Billie The Songwriter
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Stormy Blues
Session #71: Los Angeles, September 3, 1954 Verve records, Billie Holiday &...
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Long Gone Blues
Unusually there was time left over for an extra side, and the best of the f...
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Lady Sings The Blues
While these autumnal sides bear some of the frayed vocal moments often hear...
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Billie’s Blues [ aka “I Love My Man” ]
Billie’s first copyright, was largely improvised just before or durin...
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Fine and Mellow
…And in the control room we were all crying. When the show was over, they...
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Now Or Never
This live film of Lady with the Basie band is a lucky find for the sake of ...
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Everything Happens For The Best
…it’s clear to see that there were thought processes going on, rath...
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Signature Songs
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You’ve Changed
The Penguin Guide to Jazz expressed a basic reservation about the album, de...
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Without Your Love
The session is notable for its inclusion of some of most of Billie’s ...
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What A Little Moonlight Can Do
…sung in the film by Violet Lorraine and included an introductory verse, ...
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Trav’lin’ Light
Paul Whiteman hit number one on the Harlem Hit Parade charts for three non-...
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Strange Fruit
Holiday approached her recording label, Columbia, about the song, but the c...
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Some Other Spring
then onto an unparalleled version of Some Other Spring, one of Billie’s f...
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Me, Myself And I
It was first recorded in 1937 by many artists, as was the custom of the day...
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I Cried For You
…she holds a saucy gravitas, that no peppy tempo could ever obliterate. H...
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I Cover The Waterfront
Billie recorded this song no fewer than 14 times, across four recording ses...
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Good Morning Heartache
This song was revived by R&B/soul singer Diana Ross, when she portraye...
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Autumn In New York
The bruised optimism of this 1934 jazz standard—which allows that a New Y...
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| A | |
| Song Title | Writer(s) |
|---|---|
| A Fine Romance | Fields/Kern |
| A Foggy Day | Gershwin/Gershwin |
| A Sailboat In The Moonlight | Loeb/Lombardo |
| A Sunbonnet Blue (And A Yellow Straw Hat) | Fain/Kahal |
| A Yiddish Momme | Pollack/Yellen |
| Ain’t Misbehavin’ (I’m Savin’ My Love For You) | Brooks/Razaf/Waller |
| Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do | Grainger/Robbins |
| All Of Me | Marks/Simons |
| All Of You | Porter |
| All Or Nothing At All | Altman/Lawrence |
| All The Way | Cahn/VanHeusen |
| Always | Berlin |
| Am I Blue? | Akst/Clarke |
| Any Old Time | Artie Shaw |
| April In My Heart | Carmichael/Meinard |
