Billie Holiday Sings is Lady Day's first full-length album, released in the United States by Clef Records in 1952 on the 10-inch format. It contains her versions of "These Foolish Things," which was covered in 1973 by Bryan Ferry and the classic standard "Blue Moon." 1953's An Evening With, her second ten-inch studio album, contains the famous Cotton Club song "Stormy Weather" and a translation of Edith Piaf's success song "Mon Homme," introduced by Billie Holiday as a jazz/blues recording called "My Man." Both albums were recorded with a sextet including Oscar Peterson on piano, Ray Brown on double bass and Alvin Stoller on drums.
Musicians
Side A -
Los Angeles, c. May 1952
Billie Holiday - vocals
Charlie Shavers - trumpet
Flip Phillips - tenor saxophone
Oscar Peterson - piano
Barney Kessel - guitar
Ray Brown - bass
Alvin Stoller - drums
Side B:
1-5, 7 - New York, July 27, 1952
Billie Holiday - vocals
Joe Newman - trumpet
Paul Quinichette - tenor, saxophone
Oscar Peterson - piano, organ
Freddie Green - guitar
Ray Brown - bass
Gus Johnson - drums
Side B:
6 & 8 - Los Angeles, c. May 1952
Billie Holiday - vocals
Charlie Shavers - trumpet
Flip Phillips - tenor saxophone
Oscar Peterson - piano
Barney Kessel - guitar
Ray Brown - bass
Alvin Stoller - drums
Selections
Side A:
BILLIE HOLIDAY SINGS
1. I Only Have Eyes For You
2. You Turned The Tables On Me
3. Blue Moon
4. Solitude
5. These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
6. Easy To Love
7. You Go To My Head
8. East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon)
Side B:
AN EVENING WITH BILLIE HOLIDAY
1. Stormy Weather
2. Lover Come Back To Me
3. My Man
4. He's Funny That Way
5. Yesterdays
6. Tenderly
7. I Can't Face The Music
8. Remember