Essential Works 1937 - 1958
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Lady Day was born Eleanora Fagan. How much suffering does it take to express love, pain, despair, or life itself? Few singers have conveyed emotion like Billie Holiday. A jazz guitarist father who doesn't acknowledge his daughter, more interested in nightlife than family life, a mother who is a cleaner, cook, and occasional prostitute, leaving her daughter with aunts and in reformatories, a life of violence, rape, and abuse of all kinds. Between prostitution, prison, and a few performances in dives where the generosity of the clientele was the only hope for payment, Billie landed a recording deal at 18 with Columbia. This was the beginning of a recognition that has not wavered over the years. Few voices in the last eighty years have been able to move hearts as Billie Holiday did.Buy Essential Works 1937 - 1958 at the best price
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All of Me
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When You're Smiling
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If Dreams Come True
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The Man I Love
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Getting Some Fun out of Life
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Time on My Hands
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The Very Thought of You
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My Man
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Jim
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Solitude
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Georgia on My Mind
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Lover man
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Am I Blue ?
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I'll Be Seeing You
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Now or Never
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On the Sunny Side of the Street
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Blue Moon
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Remember
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Sugar
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Them There Eyes
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Lover Come Back to me
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Love Me or Leave Me
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Willow Weep for Me
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I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
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Cheek to Cheek
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All or Nothing at All
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I'm a Fool to Want You
