Billie Holiday / Discography

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This discography of Billie Holiday is composed of approximately 125 Singles ( 78 RPM and 45 RPM ), single albums, E.Ps , numerous studio and live - LPs , and more than 1,200 compilation albums, box sets and reissues that were published after her death.

The singer had recorded for Columbia Records from 1933 to 1942 , appeared on the sub-labels Brunswick , Vocalion and OKeh , from 1939 to 1944 for Commodore Records (and during this time a single for Harmony , one for Capitol , and several songs for the Army label V-Disc ) and from 1944 to 1950 for Decca Records . In 1951 some titles were created for Aladdin . From 1952 to 1957 she was under contract with Norman Granz and recorded for his label Clef , Mercury and Verve . Her penultimate album Lady in Satin was released again on Columbia Records, her last recordings in 1959 on MGM Records . In addition, three 10 "LPs have been released under the unauthorized pirate label" Jolly Roger ".

Singles

publication title Recording date
1934 Your Mother's Son-in-Law / - November 27, 1933
Riffin 'the Scotch / - December 18, 1933
1935 What a Little Moonlight Can Do / A Sunbonnet Blue July 2, 1935
I Wished on the Moon / Miss Brown to You July 2, 1935
What a Night, What a Moon, What a Girl / It's Too Hot for Words July 31, 1935
I'm Painting the Town Red / - July 31, 1935
1936 Twenty-Four Hours a Day / Yankee Doodle Never Went to Town October 25, 1935
Eeny Meeny Miney Mon / If You Were Mine October 25, 1935
These 'n' That 'n' Those / - December 30, 1935
You Let Me Down / Spreadin 'Rhythm Around December 3, 1935
Life Begins When You're in Love / - January 30, 1936
These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) / - June 30, 1936
It's Like Reaching for the Moon / Guess Who? June 30, 1936
I Cried for You / - June 30, 1936
Did I Remember? / No Regrets July 10, 1936
Summertime / Billie's Blues (I Love My Man) July 10, 1936
A Fine Romance / I Can't Pretend September 29, 1936
One, Two, Button Your Shoe / Let's Call a Heart a Heart September 29, 1936
1937 Easy to Love / The Way You Look Tonight October 21, 1936
With Thee I Swing / Who Loves You October 28, 1936
I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Dear) / - November 19, 1936
Pennies from Heaven / That's Life, I Guess November 19, 1936
One Never Knows, Does One? / I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm January 12, 1937
If My Heart Could Only Talk / Please Keep Me in Your Dreams January 12, 1937
He Ain't Got Rhythm / This Year's Kisses January 12, 1937
You Showed Me the Way / (This Is) My Last Affair February 18, 1937
The Mood That I'm In / Sentimental and Melancholy February 18, 1937
Why Was I Born? / I Must Have That Man January 25, 1937
Carelessly / How Could You? March 31, 1937
Moanin 'Low / - March 31, 1937
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off / They Can't Take That Away from Me April 1, 1937
Where is the sun? / I Don't Know If I'm Coming or Going April 1, 1937
I'll get by / mean to me May 11, 1937
Foolin 'Myself / Easy Living June 1, 1937
Sun Showers / Yours and Mine May 11, 1937
I'll Never Be the Same / - June 1, 1937
Me, Myself and I / Without Your Love June 15, 1937
A Sailboat in the Moonlight / Born to Love June 15, 1937
Getting Some Fun Out of Life / Who Wants Love? September 13, 1937
Trav'lin 'All Alone / He's Funny That Way September 13, 1937
1938 My Man / Can't Help Lovin 'Dat Man November 1, 1937
Nice Work If You Can Get It / Things Are Looking Up November 1, 1937
My First Impression of You / If Dreams Come True January 6, 1938
When You're Smiling / I Can't Believe that You're in Love with Me January 6, 1938
I Can't Believe That You're in Love / Now They Call It Swing January 12, 1938
On the Sentimental Side / Back in Your Own Backyard January 12, 1938
Back in Your Own Backyard / When a Woman Loves a Man January 12, 1938
You Go to My Head / The Moon Looks Down and Laughs May 11, 1938
If I Were You / Forget If You Can May 11, 1938
Having Myself a Time / Says My Heart June 23, 1938
I Wish I Had You / I'm Gonna Lock My Heart June 23, 1938
Any Old Time / - July 24, 1938
I've Got a Date with a Dream / You Can't Be Mine September 15, 1938
The Very Thought of You / I Can't Get Started September 15, 1938
1939 Everybody's Laughing / Here It Is Tomorrow Again October 31, 1938
April in My Heart / I'll Never Fail You November 9, 1938
Say It with a Kiss / They Say November 9, 1938
You're Gonna See a Lot of Me / Hello My Darling November 28, 1938
You're So Desirable / Let's Dream in the Moonlight November 28, 1938
That's All I Ask of You / Dream of Life January 20, 1939
What Shall I Say? / It's Easy to Blame the Weather January 30, 1939
More Than You Know / Sugar (That Sugar Baby of Mine) January 30, 1939
Under a Blue Jungle Moon / Everything Happens for the Best March 21, 1939
You're Too Lovely to Last / Why Did I Always Depend on You? March 21, 1939
Strange Fruit / Fine and Mellow April 20, 1939
Yesterdays / I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues April 20, 1939
Some Other Spring / Them There Eyes July 5, 1939
Our Love Is Different / Swing, Brother, Swing July 5, 1939
1940 You're Just a No Account / You're a Lucky Guy December 13, 1939
Night and Day / The Man I Love December 13, 1939
Ghost of Yesterday / Falling in Love Again February 29, 1940
Body and Soul / What Is This Going to Get Us? February 29, 1940
Tell Me More and More and Then Some More / Laughing at Life June 7, 1940
It's the Same Old Story / Practice Makes Perfect September 12, 1940
I'm All for You / I Hear Music September 12, 1940
I'm Pulling Through / Time on My Hands June 7, 1940
1941 St. Louis Blues / Loveless Love October 15, 1940
Let's Do It / Georgia on My Mind March 21, 1941
Romance in the Dark / All of Me March 21, 1941
God Bless the Child / Solitude May 9, 1941
Jim / Love Me or Leave Me August 7, 1941
I'm in a Low-Down Groove Mood / Gloomy Sunday May 9, 1941, August 7, 1941
1942 I Cover the Waterfront / Until the Real Thing Comes Along August 7, 1941, February 10, 1942
Wherever You Are / It's a Sin to Tell a Lie February 10, 1942
Trav'lin 'Light / - June 12, 1942
1944 Do Nothin 'Till You Hear from Me / I'll Get By January 18, 1944
I'll Get By / I'll Be Seeing You March 25, 1944, April 1, 1944
I Cover the Waterfront / Lover Come Back to Me March 25, 1944, April 8, 1944
How Am I to Know / He's Funny That Way March 25, 1944, April 8, 1944
I'm Yours / My Old Flame April 1, 1944, March 25, 1944
Embraceable You / As Time Goes By April 1, 1944
Billie's Blues (I Love My Man) / On the Sunny Side of the Street April 8, 1944
1945 Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) / That Old Devil Called Love October 4, 1944
1946 Big Stuff / - March 13, 1946
No More / You Better Go Now October 4, 1944, August 14, 1945
Don't Explain / What Is This Thing Called Love? August 14, 1945
Good Morning Heartache / No Good Man January 22, 1946
1947 Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans / - February 8, 1947
There Is No Greater Love / Solitude January 13, 1947
Deep Song / Easy Living January 13, 1947
Don't Explain / What Is This Thing Called Love? August 14, 1945
Long Gone Blues / Am I Blue? March 21, 1939, May 9, 1941
1949 Weep No More / Girls Were Made to Take Care of Boys December 10, 1948
(I Loves You) Porgy / My Man (Mon Homme) December 10, 1948
Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do / Baby Get Lost August 17, 1948
You Can't Lose a Broken Heart / My Sweet Hunk of Trash September 30, 1949
You're My Thrill / Crazy He Calls Me October 19, 1949
Please Tell Me Now / Somebody's on My Mind October 19, 1949
1950 Ella, Lena and Billie: Nice Work If You Can Get It / I'll Never Be the Same November 1, 1937
Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer / Now or Never September 8, 1949, September 30, 1949
God Bless the Child / This Is Heaven to Me March 8, 1950
Keeps on Rainin / Them There Eyes August 29, 1949
1951 The Blues Are Brewin '/ Do Your Duty December 27, 1946, September 8, 1949
Be Fair with Me Baby / Detour Ahead April 29, 1951
Rocky Mountain Blues / Blue Turning Gray Over You April 29, 1951
1952 These Foolish Things / I Only Have Eyes for You April 21, 1952
You turned the tables on me / easy to love April 21, 1952
Blue Moon / You Go to My Head April 21, 1952
East of the Sun / Solitude April 21, 1952
1953 Lover Come Back to Me / Yesterdays July 27, 1952
Tenderly / Stormy Weather April 21, 1952
East of the Sun / Solitude April 24, 1952
1954 Remember / I Can't Face the Music April 24, 1952 to July 27, 1952
If the Moon Turns Green / Autumn in New York April 24, 1952
How Deep Is the Ocean? / What a Little Moonlight Can Do April 14, 1954
Willow Weep for Me / Stormy Blues 3rd September 1954
Love Me or Leave Me / I Thought About You 3rd September 1954

