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Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years
Greatest hits album by
Billie Holiday
Released1991
RecordedApril 1946–March 1959
Length127:42
LabelVerve Records
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]

Lady in Autumn: The Best of The Verve Years is a compilation album by the singer Billie Holiday.

Critical reception

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The Rolling Stone Album Guide called the album "a bittersweet triumph."[4]

In 2000, it was voted number 527 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.[5]

Track listing

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Disc One

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  1. "Body and Soul" – 3:25
  2. "Strange Fruit" – 2:57
  3. "Trav'lin' Light" – 3:27
  4. "All of Me" – 2:01
  5. "(There Is) No Greater Love" – 2:37
  6. "I Cover the Waterfront" – 2:52
  7. "These Foolish Things" – 3:34
  8. "Tenderly" – 3:21
  9. "Autumn in New York" – 3:52
  10. "My Man" – 2:37
  11. "Stormy Weather" – 3:39
  12. "Yesterdays" – 2:47
  13. "(I Got a Man, Crazy for Me) He's Funny That Way" – 3:09
  14. "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" – 3:11
  15. "I Cried for You (Now It's Your Turn to Cry Over Me)" – 2:27
  16. "Too Marvelous for Words" – 2:12
  17. "I Wished on the Moon" – 6:44
  18. "I Don't Want to Cry Anymore" – 3:54
  19. "Prelude to a Kiss" – 5:35
  20. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" – 3:50

Disc Two

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  1. "Come Rain or Come Shine" – 4:20
  2. "What's New?" – 4:16
  3. "God Bless the Child" – 3:58
  4. "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me" – 4:13
  5. "April in Paris" – 3:01
  6. "Lady Sings the Blues" – 2:39
  7. "Don't Explain" – 2:25
  8. "Fine and Mellow [live]" – 3:21
  9. "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" – 5:58
  10. "Stars Fell on Alabama" – 4:27
  11. "One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)" – 5:38
  12. "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You" - 5:36
  13. "Lover Man" – 3:08
  14. "All the Way" – 3:22
  15. "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" – 3:09

References

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  1. ^ Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years at AllMusic
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 716. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ^ a b The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. pp. 322–323.
  5. ^ Colin Larkin (2000). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 182. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.
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