| April In Paris | Duke/Harburg |
| As Time Goes By | Herman Hupfeld |
| Autumn In New York | Duke |
| B | |
| Song Title | Writer(s) |
| Baby Get Lost | Feather |
| Baby, I Don’t Cry Over You | Krouse |
| Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home | Warfield/Williams |
| Back In Your Own Backyard | Dreyer/Jolson/Rose |
| Be Fair To Me Baby | Darnell/Mesner |
| Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out The Barrel) | Brown/Timm/Vejvoda |
| Big Stuff | Bernstein |
| Billie’s Blues (I Love My Man) | Holiday |
| Billie’s Blues (Instrumental) | Holiday |
| Blue Moon | Hart/Rodgers |
| Blue Turning Grey Over You | Razaf/Waller |
| Body And Soul | Eyton/Green/Heyman/Sour |
| Born To Love | Jerome/Scholl |
| But Beautiful | Johnny Burke / James Van Heusen |
| But Not For Me | – |
| C | |
| Song Title | Writer(s) |
| Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man | Hammerstein/Kern |
| Carelessly | Ellis/Kenny/Kenny |
| Cheek To Cheek | Berlin |
| Come Rain Or Come Shine | Arlen/Mercer |
| Comes Love | Brown/Stept/Tobias |
| Crazy He Calls Me | Russell/Sigman |
| D | |
| Song Title | Writer(s) |
| ‘Deed I Do | Hirsch/Rose |
| Darn That Dream | De Lange/Van Heusen |
| Day In, Day Out | Bloom/Mercer |
| Deep Song | Cory/Cross |
| Detour Ahead | Frigo/Carter/Ellis |
| Did I Remember? | Adamson/Donaldson |
| Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me | Ellington/Russell |
| Do You Know What It Means (To Miss New Orleans) | Alter/DeLange |
| Do Your Duty | Wilson |
| Don’t Explain | Herzog/Holiday |
| Don’t Worry ’bout Me | Bloom/Koehler |
| Dream Of Life | Henderson/McRae |
| E | |
| Song Title | Writer(s) |
| East Of The Sun | Bowman |
| Easy Living | Ranger/Robin |
| Easy To Love | Porter |
| Easy To Remember | Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers |
| Eeny Meeny Miney Mo | Johnny Mercer / Matty Malneck |
| Embraceable You | Gershwin/Gershwin |
| Everybody’s Laughing | Lerner/Oakland |
| Everything Happens For The Best | Holiday/Smith |
| Everything Happens To Me | Adair/Dennis |
| Everything I Have Is Yours | Adamson/Lane |
| F | |
| Song Title | Writer(s) |
| Falling In Love Again | Hollander/Lerner |
| Fanfare From Oh, Lady Be Good | – |
| Farewell To Storyville | Williams/Williams |
| Fine And Mellow | Holiday |
| Foolin’ Myself | Lawrence/Tinturin |
| For All We Know | Sam M. Lewis / J. Fred Coots |
| For Heaven’s Sake | Don Meyer / Elsie Bretton / Sherman Edwards |
| Forget If You Can | Joy/Manus/Upham |
| G | |
| Song Title | Writer(s) |
| (I Don’t Stand A) Ghost Of A Chance | Crosby/Washington/Young |
| Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good To You? | Razaf/Redman |
| Georgia On My Mind | Carmichael/Gorrell |
| Getting Some Fun Out Of Life | Burke/Leslie |
| Ghost Of Yesterday | Herzog/Kitchings |
| Gimmie A Pigfoot (And A Bottle Of Beer) | Wilson |
| Girls Were Made To Take Care Of Boys | Blane |
| Glad To Be Unhappy | Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers |
| Gloomy Sunday | Lewis/Seress |
| God Bless The Child | Herzog/Holiday |
| Gone With The Wind | Magidson/Wrubel |
| Good Morning Heartache | Drake/Fisher/Higginbotham |
| Guess Who? | Freed/Lane |
| Guilty | Akst/Kahn/Whiting |
| H | |
| Song Title | Writer(s) |
| Having Myself A Time | Ranger/Robin |
| He Ain’t Got Rhythm | Berlin |
| He’s Funny That Way | Richard A. Whiting / Neil Moret |
| Hello, My Darling | Hollander/Loesser |
| Here It Is Tomorrow Again | Gibbons/Ringwald |
