Artist: Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday
Aliases
Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra
Born
April 7, 1915
Died
July 17, 1959
Country
United States
Comments
Legendary jazz vocalist.
See also
Bobby Henderson
Easy Living
Easy to Love
I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me
I Must Have That Man!
I Wished on the Moon
I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)
If Dreams Come True
If You Were Mine
Mean to Me
Miss Brown to You
Moanin' Low
Nice Work if You Can Get It
Sugar
These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
What a Little Moonlight Can Do
When You're Smiling
Why Was I Born?

Performances

Originals

Title down Performer Release date Covered by
1 Billie's Blues Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1936 (6 artists)
2 Crazy He Calls Me Billie Holiday 1949 (41 artists)
3 Don't Explain Billie Holiday 1946 (52 artists)
4 Fine and Mellow Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra 1939 (22 artists)
5 Getting Some Fun Out of Life Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra October 1937 Madeleine Peyroux
6 God Bless the Child Billie Holiday 1941 (131 artists)
7 Good Morning Heartache Billie Holiday 1946 (60 artists)
8 I'll Look Around Billie Holiday with Billy Kyle and His Trio June 1947 (2 artists)
9 Lady Sings the Blues Billie Holiday 1956 (3 artists)
10 Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) Billie Holiday February 1945 (146 artists)
11 Me, Myself and I (Are All in Love With You) Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1937 Randy Crawford & Joe Sample
12 No More Billie Holiday 1946 (15 artists)
13 Some Other Spring Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra 1939 (38 artists)
14 Stormy Blues Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1954 Janiva Magness
15 Strange Fruit Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1939 (39 artists)
16 Tell Me More and More (And Then Some) Billie Holiday 1940 (6 artists)
17 That Ole Devil Called Love Billie Holiday February 1945 (2 artists)
18 This Is Heaven to Me Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1950 (2 artists)

