worth the nominal price.