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Covers - The World of Billie Holiday
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Diana Ross
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Good Morning Heartache
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from Lady Sings the Blues (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
(2005)
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Nina Simone
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Strange Fruit
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from Compact Jazz: Nina Simone
(1989)
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Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie Big Band
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Fine and Mellow
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from Bluella - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Blues
(2006)
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Frank Sinatra
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Night and Day
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from Classic Sinatra - His Great Performances, 1953-1960
(2000)
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Michael Bublé
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These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
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from Special Delivery - EP
(2010)
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Cat Power
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Don't Explain
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from Jukebox (Deluxe Edition)
(2008)
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Marianne Faithfull
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Gloomy Sunday
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from A Perfect Stranger - The Island Anthology
(1998)
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Kate Bush
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The Man I Love
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from The Glory of Gershwin
(1994)
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Barbra Streisand
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My Man
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from The Essential Barbra Streisand
(2002)
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Aretha Franklin
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Crazy He Calls Me
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from Love Songs
(2008)
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Bettye LaVette
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God Bless the Child
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from Change Is Gonna Come Sessions
(2009)
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Carmen McRae
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Billie's Blues
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from Any Old Time
(1993)
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Anita O'Day
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Them There Eyes
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from Anita O'Day's Finest Hour
(2000)
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Blossom Dearie
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Lover Man
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from Blossom Dearie
(1989)
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Dianne Reeves
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What a Little Moonlight Can Do
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from A Little Moonlight
(2003)
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Rod Stewart
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All of Me
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from Fly Me to the Moon... - The Great American Songbook, Vol. V (Deluxe Version)
(2010)
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Chet Baker
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Travelin' Light
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from Baker's Holiday
(1989)
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Wynton Marsalis
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I Cover the Waterfront
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from Standard Time, Vol. 3: The Resolution of Romance
(1990)
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Dee Dee Bridgewater
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Lady Sings the Blues
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from Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love from Dee Dee
(2010)
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Casey MacGill & the Spirits of Rhythm
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Swing Brother Swing
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from Jump
(2007)
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Comment:
The best singers don't merely cover Billie Holiday — they absorb her, carrying her torch a few yards more, keeping her flame alive for new generations. Former Supremes leader Diana Ross, who garnered an Academy Award® nomination for her portrayal of Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues, captures Billie's deep-seated vulnerability — not to mention her pitch-perfect phrasing — in "Good Morning Heartache." Nina Simone slows the already dirge-like "Strange Fruit" to a glacial crawl, slicing open the song's veins with a performance that's equal parts mournful, bitter, and defiant. And if you thought only soul and R&B singers dive heart-first into Billie Holiday's songbook, check out Marianne Faithfull's burned-out, bummed-out, cabaret-chanteuse take on "Gloomy Sunday." But don't stop there: From Chet Baker to Cat Power, your favorite artists — from every corner of the musical universe — have spent the last 50-plus years striving for just a little taste of the Holiday magic.
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