Series 33, Prog 14

THE BILLIE HOLIDAY SONG BOOK

Intro: A Little White Ship - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Now or Never - Billie Holiday with Sy Oliver & His Orchestra: 78rpm single

Lady Sings the Blues - Billie Holiday: Lady Sings the Blues

Who Needs You - Ineza Kerschkamp with Alex Webb & The Copasetics: Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories

Don’t Explain - Lorez Alexandria & Ramsay Lewis: Early In the Morning

Please Don’t Do It In Here - Laurie Krauz: Catch Me If You Can

Somebody’s On My Mind - Billie Holiday with Gordon Jenkins’ Orchestra: 78rpm single

Long Gone Blues - Lou Rawls: The Best Of Lou Rawls/The Capitol Jazz & Blues Sessions (previously unreleased)

God Bless the Child - Liza Minnelli: Liza with a “Z”

Stormy Blues - Billie Holiday: Stormy Blues

Preacher Boy - Rose Ellis (aka Roos Plaatsman): Like Songs, Like Moons

Everything a Good Man Needs - Carmen McRae: Live at Montreux

Our Love Is Different - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra: 78rpm single

Left Alone - Abbey Lincoln: Straight Ahead

Everything Happens for the Best - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra: 78rpm single

Billie’s Blues (I Love My Man) - Cassandra Wilson: Coming Forth By Day

Fine and Mellow - Ella Fitzgerald: A Perfect Match

Billie Holiday 

(April 7, 1915 - July 17, 1959) 

Photo by Carl Van Vechten (1949)