Questo doppio cd riunisce tutte le registrazioni realizzate da Billie Holiday per l’etichetta Decca. Si tratta di brani registrati tra il 1944 e il 1950, quando Holiday era all’apice della sua carriera. Queste registrazioni segnano inoltre le prime esperienze di Lday Day con orchestre d’archi in studio. Questa raccolta contiene anche tre alternate takes inedite che vengono qui presentate per la prima volta.
Cd 1:
01 Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
02 No More
03 No More [Alt Tk]
04 That Ole Devil Called Love
05 That Ole Devil Called Love [Alt Tk] (*)
06 Don’t Explain [First Version]
07 Big Stuff [First Version]
08 Don’t Explain
09 Big Stuff [Second Version]
10 You Better Go Now
11 What Is This Thing Called Love
12 Good Morning Heartache
13 No Good Man [Alt Tk]
14 No Good Man
15 Big Stuff [Breakdown]
16 Big Stuff [Third Version]
17 Big Stuff
18 Baby I Don’t Cry Over You [Alt Tk]
19 Baby I Don’t Cry Over You
20 I’ll Look Around [Alt Tk]
21 I’ll Look Around
22 The Blues Are Brewin’
23 Guilty [Alt Tk]
24 Guilty [Breakdown]
25 Guilty
26 Deep Song [Breakdown] (*)
27 Deep Song
28 There Is No Greater Love [Alt Tk] (*)
Cd 2:
01 There Is No Greater Love
02 Easy Living
03 Solitude [Alt Tk]
04 Solitude
05 Weep No More
06 Girls Were Made To Take Care Of Boys
07 I Loves You Porgy
08 My Man [Mon Homme] [Alt Tk]
09 My Man [Mon Homme]
10 ‘Tain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do [Alt Tk]
11 ‘Tain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do
12 Baby Get Lost
13 Keeps On A-Rainin’
14 Them There Eyes
15 Do Your Duty
16 Gimme A Pigfoot (And A Bottle Of Beer)
17 You Can’t Lose A Broken Heart
18 My Sweet Hunk O’ Trash
19 Now Or Never
20 You’re My Thrill
21 Crazy He Calls Me
22 Please Tell Me Now
23 Somebody’s On My Mind
24 God Bless The Child
25 This Is Heaven To Me