1952 studio album by Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday Sings (MGC-118) is a 10-inch LP album made by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released in the United States on Mercury Records in 1952 and on Clef Records in 1953.[3][6] It was her first album for Clef, and her first album of original material, following several compilations of previously released 78-rpm sides on the Columbia, Commodore, and Decca record labels.
In 1956, when the 10-inch format was phased out, the album was reissued by Clef Records as Solitude (MG C-690),[7] with four extra tracks recorded at a second session sometime in April 1952 (exact date unknown), with the same musicians.[8] The final track, "Tenderly", had been previously released on her second 10-inch LP, An Evening with Billie Holiday (MG C-144). The other three new songs had been previously released on her third 10-inch LP, simply titled Billie Holiday (MG C-161).[9]
There is a compilation album with the same title, Billie Holiday Sings, released in 1950 by Columbia Records as a 10-inch LP (CL 6129).[3] It includes old 78-rpm sides from the mid 1930s to the early 1940s, with Holiday accompanied by Lester Young, Teddy Wilson, Buck Clayton and Claude Thornhill among others.[10]
1952 10-inch LP, Billie Holiday Sings
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A side
- "I Only Have Eyes for You" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:57
- "You Turned the Tables on Me" (Louis Alter, Sidney D. Mitchell) – 3:29
- "Blue Moon" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:31
- "(In My) Solitude" (Eddie DeLange, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 3:31
B side
- "These Foolish Things" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) – 3:38
- "(You'd Be So) Easy to Love" (Cole Porter) – 3:01
- "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 2:56
- "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" (Brooks Bowman) – 2:54
1956 12-inch LP, Solitude
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A side
- "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" (Brooks Bowman) – 2:54
- "Blue Moon" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:31
- "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 2:56
- "You Turned the Tables on Me" (Louis Alter, Sidney D. Mitchell) – 3:29
- "You'd Be So Easy to Love" (Cole Porter) – 3:01
- "These Foolish Things" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) – 3:38
B side
- "I Only Have Eyes for You" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:57
- "(In My) Solitude" (Eddie DeLange, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 3:31
- "Everything I Have Is Yours" (Harold Adamson, Burton Lane) – 3:43
- "Love for Sale" (Porter) – 2:56
- "Moonglow" (Eddie DeLange, Will Hudson, Irving Mills) – 2:58
- "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 3:23
- ^ Billie Holiday Sings at AllMusic.
- ^ "Billie Holiday". DownBeat. Vol. 20, no. 1. January 14, 1953. p. 15 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ a b c d Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 4 (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 322. ISBN 978-0-19-531373-4.
- ^ Johnson, Zac. Solitude (1956) – Billie Holiday at AllMusic.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 716. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ "Clef Records Catalog: The Jazz Scene, JATP, 100, 500 series". jazzdisco.org. Retrieved February 1, 2025.
- ^ Solitude, Discogs.com, accessed December 20, 2015.
- ^ Billie Holiday Discography. billieholiday.be. Accessed December 23, 2015.
- ^ Millar, Jack (1979). Born to Sing: A Discography of Billie Holiday. Copenhagen: Jazzmedia. pp. 97–98.
- ^ "Record Reviews: Album and LP" (PDF). The Billboard. Vol. 62, no. 35. September 2, 1950. p. 41 – via WorldRadioHistory.com.
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