Moanin' Low (2004)

About this title: Fans and critics view Billie Holiday's early recordings for Columbia and Decca with scorn and respect: scorn for the lack of quality material she was given, respect for how she and Teddy Wilson's band were able to lift a number like "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" to a higher level of artistry. Living Era, always a paragon in delivering excellence and value, chose a two-disc format to compile the material from Holiday's first dozen years in front of a recording microphone, and the decision works splendidly. A track listing of 50 performances -- roughly a fifth of what she recorded during the ... read more

Tracks:

1. Your Mother's Son-In-Law [Nichols/Holiner]
2. Miss Brown to You [Rainger/Robin/Whiti]
3. What a Little Moonlight Can Do [Woods]
4. Did I Remember? [Adamson/Donaldson]
5. I Can't Give You Anything But Love [Fields/McHugh]
6. I Must Have That Man! [Fields/McHugh]
7. My Last Affair [Johnson]
8. Moanin' Low [Dietz/Rainger]
9. Easy Living [Rainger/Robin]
10. I'll Never Be the Same [Malneck/Signorelli/]
11. Swing, Brother, Swing [Live Savoy Ballroom] [Raymond/Bishop/Will]
12. They Can't Take That Away from Me [Live Savoy Ballroom] [Gershwin/Gershwin]
13. Back in Your Own Back Yard [Jolson/Rose/Dreyer]
14. You Go to My Head [Coots/Gillespie]
15. Long Gone Blues [Holiday/Smith]
16. Fine and Mellow [Holiday]
17. Some Other Spring [Herzog/Kitchings]
18. Them There Eyes [Pinkard/Tracey/Taub]
19. Ghost of Yesterday [Wilson/Hertzog]
20. I'll Get By [Live Met. Opera House] [Ahlert/Turk]
21. Love My Man (Billie's Blues) [Live Met. Opera House] [Holiday]
22. He's Funny That Way [Whiting/Moret]
23. That Ole Devil Called Love [Roberts/Fisher]
24. No More [Camarata/Russell]
25. Strange Fruit [Allen]
26. I Wished On the Moon [Parker/Rainger]
27. Twenty-Four Hours a Day [Hanley/Swanstrom]
28. These Foolish Things [Link/Marvell/Strach]
29. I Cried for You [Arnheim/Freed/Lyman]
30. No Regrets [Tobias/Ingraham]
31. A Fine Romance [Kern/Fields]
32. The Way You Look Tonight [Fields/Kern]
33. Who Loves You? [Coots/Davis]
34. Pennies from Heaven [Burke/Johnston]
35. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm [Berlin]
36. This Year's Kisses [Berlin]
37. The Mood That I'm In [Sherman/Silver]
38. Carelessly [Ellis/Kenny/Kenny]
39. Mean to Me [Ahlert/Turk]
40. A Sailboat in the Moonlight [Lombardo/Loeb]
41. Nice Work if You Can Get It [Gershwin/Gershwin]
42. My Man [Charles/Pollack/Wil]
43. I'm Gonna Lock My Heart [Eaton/Shand]
44. All of Me [Simons/Marks]
45. God Bless the Child [Holiday]
46. I Cover the Waterfront [Heyman/Green]
47. Lover, Come Back to Me [Hammerstein/Romberg]
48. Lover Man [Davis/Ramirez/Sherm]
49. Don't Explain [Herzog/Holiday]
50. Good Morning, Heartache [Higginbotham/Drake/]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.