These rare treasures take you all across Billie's career-from '35, the year she debuted at the Apollo and first charted, to '59, the year she died. The stunning early performances include a 20-year-old Billie with Ellington in '35 and a 1937 radio broadcast from the Savoy Hotel in NY with the Basie Orchestra; you'll also hear rare rehearsal tapes, her Monterey '58 performance, songs on The Eddie Condon Show, The Tonight Show, The Steve Allen Show, an impromptu recording of Billie and friends singing My Yiddish Mamma, and more with Art Tatum, Lionel Hampton, Johnny Hodges, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins and more! Includes 129 tracks: Swing Brother Swing; Fine and Mellow; I'll Get By; Billie's Blues; All of Me; Lover Man; Them There Eyes; You're My Thrill; I Cover the Waterfront; Porgy; Tenderly; God Bless the Child; My Man; Moanin' Low; Ghost of a Chance, and more.
CD 1:
01. Lost My Man Blues [0:01:55.44]
02. Theme - Moten Swing [0:00:21.67]
03. Announcer Introduction [0:00:27.14]
04. Swing Brother Swing [0:01:49.35]
05. Announcer Introduction [0:00:13.23]
06. They Can't Take That Away From Me [0:03:23.45]
07. I Cried For You [0:02:26.59]
08. Fine And Mellow [0:03:30.71]
09. Announcer Introduction [0:02:01.05]
10. I'll Get By [0:01:44.11]
11. Billie's Blues [0:04:13.26]
12. Do Nothin' 'Til You Hear From Me [0:03:31.39]
13. Danny Kaye Introduces Jerome Kern who presents Billie with her award [0:01:18.54]
14. I Cover The Waterfront [0:03:09.30]
15. Fine And Mellow [0:03:15.11]
16. All Of Me [0:02:03.08]
17. Endy Gets Caught Playing Piano [0:02:03.53]
18. Endy Goes To Storyville [0:01:45.55]
19. Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans [0:01:53.15]
20. Satchmo Talks [0:00:47.44]
21. Farewell To Storyville [0:04:11.09]
22. Farewell To Storyville - Studio Version [0:03:18.12]
23. The Blues Are Brewin' - Studio Version [0:03:46.67]
24. The Man I Love [0:02:26.29]
25. Miss Brown To You [0:02:00.69]
26. Lover Man [0:02:44.46]
27. I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone [0:03:54.66]
28. Billie's Blues [0:03:36.52]
29. No More [0:03:05.18]
30. Good Morning Heartache [0:03:28.21]
CD 2:
01. You're Driving Me Crazy [0:01:34.09]
02. Maybe You'll Be There [0:03:30.73]
03. Introduction by Donald Wood [0:00:34.59]
04. You'd Better Go Now [0:03:15.70]
05. Them There Eyes [0:01:56.69]
06. Lady Day and Eddie Condon Speak [0:00:38.35]
07. Keeps On Rainin' [0:02:45.73]
08. Lady Day and Eddie Condon Speak [0:00:35.04]
09. Lover Man (incomplete) [0:02:17.28]
10. I Cover The Waterfront [0:03:03.16]
11. All Of Me [0:01:59.55]
12. Narration / Early History [0:00:28.37]
13. Fine And Mellow [0:02:57.53]
14. Porgy [0:02:58.11]
15. Jam Session Introduction [0:00:09.61]
16. I love My Man [0:05:07.61]
17. You're My Thrill [0:03:37.39]
18. Lover Come Back To Me [0:02:22.18]
19. Ain't Nobody's Business [0:02:21.13]
20. You're Driving Me Crazy [0:01:16.03]
21. He's Funny That Way [0:03:04.32]
22. Miss Brown To You [0:02:05.42]
23. Lover Man [0:02:17.02]
24. Them There Eyes [0:01:42.04]
25. My Man [0:03:20.01]
26. I Cover The Waterfront [0:03:25.18]
27. Crazy He Calls Me [0:02:09.44]
28. Detour Ahead [0:02:23.61]
29. Strange Fruit [0:03:18.61]
30. Ain't Nobody's Business [0:02:57.18]
31. All Of Me [0:01:42.15]
CD 3:
01. Porgy [0:03:06.18]
02. My Man [0:02:59.68]
03. Tenderly [0:03:02.43]
04. God Bless The Child [0:02:34.01]
05. My Man [0:03:01.06]
06. Them There Eyes [0:01:57.30]
07. Lover Man [0:02:36.55]
08. Willow Weep For Me [0:03:33.00]
09. I Only Have Eyes For You [0:01:52.17]
10. My Man [0:02:53.73]
11. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone [0:02:02.20]
12. Jon McCloughland - Introduction [0:01:17.62]
13. I Cover The Waterfront [0:03:29.19]
14. Too Marvelous For Words [0:02:16.73]
15. Porgy [0:03:08.23]
16. Them There Eyes [0:01:46.22]
17. Willow Weep For Me [0:03:52.33]
18. I Only Have Eyes For You [0:02:46.00]
19. You Go To My Head [0:03:29.54]
20. Stormy Weather [0:03:36.55]
21. Ghost Of A Chance [0:03:43.68]
22. Nice Work If You Can Get It [0:02:37.66]
23. God Bless The Child [0:02:53.02]
24. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone [0:01:55.52]
25. Don't Explain [0:02:44.69]
26. Porgy [0:02:31.46]
CD 4:
01. Fine And Mellow [0:08:48.26]
02. What A Little Moonlight Can Do [0:02:29.51]
03. Foolin' Myself [0:02:30.53]
04. Easy To Remember [0:03:31.10]
05. Moanin' Low [0:01:57.01]
06. Don't Explain [0:02:50.69]
07. When Your Lover Has Gone [0:02:01.56]
08. Mort Saul - Introduction [0:00:23.71]
09. Ain't Nobody's Business [0:03:25.09]
10. Willow Weep For Me [0:02:55.04]
11. When Your Lover Has Gone [0:02:21.66]
12. God Bless The Child [0:03:21.42]
13. I Only Have Eyes For You [0:02:00.66]
14. Good Morning Heartache [0:03:51.60]
15. Them There Eyes [0:02:18.72]
16. Billie's Blues [0:03:31.35]
17. What A Little Moonlight Can Do [0:03:25.31]
18. Travelin' Light [0:03:21.61]
19. Lover Come Back To Me [0:02:06.11]
CD 5:
01. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good [0:05:51.42]
02. Lady Day Speaks - Early History [0:02:09.43]
03. Just Friends [0:01:01.39]
04. Lady Day Speaks - The Number 13 [0:00:43.12]
05. Ghost Of A Chance [0:01:14.08]
06. Please, Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone - 1 [0:01:59.07]
07. Everything Happens To Me [0:03:30.37]
08. Please, Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone - 2 [0:03:00.60]
09. I Don't Want To Cry Anymore [0:01:30.62]
10. Prelude To A Kiss [0:02:48.18]
11. Jeepers Creepers [0:01:41.48]
12. My Yiddishe Mama [0:02:42.15]
13. Hey! Lady's Here [0:03:17.71]
14. God Bless The Child [0:03:04.39]
15. Introduction [0:00:42.28]
16. Nice Work If You Can Get It [0:02:21.05]
17. Willow Weep For Me [0:02:29.70]
18. When Your Lover Has Gone [0:01:58.40]
19. Billie's Blues [0:03:10.52]
20. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone [0:02:11.71]
21. God Bless The Child [0:02:42.11]
22. Now Or Never [0:02:18.61]
23. Ray Charles Comment [0:00:23.02]
