Artist	Song
Ella Fitzgerald	Flying Home
from Ken Burns's Jazz: Ella Fitzgerald (2000)
Sarah Vaughan	They Can't Take That Away from Me
from Ken Burns Jazz: Sarah Vaughan (2000)
Dinah Washington	Crazy He Calls Me
from Dinah Jams (Live) (1990)
Lester Young & Oscar Peterson	There Will Never Be Another You
from Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1997)
Roy Eldridge	I Remember Harlem
from Little Jazz - The Best of the Verve Years (2004)
Maxine Sullivan	Every Time We Say Goodbye
from The Very Best Of (2009)
Carmen McRae	Love Is Here to Stay
from The Original Decca Recordings: Carmen McRae - Here to Stay (1992)
Peggy Lee & Benny Goodman and His Orchestra	Why Don't You Do Right
from Peggy Lee: The Singles Collection (2002)
Anita O'Day	Boogie Blues
from Let Me Off Uptown: The Best of Anita O'Day (1999)
Lena Horne	One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
from The Classic Lena Horne (2001)
Mildred Bailey	It's Love I'm After
from The Incomparable Mildred Bailey (2003)
Helen Humes	All Night Long
from Women Blues Singers (1999)
Ivie Anderson	It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
from Top Hits of the 1930s (2008)
Lee Wiley	Oh Look At Me Now
from The Total, Vol. 1 (2007)
Edith Piaf	La Vie en Rose
from Greatest Hits (2008)

Comment:

Here's how Billie Holiday the singer became Billie Holiday the legend: She was surrounded by, inspired by, challenged by the greatest artists not only of her era, but of any era. Sax legend Lester "Prez" Young nicknamed her Lady Day, and his playing (heard here with Oscar Peterson on "There Will Never Be Another You") also inspired Holiday to declare, "I feel like I'm playing a horn. I try to improvise like Les Young." Speaking of vocal improv, the scat-singing First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald, delivers a tongue-twisting, scale-shattering performance as she swoops and soars through the Benny Goodman standard "Flying Home (Take B)." And if Billie had a separated-at-birth twin, it must've been France's Little Sparrow, Edith Piaf, whose urchin-to-superstar arc mirrors Holiday's, and whose "La Vie en Rose" reveals her street-smart-with-heart sentimentality. From Peggy Lee to Sarah Vaughan, we've got all the greats who shared the airwaves, and the spotlight, back in Holiday's day.

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