All Songs & Composers

 

Song Composers (Music / Lyrics)
A Fine Romance Jerome Kern / Dorothy Fields
A Foggy Day George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
A Sailboat in the Moonlight Carmen Lombardo & John Jacob Loeb
A Sunbonnet Blue (And A Yellow Straw Hat) Sammy Fain / Irving Kahal
A Yiddishe Momme * Lew Pollack & Jack Yellen
Ain’t Misbehavin’ Thomas Fats Waller & Harry Brooks / Andy Razaf
Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do Everett Robbins & Porter Grainger
All of Me Seymour Simons & Gerald Marks
All of You Cole Porter
All or Nothing at All Arthur Altman / Jack Lawrence
All the Way Jimmy Van Heusen / Sammy Cahn
Always Irving Berlin
Am I Blue? Harry Akst / Grant Clarke
Any Old Time Artie Shaw
April in My Heart Hoagy Carmichael / Meinardi
April in Paris Vernon Duke / E. Y. Harburg
As Time Goes By Herman Hupfeld
Autumn in New York Vernon Duke
Baby Get Lost Leonard Feather
Baby,  I Don’t Cry over You Morton Krouse
Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home? Charles Warfield & Clarence Williams
Back in Your Own Backyard Al Jolson & Billy Rose & Dave Dreyer
Be Fair With Me Baby Ravon Darnell & Frank Mesner
Beer Barrel Polka * Taromir Vejvoda & Wladimir Timm / Lew Brown
Big Stuff Leonard Bernstein
Billie’s Blues (I Love My Man) Billie Holiday
Blue Moon Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart
Blue Turning Grey Over You Fats Waller / Andy Razaf
Body and Soul John Green / Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton
Born to Love Jack Scholl & M. K. Jerome
But Beautiful Jimmy Van Heusen / Johnny Burke
But Not for Me George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man Jerome Kern / Oscar Hammerstein II
Carelessly Norman Ellis
Cheek to Cheek Irving Berlin
Come Rain or Come Shine Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer
Comes Love Sam Stept / Charles Tobias/ Lew Brown
Crazy He Calls Me Carl Sigman / Bob Russell
Darn That Dream Jimmy Van Heusen / Eddie De Lange
Day in-Day Out Rube Bloom / Johnny Mercer
Deed I Do Walter Hirsch & Fred Rose
Deep Song George Cory & Douglas Cross
Detour Ahead Johnny Fringo & Lou Carter & Gerb Ellis
Did I Remember? Walter Donaldson / Harold Adamson
Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me Duke Ellington / Bob Russell
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? Louis Alter / Eddie De Lange
Do Your Duty Wesley Sox Wilson
Don’t Explain Arthur Herzog Jr. & Billie Holiday
Don’t Worry ’bout Me Rube Bloom / Ted Koehler
Dream of Life Carmen Mc Rae & L. Henderson
East of the Sun Brooks Bowman
Easy Living Ralph Rainger / Leo Robin
Easy to Love Cole Porter
Eeny Meeny Miney Mo Matty Malneck / Johnny Mercer
Embraceable You George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
Everybody’s Laughing Sammy  Lerner & Ben Oakland
Everything Happens for the Best Billie Holiday & T. Smith
Everything Happens to Me Matt Dennis / Tom Adair
Everything I Have Is Yours Burton Lane / Harold Adamson
Falling in Love Again (Can’t Help It) Friedrich Hollander & Sammy Lerner
Farewell To Storyville Spencer Williams & Clarence Williams
Fine And Mellow Billie Holiday
Foolin’ Myself Peter Tinturin / Jack Lawrence
For All We Know J. Fred Coots / Sam M. Lewis
For Heaven’s Sake Don Meyer & Elsie Bretton & Sherman Edwards
Forget If You Can Jack Manus & K. Upham & L. Joy
Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You Don Redman / Andy Razaf
Georgia on My Mind Hoagy Carmichael / Stuart Gorrell
Getting Some Fun out of Life Edgar Leslie & Joseph A. Burke
Ghost Of A Chance (I Don’t Stand A) Victor Young / Bing Crosby & Ned Washington
Ghost of Yesterday Arthur Herzog Jr. & Irene Kitchings (Irene Wilson)
Gimme a Pigfoot And a Bottle of Beer Wesley Sox Wilson
Girls Were Made to Take Care of Boys Ralph Blane
Glad To Be Unhappy Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart
Gloomy Sunday Rezso Seress / Laszlo Javor (version Sam M. Lewis)