Covers

Title down Performer Release date Originally by
1 'Deed I Do Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis and His Orchestra 1959 Johnny Marvin
2 (It Will Have to Do) Until the Real Thing Comes Along Billie Holiday June 1947 Andy Kirk and His Twelve Clouds of Joy - Ethel Waters
3 A Fine Romance Billie Holiday 1936 Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
4 A Foggy Day Billie Holiday 1958 Fred Astaire
5 Ain't Nobody's Business if I Do Billie Holiday September 1949 Anna Meyers and Original Memphis Five
6 All of Me Billie Holiday 1941 Belle Baker
7 All of You Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis and His Orchestra 1959 Don Ameche
8 All or Nothing at All Billie Holiday 1959 Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
9 All the Way Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis and His Orchestra 1959 Frank Sinatra
10 Autumn in New York Billie Holiday 1954 J. Harold Murray
11 Baby Get Lost Billie Holiday September 1949 Dinah Washington
12 Baby, Won't You Please Come Home Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis and His Orchestra 1959 Eva Taylor
13 Back in Your Own Backyard Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra April 1938 Ruth Etting
14 Blue Moon Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1952 Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Kenneth Sargent - Shirley Ross
15 Body and Soul Billie Holiday 1940 Ambrose and His Orchestra
16 But Beautiful Billie Holiday 1958 Bing Crosby
17 Come Rain or Come Shine Billie Holiday 1955 Ruby Hill, Harold Nicholas
18 Day In, Day Out Billie Holiday 1958 Bob Crosby & His Orchestra
19 Don't Worry 'Bout Me Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis and His Orchestra 1959 Cab Calloway
20 Easy to Love Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1952 James Stewart
21 Everything I Have Is Yours Billie Holiday 1954 Art Jarrett
22 Falling in Love Again Billie Holiday 1940 Marlene Dietrich - Weintraub Syncopators
23 For All We Know Billie Holiday 1958 Morton Downey
24 For Heaven's Sake Billie Holiday 1958 Claude Thornhill & His Orchestra
25 Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You Billie Holiday 1954
26 Georgia on My Mind Billie Holiday With Eddie Heywood and His Orchestra 1941 Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra
27 Georgia on My Mind Viktor Lazlo with Billie Holiday February 2012 Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra
28 Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer) Billie Holiday 1949 Bessie Smith Acc. by Buck and His Band
29 Girls Were Made to Look After Boys Billie Holiday and The Stardusters February 1949 Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae
30 Glad to Be Unhappy Billie Holiday 1958 Doris Carson
31 Gloomy Sunday Billie Holiday 1941 Hal Kemp & His Orchestra
Sampled by Venetian Snares
32 He's Funny That Way Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1937 Gene Austin
33 How Deep Is the Ocean Billie Holiday 1954 Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
34 I Can't Get Started Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1938 Bob Hope
35 I Cover the Waterfront Billie Holiday June 1947 Abe Lyman's California Ambassador Hotel Orchestra
36 I Cried For You Billie Holiday 1954 Benny Krueger and His Orchestra
37 I Didn't Know What Time It Was Billie Holiday 1958 Marcy Westcott and Richard Kollmar
38 I Get Along Without You Very Well Billie Holiday 1958 Dick Powell
39 I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues Billie Holiday 1939 Lillian Shade
40 I Must Have That Man Billie Holiday 1956 Adelaide Hall
41 I Must Have That Man! Billie Holiday 1973 Adelaide Hall
42 I Only Have Eyes For You Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1952 Dick Powell
43 I'll Be Around Billie Holiday 1958 Cab Calloway & His Orchestra
44 I'll Be Seeing You Billie Holiday and Eddie Heywood and His Orchestra 1944 Tamara
45 I'll Never Smile Again Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis and His Orchestra 1959 Percy Faith
46 I'm a Fool to Want You Billie Holiday 1958 Frank Sinatra
47 I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1937 Dick Powell & Alice Faye
48 Ill Wind Billie Holiday 1959 Harold Arlen
49 It Had to Be You Billie Holiday 1955 The Ambassadors [2]
50 It's Easy to Remember Billie Holiday 1958 Bing Crosby
51 It's Not for Me to Say Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis and His Orchestra 1959 Johnny Mathis
52 Just Friends Billie Holiday 1973 Red McKenzie & His Orchestra
53 Just One More Chance Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis and His Orchestra 1959 Abe Lyman's California Orchestra
54 Just One of Those Things Billie Holiday 1958 June Knight & Charles Walters
55 Let's Call the Whole Thing Off Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1937 Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
56 Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love Billie Holiday With Eddie Heywood and His Orchestra 1941 Irene Bordoni and Arthur Margetson
57 Love Me or Leave Me Billie Holiday 1941 Ruth Etting
58 Love for Sale Billie Holiday 1954 Kathryn Crawford, June Shafer, Ida Pearson and Stella Friend
59 Miss Brown to You Billie Holiday 1982 Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra
60 Moon Glow Billie Holiday 1954 Joe Venuti and His Orchestra
61 My Old Flame Billie Holiday and Eddie Heywood and His Orchestra 1944 Mae West & Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
62 Night and Day Billie Holiday February 1940 Fred Astaire
63 On the Sunny Side of the Street Billie Holiday With Eddie Heywood and His Trio 1947 Harry Richman
64 One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) Billie Holiday 1958 Fred Astaire
65 Solitude Billie Holiday With Eddie Heywood and His Orchestra 1941 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
66 Sometimes I'm Happy Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis and His Orchestra 1959 Charles King & Louise Groody
67 Speak Low Billie Holiday 1959 Mary Martin & Kenny Baker
68 St. Louis Blues Billie Holiday With Benny Carter and His Orchestra 1940 Prince's Band
69 Stars Fell on Alabama Billie Holiday 1958 Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians
70 Summertime Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1936 Abbie Mitchell
71 The End of a Love Affair Billie Holiday 1958 Margaret Whiting
72 The Man I Love Billie Holiday February 1940 Fred & Adele Astaire
73 The Very Thought of You Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1938 Ray Noble and His Orchestra
74 Them There Eyes Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra 1939 Gus Arnheim and His Coconut Grove Orchestra
75 There'll Be Some Changes Made Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis and His Orchestra 1959 Ethel Waters
76 These Foolish Things Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1952 Dorothy Dickson
77 They Can't Take That Away From Me Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1937 Fred Astaire
78 Violets for Your Furs Billie Holiday 1958 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra
79 What a Little Moonlight Can Do Billie Holiday 1954 Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra
80 When It's Sleepy Time Down South Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis and His Orchestra 1959 Nina Mae McKinney
81 Willow Weep For Me Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1954 Ted FioRito & His Orchestra
82 You Better Go Now Billie Holiday 1946 Katharyn Mayfield - Robert Bard
83 You Don't Know What Love Is Billie Holiday 1958 Carol Bruce
84 You Go to My Head Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra 1938 Larry Clinton & His Orchestra
85 You Took Advantage of Me Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis and His Orchestra 1959 Busby Berkeley and Joyce Barber
86 You Turned the Tables on Me Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1952 Alice Faye
87 You're My Thrill Billie Holiday With Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra 1949 Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra
88 You've Changed Billie Holiday 1958 Dick Haymes & Harry James and His Orchestra

