Billie Holiday Songtexte
I’m a Fool to Want You Summertime Solitude Strange Fruit All Of Me

1. Moanin' Low
2. Where Is the Sun?
3. Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
4. They Can't Take That Away From Me
5. I Don't Know If I'm Comin' or Goin'
6. Sun Showers
7. Yours and Mine
8. I'll Get By
9. Mean to Me
10. Foolin' Myself
11. Easy Living
12. I'll Never Be the Same
13. My, Myself and I
14. A Sailboat in the Moonlight
15. Born to Love
16. Without Your Love
17. Getting Some Fun Out Of Life
18. Who Wants Love?
19. Trav'lin' All Alone
20. He's Funny That Way
21. Nice Work If You Can Get It (von Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra)
22. Things Are Looking Up
23. My Man
24. Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
25. My First Impression of You

1. You’re Driving Me Crazy
2. Lover Come Back to Me
3. Ain’t Nobody’s Bizz‐Ness If I Do
4. He’s Funny That Way
5. Billie’s Blues (I Love My Man)
6. Miss Brown to You
7. Detour Ahead
8. Strange Fruit
9. Ain’t Nobody’s Bizz‐Ness If I Do
10. All Of Me
11. I Love You, Porgy
12. Miss Brown to You
13. Billie’s Blues (I Love My Man)
14. Lover Man
15. Them There Eyes
16. My Man
17. I Cover the Waterfront
18. Crazy He Calls Me
19. Lover Come Back to Me

1. Foolin’ Myself
2. God Bless the Child
3. These Foolish Things
4. My Man
5. A Fine Romance
6. Summertime
7. On The Sentimental Side
8. Back in Your Own Backyard
9. Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man
10. Georgia On My Mind
11. Easy Living
12. He’s Funny That Way
13. I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
14. The Man I Love
15. Mean to Me
16. Night And Day
17. They Can’t Take That Away From Me
18. All Of Me
19. When You’re Smiling
20. The Way You Look Tonight (von Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra)
21. Miss Brown to You
22. What a Little Moonlight Can Do (von Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra)
23. Pennies From Heaven
24. Nice Work If You Can Get It
25. Say It With A Kiss
26. Time On My Hands
27. You Go To My Head
28. Love Me or Leave Me
29. I Cover the Waterfront (von Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra)
30. It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie
31. I Can’t Give You Anything but Love
32. It’s Like Reaching for the Moon
33. The Very Thought of You
34. This Year’s Kisses
35. Body and Soul

Jazz at the Philharmonic Concerts 1945–1947 / 1952 Los Angeles Studio Session

1. Body and Soul
2. Strange Fruit
3. I Cried for You
4. Fine and Mellow
5. He’s Funny That Way
6. The Man I Love
7. Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You
8. All Of Me
9. Billie’s Blues (aka “I Love My Man”)
10. Travelin’ Light
11. He’s Funny That Way
12. Norman Granz Announcement (von Norman Granz)
13. You Better Go Now
14. You’re Driving Me Crazy
15. There Is No Greater Love
16. I Cover the Waterfront
17. Norman Granz Announcement (von Norman Granz)
18. East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)
19. Blue Moon
20. You Go To My Head
21. You Turn the Tables on Me (von Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra)
22. Easy to Love (von Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra)
23. These Foolish Things (von Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra)
24. I Only Have Eyes for You
25. Solitude

1952 Los Angeles & New York Studio Sessions / 1954 Jazz Club USA Concert - Germany

1. Everything I Have Is Yours
2. Love for Sale (von Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra)
3. Moonglow (von Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra)
4. Tenderly
5. If the Moon Turns Green (von Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra)
6. Remember
7. Autumn in New York (common take — LP) (von Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra)
8. Autumn in New York (rare take — 78)
9. My Man
10. Lover, Come Back to Me
11. Stormy Weather
12. Yesterdays
13. He’s Funny That Way
14. I Can’t Face the Music
15. MC and Leonard Feather Announcements
16. Blue Moon
17. All Of Me
18. My Man
19. Them There Eyes
20. I Cried for You
21. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
22. I Cover the Waterfront
23. Leonard Feather Announcement (von Leonard Feather)
24. Billie’s Blues (aka “I Love My Man”)

