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Billie Holiday

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Aliases
Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra
Real name
Eleanora Fagan Gough
Born
April 7, 1915
Died
July 17, 1959
Country
United States
IPI
00014281809 12 works
Affiliation
BMI
Comments
Legendary jazz vocalist, who also wrote songs
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Releases

Singles

Title Performer Release date Label
All of Me Billie Holiday June 1941 OKeh
Am I Blue Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra August 4, 1947 Columbia [US]
A Sailboat in the Moonlight Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1937 Vocalion [US]
As Time Goes By Billie Holiday 1948 Commodore
Autumn in New York Billie Holiday accompanied by Oscar Peterson 1954 Clef Records
Baby Get Lost Billie Holiday September 1949 Decca
Back in Your Own Backyard Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra April 1938 Vocalion [US]
Blue Moon Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1952 Mercury
Body and Soul Billie Holiday April 1940 Vocalion [US]
Carelessly Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday April 1937 Brunswick
Detour Ahead Billie Holiday with Tiny Grimes' Sextet May 1951 Aladdin [US]
Did I Remember Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra July 1936 Vocalion [US]
Dream of Life Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra February 1939 Vocalion [US]
East of the Sun Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1952 Mercury
Easy Living Billie Holiday with Orchestra directed by Bob Haggart August 25, 1947 Decca
Easy Living Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday June 1937 Brunswick
Easy to Love Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday November 1936 Brunswick
Eeny Meeny Miney Mo Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday November 1935 Brunswick
Falling in Love Again Billie Holiday 1940 OKeh
Georgia on My Mind Billie Holiday 1941 OKeh
Getting Some Fun Out of Life Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra October 1937 Vocalion [US]
Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer Billie Holiday March 1950 Decca
God Bless the Child Billie Holiday July 1941 OKeh
Good Morning Heartache Billie Holiday 1946 Decca
I Can't Face the Music Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra January 1954 Clef Records
I Can't Pretend Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra October 1936 Vocalion [US]
I Cover the Waterfront Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra May 1945 Commodore
If Dreams Come True Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday January 1938 Brunswick
If I Were You Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra June 1938 Vocalion [US]
(I Got a Man, Crazy for Me) He's Funny That Way Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1937 Vocalion [US]
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra July 1939 Commodore
I Hear Music Billie Holiday 1940 OKeh
I'll Be Seeing You Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra – Arranged by Eddie Heywood 1944 Commodore
I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You) Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday June 1937 Brunswick
I'll Look Around Billie Holiday with Billy Kyle and His Trio June 1947 Decca
I Love My Man Billie Holiday with Eddie Heywood and His Trio 1948 Commodore
I'm Gonna Lock My Heart Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra July 1938 Vocalion [US]
I'm in a Low Down Groove Billie Holiday 1941 OKeh
I'm Yours Billie Holiday and Eddie Heywood and His Orchestra July 1947 Commodore
I Only Have Eyes for You Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1952 Mercury
It's a Sin to Tell a Lie Billie Holiday 1949 Harmony [US]
It's Like Reaching for the Moon Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday July 1936 Brunswick
