Body and Soul (Billie Holiday album)

1957 studio album by Billie Holiday

Body and Soul

Studio album by

Billie Holiday

Released| 1957
Recorded| January 3, January 4, January 7, & January 9, 1957
Genre| Jazz
Length| 40:07
Label| Verve
Producer| Norman Granz
Billie Holiday chronology
| Lady Sings the Blues
(1956)  | Body and Soul
(1957)  | Songs for Distingué Lovers
(1957)

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Source| Rating
AllMusic| [1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music| [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings| [2]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide| [4]

Body and Soul is a studio album by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released in 1957.[4]

## Critical reception

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In its 1957 review of the album, Saturday Review wrote:

> "With changes in her voice which bring Miss Holiday's singing closer to recitative has come an occasional timidity about altering a melody where before there was boldness. But she remains one of the best jazz singers, not only for her unique sound and attack, but for her straightforward, honest, musical communication."[5]

## Track listing

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A side

1. "Body and Soul" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, and Frank Eyton) – 6:18
2. "They Can't Take That Away From Me" (George and Ira Gershwin) – 4:08
3. "Darn That Dream" (Jimmy Van Heusen and Eddie DeLange) – 6:15
4. "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off" (George and Ira Gershwin) – 3:22

B side

1. "Comes Love" (Sam H. Stept, Lew Brown and Charles Tobias) – 3:58
2. "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You" (Andy Razaf and Don Redman) – 5:34
3. "Embraceable You" (George and Ira Gershwin) – 6:45
4. "Moonlight in Vermont" (Karl Suessdorf and John Blackburn)- 3:47

bonus tracks on 2002 Verve Master Edition CD

1. "Comes Love" (false start take 2) - 0:32
2. "Comes Love" (false start take 3) - 0:20
3. "Comes Love" (alternate take 1) - 3:56

## Personnel

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* Billie Holiday – vocals
* Ben Webster – Tenor Sax
* Barney Kessel – Guitar
* Harry "Sweets" Edison – Trumpet
* Jimmy Rowles – Piano
* Red Mitchell – Bass
* Alvin Stoller – Drums on 1, 3, 5 and 8
* Larry Bunker – Drums on 2, 4, 6 and 7

## References

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1. ^ AllMusic review
2. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 716\. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
4. ^ a b The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. 2004. p. 382.
5. ^ "Body and Soul: Billie Holiday". Saturday Review. Vol. 40\. Saturday Review Associates. 1957. p. 36.

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Billie Holiday

* Discography
* Awards and nominations

Albums|

* Billie Holiday Sings/Solitude
* An Evening with Billie Holiday
* Billie Holiday
* Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic
* Stay with Me
* Music for Torching
* Velvet Mood
* Lady Sings the Blues
* Body and Soul
* Songs for Distingué Lovers
* Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport
* All or Nothing at All
* Lady in Satin
* Last Recording
* The Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert Recorded Live
* Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years
* Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933–1944
* Lady Day Swings
* Remixed and Reimagined

Songs|

* "Ain't Nobody's Business"
* "As Time Goes By"
* "Billie's Blues"
* "Blue Moon"
* "Body and Soul"
* "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?"
* "Don't Explain"
* "Easy Living"
* "Embraceable You"
* "Everything Happens for the Best"
* "Everything Happens to Me"
* "Fine and Mellow"
* "Gloomy Sunday"
* "God Bless the Child"
* "Good Morning Heartache"
* "I Cover the Waterfront"
* "I Loves You, Porgy"
* "If You Were Mine"
* "I Thought About You"
* "I'll Be Seeing You"
* "I'll Get By"
* "I'll Never Be the Same"
* "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"
* "Just One of Those Things"
* "Lady Sings the Blues"
* "Left Alone"
* "Love for Sale"
* "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)"
* "Me, Myself, and I"
* "Miss Brown to You"
* "My Man"
* "Moonlight in Vermont"
* "Night and Day"
* "No More"
* "Now or Never"
* "Our Love Is Different"
* "P.S. I Love You"
* "Pennies from Heaven"
* "Please Don't Do It Here"
* "Preacher Boy"
* "Sophisticated Lady"
* "Stormy Blues"
* "Stormy Weather"
* "Strange Fruit"
* "Sugar"
* "Summertime"
* "That Ole Devil Called Love"
* "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)"
* "Too Marvelous for Words"
* "Trav'lin' Light"
* "What a Little Moonlight Can Do"
* "What Is This Thing Called Love?"
* "Why Was I Born?"
* "Willow Weep for Me"
* "You Go to My Head"
* "Your Mother's Son-In-Law"

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