16 Most Requested Songs Review
Billie's Columbia years are considered her finest, as demonstrated on this collection of her best-known performances. Body and Soul; The Way You Look Tonight; Easy Living and My Man all showcase the singer's unique bluesy style. Read more...
16 Most Requested Songs Specifications
The emphasis on this single-CD collection of Columbia-era tunes is on both the familiar chestnuts that were frequently requested at Billie Holiday's live performances and those that made up her radio hits output. Several of the tracks are repeats from the Love Songs and Greatest Hits discs, representing a neatly packaged 16-song sampler of Holiday's efforts in the late 1930s (and in one case, the 1950s). Benny Goodman pops up as another of Holiday's accompanist-admirers, contributing to the opening track, "Miss Brown to You." And from 1941 comes the always disquieting "Gloomy Sunday," a chronicle of suicide. Not much touches Holiday at her best, as she is here. --Willard Jenkins
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