This Is Gold: Billie Holiday

~ Release by Billie Holiday (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Annotation

Disky release, unclear whether legitimate or not (cannot find cover art beyond bad front scans)

Annotation last modified on 2025-12-10 09:45 UTC.

Tracklist

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#TitleRatingLength
1Now or Never
recording of:
Now or Never
writer:
Billie Holiday and Curtis Lewis (US songwriter)
3:15
2Baby Get Lost
recording of:
Baby Get Lost
writer:
Leonard Feather and Billy Moore, Jr. (40s American jazz pianist/arranger/composer)
publisher:
Modern Age Music Co.
3:17
3Guilty
cover recording of:
Guilty
lyricist:
Gus Kahn
composer:
Harry Akst and Richard A. Whiting (composer)
3:07
4If You Were Mine
recording of:
If You Were Mine (from “To Beat the Band”)
lyricist:
Johnny Mercer
composer:
Matty Malneck
3:13
5Baby, I Don’t Cry Over You
recording of:
Baby, I Don’t Cry Over You
lyricist and composer:
Morton Krouse
3:08
6Solitude
cover recording of:
(In My) Solitude (on 1941-05-09)
lyricist:
Eddie DeLange (in 1934) and Irving Mills (in 1934)
composer:
Duke Ellington (US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader) (in 1934)
publisher:
American Academy of Music, Inc., De Lange Music Co., EMI Mills Music Inc. (ASCAP-affiliated) and J. R. Lafleur & Son Ltd.
recording of:
(In My) Solitude
lyricist:
Eddie DeLange (in 1934) and Irving Mills (in 1934)
composer:
Duke Ellington (US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader) (in 1934)
publisher:
American Academy of Music, Inc., De Lange Music Co., EMI Mills Music Inc. (ASCAP-affiliated) and J. R. Lafleur & Son Ltd.
3:15
7I’ll Get By
2:58
8Deep Song
recording of:
Deep Song
lyricist:
Douglass Cross (US songwriter)
composer:
George Cory
publisher:
Northern Music Company
3:10
9I Cried for You
recording of:
I Cried for You
lyricist:
Arthur Freed
composer:
Gus Arnheim and Abe Lyman
publisher:
Arthur Freed Music, CBS Miller Catalog, Inc. and Miller Music Corp.
3:12
10My Old Flame
recording of:
My Old Flame
lyricist:
Sam Coslow
composer:
Arthur Johnston (American composer and songwriter)
publisher:
Famous Music Corporation (renamed since 2007‐05 as Sony/ATV Harmony/Melody)
2:58
11I’m Yours
recording of:
I’m Yours
lyricist:
Yip Harburg
composer:
Johnny Green (composer and conductor, often credited as John Green)
3:17
12My Man
2:53
13Do Your Duty
recording of:
Do Your Duty
writer:
Wesley A. Wilson
3:14
14Sugar
cover recording of:
Sugar (That Sugar Baby o’ Mine)
writer:
Edna Pinkard, Sidney Mitchell and Maceo Pinkard
composer:
Edna Alexander, Sidney Mitchell and Maceo Pinkard
publisher:
EMI Robbins Catalog (ASCAP) and Robbins Music Corp.
2:45
15Don’t Explain
recording of:
Don’t Explain
writer:
Arthur Herzog, Jr. and Billie Holiday
publisher:
Duchess Music Corporation (BMI-affiliated) and Universal Music Publishing (use ONLY if no country‐specific information is available)
2:53
16Easy Living
recording of:
Easy Living
lyricist:
Leo Robin (US composer, lyricist & songwriter)
writer:
Ralph Rainger (in 1937) and Leo Robin (US composer, lyricist & songwriter) (in 1937)
composer:
Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin (US composer, lyricist & songwriter)
publisher:
Famous Music Corporation (renamed since 2007‐05 as Sony/ATV Harmony/Melody) (in 1937, in 1964)
3:01
17He’s Funny That Way
recording of:
She’s Funny That Way
lyricist:
Richard A. Whiting (composer) (in 1928)
writer:
Neil Moret and Richard A. Whiting (composer)
composer:
Neil Moret (in 1928)
publisher:
Chappell & Co., EMI April Music Inc., Francis, Day & Hunter Ltd., Robbins Music Corp. and Ross Jungnickel, Inc.
2:37
18Big Stuff
recording of:
Fancy Free: Big Stuff
lyricist and composer:
Leonard Bernstein (American conductor, composer, pianist) (in 1944)
part of:
Fancy Free
2:28
19It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie
recording of:
It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie
lyricist and composer:
Billy Mayhew (in 1936)
3:00
20Keeps on Raining
recording of:
Keeps On a‐Rainin’
writer:
Max Kortlander and Spencer Williams (US jazz composer, pianist & singer)
3:14
21My Sweet Hunk o’ Trash
recording of:
My Sweet Hunk o’ Trash
lyricist:
Flournoy E. Miller
composer:
James P. Johnson
3:16