Stay with Me (Billie Holiday album)

Stay with Me

Studio album by Billie Holiday

Released

1958 (CD 1991)

Recorded

February 14, 1955
(CD bonus tracks: April 14, 1954)

Fine Sound Studios, New York^[1]

Genre

Jazz

Length

33:47 (CD 42:27)

Label

Verve
MGV 8302 (511 523-2)

Producer

Norman Granz

Billie Holiday chronology

Songs for Distingué Lovers
(1957)

Stay with Me
(1958)

All or Nothing at All
(1958)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

'Stay with Me' (MGV 8302) is an album by jazz singer Billie Holiday accompanied by Tony Scott and his Orchestra. It contains all the material from a session recorded February 14, 1955, in New York City,^[3] and released in 1958 on producer Norman Granz' Verve label.^[4]

For the CD reissue in 1991 another session was appended, that Granz had previously issued as part of the self-titled Billie Holiday LP on his Clef Record label (10" LP, Clef EPC 224/Verve MGC 690).^[5] The recording from April 14, 1954 at the same studio with "Billie Holliday and Her Band" consisted of the Oscar Peterson Trio, Ed Shaughnessy on drums, and trumpeter Charlie Shavers as the only member of both sessions beside Holiday.^[6] Beyond that all tracks were part of many compilations and the complete recording issues of Billie Holiday.^[7]

Track listing

Side one

"I Wished on the Moon" (Ralph Rainger, Dorothy Parker) - 6:48
"Ain't Misbehavin' (Fats Waller, Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf) - 4:38
"Everything Happens to Me" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) - 6:20

Side two

"Say It Isn't So" (Irving Berlin) - 3:01
"I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" (Irving Berlin) - 3:55
"Always" (Irving Berlin) - 3:57
"Do Nothing till You Hear from Me" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) - 5:00

Appended session on CD release in 1991, previously released on Billie Holiday (probably 1954)

"How Deep Is the Ocean" (Irving Berlin) - 3:01
"What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Harry Woods) - 3:12
"I Cried for You" (Gus Arnheim, Arthur Freed, Abe Lyman) - 2:29

Personnel

Original session of February 14, 1955

Billie Holiday with Tony Scott and his Orchestra

Billie Holiday - Vocals
Charlie Shavers - Trumpet
Budd Johnson - Tenor sax
Tony Scott - Clarinet
Carl Drinkard / Billy Taylor - Piano
Billy Bauer - Guitar
Leonard Gaskin - Bass
Cozy Cole - Drums
Leroy Lovett - Arranger

Session of April 14, 1954, added on CD release 1991

Billie Holiday and Her Band

Billie Holiday - Vocals
Charlie Shavers - Trumpet
Oscar Peterson - Piano
Herb Ellis - Guitar
Ray Brown - Bass
Ed Shaughnessy - Drums

References

Billie Holiday

Discography Awards and nominations

Albums	Billie Holiday Sings/Solitude An Evening with Billie Holiday Billie Holiday Billie Holiday at JATP 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 Recordings 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 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" "I Thought About You" "I'll Be Seeing You" "I'll Get By" "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" "Strange Fruit" "Summertime" "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?" "Who Needs You (Baby)" "Why Was I Born?" "Willow Weep for Me" "You Go to My Head"

Videography	The Emperor Jones Symphony in Black New Orleans Sugar Chile Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet The Sound of Jazz

Related topics	"Angel of Harlem" Lady Sings the Blues (book) Lady Sings the Blues (film) Lady Sings the Blues (soundtrack)

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