Songs written by

Original songs

Title down Written by Covered by
1 Billie's Blues Billie Holiday (6 artists)
2 Don't Explain Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog Jr. (52 artists)
3 Fine and Mellow Billie Holiday (22 artists)
4 God Bless the Child Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog Jr. (131 artists)
5 Lady Sings the Blues Billie Holiday, Herbie Nichols (3 artists)
6 Stormy Blues Billie Holiday Janiva Magness
7 Tell Me More and More (And Then Some) Billie Holiday (6 artists)

Releases

Audio album

Title down Performer Release date Label
1 All or Nothing at All Billie Holiday 1959 Verve
2 Billie Holiday Billie Holiday 1954 Clef Records
3 Billie Holiday [MGM] Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis and His Orchestra 1959 MGM
4 I'll Be Seeing You Billie Holiday and Eddie Heywood and His Orchestra 1944 Commodore Records
5 Lady in Satin Billie Holiday 1958 Columbia
6 Lady Sings the Blues Billie Holiday 1956 Clef Records
7 Miss Brown to You Billie Holiday 1982 Swing House
8 Music for Torching Billie Holiday 1955 Clef Records
9 Solitude Billie Holiday 1956 Clef Records
10 Songs & Conversations Billie Holiday 1973 Paramount
11 Songs for Distingué Lovers Billie Holiday 1958 Verve

Audio single

Title down Performer Release date Label
1 Ain't Nobody's Business if I Do Billie Holiday September 1949 Decca
2 All of Me Billie Holiday 1941 OKeh
3 Back in Your Own Backyard Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra April 1938 Vocalion
4 Billy Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic [Volume 2] Billie Holiday 1954 Clef Records
5 Blue Moon Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1952 Mercury
6 Body and Soul Billie Holiday 1940 Vocalion
7 Falling in Love Again Billie Holiday 1940 OKeh
8 Georgia on My Mind Billie Holiday With Eddie Heywood and His Orchestra 1941 OKeh
9 Getting Some Fun Out of Life Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra October 1937 Vocalion
10 God Bless the Child Billie Holiday 1941 OKeh
11 Good Morning Heartache Billie Holiday 1946 Decca
12 He's Funny That Way Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1937 Vocalion
13 I Can't Pretend Billie Holiday 1936 Vocalion
14 I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues Billie Holiday 1939 Commodore Records
15 I Love My Man Billie Holiday With Eddie Heywood and His Trio 1947 Commodore Records
16 I Only Have Eyes for You Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1952 Mercury
17 If the Moon Turns Green Billie Holiday 1954 Clef Records
18 I'll Look Around Billie Holiday with Billy Kyle and His Trio June 1947 Decca
19 I'm in a Low Down Groove Billie Holiday 1941 OKeh
20 I'm Yours Billie Holiday and Eddie Heywood and His Orchestra 1944 Commodore Records
21 (It Will Have to Do) Until the Real Thing Comes Along Billie Holiday June 1947 Columbia
22 I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1937 Vocalion
23 Let's Call the Whole Thing Off Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1937 Vocalion
24 Love Me or Leave Me Billie Holiday 1941 OKeh
25 Loveless Love Billie Holiday With Benny Carter and His Orchestra 1940 OKeh
26 Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) Billie Holiday February 1945 Decca
27 The Man I Love Billie Holiday February 1940 OKeh
28 Me, Myself and I (Are All in Love With You) Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1937 Vocalion
29 No More Billie Holiday 1946 Decca
30 Now or Never Billie Holiday With Sy Oliver and His Orchesta 1949 Decca
31 Strange Fruit Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1939 Commodore Records
32 Summertime Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1936 Vocalion
33 Tell Me More and More (And Then Some) Billie Holiday 1940 OKeh
34 Them There Eyes Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra 1939 Vocalion
35 This Is Heaven to Me Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1950 Decca
36 The Very Thought of You Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1938 Vocalion
37 Weep No More Billie Holiday and The Stardusters February 1949 Decca
38 What Is This Thing Called Love? Billie Holiday 1946 Decca
39 Willow Weep for Me Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1954 Clef Records
40 You Turned the Tables on Me Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra 1952 Mercury
41 You're My Thrill Billie Holiday 1949 Decca