(It Will Have to Do) Until the Real Thing Comes Along Billie Holiday June 1947 Columbia [US]
I've Got a Date with a Dream Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra October 1938 Vocalion [US]
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1937 Vocalion [US]
I Wished on the Moon Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday August 1935 Brunswick
Laughing at Life Billie Holiday 1940 OKeh
Let's Call a Heart a Heart Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra October 1936 Vocalion [US]
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1937 Vocalion [US]
Love Me or Leave Me Billie Holiday 1941 OKeh
Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) Billie Holiday February 1945 Decca
Me, Myself and I (Are All in Love with You) Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1937 Vocalion [US]
My Last Affair Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday March 1937 Brunswick
My Man Billie Holiday May 1949 Decca
My Man Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal by Billie Holiday 1937 Brunswick
Nice Work if You Can Get It Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday November 1937 Brunswick
No More Billie Holiday February 4, 1946 Decca
On the Sentimental Side Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra February 1938 Vocalion [US]
Our Love Is Different Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra October 1939 Vocalion [US]
Pennies from Heaven Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday December 1936 Brunswick
Please Keep Me in Your Dreams Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra February 1937 Vocalion [US]
Please Tell Me Now Billie Holiday 1950 Decca
Practice Makes Perfect Billie Holiday October 1940 OKeh
Rocky Mountain Blues Billie Holiday with Tiny Grimes' Sextet July 1951 Aladdin [US]
Say It with a Kiss Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday November 1938 Brunswick
Says My Heart Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1938 Vocalion [US]
Sentimental and Melancholy Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday 1937 Brunswick
She's Funny That Way Billie Holiday and Eddie Heywood June 1946 Commodore
St. Louis Blues Billie Holiday – Orchestra under direction of Benny Carter February 1941 OKeh
Strange Fruit Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra May 1939 Commodore
Sugar (That Sugar Baby O' Mine) Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday February 1939 Brunswick
Summertime Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1936 Vocalion [US]
Sun Showers Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday July 1937 Brunswick
Tenderly Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra August 1953 Clef Records
The Blues Are Brewin' Billie Holiday 1951 Decca
The Man I Love Billie Holiday February 1940 Vocalion [US]
Them There Eyes Billie Holiday with Orchestra directed by Sy Oliver August 28, 1950 Decca
Them There Eyes Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra August 1939 Vocalion [US]
There Is No Greater Love Billie Holiday with Orchestra directed by Bob Haggart 1947 Decca
The Very Thought of You Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra November 1938 Vocalion [US]
This Is Heaven to Me Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1950 Decca
This Year's Kisses Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday February 1937 Brunswick
Time on My Hands Billie Holiday January 1941 OKeh
Weep No More Billie Holiday and The Stardusters February 1949 Decca
What a Little Moonlight Can Do Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday August 1935 Brunswick
What Is This Thing Called Love? Billie Holiday June 1946 Decca
When You're Smiling Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday February 1938 Brunswick
Where Is the Sun? Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1937 Vocalion [US]
Why Was I Born? Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday April 1937 Brunswick
