Billie Holiday discography

Billie Holiday discography
Billie Holiday discography
	Portrait from Down Beat magazine, ca. February 1947
Studio albums	12
Live albums	3
Compilation albums	24
Box sets	5

The discography of Billie Holiday consists of twelve studio albums, three live albums, twenty-four compilations, and five box sets.

Billie Holiday recorded extensively for four labels: Columbia Records, issued on its subsidiary labels Brunswick Records, Vocalion Records, and OKeh Records, from 1933 through 1942; Commodore Records in 1939 and 1944; Decca Records from 1944 through 1950; briefly for Aladdin Records in 1951; Verve Records and on its earlier imprint Clef Records; from 1952 through 1957, then again for Columbia Records from 1957 to 1958 and finally for MGM Records in 1959. Many of Holiday's recordings appeared on 78 rpm records prior to the long-playing vinyl record era, and only Clef, Verve, and Columbia issued Holiday albums during her lifetime that were not compilations of previously released material. Many compilations have been issued since her death, as well as comprehensive box sets and live recordings.^[1]^[2]

Studio albums

Clef Records/Verve Records, 1952–1959

Year	Album details
1952	Billie Holiday Sings Released: 1952 Recorded: March 26, 1952 Label: Clef Records Clef MGC 118 (10" LP version) Mercury 89002 (four 78rpm Records version)
1953	An Evening with Billie Holiday Released: 1953 Recorded: April 1, 1952 & July 27, 1952 Label: Clef Records Clef MGC 144 (10" LP version) Mercury 89028 (four 78rpm Records version)
1954	Billie Holiday Released: 1954 Recorded: April 1, 1952 & April 14, 1954 Label: Clef Records Clef MGC 161 (10" LP version) Mercury 89045 (four 78rpm Records version)
1955	Music for Torching Released: October 1955 Recorded: August 23 & August 25, 1955 Label: Clef Records Clef MGC 669 / Verve MV 2595 Format: LP
1956	Velvet Mood Released: 1956 Recorded: August 23 & August 25, 1955 Label: Clef Records Clef MGC 713 Format: LP
1956	Lady Sings the Blues Released: 1956 Recorded: June 6 & 7, 1956, September 3, 1954 Label: Clef Records Clef MGC 721 / Verve MV 2047 Format: LP
1957	Body and Soul Released: 1957 Recorded: January 3, 4, 7, & 9, 1957 Label: Verve Records Verve MGV 8197 Format: LP
1957	Songs for Distingué Lovers Released: 1957 Recorded: January 3, 4, 7, & 8, 1957 Label: Verve Records Verve MGV 8257 / Verve 2352 085 Format: LP
1958	Stay with Me Released: 1958^[3] Recorded: August 23 & August 25, 1955 Label: Clef Records Verve MGV 8302 Format: LP
1958	All or Nothing at All Released: 1958 Recorded: August 14 & 18, 1956, January 3, 7, & 8, 1957 Label: Verve Records Verve MGV 8329 Format: LP

Columbia Records, 1958

Year	Album details
1958	Lady in Satin Released: June 1958 Recorded: February 19, 20, & 21, 1958 Label: Columbia Records Columbia CL 1157 Format: LP

MGM Records, 1959

Year	Album details
1959	Last Recording Released: July 1959 Recorded: March 3, 4, & 11, 1959 Label: MGM MGM 3764 Format: LP

Live albums

Year	Album details
1954	Billie Holiday at JATP Released: 1954 Recorded: February 12, 1945 & June 3, October 7, 1946 Label: Clef Records Clef MGC 169 (10" LP version) Mercury 89053 (four 78rpm Records version)
1957	Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport Released: 1957 Recorded: July 4, 5, & 6, 1957 Label: Verve Records Verve MGV 8234 Format: LP
1961	The Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert Recorded Live Released: 1961^[4] Recorded: November 10, 1956 Label: Verve Records Verve V6-8410 Format: LP
1962	Ladylove^[5]^[6] Released: 1962 Recorded: January/February 1954 (live; Germany) Label: United Artists Records Format: LP
1964	A Rare Live Recording Of Billie Holiday Released: 1964 Recorded: October 28 & November 1, 1951, Storyville Club, Boston Label: Recording Industries Corp. - M2001 Format: LP
1971	Count Basie – At The Savoy Ballroom 1937^[7] Billie Holiday sings two songs, with Basie's band Released: 1971 Recorded: 1937 Label: SagaPan - PAN 6903 Format: LP

Compilation albums

Most of Billie Holidays' albums prior to 1952 were made up of material previously released as singles.

