The Complete Commodore Recordings/ Billy Holiday
Commodore/GRP CMD24012 | ||
(CD1)1 Strange Fruits 2 Strange Fruits #2 3 Yesterdays 4 Yesterdays #3 5 Fine and Mellow 6 I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues 7 I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues #2 8 How Am I to Know #3 9 How Am I to Know #2-1 10 How Am I to Know #2-2 11 How Am I to Know 12 My Old Flame #3 13 My Old Flame (tk2) 14 My Old Flame #2 15 My Old Flame 16 I'll Get by 17 I'll Get by 18 I Cover the Waterfront #3 19 I Cover the Waterfront #2 20 I Cover the Waterfront(-) 21 I Cover the Waterfront 22 I'll Be Seeing You #3 23 I'll Be Seeing You 24 I'll Be Seeing You #2 (CD2)1 I'm Yours #3 2 I'm Yours #2 3 I'm Yours 4 Embraceable You #3 5 Embraceable You 6 Embraceable You #2 7 As Time Goes by 8 As Time Goes by #2 9 He's Funny That Way #2 10 He's Funny That Way (-2A) 11 He's Funny That Way 12 He's Funny That Way #4 13 He's Funny That Way #3 14 Lover, Come back to Me (-) 15 Lover, Come back to Me 16 Billie's Blues #2 17 Billie's Blues #3 18 Lover, Come back to Me 19 Billie's Blues 20 On the Sunny SIde of the Street 21 Lover, Come back to Me #2 Billy Holiday v Recorded in 1939, 1944 | ||
Billy HolidayがCommodoreに残した全録音の集成盤。Commodoreというレコード店が好きが昂じてレーベルまで興したというのが、いかにも時代を感じさせる。奇妙な果実が希有な歌曲である事は否定しないが、それにばかり目を取られずに、「唄う」のではなく「語る」といわれたこの人の歌唱の味を賞味すべきでしょう。完全版に付き物の別テイクが多くあるが、飛ばすのが面倒と言ってはいけません。昔はLPで溝を一つ飛ばすのが大変だったのに、今はリモコンでピッとやれるんですから |