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Billie Holiday is heard at her absolute best on this album. For these Decca sessions, Billie was accompanied by strings and large studio orchestras for the first time in her career. Her voice was at its strongest during the 1940s, and among the many high points here are her original versions of 'Lover Man' (Holiday's biggest selling record), 'Don't Explain', and 'Good Morning Heartache'. Holiday's work here is often melancholy and resigned in the extreme, with sterling treatments of forlorn songs, such as 'You Better Go Now', and 'What Is This Thing Called Love?'.

TRACK LISTING

Easy Living
There Is No Greater Love
Deep Song
Guilty
The Blues Are Brewin'
I'll Look Around
Baby I Don't Cry Over You
Big Stuff
No Good Man
Good Morning Heartache
What Is This Thing Called Love
You Better Go Now
Don't Explain
That Ole Devil Called Love
No More
Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)