"-" = other artist

See also : List of Top 30 Shellac Records by Billie Holiday

Studio albums

year album title
1946 Billie Holiday (4 single album)
  • Label & number: Commodore CR-2
  • Recorded:?
  • Format: Set of 4 10 "singles
  • a1 yesterdays
  • b1 I Got a Right to Sing the Blues
  • a2 I'll Be Seeing You
  • b2 I'll Get By
  • a3 I Cover the Waterfront
  • b3 Lover Come Back to Me
  • a4 She's Funny That Way
  • b4 How Am I to Know
1947 Teddy Wilson - Billie Holiday (4 single album)
  • Label & Number: Columbia C-61
  • Recorded: July 2, 1935 (a1, a2, b1), October 25, 1935 (b2),
January 25, 1935 (a3) ​​1. June 1937 (b3, a4), January 6, 1938 (b4)
  • Format: Set of 4 10 "singles
  • a1 Miss Brown to You
  • b1 I Wished on the Moon
  • a2 What a Little Moonlight Can Do
  • b2 If You Were Mine
  • a3 I Must Have That Man
  • b3 Foolin 'Myself
  • a4 Easy Living
  • b4 When You're Smilin '
Billie Holiday, Vol. 1 - A Hot Jazz Classic Set (4-single album)
  • Label & number: Columbia-135
  • Recorded: February 10, 1942 (a1), September 15, 1938 (a2),
September 13, 1937 (a2), July 10, 1936 (b2, b4), August 7, 1941 (a3),
January 12, 1938 (b3), June 15, 1937 (a4)
  • Format: Set of 4 10 "singles
  • a1 Until the Real Thing Comes Along  *)
  • b1 I Cover the Water Front  *)
  • a2 I Can't Get Started
  • b2 When a Woman Loves a Man
  • a3 He's Funny That Way
  • b3 A Sailboat in the Moonlight
  • a4 Summertime
  • b4 Billie's Blues
Distinctive Song Stylings (4 single album)
  • Label & number: Decca A-652
  • Recorded: October 4, 1944 (a1, b1), November 8, 1944 (b1, b3),
August 14, 1945 (b2, a3, b3), January 22, 1946 (a4, b4)
  • Format: Set of 4 10 "singles
  • a1 lover man
  • b1 That Ole Devil Called Love
  • a2 (You Ain't Gonna Bother Me) No More
  • b2 You Better Go Now
  • a3 What Is This Thing Called Love?
  • b3 Don't Explain
  • a4 Good Morning Heartache
  • b4 No Good Man
1949 Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra Featuring Billie Holiday
  • Label & Number: Columbia CL-6040 (corresponds to the 4-single album C-61)
  • Recorded: July 2, 1935 (a1, a2, b1), October 25, 1935 (b2),
January 25, 1935 (a3) ​​1. June 1937 (b3, a4), January 6, 1938 (b4)
  • Format: 10 "LP
  • a1 Miss Brown to You
  • b1 I Wished on the Moon
  • a2 What a Little Moonlight Can Do
  • b2 If You Were Mine
  • a3 I Must Have That Man
  • b3 Foolin 'Myself
  • a4 Easy Living
  • b4 When You're Smilin '
1950 An Evening with Eddie Heywood and Billie Holiday
  • Label & number: Commodore FL 30001
  • Recorded: April 1st & 8th, 1944
  • Format: 10 "LP
  • a1 Embraceable You
  • a2 Billie's Blues (I Love My Man)
  • b1 As Time Goes By
  • b2 I'm Yours
Billie Holiday, Vol. 1
  • Label & number: Commodore 20005
  • Recorded: March 25, 1944 (a1, b2, b3), April 1, 1944 (a2),
April 8, 1944 (a3, b1), April 20, 1939 (a4, b4)
  • Format: 10 "LP
  • a1 I Cover the Waterfront
  • a2 I'll Be Seeing You
  • a3 She's Funny That Way
  • a4 yesterdays
  • b1 lover, come back to me
  • b2 I'll Get By
  • b3 How Am I to Know
  • b4 I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
Billie Holiday, Vol. 2
  • Label & number: Commodore 20006
  • Recorded: April 20, 1939 (a4, b4), March 25, 1944 (a2),
April 1, 1944 (a1, b2, b3), April 8, 1944 (a3, b1)
  • Format: 10 "LP
  • a1 Embraceable You
  • a2 My Old Flame
  • a3 Billie's Blues (I Love My Man)
  • a4 Strange Fruit
  • b1 On the Sunny Side of the Street
  • b2 As Time Goes By
  • b3 I'm Yours
  • b4 Fine and Mellow
1951 Billie Holiday Favorites
  • Recorded:? and February 10, 1942
  • Label & number: Columbia CL 6163
  • Format: 10 "LP
  • a1 Time in My Hands
  • a2 Laughing at Life
  • a3 It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
  • a4 Swing, Brother, Swing
  • b1 Loveless Love
  • b2 Without Your Love
  • b3 Tell Me More, and More
  • b4 Mandy Is Two  *)
Lover man
  • Recorded: October 4, 1944 (a1), November 8, 1944 (a2)
February 13, 1947 (b3, b4), December 10, 1948 (b1, b2),
October 19, 1949 (a3, a4)
  • Label & number: Decca DL 5345
  • Format: 10 "LP
  • a1 Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
  • a2 That Ole Devil Called Love
  • a3 You're My Thrill
  • a4 Crazy He Calls Me
  • b1 My Man
  • b2 (I Love You) Porgy
  • b3 There Is No Greater Love
  • b4 solitude
1952 Billie Holiday Sings
  • Recorded: March 26th, 1952
