“Billie Holiday Volume Two [1950]” by Billie Holiday - album review
features in: (B-list) Album Chart of 1950 ● (B-list) Album Chart of the 1950s |
Her early LPs – themselves collections of earlier 78 rpm singles – are now collector’s items. Her two Commodore 10-inch LPs, issued in 1950, Billie Holiday, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (FL-20005 and FL-20006), are worth from $125 to $250 each, depending on their condition. Both LP’s pool from her Commodore recording sessions in 1939 and 1944.
The Jukebox Rebel
23–May–2012
Tracklist |
A1 | [03:15] Billie Holiday and Eddie Heywood and his Orchestra - Embraceable You (Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin) Crooner / Cabaret |
A2 | [03:01] Billie Holiday and Eddie Heywood and his Orchestra - My Old Flame (Arthur Johnson, Sam Coslow) Jazz |
A3 | [03:08] Billie Holiday with Eddie Heywood and his trio - I Love My Man (Billie Holiday) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
A4 | [03:12] Billie Holiday and her Orchestra - Strange Fruit (Abel Meeropol) Songwriter |
B1 | [03:02] Billie Holiday with Eddie Heywood and his trio - On The Sunny Side Of The Street (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) Jazz |
B2 | [03:11] Billie Holiday and Eddie Heywood and his Orchestra - As Time Goes By (Herman Hupfeld) Crooner / Cabaret |
B3 | [03:16] Billie Holiday and Eddie Heywood and his Orchestra - I’m Yours (Johnny Green, Edward Yipsel Harburg) Crooner / Cabaret |
B4 | [03:15] Billie Holiday and her Orchestra - Fine And Mellow (Billie Holiday) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |