Portrait – Billie Holiday
Release name: Portrait
Picture: https://jazzinfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/MTItMzA3NS5qcGVn.jpeg
Label: Storyville
Label code: DALP 2/1940
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Compilation, Reissue
Country: Germany
Release date: 1974
Genre: Jazz, Blues
Style: Swing
Tracklist:
| A 1 | Strange Fruit | |
| A 2 | Yesterdays | |
| A 3 | Fine And Mellow | |
| A 4 | I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues | |
| A 5 | How Am I To Know | |
| A 6 | My Old Flame | |
| A 7 | I`ll Get By | |
| A 8 | I Cover The Waterfront | |
| B 1 | I’ll Be Seeing You | |
| B 2 | I’m Yours | |
| B 3 | Embraceable You | |
| B 4 | As Time Goes By | |
| B 5 | She’s Funny That Way | |
| B 6 | Lover Come Back To Me | |
| B 7 | I Love My Man | |
| B 8 | On The Sunny Side Of The Street | |
| C 1 | Billie’s Blues | |
| C 2 | Lover Man | |
| C 3 | Them There Eyes | |
| C 4 | My Man | |
| C 5 | I Cover The Waterfront | |
| C 6 | Crazy He Calls Me | |
| C 7 | Lover Come Back To Me | |
| D 1 | Detour Ahead | |
| D 2 | Strange Fruit | |
| D 3 | Drivin’ Me Crazy | |
| D 4 | Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do | |
| D 5 | All Of Me | |
| D 6 | I Loves You Porgy | |
| D 7 | Miss Brown To You |
Companies:
- Distributed By – Metronome
Credits:
- Illustration, Cover – Patrick Von Spreckelsen
- Liner Notes – Hauke Voigt
Notes:
Record 1 of this 2 Lp Set is a Reissue of the US Compilation Billie Holiday – Twelve Of Her Greatest Interpretations and does feature early recordings 1939-1944. Release date and details for Commodore Records Compilation is unknown.
Record 2 of this 2 Lp Set is a Release of later recordings, approximately taken 1958 Live in Storyville Club, Boston and was original released by Storyville Records Billie Holiday – At Storyville Club, Boston, Vol. 1. It`s rather unknown when and where this recordings were released first.
Record 2 of this 2 Lp Set is a Release of later recordings, approximately taken 1958 Live in Storyville Club, Boston and was original released by Storyville Records Billie Holiday – At Storyville Club, Boston, Vol. 1. It`s rather unknown when and where this recordings were released first.
The outer gatefold Cover illustration by Patrick von Spreckelsen was mainly influenced by the Cover illustration of a US Compilation – Billie Holiday – Billie Holiday – Commodore Records FL 30,008. Inside the gatefold are liner notes in german language by Hauke Voigt.
The timings on Labels do not match with the timings on Cover.
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All artists: Billie Holiday