- Music for Torching (album)
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Music For Torching Studio album by Billie Holiday Released October 1955 Recorded August 23 & August 25, 1955 Genre Jazz Length 33:48 Label Clef (Verve Records) Producer Norman Granz Billie Holiday chronology Stay with Me
(1955)Music For Torching
(1955)Velvet Mood
(1956)Music For Torching is a studio album by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released in 1955.
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Track listing
Side One
- "It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) - 4:02
- "Come Rain Or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 4:23
- "I Get A Kick Out Of You" (Cole Porter) - 5:42
- "I Don't Want To Cry Anymore" (Victor Schertzinger) - 3:55
Side Two
- "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You" (Victor Young, Ned Washington, Bing Crosby) - 4: 29
- "A Fine Romance" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) - 3:35
- "Gone with the Wind" (Allie Wrubel, Herb Magidson) - 3:26
- "Isn't This a Lovely Day?" (Irving Berlin) - 4:16
Personnel
Billie Holiday - Vocal
Harry "Sweets" Edison - Trumpet
Benny Carter - Alto Saxophone
Jimmy Rowles - Piano
Barney Kessel - Guitar
Larry Bunker - Drums
John Simmons - BassAlbums 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 · Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years · Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933–1944 · Remixed and ReimaginedSongs "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'm Left Alone" · "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" · "Just One of Those Things" · "Lady Sings the Blues" · "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" · "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 Related topics Categories:- 1955 albums
- Billie Holiday albums
- Verve Records albums
- Clef Records albums
- English-language albums
- Albums produced by Norman Granz
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