Billie Holliday One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) Cover
This Affiliate highlights some of the most important composers of Billie's tunes. By going through the list below we tin can get a vivid musical portrait of her time and get the feeling of her gustatory modality in choosing memorable pieces of art.
Billie Holiday (1915-1959) 
Many people don't realize Billie was also a composer, or sometimes a lyricist with other composers as partners (their names in between brackets). These songs correspond her way and are generally included in records in her homage. Billie frequently sang 'em in her live presentations.
- (MT 114) Everything Happens For The Best (Smith)
- (MT 134) * Tell Me More than, And More than And And then Some More than
- (MT 116) ** Long Gone Dejection
- (MT 178) * Don't Explain (Arthur Herzog, Jr) Hush at present, don't explicate/ Just say you'll remain/ Unless you're mad, don't explain/ My love, don't explain/ What is there to gain/ Skip that lipstick/ Don't explain// Y'all know that I love yous/ And what loving does/ All my thoughts are real/ For I'g so completely yours
- (MT 208) * Now Or Never (Lewis)
- (MT 212) * Somebody's On My Mind (Arthur Herzog, Jr)
- (LR 71) You Gotta Show Me
- (LR 125) *** Billie's Blues (aka I Love My Man) I love my homo/ I'chiliad a liar if I say I don't/ I honey my homo/ I'm a liar if I say I don't/ Only I'll quit my man/ I'm a liar if I say I won't/ I've been your slave, infant/ Ever since I've been your baby/ I've been your slave/ Always since I've been your babe/ But earlier I'll exist your dog/ I'll see you in your grave. This was Billie'due south tour the force, there are almost 20 different recordings along her career; the ane that I pointed out here being a live session with the longest known version of it. Succulent.
- (MT 249) * Stormy Blues
- (MT 276) ***i/2 Lady Sings The Blues ( Alberta Nichols)
- (MT 278) ** God Bless The Child (Arthur Herzog, Jr)
- (LR 192) **** Fine And Mellow My man don't honey me/ Treats me oh and so mean/ My man he don't beloved me/ Treats me awfully/ He's the everyman human/ That I've ever see n / …/ Simply when he starts in to love me/ He's then fine and mellow.
I'm forced to mention here some other Billie favorite, just to compare the lyrics. Those four songs are a tribute to love and to be loved. A recurrent theme for Billie.
My Human being (Mon Homme) originally a French tune, it was also i of the public favorites in her live presentations. Hither'south how the lyrics goes: It toll me a lot/ Only at that place'south i thing that I've got/ It'south my homo/ It's my homo/ Cold or wet/ Tired, yous bet/ All of this I'll soon forget/ With my human being/ He's not much on looks/ He's no hero out of books/ Merely I love him/ Yep, I beloved him.
Arthur Freed (1894-1973) 
- (MT 11) Yankee Doodle Never Went To Town
- (MT twenty) * I Cried For Y'all – this record was Billie'due south sales champion in Brunswick. That'due south the first "standard" she recorded, a song from 1923 by Arthur Freed & Gus Arnheim & Abe Lyman. Beautiful melody
- (MT 21) Guess Who?
- (MT 56) ** Sunday Showers – a nice melody, in a swung tempo
- (MT 57) * Yours And Mine
Jimmy Van Heusen (1913-1990) 
- (MT 247) I Thought About You lot
- (MT 296) *** Darn That Dream (1939) a overnice and sophisticated melody, lyrics by Eddie De Lange. Billie recorded information technology in her last years, those beautiful moments in Los Angeles .
- (MT 310) Only Cute
- (MT 319) * All The way a beautiful song, unforgettable in Sinatra phonation, that Billie recorded in her last year, under Ray Ellis violins.
Harry Warren (1893-1981) 
His real proper name was Salvatore Guaragna, a son of Italian immigrants.
- (MT 15) * You Let Me Downwards
- (MT 50) How Could You
- (MT 98) Say It With A Buss
- (LR 6) Jeepers Creepers
- (MT 225) * I But Accept Eyes For Y'all (1934) a lovely melody, lyrics past Al Dubin.
Jimmy McHugh (1894-1969) 
Dorothy Fields was 1 of the great lyricists always. In here, we constitute three wonderful McHugh works with her lyrics.