Year	Title	Label and Number
1946	Billie Holiday (four 78rpm Records)	Commodore CR-2
1946	Fancy Free (four 78rpm Records)	Decca DA-406
1947	Billie Holiday – Teddy Wilson: A Hot Jazz Classic Set (four 78rpm Records)	Columbia C-61
1947	A Hot Jazz Classic Set, Vol. 1 (four 78rpm Records)	Columbia-135
1947	Distinctive Song Stylings (four 78rpm Records)	Decca A-652
1949	Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra Featuring Billie Holiday (10")	Columbia CL-6040
1950	An Evening with Eddie Heywood and Billie Holiday (10")	Commodore FL 30001
1950	Ella, Lena and Billie (10")	Columbia CL 2531
1950	Billie Holiday Sings (10")	Columbia CL 6129
1950	Billie Holiday Volume One (10")	Commodore 20005
1950	Billie Holiday Volume Two (10")	Commodore 20006
1951	Billie Holiday and Teddy Wilson (7")	Columbia ESDF 1038
1951	Favorites (10")	Columbia CL 6163
1951	Lover Man (10")	Decca DL 5345
1954	Billie Holiday and Teddy Wilson Orchestras	Columbia 33 S 1034
1954	Lady Day	Columbia CL 637
1954	Billie Holiday Volume One	Jolly Roger 5020
1954	Billie Holiday Volume Two	Jolly Roger 5021
1954	Billie Holiday Volume Three	Jolly Roger 5022
1955	A Collection of Classic Jazz Interpretations by Billie Holiday (10")	Columbia B-1949
1956	A Recital by Billie Holiday	Clef MGC 686
1956	Solitude	Clef MGC 690 / Verve V6-8074
1956	Hall of Fame Series (7")	Columbia B-2534
1956	Jazz Recital (partial reissue of Billie Holiday at JATP)	Verve MGC 718
1956	The Lady Sings	Decca DL 8215
1957 (released 1999)	A Midsummer Night's Jazz at Stratford '57	Baldwin Street 308
1957	The Sound of Jazz (various artists)	Columbia CL 1098
1957	The Unforgettable Lady Day	Verve V 8338-2 2 LP
1958	The Blues Are Brewin'	Decca DL 8701
1958	Lover Man	Decca DL 8702
1958	Billie Holiday	Commodore 30008
1958 (released 1986)	At Monterey	Blackhawk 50701
1959	Seven Ages of Jazz	Metrojazz 1009
1970	Billie Holiday's Greatest Hits	Columbia – CL 2666

Box sets

Year	Title	Label and cat. nr.	Format and content
1985	Billie Holiday on Verve 1946-1959	Polydor Japan 00MJ 3480/9	10 LPs with 134 monaural tracks, incl. four prev. unrel. takes
1992	The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959	Verve 314 513 859-2	10 CDs, 256 tracks
2001	Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933–1944	Columbia/Legacy CXK 85470	10 CDs, 230 tracks
2005	The Complete Verve Studio Master Takes	Verve B0004291-02	6 CDs, 100 tracks, rec. 1952–1959, 24-bit digital remastering, ltd. edition
2009	The Complete Commodore & Decca Masters	Hip-O Select BC013146-02	3 CDs, 49 remastered tracks

Singles

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Year	Single	Chart positions
Year	Single	US Pop	US R&B
1934	"Riffin' the Scotch"	6
1935	"What a Little Moonlight Can Do"	12
	"Twenty-Four Hours a Day"	6
	"If You Were Mine"	12
1936	"You Let Me Down"	18
	"These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)"	5
	"It's Like Reaching for the Moon"	17
	"No Regrets"	9
	"Summertime"	12
	"A Fine Romance"	9
	"Let's Call a Heart a Heart"	18
	"The Way You Look Tonight"	3
	"Who Loves You?"	4
	"That's Life, I Guess"	20
	"I Can't Give You Anything but Love (Dear)"	5
1937	"Pennies from Heaven"	3
	"I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"	4
	"Please Keep Me in Your Dreams"	13
	"This Year's Kisses"	8
	"Carelessly"	1
	"How Could You"	12
	"Moanin' Low"	11
	"They Can't Take That Away from Me"	12
	"Mean to Me"	7
	"Easy Living"	15
	"Yours & Mine"	16
	"Me, Myself, and I"	11
	"A Sailboat in the Moonlight"	10
	"Getting Some Fun Out of Life"	10
	"Trav'lin' All Alone"	18
	"Nice Work If You Can Get It"	14
1938	"My Man"	12
	"You Go to My Head"	20
	"I'm Gonna Lock My Heart"	2
1939	"Strange Fruit"	16
1941	"God Bless the Child"	25
1942	"Trav'lin' Light"	23	1
1945	"Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)"	16	5

