16 Most Requested Songs

by Billie Holiday

Overview

16 Most Requested Songs is a mid-priced collection that spotlights many of Billie Holiday's best-known and most popular performances for Columbia Records, including "Body and Soul," "The Way You Look Tonight," and "Easy Living." 16 Most Requested Songs is far from a perfect retrospective of her total career, but it is a nice sampler of good performances and songs by famous songwriters. However, a casual fan who only wants the hits might want to track down First Issue: Great American Songbook or a collection with more and better-known songs. ~ JT Griffith

Product Details

Release Date:	04/28/2009
Label:	Sbme Special Mkts.
UPC:	0886974849827

Tracks

1. Miss Brown to You
2. If You Were Mine
3. These Foolish Things
4. The Way You Look Tonight
5. Pennies from Heaven
6. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
7. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
8. Why Was I Born?
9. Carelessly
10. Easy Living
11. My Man
12. I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (And Throw Away the Key)
13. Body and Soul
14. Gloomy Sunday
15. God Bless the Child
16. I'm a Fool to Want You

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Billie Holiday   Primary Artist,Vocals
Ray Ellis Orchestra   Primary Artist
Johnny Hodges   Guest Artist,Sax (Alto)
Teddy Wilson   Guest Artist,Piano
Urbie Green   Guest Artist,Trombone
Ben Webster   Guest Artist,Sax (Tenor)
Lester Young   Guest Artist,Sax (Tenor)
Roy Eldridge   Guest Artist,Trumpet
Gene Krupa   Guest Artist,Drums
Benny Goodman   Guest Artist,Clarinet
Vido Musso   Clarinet,Sax (Tenor)
Milt Hinton   Bass
Buster Bailey   Clarinet
Hank Jones   Piano
Dave Barbour   Guitar
Buck Clayton   Trumpet
Sonny White   Piano
Benny Morton   Trombone
Bernie Glow   Trumpet
Billy Butterfield   Trumpet
Cootie Williams   Trumpet
Barry Galbraith   Guitar
Ben Wilson   Sax (Tenor)
Eddie Heywood   Piano
Emmett Berry   Trumpet
Harry Carney   Clarinet,Sax (Baritone)
Lester Boone   Sax (Tenor)
Kermit Scott   Sax (Tenor)
John Williams   Bass
Paul Chapman   Guitar
Carl Frye   Sax (Alto)
Lawrence Lucie   Guitar
Prince Robinson   Clarinet
Benny Morton's All Stars   Trombone
Irving "Mouse" Randolph   Trumpet
Herbert Cowans   Drums
Hal West   Drums
Allan Reuss   Guitar
Billy Kyle   Piano
Babe Russin   Sax (Tenor)
Jimmy Powell   Sax (Alto)
Chu Berry   Sax (Tenor)
Cozy Cole   Drums
Jo Jones   Drums
Freddie Green   Guitar
Charlie Shavers   Trumpet
Edgar Sampson   Clarinet,Sax (Alto)
Walter Page   Bass
Gene Quill   Sax (Alto)
Hymie Schertzer   Sax (Alto)
John Trueheart   Guitar
John Kirby   Bass
Al Casey   Guitar
Jonah Jones   Trumpet
Jimmy Hamilton   Clarinet
Mel Davis   Trumpet
Osie Johnson   Drums
Hymie Shertzer   Sax (Alto)

Technical Credits

Rezsoe Seress   Composer
Arthur Johnston   Composer
Harry Link   Composer
Jimmy McHugh   Composer
Jacques Charles   Composer
Jack Wolf   Composer
Frank Sinatra   Composer
Edward Heyman   Composer
Dorothy Fields   Composer
Channing Pollack   Composer
Oscar Hammerstein II   Composer
Joel Herron   Composer
Johnny Green   Composer
Leo Robin   Composer
Holt Marvell   Composer
Robert Sour   Composer
Matty Malneck   Composer
Maurice Yvain   Composer
Albert Willemetz   Composer
Johnny Burke   Composer
Howard Fritzson   Art Direction
Jerry Shulman   Executive Producer
Chris Herles   Remastering,Restoration,Archival Restoration
Penny Armstrong   Project Director
Norman Ellis   Composer
Arnold Jay Smith   Liner Notes
Jerome Kern   Composer
Terry Shand   Composer
Billie Holiday   Composer
Arthur Herzog, Jr.   Composer
Irving Berlin   Composer
Jack Strachey   Composer
Laszlo Javor   Composer
Frank Eyton   Composer
Charles F. Kenny   Composer
Didier C. Deutsch   Compilation Producer
Sam M. Lewis   Composer
Johnny Mercer   Composer
Richard A. Whiting   Composer
Jim Eaton   Composer
Ralph Rainger   Composer
Nick A. Kenny   Composer