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Billie Holiday's Greatest Hits (Decca)
There's no such thing as a genuine Billie Holiday greatest-hits collection--her career was split among too many labels for that--but this single-disc distillation of the Complete Decca Recordings 2 CD set (recorded between 1944 and 1950) is pretty solid. Holiday's in fine vocal form (though her accompaniment is undistinguished easy-listening stuff; the choir on "God Bless the Child" is a bit frustrating), and the songs are arranged to work as an album rather than chronologically. She transcends the ideas of torch songs, of blues, of ballad singing--her version of "Lover Man" exemplifies erotic despair, tormented and aroused at once--and even the lesser-known tracks here are pleasant surprises, like a Leonard Bernstein song. --Douglas Wolk
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Tracks| 1 | Easy Living - Billie Holiday, Rainger, Ralph | | 2 | What Is This Thing Called Love? - Billie Holiday, Porter, Cole | | 3 | Solitude - Billie Holiday, DeLange, Eddie | | 4 | You're My Thrill - Billie Holiday, Clare, Sidney | | 5 | Them There Eyes - Billie Holiday, Pinkard, Maceo | | 6 | No More - Billie Holiday, Camarata, Tutti | | 7 | God Bless the Child - Billie Holiday, Herzog, Arthur Jr. | | 8 | My Man - Billie Holiday, Charles, Jacques | | 9 | Don't Explain - Billie Holiday, Herzog, Arthur Jr. | | 10 | There Is No Greater Love - Billie Holiday, Jones, Isham | | 11 | 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness if I Do - Billie Holiday, Grainger, Percy | | 12 | You Better Go Now - Billie Holiday, Graham, Robert | | 13 | Big Stuff - Billie Holiday, Bernstein, Leonard | | 14 | Good Morning Heartache - Billie Holiday, Drake, Ervin | | 15 | I Loves You, Porgy - Billie Holiday, Gershwin, George | | 16 | Guilty - Billie Holiday, Akst, Harry | | 17 | Lover Man - Billie Holiday, Davis, Jimmy [4] | | 18 | They Can't Take That Away from Me - Billie Holiday, Gershwin, George | | 19 | That Ole Devil Called Love - Billie Holiday, Fisher, Doris |
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