Willow Weep for Me Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra May 1955 Clef Records
Yankee Doodle Never Went to Town Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday November 1935 Brunswick
You Can't Lose a Broken Heart Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong with Orchestra directed by Sy Oliver October 1949 Decca
You Go to My Head Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1938 Vocalion [US]
You're a Lucky Guy Billie Holiday 1940 Vocalion [US]
You're Gonna See a Lot of Me Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday 1939 Brunswick
You're My Thrill Billie Holiday November 21, 1949 Decca
You're So Desirable Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday 1939 Brunswick
You Turned the Tables on Me Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1952 Mercury

Performances also appear on

Tributes

Title Performer Release date Label
Abbey Sings Billie Abbey Lincoln 1989 Enja Records
Abbey Sings Billie - Volume 2 Abbey Lincoln 1992 Enja Records
A Billie Holiday Songbook Lara Downes March 10, 2015 Steinway & Sons
All of Me Andra Day January 12, 2021 Warner Records
A Tribute to Billie Holiday various artists July 5, 2011 StormVox Records
A Tribute to Billie Holiday Ruth Jacott met het Metropole Orkest olv Michael Abene November 16, 2010 CNR [NL]
A Tribute to Billie Holiday The Romeyn Adams Nesbitt Quintet 2002 Cristal Records
A Tribute to Lady Day Lenanne Sylvester 1998 (self-released)
Ballads for Billie Kim Nalley 2006 CE Jazz & Blues
Bareknuckle Goddess - The Immortal Billie Holiday Ali Affleck & The Gin Mill Genies April 30, 2020 (self-released)
Because of Billie Molly Johnson 2014 Universal Music Canada
Billie Maya [JP] 2021 Ambivalence
Billie and Me - The Whiteroom Sessions Wendy Matthews July 17, 2015 (self-released)
Billie Holiday in Me Rossana Casale 2003 D'Autore
Billie Holiday Project Maurizio Brunod, Sonia Spinello, Lorenzo Cominoli 2015 Abeat Records
Billie Remembered - The Classic Songs of Billie Holiday Stephanie Nakasian November 2009 Classic Jazz Records [US]
Blueprint of a Lady - Sketches of Billie Holiday Nnenna Freelon 2005 Concord Jazz
Blues for Lady Day Mal Waldron 1973 Black Lion
Canta Billie Holiday in Rio Leila Maria October 2015 (self-released)
Caravan Kai Winding 1977 Glendale Records
Carrie Sings Billie Holiday and Hoagy Carmichael – Fine & Mellow Carrie Smith 1994 Audiophile
Celebrating Billie Holiday WDR Big Band Köln featuring Cécile Verny – Arranged and conducted by Michael Abene September 19, 2008 CMO Jazz
Coming Forth by Day Cassandra Wilson April 7, 2015 Legacy
Dani Sings Billie Dani Klein & Sal La Rocca September 18, 2015 Bass-Alive
Dear Billie, A Letter to Billie Holiday Joe Barbieri 2019 Membran
Deep Song Ranee Lee October 20, 1989 Justin Time
Detour Ahead - The Music of Billie Holiday [CD] Southside Johnny February 9, 2018 Leroy Records
Detour Ahead - The Music of Billie Holiday [LP] Southside Johnny November 24, 2017 Leroy Records
Don't Explain - Plays the Music of Billie Holiday Noël Akchoté July 30, 2015 Noël Akchoté Downloads
Echoes of Billie Gary Motley June 1998 Intersound [US]
Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959) - To Billie with Love from Dee Dee Bridgewater Dee Dee Bridgewater March 2, 2010 EmArcy
Eleanora - The Early Years of Billie Holiday Hot Sugar Band & Nicolle Rochelle November 13, 2020 (self-released)
Etta Jones Sings Lady Day Etta Jones October 16, 2001 HighNote
Every Star Above Mandy Barnett May 7, 2021 BMG Rights Management
Everything Happens for the Best Eloisa Atti January 27, 2017 Cose Sonore
Fawkes on Holiday Wally Fawkes 1958 Decca
Faye Sings Lady Day 2 - Live at Yoshi's The Dynamic Miss Faye Carol 2014 Gamble Girls Records
Faye Sings Lady Day - Live at Yoshi's The Dynamic Miss Faye Carol and Her Quartet 2008 Gamble Girls Records
Fine and Mellow Carrie Smith 1983 Audiophile
For Lady Webster Young, Paul Quinichette, Mal Waldron, Joe Puma, Earl May, Ed Thigpen 1957 Prestige [US]