  • Label & Number: Clef MGC 118 + Mercury 89002 (4 singles album)
  • Format: 10 "LP + set of 4 10" singles
  • a1 I Only Have Eyes for You
  • a2 You turned the tables on me
  • a3 blue moon
  • a4 Solitude
  • b1 These Foolish Things
  • b2 Easy to Love
  • b3 You Go to My Head
  • b4 East of the Sun
1953 An Evening with Billie Holiday
  • Recorded: April 1st, 1952 & July 27th, 1952
  • Label & Number: Clef MGC 144 + Mercury 89028 (4 singles album)
  • Format: 10 "LP + set of 4 10" singles
  • a1 Stormy Weather
  • a2 Lover Come Back to Me
  • a3 My Man
  • a4 He's Funny That Way
  • b1 Yesterdays
  • b2 tenderly
  • b3 I Can't Face the Music
  • b4 Remember
Billie Holiday
  • Recorded: April 1, 1952 (a1-b1), April 14, 1952 (b2-b4)
  • Label & Number: Clef MGC 161 + Mercury 89045 (4 singles album)
  • Format: 10 "LP + set of 4 10" singles
  • a1 Everything I Have Is Yours
  • a2 Love for Sale
  • a3 Moonglow
  • a4 If the Moon Turns Green
  • b1 Autumn in New York
  • b2 How Deep Is the Ocean?
  • b3 What a Little Moonlight Can Do
  • b4 I Cried for You
1954 Billie Holiday
  • Recorded: April 1st, 1952 & April 14th, 1954
  • Label & Number: Clef MGC 161 + Mercury 89045 (4 singles album)
  • Format: 10 "LP + set of 4 10" singles
  • a1 Love for Sale  *)
  • a2 Moonglow  *)
  • a3 Everything I Have Is Yours  *)
  • a4 If the Moon Turns Green
  • b1 Autumn in New York  *)
  • b2 How Deep Is the Ocean
  • b3 What a Little Moonlight Can Do
  • b4 I Cried for You  *)
Billie Holiday and Teddy Wilson Orchestra
  • Recorded: June 30, 1936 (b4), July 10, 1936 (b2), January 25, 1937 (a1),
May 11, 1937 (b5), March 31, 1939 (a4), July 5, 1939 (a3, b1, b3),
February 29, 1940 (a2, b3)
  • Label & number: Columbia S 1034
  • Format: 12 "LP
  • a1 Why Was I Born?
  • a2 Body and Soul
  • a3 Them There Eyes
  • a4 Moanin 'Low
  • a5 swing, brother swing
  • b1 Billie's Blues (I Love My Man)
  • b2 Some Other Spring
  • b3 Falling in Love Again
  • b4 These Foolish Things
  • b5 I'll Get By
Billie Holiday, Volume One
  • Recorded: (Presumably copied from '78 singles)
  • Label & number: Jolly Roger 5020
  • Format: 10 "LP
  • a1 Did I Remember
  • a2 Georgia on My Mind
  • a3 Romance in the Dark
  • a4 Night and Day
  • b1 I'll Never Be the Same
  • b2 No Regrets
  • b3 I'm in a low down groove
  • b4 They Say
Billie Holiday, Volume Two
  • Recorded: (Presumably copied from '78 singles)
  • Label & number: Jolly Roger 5021
  • Format: 10 "LP
  • a1 Who Wants Love
  • a2 Back in Your Own Backyard
  • a3 The Very Thought of You
  • a4 Dream of Life
  • b1 Getting Some Fun Out of Life
  • b2 You Go to my Head
  • b3 I've Got a Date with a Dream
  • b4 That's All I Ask of You
Billie Holiday, Volume Three
  • Recorded: (Presumably copied from '78 singles)
  • Label & number: Jolly Roger 5022
  • Format: 10 "LP
  • a1 You're a Lucky Guy
  • a2 Ghost of Yesterday
  • a3 Love Me or Leave Me
  • a4 Solitude
  • b1 You're Just a No Account
  • b2 I'm pulling through
  • b3 Jim
  • b4 God Bless the Child
1955 Stay with Me
  • Recorded: August 23rd & 25th, 1955
  • Label & number: Clef V-8302
  • Format: 10 "LP
Music for torching
  • Recorded: August 23rd & August 25th, 1955
  • Label & number: Clef MGC 669 / Verve MV 2595
  • Format: 12 "LP
  • a1 It Had to Be You  *)
  • a2 Come Rain or Come Shine  *)
  • a3 I Get a Kick Out of You  *)
  • a4 I Don't Want to Cry Anymore  *)
  • b1 Ghost of a Chance  *)
  • b2 A Fine Romance  *)
  • b3 Gone with the Wind  *)
  • b4 Isn't This a Lovely Day? *)
1956 Recital by Billie Holiday
  • Recorded: April 1, 1952 (a1, a2, a5), July 27, 1952 (a3, a4, a6, b1, b2, b3),
April 1, 1954 (b4, b5, b6)
  • Label & Number: MGC 686 (Clef)
  • Format: 12 "LP
  • a1 If the Moon Turns Green
  • a2 Autumn in New York
  • a3 My Man
  • a4 He's Funny That Way
  • a5 Remember
  • a6 I Can't Face the Music
  • b1 Lover Come Back to Me
  • b2 Yesterdays
  • b3 Stormy Weather
  • b4 How Deep Is the Ocean?
  • b5 What a Little Moonlight Can Do
  • b6 I Cried for You
Solitude (expanded reissue of Billie Holiday Sings )
  • Recorded: March 26, 1952 (a1-b2) - April 1, 1952 (b3-6)
  • Label & number: Clef MGC 690 / Verve V6-8074
  • Format: 10 "LP + set of 4 10" singles
  • a1 East of the Sun
  • a2 blue moon
  • a3 You Go to My Head
  • a4 You turned the tables on me
  • a5 Easy to Love
  • a6 These Foolish Things
  • b1 I Only Have Eyes for You
