Billie Holiday : Lady Day - The Best of Billie Holiday
Genre: Jazz Vocal	Dates: 1935-1941

"She has the worst voice I've ever heard," a Hickman student once remarked in outrage after first experiencing Holiday. If come to this expecting Celine Dion or Mariah Carey, you may well agree; however, if you keep your ears and mind open, you'll hear one of the most original and inimitable singers to grace the planet. One thing about "good voices" with "great range": they can't alchemize. Holiday, on the other hand, could take the worst piece of Tin Pan Alley trash (like "Me, Myself, and I") and transmute it into gold with her trumpet-like tone, laconic rhythmic sense, and crafty brain. She influenced every vocalist within earshot, particularly Frank Sinatra, who praised her at every turn, and her studio musicians were the finest jazz instrumentalists of the day. 36 classics across two discs.

Playlist:

DISC 1:
1. What A Little Moonlight Can Do
2. These Foolish Things
3. I Cried For You
4. Summertime
5. Billie's Blues
6. If You Were Mine
7. Fine Romance, A
8. Easy To Love
9. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
10. I Must Have That Man!
11. Me, Myself And I
12. They Can't Take That Away From Me
13. Easy Living
14. Sailboat In The Moonlight, A
15. Trav'lin' All Alone
16. When A Woman Loves A Man
17. You Go To My Head
18. My Man

DISC 2:
1. I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me
2. Very Thought Of You, The
3. I Can't Get Started
4. Long Gone Blues
5. Sugar
6. Some Other Spring
7. Them There Eyes
8. Man I Love, The
9. Body And Soul
10. Swing, Brother, Swing
11. Night And Day
12. Let's Do It
13. God Bless The Child
14. Solitude
15. I Cover The Waterfront
16. Gloomy Sunday
17. Until The Real Thing Comes Along, (It Will Have To Do)
18. All Of Me