| How Am I To Know? | Jack King / Dorothy Parker |
| How Could You? | Dubin/Warren |
| How Deep Is The Ocean? | Berlin |
| I | |
| Song Title | Writer(s) |
| I Can’t Believe That You’re In Love With Me | Gaskill/McHugh |
| I Can’t Face The Music | Bloom/Koehler |
| I Can’t Get Started | Duke/Gershwin |
| I Can’t Give You Anything But Love (Baby) | Fields/McHugh |
| I Can’t Pretend | Breuder/Rusincky/Tobias |
| I Cover The Waterfront | Green/Heyman |
| I Cried For You | Arnheim/Freed/Lyman |
| I Didn’t Know What Time It Was | Hart/Rodgers |
| I Don’t Know If I’m Coming Or Going | Fien/Wainer |
| I Don’t Want To Cry Anymore | Schertzinger |
| I Get A Kick Out Of You | Porter |
| I Get Along Without You Very Well | Carmichael |
| I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) | Ellington/Webster |
| I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues | Arlen/Koehler |
| I Hadn’t Anyone Till You | Noble |
| I Hear Music | Lane/Loesser |
| I Must Have That Man | Fields/McHugh |
| I Only Have Eyes For You | Dubin/Warren |
| I Thought About You | Mercer/VanHeusen |
| I Wish I Had You | Green/Stillman/Thornhill |
| I Wished On The Moon | Parker/Ranger |
| I Won’t Believe It | Martin Block/Robinson/Selsman |
| I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone | Johnson |
| I’ll Be Around | Alex Wilder |
| I’ll Be Seeing You | Sammy Fain / Irving Kahal |
| I’ll Get By | Ahlert/Turk |
| I’ll Look Around | Cory/Cross |
| I’ll Never Be The Same | Kahn/Maineck/Signorelli |
| I’ll Never Fail You | Mizzy/Taylor |
| I’ll Never Smile Again | Lowe |
| I’m A Fool To Want You | J. Wolf / Herron / Sinatra |
| I’m All For You | Bresler/Wynn |
| I’m Gonna Lock My Heart (And Throw Away The Key) | Eaton/Shand |
| I’m In A Low Down Groove | Jacobs |
| I’m Painting The Town Red | Tobias/Newman/Stept |
| I’m Pulling Through | Herzog/Kitchings |
| I’m Walkin’ Through Heaven With You | Gordon/Turner |
| I’m Yours | Johnny Green / E.Y. Harburg |
| I’ve Got A Date With A Dream | Gordon/Revel |
| I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm | Berlin |
| If Dreams Come True | Goodman/Mills/Sampson |
| If I Were You | Bernier/Emmerich |
| If My Heart Could Only Talk | Powell/Samuels/Whitcup |
| If The Moon Turns Green | Coates/Hanighen |
| If You Were Mine | Johnny Mercer / Matty Malneck |
| Ill Wind | Arlen/Koehler |
| Isn’t This A Lovely Day | Berlin |
| Israel | Herzog/Scott |
| It Had To Be You | Jones/Kahn |
| It’s A Sin To Tell A Lie | Mayhew |
| It’s Easy To Blame The Weather | Cahn/Chaplin |
| It’s Like Reaching For The Moon | Lewis/Marqusee/Sherman |
| It’s Not For Me To Say | Allen/Stillman |
| It’s Too Hot For Words | Samuels/Whitcup/Powell |
| J | |
| Song Title | Writer(s) |
| Jeepers Creepers | Mercer/Warren |
| Jim | Petrillo/Ross/Shawn |
| Johnny Mercer Announcement | N.A. |
| Just Friends | Klenner/Lewis |
| Just One More Chance | Coslow/Johnson |
| Just One Of Those Things | Porter |
| K | |
| Song Title | Writer(s) |
| Keeps On Rainin’ | Kortlander/Williams |
| L | |
| Song Title | Writer(s) |
| Lady Sings The Blues | Holiday/Nichols |
| Lady’s Back In Town | Scott |
| Laughing At Life | Kenny/Kenny/Todd/Todd |
| Let’s Call A Heart A Heart | Burke/Johnston |
| Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off | Gershwin/Gershwin |
| Let’s Do It | Porter |
| Let’s Dream In The Moonlight | Malneck/Walsh |
| Life Begins When You’re In Love | Brown/Schertzinger |
| Long Gone Blues | Holiday |
| Love For Sale | Porter |