Compositions

1936: "Billie's Blues" a.k.a. "I Love My Man"
1939: "Our Love Is Different"
1939: "Long Gone Blues"
1939: "Fine and Mellow"
1939: "Everything Happens for the Best"
1940: "Tell Me More and More and Then Some"
1941: "God Bless the Child"
1944: "Don't Explain"
1949: "Somebody's on My Mind"
1949: "Now or Never"
1954: "Stormy Blues"
1956: "Lady Sings the Blues"

Never Recorded:

1939: "Lost at the Crossroads of Love"
1940: "Say I'm Yours Again"
1949: "Close Dem Eyes My Darlin'"
1952: "Please Don't Do It in Here"
1952: "You'd Do It Anyway"
1955: "Preacher Boy"
1957: "Left Alone"
1957: "Who Needs You (Baby)"

Notes

^ Billie Holiday Long Play Discography Archived February 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Billieholidaysongs.com. Retrieved on 2010-11-13.
^ Billie Holiday. AllMusic. Retrieved on 2010-11-13.
^ Discogs. Retrieved on 2014-10-08
^ Discogs. Retrieved on 2014-10-08
^ Record notes, Billie Holiday - ladylove (or Lady Love), United Artists Records, UAL 8073; notes by Leonard Feather and LeRoi Jones.
^ Billie Holiday – Ladylove, discogs.com, accessed 29 December 2014
^ Count Basie – At The Savoy Ballroom 1937, discogs.com, accessed April 6, 2016
^ Song artist 250 – Billie Holiday. Tsort.info. Retrieved on 2010-11-13.

References

Millar, Jack (1994). Fine and Mellow: A Discography of Billie Holiday. London: Billie Holiday Circle. ISBN 1-899161-00-7.

[1] Billie Holiday Long Play Discography Archived February 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Billieholidaysongs.com. Retrieved on 2010-11-13.

[2] Billie Holiday. AllMusic. Retrieved on 2010-11-13.

[3] Discogs. Retrieved on 2014-10-08

[4] Discogs. Retrieved on 2014-10-08

[5] Record notes, Billie Holiday - ladylove (or Lady Love), United Artists Records, UAL 8073; notes by Leonard Feather and LeRoi Jones.

[6] Billie Holiday – Ladylove, discogs.com, accessed 29 December 2014

[7] Count Basie – At The Savoy Ballroom 1937, discogs.com, accessed April 6, 2016

[tsort.info-8] Song artist 250 – Billie Holiday. Tsort.info. Retrieved on 2010-11-13.

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Discography Awards and nominations
Albums	Billie Holiday Sings/Solitude An Evening with Billie Holiday Billie Holiday Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic Stay with Me Music for Torching Velvet Mood Lady Sings the Blues Body and Soul Songs for Distingué Lovers Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport All or Nothing at All Lady in Satin Last Recording The Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert Recorded Live Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933–1944 Lady Day Swings Remixed and Reimagined
Songs	"Ain't Nobody's Business" "As Time Goes By" "Billie's Blues" "Blue Moon" "Body and Soul" "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?" "Don't Explain" "Easy Living" "Embraceable You" "Everything Happens for the Best" "Everything Happens to Me" "Fine and Mellow" "Gloomy Sunday" "God Bless the Child" "Good Morning Heartache" "I Cover the Waterfront" "I Loves You, Porgy" "If You Were Mine" "I Thought About You" "I'll Be Seeing You" "I'll Get By" "I'll Never Be the Same" "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" "Just One of Those Things" "Lady Sings the Blues" "Left Alone" "Love for Sale" "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" "Me, Myself, and I" "Miss Brown to You" "My Man" "Moonlight in Vermont" "Night and Day" "No More" "Now or Never" "Our Love Is Different" "P.S. I Love You" "Pennies from Heaven" "Please Don't Do It Here" "Preacher Boy" "Sophisticated Lady" "Stormy Blues" "Stormy Weather" "Strange Fruit" "Sugar" "Summertime" "That Ole Devil Called Love" "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" "Too Marvelous for Words" "Trav'lin' Light" "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" "What Is This Thing Called Love?" "Why Was I Born?" "Willow Weep for Me" "You Go to My Head" "Your Mother's Son-In-Law"
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