Performances also appear on

Title down Performer Release date Label
1 My Name is Billie Holiday Viktor Lazlo February 2012 AMC
2 Now It Can Be Told various artists 1938 Conqueror

Tributes

Title Performer Release date down Label
1 For Lady Webster Young, Paul Quinichette, Mal Waldron, Joe Puma, Earl May, Ed Thigpen 1957 Prestige
2 Fawkes on Holiday Wally Fawkes 1958 Decca
3 Tribute to the Lady Sam Cooke April 1959 Keen
4 Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday Classics Carmen McRae 1961 Columbia
5 Priscilla Sings Billy Priscilla Paris 1969 Happy Tiger
6 Blues for Lady Day Mal Waldron 1972 Black Lion
7 Siku Ya Bibi (Day of the Lady) Charles McPherson 1972 Mainstream
8 Got My Own Gene Ammons 1973 Prestige
9 For Lady Day Zoot Sims 1978 Pablo
10 Here's to My Lady Rosemary Clooney 1978 Concord Jazz
11 Abbey Sings Billie Abbey Lincoln 1989 Enja
12 Abbey Sings Billie - volume 2 Abbey Lincoln 1992 Enja
13 Lover Man - A Tribute to Billie Holiday John Hicks 1993 Red Baron
14 Miki Sings Billie - A Tribute to Billie Holiday Miki Howard 1993 Giant
15 Mystery Lady - Songs of Billie Holiday Etta James March 1994 Private Music
16 Homage to Billie Holiday - Body and Soul Tony Scott, Franco D'Andrea January 13, 1998 Philology
17 Homage to Lady Day Tony Scott Franco D'Andrea Quartet 1998 Philology
18 Mary Coughlan Sings Billie Holiday Mary Coughlan 2000 Evangeline
19 Gardenias for Lady Day James Carter 2003 Columbia
20 Blueprint of a Lady - Sketches of Billie Holiday Nnenna Freelon 2005 Concord Jazz
21 Ballads for Billie Kim Nalley 2006 CE Jazz & Blues
22 Misery - A Tribute to Billie Holiday in Memory of Thomas Shipp & Abraham Smith Laïka Fatien October 7, 2008 Blujazz
23 Lily Swings Lily Frost 2008 Marquis Records
24 Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959) - To Billie with Love from Dee Dee Bridgewater Dee Dee Bridgewater March 2, 2010 EmArcy
25 A Tribute to Billie Holiday Ruth Jacott November 16, 2010 CNR
26 My Name is Billie Holiday Viktor Lazlo February 2012 AMC

Forum topics

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1 One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) covers Add songs bacon 0 2007-02-23 16:30:55 GMT by bacon
2 Artist: Billie Holiday (Bastien) : additional information Report Errors Patrick 1 2010-04-13 19:57:01 GMT by Bastien
3 Moonlight in Vermont cover by Billie Holiday Add songs sebastiaanl 0 2010-09-28 11:50:14 GMT by sebastiaanl
4 Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time) cover by Billie Holiday Add songs sebastiaanl 0 2010-09-28 11:53:10 GMT by sebastiaanl
5 Trav'lin' Light [Paul Whiteman with Billie Holiday] cover by Henry Mancini Add songs rioub 0 2011-03-23 03:20:56 GMT by rioub
6 Artist: Billie Holiday (Bastien) Add songs spikerchick 3 2011-09-04 06:37:32 GMT by wally creek
7 Mon homme / My Man covers Add songs Jan 9 2011-11-28 21:31:25 GMT by Bastien
8 That Ole Devil Called Love [Billie Holiday] cover by Alison Moyet Add songs Andy 3 2012-10-02 13:14:35 GMT by walt
9 That ole devil called love Add songs Patrick F 1 2012-10-02 13:23:28 GMT by walt
10 Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You? cover by Billie Holiday Add songs Patrick F 1 2013-03-01 08:43:32 GMT by wally creek
11 New song: You Let Me Down [Billie Holiday] cover by Danish singer Kira Add songs blach 0 2013-03-09 21:39:28 GMT by blach
12 New Song: I'm Pulling Through [Billie Holiday] covers by Diana Krall and Søs Fenger Add songs blach 0 2013-03-09 21:56:24 GMT by blach

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