The Complete Commodore Recordings

This set compiles Billie Holiday's complete sessions for Commodore label. Made between Billie's contracts for Columbia/Okeh and Decca, these recordings present her in top form, backed by excellent small groups featuring such names as Frankie Newton, Freddie Webster, Tab Smith, Vic Dickenson, Eddie Heywood, and Sidney Catlett. Among the highlights of the set are Billie's first version of the shocking "Strange Fruit", which she used to conclude her stage performances, as well as readings of famous standards she would never record again, such as "As Time Goes By" and "I'll Be Seeing You". Two rare tracks which constitute Billie's only recordings with the Artie Shaw and with the Paul Whiteman orchestras, have been added here as a bonus.

Disc 1
1: Strange Fruit
2: Yesterdays
3: Fine and Mellow
4: I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
5: Strange Fruit (Alt. Take)
6: Yesterdays (Alt. Take)
7: I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (Alt. Take)
8: How Am I to Know?
9: My Old Flame
10: I'll Get By
11: I Cover the Waterfront
12: How Am I to Know? (Alt. Take 1)
13: How Am I to Know? (Alt. Take 2)
14: How Am I to Know? (Alt. Take 3)
15: My Old Flame (Alt. Take 1)
16: My Old Flame (Alt. Take 2)
17: My Old Flame (Alt. Take 3)
18: I'll Get By (Alt. Take)
19: I Cover the Waterfront (Alt. Take 1)
20: I Cover the Waterfront (Alt. Take 2)
21: I Cover the Waterfront (Alt. Take 3)
22: I'll Be Seeing You
23: I'll Be Seeing You (Alt. Take 1)
24: I'll Be Seeing You (Alt. Take 3)

Disc 2
1: I'm Yours
2: Embraceable You (Feat. Sheryl Crow)
3: As Time Goes By
4: I'm Yours (Alt. Take 1)
5: I'm Yours (Alt. Take 2)
6: Embraceable You (Alt. Take 1)
7: Embraceable You (Alt. Take 2)
8: As Time Goes By (Alt. Take)
9: He's Funny That Way
10: Lover Come Back to Me
11: I Love My Man (Billie's Blues)
12: On the Sunny Side of the Street
13: He's Funny That Way (Alt. Take 1)
14: He's Funny That Way (Alt. Take 2)
15: He's Funny That Way (Alt. Take 3)
16: He's Funny That Way (Alt. Take 4)
17: Lover Come Back to Me (Alt. Take 1)
18: Lover Come Back to Me (Alt. Take 2)
19: Lover Come Back to Me (Alt. Take 3)
20: I Love My Man (Billie's Blues) (Alt. Take 1)
21: I Love My Man (Billie's Blues) (Alt. Take 2)
22: Any Old Time
23: Trav'lin Light

Number of Discs: 2

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