| Love Me Or Leave Me | Donaldson/Kahn |
| Loveless Love | Handy |
| Lover Come Back To Me | Romberg/Hammerstein |
| Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) | Davis/Ramirez/Sherman |
| M | |
| Song Title | Writer(s) |
| Mandy Is Two | McGrath/Mercer |
| Maybe You’ll Be There | Bloom/GAllop |
| Me, Myself And I (Are All In Love With You) | Gordon/Kaufman/Roberts |
| Mean To Me | Ahlert/Turk |
| Misery | Scott |
| Miss Brown To You | Ranger/Robin/Whiting |
| Moanin’ Low | Deitz/Rainger |
| Moonglow | De Lange/Hudson/Mills |
| Moonlight In Vermont | Blackburn/Suessdorf & Blackburn |
| More Than You Know | Eliscu/Rose/Youman |
| My First Impression Of You | Stept/Tobias |
| My Funny Valentine | – |
| My Man | Charles/Pollack/Williametz/Yvain |
| My Old Flame | Arthur Johnson / Sam Coslow |
| My Sweet Hunk O’trash | Johnson/Miller |
| N | |
| Song Title | Writer(s) |
| (You Ain’t Gonna Bother Me) No More | Camarata/Russell |
| Nice Work If You Can Get It | Gershwin/Gershwin |
| Night And Day | Porter |
| No Good Man | Fisher/GAllop/Higginbotham |
| No Regrets | Ingraham/Tobias |
| Norman Granz Announcement | N.A. |
| Now Or Never | Holiday/Lewis |
| Now They Call It Swing | Deleath/Hirsch |
| O | |
| Song Title | Writer(s) |
| Ole Miss (Instrumental) | Handy |
| On The Sentimental Side | Burke/Monaco |
| On The Sunny Side Of The Street | Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh |
| One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) | Arlen/Mercer |
| One Never Knows – Does One? | Gordon/Revell |
| One, Two, Button Your Shoe | Burke/Johnston |
| Our Love Is Different | Clinton/Bernier |
| Our Love Is Here To Stay | – |
| P | |
| Song Title | Writer(s) |
| (I Love You) Porgy | Gershwin/Gershwin/Heyward |
| P.S. I Love You | Jenkins/Mercer |
| Pennies From Heaven | Burke/Johnson |
| Please Keep Me In Your Dreams | Lawnhurst/Seymour |
| Please Tell Me Now | Clawson/Pope |
| Please, Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone | Clare/Palmer/Stept |
| Practice Makes Perfect | Gold/Roberts |
| Prelude To A Kiss | Ellington/Irving Gordon/Mills |
| R | |
| Song Title | Writer(s) |
| Remember | Berlin |
| Restless | Coslow/Satterfield |
| Riffin’ The Scotch | Goodman-Buck-McDonough |
| Rocky Mountain Blues | Heywoo/Tucker |
| Romance In The Dark | Coslow/Neisen |
| S | |
| Song Title | Writer(s) |
| Saddest Tale | Ellington |
| Say It Isn’t So | Berlin |
| Say It With A Kiss | Mercer/Warren |
| Says My Heart | Lane/Loesser |
| Sentimental & Melancholy | Mercer/Whiting |
| Softly | Beal/Greene |
| Solitude | DeLange/Ellington/Mills |
| Some Of These Days | Brooks |
| Some Other Spring | Wilson/Herzog |
| Somebody’s On My Mind | Herzog/Holiday |
| Sometimes I’m Happy | Caesar/Grey/Youman |
| Sophisticated Lady | Ellington/Mills/Parish |
| Speak Low | Nash/Weill |
| Spreadin’ The Rhythm Around | Koehler/McHugh |
| Squeeze Me | – |
| St. Louis Blues | Handy |
| Stars Fell On Alabama | Parish/Perkins |
| Stormy Blues | Holiday |
| Stormy Weather | Arlen/Koehler |
| Strange Fruit | Allan/Marks |
| Sugar (That Sugar Baby O’ Mine) | Alexander/Mitchell/Pinkard |
| Summertime | Gershwin/Gershwin/Heyward |
| Sun Showers | Brown/Freed |
| Swing, Brother Swing | Bishop/Raymond/Williams |
| T | |
| Song Title | Writer(s) |
| Tell Me More And More (And Then Some) | Holiday |
| Tenderly | Gross/Lawrence |
| That Ole Devil Called Love | Fisher/Roberts |
| That’s All I Ask Of You | Pope |
| That’s Life I Guess | DeRose/Lewis |