- (MT 16) Spreading Rhythm Around
- (MT 36) * I Tin't Give Anything Only Love lyrics by Dorothy Fields
- (MT 77) * I Can't Believe That You're In Love
- (MT 172) * On The Sunny Side Of The Street (1930) an all-time jazz favorite, has lyrics by Dorothy Fields: Grab your coat and get your hat/ Exit your worry on the doorstep/ Just direct your feet/ To the sunny side of the street. Billie rendering was unfortunately less inspirated.
- (MT 274) *** I Must Have That Homo (1928) also lyrics by Dorothy Fields
Walter Donaldson (1893-1947) 
A famous songwriter, Donaldson lived long time in Hollywood and equanimous and arranged music for many move pictures.
- (MT 22) Did I Remember
- (LR 44) You're Driving Me Crazy
- (MT 154) **1/2 Love Me Or Leave Me (1928) this is a wonderful song, lyrics by Gus Kahn: This affair is killin' me/ I can't stand up uncertainly / Tell me now I've got to know/ Whether you lot want me to stay or to go/ Very Billie, isn't it? I selected this track with Teddy Wilson to represent the tune.
Burton Lane (1912-1997) 
- (MT 21) Gauge Who
- (MT 88) * Says My Middle
- (MT 138) * I Hear Music
- (MT 227) *** Everything I Have Is Yours (1933) for the film "Dancing Lady" has lyrics by Harold Adamson: Everything I have is yours/ You lot are office of me/ Everything I have is yours/ My destiny. No wonder Billie selected this tune and made it a superb recording.
Richard Whiting (1891-1938) 
- (MT five) * Miss Brown To You
- (MT 47) Sentimental And Melancholy
- (MT 191) ** Guilty
- (MT 238) *** He's Funny That Manner
- (MT 245) * Also Marvelous For Words (1937) with lyrics by Johnny Mercer, it is probably his best try.
John Green (1908-1989) 
Light-green was a musical managing director and wrote not that many songs, simply he has four tunes included in Billie's repertoire. And among them is Body and Soul, an all-time jazz standard classic.
- (MT 46) * Yous Showed Me The Manner
- (MT 153) * I Cover The Waterfront
- (MT 166) * I'thousand Yours
- (MT 298) ***1/2 Trunk And Soul (1930) an unforgettable operation. Lyrics by Heyman: My heart is sorry and lonely/ For you I sigh, for you dear only/ Why oasis't y'all seen it/ I'm all for you trunk and soul.
Rube Blossom (1902-1976) 
Rube Bloom was a very good pianist and also a bandleader. Billie selected a couple of his best works.
- (LR 59)*** Maybe You'll Be In that location (1947) what was the reason I liked this song that much? A minor tune from Bloom, a bad audio quality live recording in 1949, what was it? I don´t know, merely then I did. Lyrics by Sammy Gallop: Each time I see a crowd of people, / Just similar a fool I stop and stare, / It'south actually not the proper matter to do, / But maybe you'll be there. / I get out walking afterwards midnight , Forth the lone thoroughfare, / It's not the fourth dimension or identify to await for you, / But maybe you lot'll be there.
- (MT 239) ** I Can't Face The Music
- (MT 295) ***1/2 Mean solar day In, Day Out (1939) probably, his greatest hit, a vocal full of passion. One of my favorites. Information technology is a great partnership, the lyrics are by Johnny Mercer: 24-hour interval in, twenty-four hours out/ That same sometime voodoo follows me about / That aforementioned old pounding in my heart,/ whenever I think of you / And baby I think of you / 24-hour interval in and twenty-four hours out. There is something that makes me call back Cole Porter (the voodoo, perhaps?); it is to regret Billie never recorded You lot Do Something To Me… (do, do, that voodoo that you lot practise then well).
- (MT 324) Don't Worry 'Bout Me
Duke Ellington (1899-1974) 
Ellington was a musician in the wide sense of the word. Through his orchestra passed some of the biggest names in jazz. He was also a composer, despite the fact they were not actually composed as songs, but as instrumental pieces. A legend.
Ellington was the closest contact Billie had with the greatest composers. To focus in the recorded tracks, she made a short motion picture with his band, "Symphony in Black" in 1935 (s. 3a). And so, in 1945, she had a radio broadcast with Duke'due south Orchestra in the California Philarmonic Auditorium during the Esquire Magazine Second Annual Jazz Concert. In 1952 she took part in the Knuckles'southward 25th Anniversary Concert in Carnegie Hall.