  • b2 solitude
  • b3 Everything I Have Is Yours
  • b4 Love for Sale
  • b5 Moonglow
  • b6 Tenderly
Hall of Fame Series
  • Recorded: March 21, 1939 (b2), February 29, 1941 (b1),
May 9, 1941 (a2), August 1, 1941 (a1)
  • Label & Number: Columbia B-2534
  • Format: 7 "EP
  • a1 Gloomy Sunday
  • a2 Am I Blue?
  • b1 Body and Soul
  • b2 Long Gone Blues
Velvet Mood
  • Recorded: August 23rd & 25th, 1955
  • Label & number: Clef MGC 713
  • Format: 12 "LP
  • a1 Prelude to a Kiss  *)
  • a2 When Your Lover Has Gone  *)
  • a3 Please Don't Talk About Me  *)
  • a4 Nice Work If You Can Get It  *)
  • b1 I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues  *)
  • b2 What's New? *)
  • b3 I Hadn't Anyone Till You  *)
  • b4 Everything I Have Is Yours  *)
The Lady Sings
  • Recorded: October 4, 1944 (b2), August 14, 1945 (a2, a3, b6),
January 22, 1946 (b1, b3), April 9, 1946 (b4), February 13, 1947 (a1, b5),
August 17, 1947 (a4), March 8, 1950 (a5)
  • Label & number: Decca 8215
  • Format: 12 "LP
  • a1 Deep Song
  • a2 You Better Go Now
  • a3 Don't Explain
  • a4 Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
  • a5 God Bless the Child
  • a6 Them There Eyes
  • b1 Good Morning Heartache
  • b2 No More
  • b3 No Good Man
  • b4 I'll look around
  • b5 Easy Living
  • b6 What Is This Thing Called Love?
Lady Sings the Blues
  • Recorded: June 6th & 7th, 1956 & September 3rd, 1954
  • Label & number: Clef MGC 721 / Verve MV 2047
  • Format: 12 "LP
  • a1 Lady Sings the Blues  *)
  • a2 Trav'lin 'Light  *)
  • a3 I Must Have That Man  *)
  • a4 Some Other Spring  *)
  • a5 Strange Fruit  *)
  • a6 No Good Man  *)
  • b1 God Bless the Child  *)
  • b2 Good Morning Heartache  *)
  • b3 Love Me or Leave Me
  • b4 Too Marvelous for Words  *)
  • b5 Willow Weep for Me
  • b6 I Thought About You
1957 Body and Soul
  • Recorded: January 3rd, 4th, 7th & 9th 1957
  • Label & number: Verve MGV 8197
  • Format: 12 "LP
  • a1 Body and Soul  *)
  • a2 They Can't Take That Away from Me  *)
  • a3 Darn That Dream  *)
  • a4 Let's Call the Whole Thing Off  *)
  • b1 Comes Love  *)
  • b2 Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You  *)
  • b3 Embraceable You  *)
  • b4 Moonlight in Vermont  *)
Songs for Distingué Lovers
  • Recorded: January 3rd, 4th, 7th & 9th 1957
  • Label & number: Verve MGV 8257 / Verve 2352 085
  • Format: 12 "LP
  • a1 Day In, Day Out  *)
  • a2 A Foggy Day  *)
  • a3 Stars Fell on Alabama  *)
  • b1 One for My Baby  *)
  • b2 Just One of Those Things  *)
  • b3 I Didn't Know What Time It Was  *)
1958 Lady in satin
  • Recorded: February 19, 20, & 21, 1958
  • Label & Number: Columbia CL 1157
  • Format: 12 "LP
The Blues Are Brewin
  • Recorded: March 13, 1946 (b6), April 9, 1946 (a3),
December 27, 1946 (a6, b1), August 17, 1949 (b3), August 29, 1949 (a1),
September 8, 1949 (a2, b2), September 30, 1949 (a4, b4, b5), October 19, 1949 (a5)
  • Label & number: Decca DL 8701
  • Format: 12 "LP
  • a1 Keeps on Rainin '
  • a2 Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle
  • a3 Baby I Don't Cry over You
  • a4 My Sweet Hunk o'Trash
  • a5 Somebody's on My Mind
  • a6 Guilty  *)
  • b1 The Blues Are Brewin '
  • b2 Do Your Duty
  • b3 Baby Get Lost
  • b4 You Can't Lose a Broken Heart
  • b5 Now or Never
  • b6 Big Stuff
1959 (posthumous) All or nothing at all
  • Recorded: August 14th & 18th, 1956 & January 3rd, 4th, 7th & 9th, 1957
  • Label & number: Verve MGV 8329
  • Format: 12 "LP
  • a1 Do Nothin 'Till You Hear From Me  *)
  • a2 Cheek to Cheek  *)
  • a3 Ill wind  *)
  • a4 Speak Low  *)
  • a5 We'll Be Together Again  *)
  • a6 All or Nothing at All  *)
  • b1 Sophisticated Lady  *)
  • b2 April in Paris  *)
  • b3 I Wished on the Moon  *)
  • b4 But Not for Me  *)
  • b5 Say It Isn't So  *)
  • b6 Our Love Is Here to Stay  *)
Last Recordings (originally Billie Holiday )
  • Recorded: March 3rd & 4th & 11th 1959
  • Label & number: MGM E-3764
  • Format: 12 "LP
  • a1 All of You  *)
  • a2 Sometimes I'm Happy  *)
  • a3 You Took Advantage of Me  *)
  • a4 When It's Sleepy Time Down South  *)
  • a5 There'll Be Some Changes Made  *)
  • a6 Deed I Do  *)
  • b1 Don't Worry 'bout Me  *)
  • b2 All the Way  *)
  • b3 Just One More Chance  *)
  • b4 It's Not for Me to Say  *)
  • b5 I'll Never Smile Again  *)
  • b6 Baby, Won't You Please Come  *)
*) Initial release

Live albums

year album title
1951 Billie & Stan
  • Recorded: October 29, 1951
  • Label & Number: Dale LP 25
  • Format: 10 "LP
  • a1 You're Driving Me Crazy
  • a2 Lover Come Back to Me
  • a3 Ain't Nobody's Bizzness If I Do
  • b1 He's Funny That Way
  • b2 Miss Brown to You
  • b3 Detour Ahead
  • b4 Billie's Blues
  • b5 Them There Eyes
1954 Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic
  • Recorded: February 12, 1945, June 3 and October 7, 1946
  • Label & Number: Clef MGC 169, Mercury 89053 (4-single album)
  • Format: 12 "LP and set of 4 10" singles
  • a1 Body and Soul
  • a2 Strange Fruit
  • a3 Trav'lin 'Light
  • a4 He's Funny That Way
  • b1 The Man I Love
  • b2 Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
  • b3 All of Me
  • b4 Billie's Blues
1955 Billie Holiday / Ralph Burns - Jazz Recital
  • Recorded: April 22, 1946
  • Label & number: Clef MGC 718
  • Format: 12 "LP
  • a1 Body and Soul
  • a2 Strange Fruit
  • a3 Trav'lin Light
  • a4 He's Funny That Way
  • a5 The Man I Love
  • a6 Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
  • a7 All of Me
  • b-side: Ralph Burns
1956 The Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert Recorded Live
  • Recorded: November 10, 1956
  • Label & Number: Verve 8337672
  • Format: 12 "LP
  • a1 Lady Sings the Blues
  • a2 It Ain't Nobody's Business
  • a3 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
  • a4 I'll Be Seeing You
  • a5 I Love My Man
  • a6 Body and Soul
  • b1 Don't Explain
  • b2 Yesterdays
  • b3 My Man
  • b4 I Cried for You
  • b5 Fine and Mellow
  • b6 I Cover the Waterfront
  • b7 What a Little Moonlight Can Do
1957 Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport
  • Recorded: July 4th, 5th and 6th, 1957
  • Label: Columbia 33CX 10100
  • Format: 12 "LP
  • A1 Nice Work If You Can Get It
  • a2 Willow Weep for Me
  • a3 Lover Come Back to Me
  • a4 Lady Sings the Blues
  • a5 What a Little Moonlight Can Do
  • a6 My Man
1964 A Rare Live Recording of Billie Holiday
  • Recorded: October 28, 1951 (b2-b6), November 1, 1951 (a1-b1)
  • Label: Recording Industries Corp. M 2001
  • Format: 12 "LP
  • a1 Billie's Blues
  • a2 lover man
  • a3 Them There Eyes
  • a4 My Man
  • a5 I Cover the Waterfront
  • a6 Crazy He Calls Me
  • a7 Lover Come Back to Me
  • b1 Detour Ahead
  • b2 Strange Fruit
  • b3 Drivin 'Me Crazy
  • b4 Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
  • b5 All of Me
  • b6 (I Love You) Porgy
  • b7 Miss Brown to You

Soundtrack

year album title
1946 New Orleans Soundtrack with Louis Armstrong
  • Label & number: Giants of Jazz1025
  • Recorded:?
  • Format: 12 "LP
  • a3 Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
  • a12 Farewell to Storyville
  • b9 The Blues Are Brewin '
  • b11 Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?

Compilations

Among the more than 1200 compilations stand out: The first comprehensive compilation "The Billie Holiday Story", the early years of the Columbia years from 1933 to 1944 with the CD series The Quintessential Billie Holiday Vols. 1-7 , analogous to the chronological preparation by the reissue label Classics . Columbia also released the edition Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933-1944 (CXK 85470) on ten CDs. The recordings of the Commodore years of 1939 and 1944 are held on The Complete Commodore Recordings (Commodore CMD 24012); the Decca years from 1944 to 1950 on The Complete Original Decca Recordings (GRP Records 052601-2). The singer's late Clef / Verve recordings (including the JATP live recordings Holidays) appeared on the 10-CD compilation The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 .