| The Blues Are Brewin’ | Alter/DeLange |
| The End Of A Love Affair | Edward C. Redding |
| The Man I Love | Gershwin/Gershwin |
| The Mood That I’m In | Sherman/Silver |
| The Moon Looks Down And Laughs | Kalmar/Ruby/Silvers |
| The Nearness Of You | Carmichael/Washington |
| The Same Old Story | Field/Oliphant |
| The Very Thought Of You | Noble |
| The Way You Look Tonight | Dorothy Fields / Jerome Kern |
| Them There Eyes | Pinkard/Tauber/William Tracey |
| There Is No Greater Love | Jones/Symes |
| There’ll Be Some Changes Made | Higgins/Overstreet |
| These ‘n’ That ‘n’ Those | Fairchild/Pascal |
| These Foolish Things | Marvell/Strachey/Walker |
| They Can’t Take That Away From Me | Gershwin/Gershwin |
| They Say | Heyman/Weiss |
| Things Are Looking Up | Gershwin/Gershwin |
| This Is Heaven To Me | Reardon/Schweikert |
| This Year’s Kisses | Berlin |
| Time On My Hands | Adamson/Gordon/Youman |
| Too Marvelous For Words | Mercer/Whiting |
| Trav’lin’ All Alone | Johnson |
| Trav’lin’ Light | Mercer/Young |
| Trav’lin’ Light, With Reading From ‘Lady Sings The Blues’ | Mercer/Young |
| Twenty-Four Hours A Day | Arthur Swanstrom / Hanley |
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| Song Title | Writer(s) |
| Under A Blue Jungle Moon | Brisben/Conway |
| Underneath The Stars | – |
| Until The Real Thing Comes Along | Chaplin/Holiner/Kahn/Nichols |
| V | |
| Song Title | Writer(s) |
| Violets For Your Furs | Tom Adair / Matt Dennis |
| W | |
| Song Title | Writer(s) |
| We’ll Be Together Again | Fischer/Laine |
| Weep No More | Adair/Jenkins |
| What A Little Moonlight Can Do | Woods |
| What A Night, What A Moon, What A Girl | Loeb |
| What Is This Going To Get Us? | Herzog/Kitchings |
| What Is This Thing Called Love? | Porter |
| What Shall I Say? | Tinturin |
| What’s New? | Burke/Haggart |
| When A Woman Loves A Man | Hanighen/Jenkins/Mercer |
| When It’s Sleepy Time Down South | Clarence Muse/Otis/Rene |
| When You Are Away, Dear | Blossom/Herbert |
| When You’re Smiling | Fisher/Goodwin/Shay |
| When Your Lover Has Gone | Swan |
| Where Is The Sun? | David/Redmond |
| Wherever You Are | Friend/Tobias |
| Who Loves You? | Coots/Davis |
| Who Wants Love? | Kahn/Waxman |
| Why Did I Always Depend On You? | Greenwood/McRae/Smith |
| Why Was I Born? | Hammerstein/Kern |
| Willis Conover Announcement | N.A. |
| Willow Weep For Me | Ronell |
| With Thee I Swing | Adlam/Hyde/Stillman |
| Without Your Love | Lange/Stryker |
| Y | |
| Song Title | Writer(s) |
| Yankee Doodle Never Went To Town | Arthur Freed / Bernie Hanighan |
| Yesterdays | Kern/Harbach |
| You Better Go Now | Graham/Reichner |
| You Can’t Be Mine (And Someone Else’s Too) | Johnson/Webb |
| You Can’t Lose A Broken Heart | Johnson/Miller |
| You Don’t Know What Love Is | Don Raye / Gene DePaul |
| You Go To My Head | Coots/Gillespie |
| You Gotta Show Me | – |
| You Let Me Down | Dubin/Warren |
| You Showed Me The Way | Fitzgerald/Green/McRae/Webb |
| You Took Advantage Of Me | Hart/Rodgers |
| You Turned The Tables On Me | Alter/Mitchell |
| You’re A Lucky Guy | Cahn/Chaplin |
| You’re Driving Me Crazy | Donaldson |
| You’re Gonna See A Lot Of Me | Curtis/Goodhard/Hoffman |
| You’re Just A No Account | Cahn/Chaplin |
| You’re My Thrill | Clare/Gorney |
| You’re So Desirable | Noble |
| You’re Too Lovely To Last | Beal/Fraser/McRae |
| You’ve Changed | Bill Carey / Carl Fischer |
| Your Mother’s Son-In-Law | Holiner/Nichols |
| Yours And Mine | Brown/Freed |