1954 Jazz Club U.S.A. Concert (conclusion) / 1954 Los Angeles & New York Studio Sessions / 1955 New York Studio Session

1. Lover, Come Back to Me
2. How Deep Is the Ocean? (von Billie Holiday and Her Band)
3. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
4. I Cried for You (von Billie Holiday and Her Band)
5. Love Me or Leave Me
6. P.S. I Love You (von Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra)
7. Too Marvelous for Words
8. Softly (von Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra)
9. I Thought About You
10. Willow Weep for Me (von Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra)
11. Stormy Blues (von Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra)
12. Say It Isn’t So
13. I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
14. I Wished on the Moon
15. Always
16. Everything Happens to Me
17. Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
18. Ain’t Misbehavin’

1955 Rehearsal at Artie Shapiro’s Home

1. Nice Work If You Can Get It
2. Discussion; Nice Work If You Can Get It
3. Mandy Is Two
4. Prelude to a Kiss
5. I Must Have That Man
6. Jeepers Creepers
7. Jeepers Creepers
8. Discussion; Jeepers Creepers
9. Discussion; Jeepers Creepers
10. Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone
11. Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone
12. Discussion; Moonlight in Vermont
13. Misery
14. Restless
15. Moonlight in Vermont
16. Everything Happens to Me
17. [discussion]
18. I Don’t Want to Cry Any More
19. I Don’t Want to Cry Any More
20. Discussion; I Don’t Want to Cry Any More
21. Everything Happens to Me
22. [discussion]
23. When You Are Away, Dear
24. [discussion]
25. It Had to Be You
26. The Mood That I’m In
27. Gone With the Wind
28. I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good)
29. [discussion]
30. A Sunbonnet Blue
31. (I Don’t Stand a) Ghost of a Chance
32. [discussion]
33. I’m Walkin’ Through Heaven With You
34. [discussion]
35. Just Friends
36. The Nearness of You
37. [discussion]
38. It’s Too Hot for Words
39. They Say
40. I Won’t Believe It

1955 Los Angeles Studio Sessions

1. I Don’t Want to Cry Any More (take 1 — false start)
2. I Don’t Want to Cry Any More (take 2 — master take)
3. Studio Talk; Prelude to a Kiss (take 1 — false start)
4. Studio Talk; Prelude to a Kiss (take 2 — incomplete)
5. Prelude to a Kiss (take 3 — master take)
6. (I Don’t Stand a) Ghost of a Chance
7. When Your Lover Has Gone (take 1 — incomplete)
8. Studio Talk; When Your Lover Has Gone (take 2 — incomplete)
9. [studio talk]
10. When Your Lover Has Gone (take 3 — master take)
11. Gone With the Wind
12. [studio talk]
13. Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone
14. It Had to Be You
15. [studio talk]
16. Nice Work If You Can Get It
17. Come Rain or Come Shine
18. I Got a Right to Sing the Blues
19. What’s New
20. A Fine Romance (take 1 — incomplete)
21. A Fine Romance (take 2 — alternate)
22. A Fine Romance (take 3 — false start)
23. A Fine Romance (take 4 — incomplete)
24. A Fine Romance (take 5 — incomplete)
25. A Fine Romance (take 6 — false start)
26. A Fine Romance (take 7 — incomplete)
27. A Fine Romance (take 8 — master take)
28. [studio talk]
29. I Hadn’t Anyone Till You

1955 Los Angeles Studio Session (conclusion) / 1956 Rehearsal at the Duftys’ Home

1. I Get a Kick Out of You
2. Everything I Have Is Yours
3. Isn’t This a Lovely Day?
4. Discussion; Misery
5. Israel
6. Misery
7. Discussion
8. I Must Have That Man!
9. Discussion
10. Strange Fruit
11. Discussion; God Bless the Child
12. [discussion]
13. God Bless the Child
14. God Bless the Child
15. [discussion]
16. God Bless the Child
17. One Never Knows, Does One?
18. [discussion]
19. Beer Barrel Polka (aka “Roll Out the Barrel”)
20. Some of These Days
21. A Yiddishe Momme
22. A Yiddishe Momme
23. [discussion]
24. Lady’s Back in Town
25. [discussion]
26. [discussion]
27. One Never Knows, Does One?
28. [discussion]
29. [unknown title]

