Lady in Autumn: The Best of The Verve Years is a compilation album by the singer Billie Holiday.
Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years | |
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Greatest hits album by | |
Released | 1991 |
Recorded | April 1946–March 1959 |
Length | 127:42 |
Label | Verve Records |
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [3] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [4] |
Critical reception
editThe Rolling Stone Album Guide called the album "a bittersweet triumph."[4]
In 2000, it was voted number 527 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.[5]
Track listing
editDisc One
edit- "Body and Soul" – 3:25
- "Strange Fruit" – 2:57
- "Trav'lin' Light" – 3:27
- "All of Me" – 2:01
- "(There Is) No Greater Love" – 2:37
- "I Cover the Waterfront" – 2:52
- "These Foolish Things" – 3:34
- "Tenderly" – 3:21
- "Autumn in New York" – 3:52
- "My Man" – 2:37
- "Stormy Weather" – 3:39
- "Yesterdays" – 2:47
- "(I Got a Man, Crazy for Me) He's Funny That Way" – 3:09
- "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" – 3:11
- "I Cried for You (Now It's Your Turn to Cry Over Me)" – 2:27
- "Too Marvelous for Words" – 2:12
- "I Wished on the Moon" – 6:44
- "I Don't Want to Cry Anymore" – 3:54
- "Prelude to a Kiss" – 5:35
- "Nice Work If You Can Get It" – 3:50
Disc Two
edit- "Come Rain or Come Shine" – 4:20
- "What's New?" – 4:16
- "God Bless the Child" – 3:58
- "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me" – 4:13
- "April in Paris" – 3:01
- "Lady Sings the Blues" – 2:39
- "Don't Explain" – 2:25
- "Fine and Mellow" [live] – 3:21
- "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" – 5:58
- "Stars Fell on Alabama" – 4:27
- "One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)" – 5:38
- "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You" - 5:36
- "Lover Man" – 3:08
- "All the Way" – 3:22
- "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" – 3:09
References
edit- ^ Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years at AllMusic
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 716. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ a b The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. pp. 322–323.
- ^ Colin Larkin (2000). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 182. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.