List of songs sung by Billie Holiday

title author Versions
A fine romance Dorothy Fields / Jerome Kern 9
A Foggy Day George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin 1
A sailboat in the moonlight John Jacob Loeb / Guy Lombardo / Carmen Lombardo 1
A Sunbonnet Blue (And a Yellow Straw Hat) Sammy Fain / Irving Kahal 2
A Yiddish Momme (sample recording) Lew Pollack / Jack Yellen 2
Ain't Misbehavin ' (I'm Savin' my Love for You) Harry Brooks / Andy Razaf / Fats Waller 1
Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do Porter Grainger / Everett Robbins 9
All of Me Gerald Marks / Seymour Simmons 22nd
All of you Cole Porter 1
All or nothing at all Arthur Altman / Jack Lawrence 1
All the way Gus Cahn / Jimmy Van Heusen 1
Always Berlin 1
Am I Blue? Grant Clark / Harry Akst 3
Any old time Artie Shaw 1
April in My Heart Hoagy Carmichael / Helen Meinard 2
April in Paris Vernon Duke / Yip Harburg 1
As Time Goes By Herman Hupfeld 2
Autumn in New York Vernon Duke 2
Baby Get Lost Leonard Feather 1
Baby, I don't cry over you Morton Krouse 2
Baby, won't you please come home Charles Warfield / Clarence Williams 1
Back in Your Own Backyard Al Jolson / Billy Rose / Dave Dreyer 2
Be fair to me baby Ravon Darnell / Frank Mesner 1
Beer Barrel Polka (aka: Roll Out the Barrel) Lew Brown / Vladimir A. Timm / Jaromír Vejvoda 1
Big stuff Leonard Bernstein 7th
Billie's Blues (aka: I Love My Man) Billie Holiday 27
Blue moon Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart 7th
Blue Turning Gray over You Andy Razaf / Fats Waller 1
Body and Soul Frank Eyton / Green / Edward Heyman / Robert Sour 6th
Born to Love Jack Scholl / MK Jerome 1
But beautiful Johnny Burke / Jimmy van Heusen 1
But not for me George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin 1
Can't Help Lovin 'Dat Man Oscar Hammerstein II / Jerome Kern 1
Carelessly Norman Ellis / Charles Kenny / Nick Kenny 1
Cheek to Cheek Irving Berlin 1
Come Rain or Come Shine Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer 1
Comes love Lew Brown / Sam Stept / Charles Tobias 4th
Crazy He Calls Me Bob Russell / Carl Sigman 3
Deed I Do Walter Hirsch / Fred Rose 1
Darn That Dream Eddie DeLange / Jimmy Van Heusen 1
Day in, day out Rube Bloom / Johnny Mercer 1
Deep song George Cory / Douglas Cross 2
Detour ahead Lou Carter / Herb Ellis / John Frigo 4th
Did I Remember? Harold Adamson / Walter Donaldson 1
Do nothing till you hear from me Duke Ellington / Bob Russell 4th
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans Louis Alter / Eddie DeLange 7th
Do your duty Teddy Wilson 1
Don't explain Arthur Herzog Jr. / Billie Holiday 15th
Don't worry 'bout me Rube Bloom / Ted Koehler 1
Dream of Life Luther Henderson / Carmen McRae 1
East of the Sun (and West of the Moon) Brooks Bowman 1
Easy living Ralph Rainger / Leo Robin 6th
Easy to love Cole Porter 2
Easy to remember Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers 2
Eeny Meeny Miney Mon. Johnny Mercer / Matty Malneck 1
Embraceable You George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin 5
Everybody's laughing Sammy Lerner / Ben Oakland 1
Everything Happens for the Best Billie Holiday / Tab Smith 1
Everything happens to me Tom Adair / Matt Dennis 3
Everything I Have Is Yours Harold Adamson / Burton Lane 2
Falling in Love Again Friedrich Hollaender / Sammy Lerner 2
Farewell to Storyville Clarence Williams 3
Fine and Mellow Billie Holiday 22nd
Foolin 'myself Jack Lawrence / Peter Tinturin 2
For All We Know Sam M. Lewis / J. Fred Coots 1
For Heaven's Sake Don Meyer / Elsie Bretton / Sherman Edwards 1
Forget If You Can Jack Manus / K. Upham / L. Joy 2
(I Don't Stand a) Ghost of a Chance Bing Crosby / Ned Washington / Victor Young 3
Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You? Andy Razaf / Don Redman 2
Georgia on My Mind Hoagy Carmichael / Stuart Gorrell 3
Getting Some Fun Out of Life Joe Burke / Edgar Leslie 1
Ghost of Yesterday Arthur Herzog Jr. / Irene Kitchings 2
Gimmie a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer) Wesley Wilson 1
Girls Were Made to Take Care of Boys Billie Holiday / Ralph Blane 1
Glad to Be Unhappy Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers 1
Gloomy Sunday Sam M. Lewis / Rezső Seress 5
God Bless the Child Arthur Herzog Jr. / Billie Holiday 18th
Gone with the Wind Herb Magidson / Allie Wrubel 2
Good Morning Heartache Ervin Drake / Dan Fisher / Irene Higginbotham 8th
Guess Who? Arthur Freed / Burton Lane 1
Guilty Harry Akst / Gus Kahn / Richard A. Whiting 3
Having Myself a Time Ralph Rainger / Leo Robin 2
He Ain't Got Rhythm Irving Berlin 1
He's Funny That Way Richard A. Whiting / Neil Moret 14th
Hello, my darling Friedrich Hollander / Frank Loesser 2
Here It Is Tomorrow Again Patrick Gibbons / Roy Ringwald 1
How Am I to Know? Jack King / Dorothy Parker 5
How could you? Al Dubin / Harry Warren 1
How Deep Is the Ocean? Irving Berlin 1
I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me Gaskill / Jimmy McHugh 2
I can't face the music Rube Bloom / Ted Koehler 1
I can't get started Vernon Duke / Ira Gershwin 6th
I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Baby) Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh 1
I can't pretend Charles Tobias / Paul Rusincky / W. Edward Breuder 1
I cover the waterfront John W. Green / Edward Heyman 20th
I cried for you Gus Arnheim / Arthur Freed / Abe Lyman 14th
I Didn't Know What Time It Was Richard Rodger / Lorenz Hart 1
I Don't Know If I'm Coming or Going Lupine Fien / Lee Wainer 2
I don't want to cry anymore Victor Schertzinger 4th
I get a kick out of you Cole Porter 1
I Get Along Without You Very Well Hoagy Carmichael 1
I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) (rehearsal recording) Duke Ellington / Paul Francis Webster 1
I gotta right to sing the blues Harold Arlen / Ted Koehler 3
I Hadn't Anyone Till You Ray Noble 1
I hear music Burton Lane / Frank Loesser 3
I must have that man Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh 4th
I only have eyes for you Al Dubin / Harry Warren 10
I thought about you Johnny Mercer / Jimmy van Heusen 1