- (LR 1) Saddest Tale this song, past Ellington, has the merit to be one of the outset recorded by Billie, in the early thirties.
- (MT 226) ** Solitude
- (MT 256) **1/two Prelude To A Kiss
- (MT 281) ***i/2 Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me (1943) lyrics by Bob Russell: Practice nothin' till yous hear from me / Pay no attending to what's said, / Why people tear the seams of anyone's dream / Is over my caput. Wow, I still can hear Ben Webster'south sax behind me.
- (MT 287) **** Sophisticated Lady (1933) originally instrumental, the lyrics are past Mitchell Parish: Diamonds shining, dancing, dining with some human in a restaurant / Is that all you lot really want? / No, sophisticated lady, / I know, you miss the love you lot lost long ago / And when nobody is nigh, you cry. It sounds quite Billie, right? One of my favorites.
Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) 
Rodgers was one of the most prolific American composers only his partnership with Billie did not return that many tracks. All of the songs listed below have lyrics by Lorenz Hart.
(MT 220) * Blue Moon
(MT 292) ***1/2 I Didn't Know What Time It Was (1939) wow, this was Billie sole recording of this song, in LA, 1957. An unforgettable performance that deserved an actress half-star. Listen: … /Grand to exist alive, to be young, to be mad, to be yours alone! /…
(MT 312) Information technology's Easy To Recall
(MT 315) Glad To Be Unhappy
(MT 326) You Took Reward Of Me
Vernon Duke (1903-1969) 
Three wonderful songs by Knuckles, built-in in Russia as Vladimir Dukelsky.
- (MT 93) * I Tin't Become Started (1936) non but mine, simply one of the jazz groups favorites, lyrics by Ira Gershwin: Iv'e been around the world in a plane/ Settled revolutions in Espana / The Northward Pole I have charted / But can't get started with you.
- (MT 233) *** Autumn In New York (1934) its particularity is to have both words and music by Duke.
- (MT 288) *** April in Paris
Jerome Kern (1885-1945) 
Kern was ane of the greatest, having influence in a generation of composers.
- (MT 32) The Fashion You Look Tonight
- (MT 43) ** Why Was I Born
- (MT 74) ** Tin't Help Lovin' Dat Man (1927) from the famous musical "Testify Boat", has lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein Ii: Tell me he's lazy/ Tell me he's slow/ Tell me I'g crazy, maybe, I know/ Tin can't help lovin' that homo of mine.
- (MT 118) Yesterdays (1933) from the musical "Roberta", it has very elaborated lyrics by Otto Harbach: Yesterdays, yesterdays / Days I knew as happy, sugariness sequestered days… Billie said it was i of her favorite tunes and recorded it iii times, but yet owe us a memorable operation.
- (MT 268) ** A Fine Romance (1936) from the film "Swing Time" featuring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, lyrics past Dorothy Fields. A pleasant song, with plenty of move and swing.
Harold Arlen (1905-1986) 
How to select any of these wonderful songs? All of them got loftier standards, so I decided to included the 2 that have lyrics by Johnny Mercer. I also want to point out that the unforgettable "Over the Rainbow" from the film The Wizard of Oz (1939) with Judy Garland is another masterpiece from Arlen (lyrics from Harburg).
- (MT 236) *** Stormy Weather condition
- (MT 265) ***1/2 Come up Rain Or Come Shine (1946) I'm gonna honey you similar nobody'due south loved you, / Come rain or come smooth. / Loftier equally a mount and deep as a river, / Come up rain or come shine. And so Mercer goes, and Billie follows with passion.
- (MT 266) *** I Gotta Right To Sing The Dejection
- (MT 283) ***1/2 Ill Wind
- (MT 302) **** One For My Baby (1943) one of my favorite songs, the accolade goes to the lyrics, expect how it starts: It'due south quarter to three, there'southward no one in the place/ Except you lot and me/ … / We're drinking my friend, to the finish/ Of a brief episode/ Brand information technology ane for my baby/ And one more for the road. Billie wouldn't do whatever improve.
