Stay with Me (album)

'Stay with Me' is an album by jazz singer Billie Holiday accompanied by Tony Scott and his Orchestra. It contains a whole recording session of February 14, 1955 in New York, and released in 1958 on producer Norman Granz' Verve label.

For the CD reissue in 1991 another session was appended, that Granz had previously issued as part of the self-titled Billie Holiday LP on his Clef Record label (10" LP, Clef EPC 224/Verve MGC 690). The recording from April 14, 1954 at the same studio with "Billie Holliday and Her Band" consisted of the Oscar Peterson Trio, Ed Shaughnessy on drums, and trumpeter Charlie Shavers as the only member of both sessions beside Holiday. Beyond that all tracks were part of many compilations and the complete recording issues of Billie Holiday.

Track listing

 * Side one
 * 1) "I Wished on the Moon" (Ralph Rainger, Dorothy Parker) - 6:48
 * 2) "Ain't Misbehavin' (Fats Waller, Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf) - 4:38
 * 3) "Everything Happens to Me" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) - 6:20


 * Side two
 * 1) "Say It Isn't So" (Irving Berlin) - 3:01
 * 2) "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" (Irving Berlin) - 3:55
 * 3) "Always" (Irving Berlin) - 3:57
 * 4) "Do Nothing till You Hear from Me" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) - 5:00


 * Appended session on CD release in 1991, previously released on Billie Holiday (probably 1954)
 * 1) "How Deep Is the Ocean" (Irving Berlin) - 3:01
 * 2) "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Harry Woods) - 3:12
 * 3) "I Cried for You" (Gus Arnheim, Arthur Freed, Abe Lyman) - 2:29

Personnel
Billie Holiday with Tony Scott and his Orchestra
 * Original session of February 14, 1955
 * Billie Holiday - Vocals
 * Charlie Shavers - Trumpet
 * Budd Johnson - Tenor sax
 * Tony Scott - Clarinet
 * Carl Drinkard / Billy Taylor - Piano
 * Billy Bauer - Guitar
 * Leonard Gaskin - Bass
 * Cozy Cole - Drums
 * Leroy Lovett - Arranger

Billie Holiday and Her Band
 * Session of April 14, 1954, added on CD release 1991
 * Billie Holiday - Vocals
 * Charlie Shavers - Trumpet
 * Oscar Peterson - Piano
 * Herb Ellis - Guitar
 * Ray Brown - Bass
 * Ed Shaughnessy - Drums