1956 New York & Los Angeles Studio Sessions

1. Travelin’ Light (von Billie Holiday with Tony Scott and His Orchestra)
2. I Must Have That Man
3. Some Other Spring
4. Lady Sings the Blues
5. Strange Fruit
6. God Bless the Child (von Billie Holiday with Tony Scott and His Orchestra)
7. Good Morning Heartache
8. No Good Man
9. Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me (von Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra)
10. Cheek to Cheek (von Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra)
11. Ill Wind
12. Speak Low
13. We’ll Be Together Again (von Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra)
14. All or Nothing at All (von Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra)
15. Sophisticated Lady (von Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra)
16. April in Paris

1956 Carnegie Hall Concert / 1957 Los Angeles Studio Sessions

1. Lady Sings the Blues (with reading from “Lady Sings the Blues”)
2. Lady Sings the Blues
3. Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do
4. Travelin’ Light (with reading from “Lady Sings the Blues”)
5. [reading from “Lady Sings the Blues”] (von Gilbert Millstein)
6. Billie’s Blues (aka “I Love My Man”)
7. Body and Soul
8. [reading from “Lady Sings the Blues”] (von Gilbert Millstein)
9. Don’t Explain
10. Yesterdays
11. Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone
12. I’ll Be Seeing You
13. [reading from “Lady Sings the Blues”] (von Gilbert Millstein)
14. My Man
15. I Cried for You
16. Fine and Mellow
17. I Cover the Waterfront
18. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
19. I Wished on the Moon (von Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra)
20. Moonlight in Vermont (von Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra)
21. A Foggy Day (stereo)
22. I Didn’t Know What Time It Was (stereo) (von Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra)
23. Just One of Those Things (take 7 — incomplete)
24. [studio talk]
25. Just One of Those Things (take 8 — master take) (stereo)
26. [studio talk]
27. Comes Love (take 1 — alternate)
28. Comes Love (take 2 — false start)
29. Comes Love (take 3 — false start)
30. Comes Love (take 4 — master take)

1957 Los Angeles Studio Sessions

1. Day In, Day Out (stereo)
2. Darn That Dream
3. But Not for Me
4. Body and Soul
5. [studio talk]
6. Just Friends (instrumental)
7. [studio talk]
8. Stars Fell on Alabama (take 1 — incomplete)
9. Stars Fell on Alabama (take 2 — master take) (stereo)
10. Studio Talk; Say It Isn’t So (take 1 — incomplete)
11. Say It Isn’t So (take 2 — master take)
12. Studio Talk; Our Love Is Here to Stay (take 1 — false start)
13. Our Love Is Here to Stay (take 2 — master take)
14. Studio Talk; One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) (take 1 — false start)
15. One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) (take 2 — incomplete)
16. One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) (take 3 — master take) (stereo) (von Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra)
17. They Can’t Take That Away From Me
18. Embraceable You
19. Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
20. Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You?

1957 Newport Jazz Festival / 1958 Seven Ages of Jazz Concert / 1959 New York Studio Sessions With Ray Ellis

1. [Willis Conover announcement] (von Willis Conover)
2. [Johnny Mercer announcement] (von Johnny Mercer)
3. [fanfare from Oh, Lady Be Good] (von Mal Waldron, Joe Benjamin & Jo Jones)
4. Nice Work If You Can Get It
5. Willow Weep for Me
6. My Man
7. Lover, Come Back to Me
8. Lady Sings the Blues
9. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
10. [fanfare from Oh, Lady Be Good with Conover announcement] (von Mal Waldron, Joe Benjamin, Jo Jones & Willis Conover)
11. [Leonard Feather announcement] (von Leonard Feather)
12. I Wished on the Moon
13. Lover Man
14. All the Way (von Billie Holiday with Ray Ellis and His Orchestra)
15. It’s Not for Me to Say (von Billie Holiday with Ray Ellis and His Orchestra)
16. I’ll Never Smile Again
17. Just One More Chance (von Billie Holiday with Ray Ellis and His Orchestra)
18. When It’s Sleepy Time Down South (von Billie Holiday with Ray Ellis and His Orchestra)
19. Don’t Worry ’Bout Me (von Billie Holiday with Ray Ellis and His Orchestra)
20. Sometimes I’m Happy (von Billie Holiday with Ray Ellis and His Orchestra)
21. You Took Advantage of Me (von Billie Holiday with Ray Ellis and His Orchestra)
22. There’ll Be Some Changes Made (von Billie Holiday with Ray Ellis and His Orchestra)
23. ’Deed I Do (von Billie Holiday with Ray Ellis and His Orchestra)
24. All of You
25. Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home?