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An Evening with Billie Holiday

An Evening with Billie Holiday (MG C-144) is the second 10-inch LP studio album by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released by Clef Records in 1953.

In 1956, when the 10-inch format was phased out, the album was reissued by Clef with the same artwork, and seven of the eight tracks, as a 12-inch LP called A Recital by Billie Holiday (MG C-686). The track "Tenderly", was moved to another 12-inch compilation called Solitude. Five additional tracks were added that had been previously released on her third 10-inch LP, simply titled Billie Holiday.

Track listing

1953 10-inch LP, An Evening with Billie Holiday

A side
  1. "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:41
  2. "Lover Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:36
  3. "My Man" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollock, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) – 2:37
  4. "He's Funny That Way" (Richard Whiting, Neil Moret) – 3:11
B side
  1. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach) – 2:49
  2. "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 3:23
  3. "I Can't Face the Music" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) – 3:14
  4. "Remember" (Irving Berlin) – 2:34

1956 12-inch LP, A Recital By Billie Holiday

A side
  1. "If the Moon Turns Green" (George Cates, Bernie Hanighen) – 2:46
  2. "Remember" (Irving Berlin) – 2:34
  3. "Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) – 3:43
  4. "My Man" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollock, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) – 2:37
  5. "Lover Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:36
  6. "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:41
B side
  1. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach – 2:49
  2. "He's Funny That Way" (Richard Whiting, Neil Moret) – 3:11
  3. "I Can't Face the Music" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) – 3:14
  4. "How Deep Is the Ocean?" (Irving Berlin) – 3:00
  5. "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Harry M. Woods) – 3:14
  6. "I Cried for You" (Gus Arnheim, Arthur Freed, Abe Lyman) – 2:27

Personnel

The personnel of the original 10-inch LP are from two different recording dates, with different musicians. The 12-inch LP adds one track from each of the two sessions, as well as three tracks from a 1954 session.

April 1952 (exact date unknown) <br />(Evening tracks B3-4; Recital tracks A1-A3):

July 27, 1952 <br />(Evening tracks A1-B2; Recital tracks A4-6, B1-3):

  • Billie Holiday – vocals
  • Joe Newman – trumpet
  • Paul Quinichette – tenor saxophone
  • Oscar Peterson – piano (organ on "Yesterdays")
  • Freddie Green – guitar
  • Gus Johnson – drums
  • Ray Brown – bass

April 14, 1954 <br /> (Recital tracks B4-6)

  • Billie Holiday – vocals
  • Charlie Shavers – trumpet
  • Oscar Peterson – piano
  • Herb Ellis – guitar
  • Ed Shaughnessy – drums
  • Ray Brown – bass

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