Advantages: Great tracks, loads of emotion packed inside! Disadvantages: Not so much tracks from her first album
A jam-packed CD full of unique tracks from an amazing artist!
*****
Billie Paul Piper was born in 1982 in Swindon. Since she was tiny, she dreamed of performing and attended various dance classes and drama groups! When she was 13, she won a place in Sylvia Young Drama School and stayed there in London. When she was 15, she was given the opportunity of a lifetime! Innocent Record Company offered her a record deal! Without hesitating, Billie jumped at the chance, and became a new face for music - a young, lively, bubbly teen!
Billie's first single, 'Because We Want To', went straight to number one - a massive achievement! Following that, Billie had several other fantastic hits and a great album, 'Honey To the Bee'. Billie promoted this album by going on tour, then taking a short break afterwards.
When her break was over, Billie ...
Advantages: Stupidly funny! Disadvantages: Not very original
Billy Madison is another comedy film starring the as yet unknown at the time Adam Sandler. It was made in 1995 when Sandler was still on Saturday Night Live.
Adam Sandler plays the titular character; he's 27 and the son of Bryan Madison (Darren McGavin), a very rich hotel magnate. So he has never worked a day in his life and doesn't know the true meaning of money as everything is just given to him. But Bryan is retiring, and is torn about whether to give it to Billy or to Eric Gordon (Bradley Whitford), a slimy co-worker at Madison Hotels. So Billy strikes a deal with his dad: he will go through each school grade and pass their exams in a short period of time in order for him to become the head of the company. If he fails, it goes to Gordon.
And if that isn't enough pressure, he gets heckled at school, goofs off as much as he can ...
Advantages: Mostly new material Disadvantages: Not the standard you would expect
, and if I ever have a " down " day , ten minutes with Billy is guaranteed to have me rolling around , helpless with laughter , whether I choose the classic " Billy and Albert " , " The Pick of Billy Connolly " , " Billy Bites Yer Bum " or one of the newer world tour compilations .
It's the blend of quirky thoughts , alternative views on life , harshly funny childhood memories and strange but hilarious songs that makes the trademark " Billy " session what it is .
For example , his loud , gritty and passionate ( though completely sick and warped ) rendition of " Tell Laura I Love Her " which had both me and my daughter Laura in tears of laughter for so long that we had to rewind the tape by fifteen minutes to see the bits we had missed through sheer helplessness .
This is the song I swear I am insisting on having played at my funeral ...
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Product details
Title
Complete Commodore/Decca Masters, The
Performer
Billie Holiday
Genre
Jazz Vocal
Release Date
23/11/2009
Original Release Year
2009
Label / Distributor
Universal / Universal Music
Producer
Milt Gabler; Andy McKaie (Compilati
Pieces in Set
3
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
602527109978
Catalogue Number
2710997
Additional notes
Album Notes
Personnel: Billie Holiday (vocals). Liner Note Author: Ashley Kahn. Recording information: New York, NY (04/20/1939); New York, NY (03/25/1944); New York, NY (04/01/1944); New York, NY (04/08/1944); New York, NY (10/04/1944); New York, NY (11/08/1944); New York, NY (08/14/1945); New York, NY (01/22/1946); New York, NY (03/13/1946); New York, NY (04/09/1946); New York, NY (12/27/1946); New York, NY (02/13/1947); New York, NY (12/10/1948); New York, NY (08/17/1949); New York, NY (08/29/1949); New York, NY (09/08/1949); New York, NY (09/30/1949); New York, NY (10/19/1949); Hollywood, CA (03/08/1950). Photographer: Charles Peterson.
Titles on disc 1
1.
Strange Fruit
2.
Yesterdays
3.
Fine and Mellow
4.
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
5.
How Am I To Know
6.
My Old Flame
7.
I'll Get By
8.
I Cover the Waterfront
9.
I'll Be Seeing You
10.
I'm Yours
11.
Embraceable You
12.
As Time Goes By
13.
He's Funny That Way
14.
Lover Come Back To Me
15.
Billie's Blues
16.
On the Sunny Side of the Street
Titles on disc 2
1.
Lover Man
2.
No More
3.
That Ole Devil Called Love
4.
Don't Explain
5.
You Better Go Now
6.
What Is This Thing Called Love
7.
Good Morning Heartache
8.
No Good Man
9.
Big Stuff
10.
Baby I Don't Cry Over You
11.
I'll Look Around
12.
Blues Are Brewin'
13.
Guilty
14.
Deep Song
15.
There Is No Greater Love
16.
Easy Living
17.
Solitude
18.
Weep No More
19.
Girls Were Made To Take Care Of Boys
Titles on disc 3
1.
I Loves You Porgy
2.
My Man [Mon Homme]
3.
'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do
4.
Baby Get Lost
5.
Keeps On A-Rainin'
6.
Them There Eyes
7.
Do Your Duty
8.
Gimme A Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)
9.
You Can't lose A Broken Heart
10.
My Sweet Hunk O' Trash
11.
Now or Never
12.
You're My Thrill
13.
Crazy He Calls Me
14.
Please Tell Me Now
15.
Somebody's On My Mind
16.
God Bless the Child
17.
This Is Heaven To Me
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