I wish I had you B. Green / A. Stillman / Claude Thornhill 2
I wished on the moon Parker / Ralph Rainger 4th
I won't believe it Martin Block / J. Russel Robinson / Victor Selsman 1
I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone Buddy Johnson 1
I'll be around Alex Wilder 1
I'll be seeing you Sammy Fain / Irving Kahal 7th
I'll get by Fred Ahlert / Roy Turk 5
I'll look around George Cory / Douglass Cross 2
I'll never be the same Gus Kahn / Matty Malneck / Frank Signorelli 1
I'll never fail you Vic Mizzy / Irving Taylor 1
I'll never smile again Ruth Lowe 1
I'm a fool to want you Jack Wolf / Joel Herron / Frank Sinatra 3
I'm all for you Jerry Bresler / Larry Wynn 2
I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (And Throw Away the Key) Jimmy Eaton / Terry Shand 3
I'm in a low down groove Roy Jacobs 1
I'm Painting the Town Red Charles Tobias / Charles Newman / Sam H. Stept 1
I'm pulling through Arthur Herzog Jr. / Irene Kitchings 1
I'm Walkin 'Through Heaven with You Ross Gordon / Joe Turner 1
I'm yours Johnny Green / EY Harburg 3
I've got a date with a dream Mack Gordon / Harry Revel 2
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Irving Berlin 3
If Dreams Come True Benny Goodman / Irving Mills / Edgar Sampson 2
If I Were You Buddy Bernier / Robert D. Emmerich 2
If My Heart Could Only Talk Teddy Powell / Walter G. Samuels / Leonard Whitcup 1
If the moon turns green Paul Coates / Bernie Hanighen 2
If you were mine Johnny Mercer / Matty Malneck 1
Ill wind Harold Arlen / Ted Koehler 1
Isn't this a lovely day Irving Berlin 1
Israel Arthur Herzog Jr. / Tony Scott 1
It had to be you Isham Jones / Gus Kahn 2
It's a Sin to Tell a Lie Billy Mayhew 4th
It's Easy to Blame the Weather Sammy Cahn / Saul Chaplin 2
It's Like Reaching for the Moon Al Lewis / Al Sherman / Gerald Marqusee 1
It's Not for Me to Say Robert Allen / Al Stillman 1
It's Too Hot for Words Walter Samuels / Leonard Whitcup / Teddy Powell 2
Jeepers Creepers Johnny Mercer / Harry Warren 3
Jim Nelson A. Shawn / Caesar Petrillo / Edward Ross / Milton Samuels 2
Just friends John Klenner / Sam. M. Lewis 2
Just one more chance Sam Coslow / Arthur Johnson 1
Just One of Those Things Cole Porter 2
Keeps On Rainin ' Max Kortlander / Spencer Williams 2
Lady Sings the Blues Billie Holiday / Herbie Nichols 6th
Lady's Back in Town Tony Scott 1
Laughing at Life Nick Kenney / Charles F. Kenney / C. Todd / B. Todd 2
Let's call a heart a heart Sonny Burke / Arthur Johnston 1
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin 2
Let's do it Cole Porter 3
Let's Dream in the Moonlight Matty Malneck / R. Walsh 2
Life Begins When You're in Love Brown / Victor Schertzinger / Andrew Acquarulo Ackers 1
Long gone blues Billie Holiday 1
Love for sale Cole Porter 1
Love Me or Leave Me Walter Donaldson / Gus Kahn 4th
Loveless love Toilet cell phone 2
Lover come back to me Sigmund Romberg / Oscar Hammerstein 18th
Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) Jimmy Davis / Ram Ramirez / Jimmy Sherman 17th
(This Is) My Last Affair Haven Johnson 2
Mandy Is Two Fulton McGrath / Johnny Mercer 4th
Maybe you'll be there Rube Bloom / Sammy Gallop 1
Me, Myself and I (Are All in Love with You) Irving Gordon / Allan Roberts / Alvin S. Kaufman 3
Mean to Me Fred E. Ahlert / Roy Turk 2
Misery Tony Scott 2
Miss Brown to You Ralph Rainger / Leo Robin / Richard Whiting 9
Moanin 'low Ralph Rainger / Howard Dietz 2
Moonglow Eddie DeLange / Will Hudson / Irving Mills 1
Moonlight in Vermont John Blackburn / Karl Suessdorf 2
More Than You Know Vincent Youmans / Billy Rose / Edward Eliscu 2
My First Impression of You Charlie Tobias / Sam H. Stept 2
My Funny Valentine Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart 1
My Man Channing Pollock / Maurice Yvain / Albert Willemetz / Jaques Charles 24
My old flame Arthur Johnson / Sam Coslow 5
My Sweet Hunk o'Trash James P. Johnson / Flournoy E. Miller 2
(You Ain't Gonna Bother Me) No More Toots Camarata / Bob Russell 4th
Nice Work If You Can Get It George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin 10
Night and Day Cole Porter 2
No good man Irene Higginbotham / Dan Fisher / Sammy Gallop 3
No regrets Roy Ingraham / Harry Tobias 2
Now or Never Billie Holiday / Curtis Reginald Lewis 2
Now They Call It Swing W. Hirsch / Vaughn DeLeath / N. Cloutier / L. Handman 2
On the sentimental side Johnny Burke / James Monaco 2
On the Sunny Side of the Street Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh 1
One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer 2
One Never Knows - Does One? Mack Gordon / Harry Revell 5
One, Two, Button Your Shoe Johnny Burke / Arthur Johnston 1
Our Love Is Different Billie Holiday / R. Conway / Basil G. Alba / Sonny White 1
Our Love Is Here to Stay George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin 1
(I Loves You) Porgy George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin / DuBose Heyward / Dorothy Heyward 10
PS I love you Gordon Jenkins / Johnny Mercer 1
Pennies from Heaven Johnny Burke / Arthur Johnston 2
Please Keep Me in Your Dreams Vee Lawnhurst / Tot Seymour 1
Please tell me now Arnold Clawson / Toussaint Pope 1
Please, Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone Sam H. Stept / Sidney Clare 11
Practice Makes Perfect Ernest Gold / Don Roberts 4th
Prelude to a kiss Duke Ellington / Mack Gordon / Irving Mills 2
Remember Irving Berlin 1
Restless Sam Coslow / Tom Satterfield 1
Riffin 'the Scotch Benny Goodman / Johnny Mercer / Dick McDonough 3
Rocky Mountain Blues Frank Heywood / Monroe Tucker 1
Romance in the Dark Sam Coslow / G. Nelsen 4th
Saddest Tale Duke Ellington 1
Say It Isn't So Irving Berlin 2
Say it with a kiss Johnny Mercer / Harry Warren 1
Says my heart Burton Lane / Frank Loesser 2
Sentimental and Melancholy Johnny Mercer / Richard Whiting 1
Softly Eddie Beal / Joe Greene 1
Solitude Eddie DeLange / Duke Ellington / Irving Mills 7th
Some of these days Shelton Brooks 1
Some Other Spring Irene Kitchings / Arthur Herzog Jr. 3
Somebody's on My Mind Arthur Herzog Jr. / Billie Holiday 1
Sometimes I'm happy Irving Caesar / Clifford Gray / Vincent Youmans 1
