Lady Day Swings
Lady Day Swings | |
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Compilation album by Billie Holiday | |
Released | July 30, 2002 (2002-07-30) |
Genre | Jazz, Swing |
Length | 45:51 |
Label | Legacy Recordings |
Producer | Michael Brooks |
Lady Day Swings is a compilation album by jazz singer Billie Holiday (also known as Lady Day). It was released in 2002 by Sony Music's Legacy Recordings and presents a collection of 16 songs drawn from the Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933–1944 box set released by Legacy Recordings in 2001.[1][2]
Background
Focusing on Holiday's recordings with swing bands between 1935 and 1941 in New York, the album gives an insight into Holiday's earlier, swing-style work.[3][4] The album features renditions of songs by well-known composers and songwriters, such as Cole Porter or Irving Berlin. The songs were originally recorded under Brunswick Records, Vocalion Records and Okeh Records, all secondary labels of Columbia Records.[5][6] In 1933, at the age of 17, Holiday met John Hammond, who was a producer and journalist working for Columbia Records at the time. He introduced her to jazz musicians such as Benny Goodman or jazz pianist Teddy Wilson and his band, whom she collaborated with for many of her early recordings and several of those included in this compilation.[7] Her collaboration with big bands at the time differed from her later music, but already reflected her own distinct style. In an essay published in 1962, Music critic Ralph J. Gleason even argues that recordings from these early years feature a joy to her voice that declined in her later years. Her work during these years introduced her to record labels and laid the groundwork for her fame.[3][8]
Track listing[9]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (feat: Teddy Wilson) | Harry M. Woods | 02:58 |
2. | "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" (feat: Eddie Heywood Jr.) | Cole Porter | 02:57 |
3. | "You'd Be So Easy to Love" (feat: Teddy Wilson) | Cole Porter | 03:13 |
4. | "Getting Some Fun Out of Life" | Joe Burke, Edgar Leslie | 03:03 |
5. | "He Ain't Got Rhythm" (feat: Teddy Wilson) | Irving Berlin | 02:51 |
6. | "I Hear Music" | Burton Lane, Frank Loesser | 02:42 |
7. | "If Dreams Come True" (feat: Teddy Wilson) | Benny Goodman, Irving Mills, Edgar Sampson | 03:05 |
8. | "I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (And Throw Away the Key)" | Jim Eaton, Terry Shand | 02:07 |
9. | "Romance in the Dark" (feat: Eddie Heywood Jr.) | Sam Coslow, Lillian Green, Gertrude Neisen | 02:16 |
10. | "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" | Irving Berlin | 02:57 |
11. | "Miss Brown to You" (feat: Teddy Wilson) | 03:00 | |
12. | "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (feat: Teddy Wilson) | George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin | 03:09 |
13. | "Spreadin' Rhythm Around" (feat: Teddy Wilson) | Ted Koehler, Jimmy McHugh | 02:55 |
14. | "Swing, Brother, Swing" | Lewis Raymond, Walter Bishop Sr., Clarence Williams | 02:57 |
15. | "A Fine Romance" | Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern | 02:53 |
16. | "Them There Eyes" | Maceo Pinkard, Doris Tauber, William Tracey | 02:48 |
References
- ^ Dahan, Charlie B. (August 4, 2002). "Billie Holiday: Lady Day Swings". All About Jazz. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
- ^ "Legacy". Discogs. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
- ^ a b Daley, Niky (2002). "BBC - Music - Review of Billie Holiday - Lady Day Swings". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
- ^ "Lady Day Swings". www.billieholiday.be. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
- ^ "History | Brunswick Records". Retrieved 2021-02-19.
- ^ Sony Music Entertainment (2015). "About OKeh Records". OKeh Records. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
- ^ Holiday, Billie; Dufty, William (1956). Lady Sings The Blues. New York: Lancer Books. pp. 36–38.
- ^ Gourse, Leslie (1997). The Billie Holiday Companion: Seven Decades of Commentary. New York: Schirmer Books. pp. 71–81. ISBN 0-02-864613-4.
- ^ "Lady Day Swings! - Billie Holiday | Release Info". AllMusic. Retrieved 2021-02-18.
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