For Lady Day Zoot Sims 1991 Pablo
For Lady Day Carmen McRae March 14, 1995 Novus
For Lady Day Volume 2 Carmen McRae 1995 Novus
For Lester and Billie - A Tribute to Lester Young and Billie Holiday [re-issue] Monica Zetterlund - Nisse Sandström - Horace Parlan - Red Mitchell 1994 Phontastic
From Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf The Wynton Marsalis Quintet & Richard Galliano 2009 Jazz in Marciac
Gardenias for Lady Day James Carter [US1] 2003 Columbia [US]
Ghost of Yesterday Bill Wells and Isobel Campbell 2002 Creeping Bent
Ghost of Yesterday - Shades of Lady Day Teri Roiger April 7, 2017 Dot Time Records
Good Morning Heartache Lola Haag 2002 Big Chair
Got My Own Gene Ammons 1973 Prestige [US]
Haliday Sings Holiday Paula Haliday 1965 Addit
Herbert Joos Plays Billie Holiday Songs Herbert Joos 1994 EmArcy
Here's to My Lady Rosemary Clooney 1979 Concord Jazz
Holiday in Braff Ruby Braff, Bob Wilber July 1955 Bethlehem Records
Homage to Billie Holiday - Body and Soul Tony Scott - Franco D'Andrea 1998 Philology
Homage to Lady Day Tony Scott, Franco D'Andrea Quartet 1995 Philology
I Love You Billie Nicole Herzog - Stewy von Wattenwyl Group 2016 Brambus
It's Too Hot for Words Metropolitan Jazz Octet featuring Dee Alexander October 2019 Delmark
Lady Lynne Fiddmont 2010 MidLife Records
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grilll Audra McDonald July 15, 2014 PS Classics
Lady Like - Miriam Klein Sings Billie Holiday Miriam Klein, Roy Eldridge, Dexter Gordon, Slide Hampton 1973 MPS
Left Alone Mal Waldron 1960 Bethlehem Records
Lily Swings Lily Frost August 19, 2008 Marquis
Live at Feinstein's at Loews Regency Rebecca Kilgore and The Harry Allen Quartet 2011 Arbors Records
Lover Man Carmen McRae 1962 Columbia [US]
Lover Man - A Tribute to Billie Holiday John Hicks 1993 Red Baron
Mary Coughlan Sings Billie Holiday Mary Coughlan 2000 Evangeline [GB]
Memories of Days Gone By Kira October 28, 2011 Stunt Records
Miki Sings Billie - A Tribute to Billie Holiday Miki Howard December 1993 Giant [US]
Misery - A Tribute to Billie Holiday in Memory of Thomas Shipp & Abraham Smith Laïka September 8, 2008 Blujazz
My Billie Cajsa Zerhouni November 2, 2018 Do Music Records
My Billie's Blue Luisiana Lorusso – Claudio Filippini 2016 (self-released)
My Name Is Billie Holiday Viktor Lazlo February 14, 2012 AMC
Mystery Lady - Songs of Billie Holiday Etta James March 1994 Private Music [US1]
Omaggio a Billie Holiday Ada Montellanico 2008 Casa del Jazz
On Holiday Tony Bennett February 4, 1997 Columbia [US]
On Holiday Søs Fenger January 23, 1992 Genlyd
...Play the Billie Holiday Songbook Schwaller - Eckinger - Cobb 2004 TCB
Priscilla Loves Billy Priscilla Paris 1969 Happy Tiger
Remembering Billie Scott Hamilton February 2013 Blue Duchess
Remembering Billie Monica Borrfors & Sweet Jazz Trio August 2004 Spice of Life
Selections from Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill Pamela Isaacs 1995 (self-released)
Siku Ya Bibi (Day of the Lady) Charles McPherson 1972 Mainstream Records
Strange Fruit Andra Day January 22, 2021 Warner Records
Strings for Holiday Lee Konitz 1996 Enja Records
The Billie Holiday Songbook Sean Jamaal 2001 (self-released)
The Billie Holiday Songbook Terence Blanchard 1994 Columbia [US]
Them There Eyes - A Tribute to the Music of Billie Holiday Pat Braxton 2010 Moon Sound Recordings
The Satin Album Bobby Wellins 1996 Jazzizit Records
The United States vs. Billie Holiday - Music from the Motion Picture Andra Day February 19, 2021 Warner Records
Think of Spring M. Ward December 11, 2020 Anti-
Travelin' Light with Billie Dominique Magloire 2015 (self-released)
Tribute to a Blue Lady Carole Alston October 25, 2005 (self-released)
Tribute to the Lady Sam Cooke April 1959 Keen
Two Faces Rex Bell Trio featuring Genine Latrice Perez 2015 Infrared Records
Yesterday I Had the Blues - The Music of Billie Holiday José James March 31, 2015 Blue Note