Billie Holiday Sings (album)

Billie Holiday Sings is the first album made by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released in the United States by Clef Records in 1952. It was reissued in 1956 by Verve Records with four extra tracks recorded at the sessions, and renamed Solitude.

1952 10" LP, Billie Holiday Sings

 * 1) "I Only Have Eyes for You" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:57
 * 2) "You Turned the Tables on Me" (Louis Alter, Sidney D. Mitchell) – 3:29
 * 3) "Blue Moon" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:31
 * 4) "(In My) Solitude" (Eddie DeLange, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 3:31
 * 5) "These Foolish Things" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) – 3:38
 * 6) "You'd Be So Easy to Love" (Cole Porter) – 3:01
 * 7) "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 2:56
 * 8) "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" (Brooks Bowman) – 2:54

1956 LP, Solitude

 * 1) "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" (Brooks Bowman) – 2:54
 * 2) "Blue Moon" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:31
 * 3) "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 2:56
 * 4) "You Turned the Tables on Me" (Louis Alter, Sidney D. Mitchell) – 3:29
 * 5) "You'd Be So Easy to Love" (Cole Porter) – 3:01
 * 6) "These Foolish Things" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) – 3:38
 * 7) "I Only Have Eyes for You" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:57
 * 8) "(In My) Solitude" (Eddie DeLange, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 3:31
 * 9) "Everything I Have Is Yours" (Harold Adamson, Burton Lane) – 3:43
 * 10) "Love for Sale" (Porter) – 2:56
 * 11) "Moonglow" (Eddie DeLange, Will Hudson, Irving Mills) – 2:58
 * 12) "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 3:23

Performance

 * Billie Holiday – vocals
 * Charlie Shavers – trumpet
 * Flip Phillips – tenor saxophone
 * Oscar Peterson – piano
 * Ray Brown – double bass
 * Barney Kessel – guitar
 * Alvin Stoller – drums

Production

 * Norman Granz – producer
 * David Stone Martin – artwork