Sophisticated lady Duke Ellington / Irving Mills / Mitchell Parish 1
Speak low Ogden Nash / Kurt Weill 1
Spreadin 'the rhythm around Ted Koehler / Jimmy McHugh 1
Squeeze Me Clarence Williams / Fats Waller 1
St. Louis Blues Toilet cell phone 2
Stars Fell on Alabama Mitchell Parish / Frank Perkins 2
Stormy blues Billie Holiday 1
Stormy Weather Harold Arlen / Ted Koehler 2
Strange Fruit Abel Meeropol (pseudonym: Lewis Allan) 16
Sugar (That Sugar Baby o 'Mine) Edna Alexander / Sidney D. Mitchell / Maceo Pinkard 1
Summertime George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin / DuBose Heyward 2
Sun Showers Nacio Herb Brown / Arthur Freed 1
Swing, brother swing Walter Bishop / Lewis Raymond / Clarence Williams 3
Tell Me More and More (and then Some) Billie Holiday 1
Tenderly Walter Lloyd Gross / Jack Lawrence 5
That Ole Devil Called Love Allan Roberts / Doris Fisher 3
That's All I Ask of You RE Pope 2
That's Life I Guess Peter DeRose / Sam M. Lewis 2
The Blues Are Brewin ' Louis Alter / Eddie DeLange 4th
The End of a Love Affair Edward C. Redding 3
The Man I Love George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin 7th
The Mood That I'm In Abner Silver / Al Sherman 2
The Moon Looks Down and Laughs Bert Kalmar / Sid Silvers / Harry Ruby 2
The Nearness of You (sample recording) Hoagy Carmichael / Ned Washington 1
The same old story M. Field / N. Oliphant 3
The Very Thought of You Ray Noble 2
The Way You Look Tonight Dorothy Fields / Jerome Kern 2
Them There Eyes Maceo Pinkard / Doris Tauber / William Tracey 23
There is no greater love Isham Jones / Marty Symes 4th
There'll Be Some Changes Made Billy Higgins / Benton Overstreet 1
These 'n' That 'n' Those Milton Pascal / Edgar Fairchild 1
These Foolish Things Get Marvell / Jack Strachey / Harry Link 2
They Can't Take That Away from Me George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin 4th
They say Edward Heyman / Paul Mann / Stephan Weiss 3
Things Are Looking Up George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin 1
This Is Heaven to Me Ernest Schweikert / Frank Reardon 1
This Year's Kisses Irving Berlin 2
Time on My Hands Harold Adamson / Mack Gordon / Vincent Youmans 1
Too Marvelous for Words Johnny Mercer / Richard Whiting 11
Trav'lin 'All Alone JC Johnson 1
Trav'lin 'Light Johnny Mercer / Trummy Young / Jimmy Mundy 12
Twenty-Four Hours a Day Arthur Swanstrom / James F. Hanley 1
Under a blue jungle moon N. Brisben / R. Conway 2
Until the Real Thing Comes Along Sammy Cahn / Saul Chaplin / LE Freeman 3
Violets for Your Furs Tom Adair / Matt Dennis 1
We'll Be Together Again Carl T. Fischer / Frankie Laine 1
Weep No More Tom Adair / Gordon Jenkins 1
What a Little Moonlight Can Do Harry MacGregor Woods 17th
What a Night, What a Moon, What a Girl John Jacob Loeb 1
What Is This Going to Get Us? Arthur Herzog Jr. / Irene Kitchings 1
What Is This Thing Called Love? Cole Porter 2
What Shall I Say? Peter Tinturin 1
What's new? Johnny Burke / Bob Haggart 1
When a Woman Loves a Man Bernie Hanighen / Gordon Jenkins / Johnny Mercer 1
When It's Sleepy Time Down South Clarence Muse / Leon Rene / Otis Rene 1
When you are away, dear Henry Blossom / Victor Herbert 1
When you're smiling Mark Fisher / Larry Shay / Joe Goodwin 2
When Your Lover Has Gone Einar A. Swan 8th
Where is the sun? John Redmond / Lee David 1
Wherever You Are Cliff Friend / Charlie Tobias 2
Who Loves You? J. Fred Coots / Benny Davis 2
Who Wants Love? Gus Kahn / Franz Waxman 1
Why Did I Always Depend On You? P. Greenwood / Teddy McRae / R. Smith 1
Why Was I Born? Oscar Hammerstein II / Jerome Kern 1
Willow Weep for Me Ann Ronell 13
With Thee I Swing George Adlam / Alexander Hyde / Al Stillman 1
Without your love Johnny Lange / Fred Stryker 2
Yankee Doodle Never Went to Town Arthur Freed / Bernie Hanighan 1
Yesterdays Jerome Kern / Otto Harbach 6th
You Better Go Now Irvin Graham / Bickley Reichner 6th
You Can't Be Mine (And Someone Else's Too) JC Johnson / C. Webb 2
You Can't Lose a Broken Heart James P. Johnson / Flournoy E. Miller 1
You don't know what love is Don Raye / Gene DePaul 1
You go to my head J. Fred Coots / Haven Gillespie 5
You Gotta Show Me Billie Holiday 1
You let me down Al Dubin / Harry Warren 1
You Showed Me the Way Ella Fitzgerald / Benny Green / Teddy McRae / Chick Webb 1
You Took Advantage of Me Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers 1
You turned the tables on me Louis Alter / Sidney D. Mitchell 1
You're a lucky guy Sammy Cahn / Saul Chaplin 1
You're Driving Me Crazy Walter Donaldson 4th
You're gonna see a lot of me M. Curtis / A. Goodhard / A. Hoffman 2
You're just a no account Sammy Cahn / Saul Chaplin 1
You're my thrill Sidney Clare / Jay Gorney 2
You're So Desirable Ray Noble 2
You're Too Lovely to Last C. Beal / E. Fraser / Teddy McRae 2
You've changed Bill Carey / Carl Fischer 4th
Your Mother's Son-in-Law Mann Holiner / Alberta Nichols 1
Yours and Mine Nacio Herb Brown / Arthur Freed 1

Probably 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: I'm Left Alone
  • 1957: Who Needs You (Baby)

Chart placements

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
UK UK US US
1973 The Billie Holiday Story - US85 (21 weeks)
US
Strange Fruit - US108 (16 weeks)
US
The Original Recordings - US135 (9 weeks)
US
1985 The Legend Of Billie Holiday UK60
gold
gold

(10 weeks)UK
-
1997 Lady Day - The Very Best Of UK63 (2 weeks)
UK
-
2001 Ken Burns Jazz - The Definitive Billie Holiday - US174 (2 weeks)
US
2009 The Complete Billie Holiday - US122 (1 week)
US

Awards for music sales

Silver record

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

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Awards for music sales
(country / region, awards, sales, sources)
United Kingdom (BPI) United Kingdom (BPI) Silver record icon.svg silver1 Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 160,000 bpi.co.uk
All in all Silver record icon.svg silver1 Gold record icon.svg gold1 -

literature

  • Donald Clarke: Billie Holiday - Wishing on the Moon . A biography, Piper Verlag 1995, ISBN 3-492-03756-9 .

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