Lady Day & Pres

by Holiday,Billie & Lester Young

Overview

Lady Day & Pres 1937-1941 is a double-disc, 36-track overview of the musical romance between the troubled vocalist and the soft-toned tenor saxophonist. Among the many highlights are "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)," "I Can't Get Started," "The Very Thought of You," and two different takes of "All of Me." This is an expanded edition of Fremeaux & Associes 18-track Billie Holiday/Lester Young set released in 1992 under the same title. ~ Al Campbell

Product Details

Release Date:	07/30/2002
Label:	Fr?Meaux & Associ?S
UPC:	3448960201322
Rank:	244469

Tracks

Disc 1

1. All of Me
2. Foolin' Myself
3. My First Impression of You
4. When You're Smiling
5. Back in Your Own Backyard
6. He's Funny That Way
7. He Ain't Got Rhythm
8. Now They Call It Swing
9. I've Got a Date with a Dream
10. If Dreams Come True
11. I Must Have That Man!
12. The Man I Love
13. When a Woman Loves a Man
14. You're a Lucky Guy
15. Easy Living
16. Everybody's Laughing
17. Laughing at Life
18. Getting Some Fun out of Life

Disc 2

19. I'm Pulling Through
20. I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me
21. Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)
22. Say It with a Kiss
23. This Year's Kisses
24. Sun Showers
25. Time on My Hands
26. A Sailboat in the Moonlight
27. Yours and Mine
28. I Can't Get Started
29. The Very Thought of You
30. You're Just a No Account
31. Mean to Me
32. Trav'lin All Alone
33. Without Your Love
34. I'll Never Be the Same
35. Me, Myself and I
36. All of Me

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Billie Holiday   Primary Artist,Vocals
Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra   Primary Artist
Teddy Wilson   Primary Artist,Piano
Lester Young   Primary Artist,Clarinet,Sax (Alto),Sax (Tenor)
Eddie Heywood   Primary Artist,Piano
Allan Reuss   Guitar
Kenny Clarke   Drums
Jimmy Sherman   Piano
Cozy Cole   Drums
Claude Thornhill   Piano
Freddie Green   Guitar
Edmond Hall   Clarinet
Shad Collins   Trumpet
Earle Warren   Sax (Alto)
Benny Goodman   Clarinet
Eddie Barefield   Sax (Alto)
Joe Sullivan   Piano
Edgar Sampson   Sax (Alto)
Walter Page   Bass,Double Bass
Ted Sturgis   Bass
Albert Casey   Guitar
Johnny Hodges   Sax (Alto)
Buster Bailey   Clarinet
Buck Clayton   Trumpet
Harry "Sweets" Edison   Trumpet
Benny Morton   Trombone
J.C. Heard   Drums
Jack Washington   Bars,Sax (Alto)
Benny Carter   Sax (Alto)
Leslie Johnakins   Sax (Alto)
Dicky Wells   Trombone
Artie Bernstein   Bass
Harry James   Trumpet
Herschel Evans   Sax (Tenor)
Kermit Scott   Sax (Tenor)
Bill Bowen   Sax (Alto)
Joe Eldridge   Sax (Alto)
John Collins   Guitar
Johnathan Jones   Drums
Margaret Johnson   Piano

Technical Credits

Allan Roberts   Composer
Seymour Simons   Composer
Ray Noble   Composer
Bernie Hanighen   Composer
Bob Todd   Composer
Irving Mills   Composer
Billy Rose   Composer
Vernon Duke   Composer
Arthur Herzog, Jr.   Composer
Jack Lawrence   Composer
Cornell Todd   Composer
Irving Berlin   Composer
Irving Gordon   Composer
Cole Porter   Composer
Joe Goodwin   Composer
Jacques Lubin   Assistant Producer
Clarence Gaskill   Composer
Larry Shay   Composer
Ben Oakland   Composer
Frank Signorelli   Composer
Benny Goodman   Composer
Charles F. Kenny   Composer
Lou Handman   Composer
Edgar Leslie   Composer
Edgar Sampson   Composer
John Jacob Loeb   Composer
George Gershwin   Composer
Ira Gershwin   Composer
Charles Tobias   Composer
Walter Hirsch   Composer
Mark Fisher   Composer
Johnny Mercer   Composer
Peter Tinturin   Composer
Saul Chaplin   Composer
Neil Moret   Composer
Richard A. Whiting   Composer
Roy Turk   Composer
Nacio Herb Brown   Composer
Ralph Rainger   Composer
Nick A. Kenny   Composer
Arthur Freed   Composer
Alvin Kaufman   Composer
Al Jolson   Composer
Gus Kahn   Composer
Gerald Marks   Composer
Harold Adamson   Composer
Vincent Youmans   Composer
Dave Dreyer   Composer
Jimmy McHugh   Composer
Benny Carter   Arranger
Fred E. Ahlert   Composer
Carmen Lombardo   Composer
Dorothy Fields   Composer
Mack Gordon   Composer
Leo Robin   Composer
Sam H. Stept   Composer
Sammy Lerner   Composer
Vaughn DeLeath   Composer
Matty Malneck   Composer
Gordon Jenkins   Composer
Harry Revel   Composer
Harry Warren   Composer
Sammy Cahn   Composer
J.C. Johnson   Composer
John Lange   Composer
M. Fisher   Composer
Patrick Fremeaux   Producer
Lionel Risler   Photography
J.D. Goodwin   Composer
Joe Burke   Composer
Alain Gerber   Liner Notes,Artistic Director
N. Cloutier   Composer
Don Waterhouse   Translation,Text Adaptation
Charles Eddie   Mastering
Claude Colombini   Producer
Fred Stryker   Composer
Noel Herve   Artistic Producer
Irene Kitchings   Composer