Stay with Me (Billie Holiday album)

Stay with Me (MGV 8302) is an album by the 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, and released in 1958 on producer Norman Granz's Verve label.

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). 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 members of both sessions beside Holiday. Beyond that, all tracks were part of many compilations and the complete recording issues of Billie Holiday.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

In a review for AllMusic, Ron Wynn stated that Holiday "was fading, but hadn't lost the dramatic quality in her delivery, nor her ability to project and tell a shattering story."

Jack Kenny, writing for Jazz Views, noted that the "readings that gives to popular tunes of her day can reveal depths that probably the writers of the lyrics never envisaged. There are numerous examples on this CD. The one that stands out is 'Love For Sale'... She sings it as though for the first time; you hear it as if for the first time. It was fortunate that Norman Granz managed to put her under contract in what proved to be her final years."

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

Session details on Mike Lubbers' Billie Holiday Discography website billieholiday.be. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
Session details on billieholiday.be
Album release details on billieholiday.be
Album details for Billie Holiday on billieholiday.be
Session details on billieholiday.be
Details for the CD release on billieholiday.be. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
^ Wynn, Ron. "Billie Holiday: Stay with Me". AllMusic. Retrieved August 31, 2018.
Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
Kenny, Jack. "Billie Holiday: Stay with Me". Jazz Views. Retrieved September 29, 2022.

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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 The Complete Commodore & Decca Masters
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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