Irving Berlin (1888-1989) 
Berlin , unlike Cole Porter, seems to be a perfect match for Billie. Almost all the songs she recorded got high evaluation, as y'all can see below. He is probably the almost known name in the American pop music. Berlin is also known to write complete songs, music and words. Berlin is also ane of the most prolific composers, having written almost 900 songs; however, the 3 I selected are from the early on thirties.
- (MT 41) He Own't Got Rhythm
- (MT 42) ** This Year Kisses
- (MT 232) *1/ii Think
- (MT 240) ** How Deep Is The Bounding main (1932) listen to Billie's complaining: And if I always lost you/ How much would I weep?/ How deep is the ocean? / How loftier is the heaven?
- (MT 251) ** I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
- (MT 253) ** Always
- (MT 272) *** Isn't This A Lovely Solar day?
- (MT 282) *** Cheek To Cheek (1935) the song outset appeared in the flick "Acme Hat". A wonderful happy song: Heaven, I'k in Heaven/ And my eye beats so that I can hardly speak/ And I seem to find the happiness I seek/ When nosotros're out together dancing, cheek to cheek.
- (MT 300) *** Say It Isn't And then (1932) Billie for sure meant that when she sung this wonderful song: Everywhere I get, anybody I know, whispers that you lot're growing tired of me/ Say information technology isn't so.
Cole Porter (1891-1964) 
Cole Porter is my favorite composer. However, there seems to be no skilful lucifer between Porter and Billie – a clear example is Dark and Day. Probably, two different styles. Porter is famous past his lyrics, worked to perfection – a feature of those composers that made both music and lyrics.
- (MT 125) **** Night And Mean solar day (1932) this song is probably i of the best ever written, wait at the lyrics in the kickoff verse: Like the beat beat beat of the tom-tom/ When the jungle shadows fall/ Like the tick tick tock of the stately clock/ As it stands against the wall/ Like the drip drip drip of the raindrops/ When the summer shower is through/ So a voice within me keeps repeating you lot… you… y'all… Night and day, y'all are the one/From the musical "Gay Divorce" in the aforementioned twelvemonth.
- (MT 143) * Let's Do It
- (MT 183) *** What Is This Thing Called Beloved?
- (MT 223) *** Easy To Love (1936) this is a wonderful love song, mind: Yous'd be then like shooting fish in a barrel to love/ And then easy to idolize/… The song is from the film "Born To Trip the light fantastic" where in that location was also another gem, I've got you nether my skin, that Billie never recorded.
- (MT 228) ** Dear For Sale
- (MT 270) * I Get A Kick Out Of You
- (MT 293) *** Just One Of Those Things (1935) From the musical "Jubilee". What an elaborate lyrics in the last verse: And then good-bye, dearest, and amen/ Hither's hoping nosotros run across now and so/ It was bully fun/ But it was but one of those things.
- (MT 329) * All Of Yous
George Gershwin (1898-1937) 
Gershwin was the composer with the largest number of tunes sung past Billie Vacation in this drove. All the commented songs below have their lyrics by his brother Ira Gershwin. Reading these lyrics is similar an online university didactics in song craftsmanship.
- (MT 24) Summertime
- (MT 71) * Nice Work If Yous Can Become Information technology
- (MT 72) * Things Are Looking Upward
- (MT 126) * The Man I Love (1924) a wonderful love song: Maybe I shall run across him Sunday / Perhaps Monday, maybe not / However I'm sure to encounter him 1 day / Possibly Tuesday will be my skilful news day. From the famous play "Lady Be Good" is 1 of the nearly popular songs ever. Billie do not honour the vocal, though, this beingness her sole recorded track.
- (MT 198) * Porgy
- (MT 291) *** A Foggy Twenty-four hour period (1937) And suddenly, I saw y'all standing right there / And in foggy London town, the sunday was shining everywhere. Beautiful.
- (MT 297) *** Simply Not For Me
- (MT 301) *** Our Love Is Here To Stay
- (MT 303) ***1/2 They Can't Accept That Away From Me
- (MT 304) ***1/2 Embraceable You (1930) listen: Cover me, my sugariness embraceable you! Embrace me, you irreplaceable y'all! From the play "Girl Crazy" and sung by Gene Kelly in the film "An American in Paris " (1951). A jewel, one of the best songs ever written; also a memorable tune by Billie.
- (MT 305) *** Permit's Call The Whole Matter Off
Ira Gershwin 
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