God Bless the Child Arthur Herzog Jr. & Billie Holiday
Gone with the Wind Allie Wrubel & Herb Magidson
Good Morning Heartache Irene Higginbotham & Ervin Drake & Dan Fischer
Guess Who Burton Lane / Arthur Freed
Guilty Harry Akst & Richard Whiting / Gus Kahn
Havin’ Myself a Time Ralph Rainger / Leo Robin
He Ain’t Got Rhythm Irving Berlin
Hello My Darling Frank Loesser & Frederick Hollander
Here It Is Tomorrow Again P. Gibson & Roy Ringwald
He’s Funny That Way Neil Moret / Richard A. Whiting
How Am I to Know Jack King / Dorothy Parker
How Could You? Harry Warren / Al Dubin
How Deep Is the Ocean? Irving Berlin
I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love With Me Jimmy Mc Hugh / Clarence Gaskill
I Can’t Face the Music Rube Bloom / Ted Koehler
I Can’t Get Started Vernon Duke / Ira Gershwin
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby Jimmy Mc Hugh / Dorothy Fields
I Can’t Pretend Charles Tobias / Paul Rusincky / Edward Breuder
I Cover The Waterfront John Green / Edward Heyman
I Cried for You Gus Arnheim, Abe Lyman / Arthur Freed
I Didn’t Know What Time It Was Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart
I Don’t Know If I’m Coming or Going Lee Wainer & Lupin Fien
I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore Victor Schertzinger
I Get a Kick out of You Cole Porter
I Get Along Without You Very Well Hoagy Carmichael
I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) * Duke Ellington / Paul Francis Webster
I Gotta Right To Sing the Blues Harold Arlen / Ted Koehler
I Hadn’t Anyone Till You Ray Noble
I Hear Music Burton Lane / Frank Loesser
I Must Have That Man Jimmy Mc Hugh / Dorothy Fields
I Only Have Eyes for You Harry Warren / Al Dubin
I Thought About You Jimmy Van Heusen / Johnny Mercer
I Wish I Had You B. Green & A. Stillman & Claude Thornhill
I Wished on the Moon Ralph Rainger / Dorothy Parker
I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone Buddy Johnson
I Won’t Believe It * J. Russel Robinson & Martin Block & Victor Selsman
If Dreams Come True Edgar Sampson & Benny Goodman & Irving Mills
If I Were You Buddy Bernier & Robert D. Emmerich
If My Heart Could Only Talk Walter Samuels & Leonard Whitcup & Teddy Powell
If the Moon Turns Green Paul Coates & Bernard Hanighen
If You Were Mine Matty Malneck / Johnny Mercer
I’ll Be Around Alec Wilder
I’ll Be Seeing You Sammy Fain / Irving Kahal
I’ll Get By Fred E. Ahlert / Roy Turk
I’ll Look Around George Cory & Douglas Cross
I’ll Never Be the Same Matty Malneck & Frank Signorelli / Gus Kahn
I’ll Never Fail You Irving Taylor & Vic Mizzy
I’ll Never Smile Again Ruth Lowe
Ill Wind Harold Arlen / Ted Koehler
I’m A Fool To Want You J. Wolf & J. S. Harron & F. Sinatra
I’m All for You Bresler & Wynn
I’m Gonna Lock My Heart And Throw Away The Key Jimmy Eaton & Terry Shand
I’m in a Low-Down Groove R. Jacobs
I’m Painting the Town Red Charles Tobias & Sam H. Stept / Charles Newman
I’m Pulling Through Arthur Herzog Jr. & Irene Kitchings (Irene Wilson)
I’m Restless * Sam Coslow & Tom Satterfield
I’m Walkin’ Through Heaven with You * Joe Turner / Jimmie Lunceford
I’m Yours John Green / E.Y. Harburg
Isn’t This a Lovely Day? Irving Berlin
Israel * Tony Scott  / Arthur Herzog Jr.
It Had to Be You Isham Jones / Gus Kahn
It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie Billy Mayhew
It’s Easy to Blame the Weather Saul Chaplin / Sammy Cahn
It’s Easy To Remember Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart
It’s Like Reaching for the Moon Al Lewis & Al Sherman & Gerald Marqusee
It’s Not for Me to Say Robert Allen / Albert Stillman
It’s The Same Old Story M. Field & N. Oliphant
It’s Too Hot for Words Walter Samuels & Leonard Whitcup & Teddy Powell
I’ve Got a Date with a Dream Mack Gordon & Harry Revel
I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Irving Berlin
Jeepers Creepers Harry Warren / Johnny Mercer
Jim N. Shawn & C. Petrillo & E. Ross
Just Friends * John Klenner / Samuel Lewis
Just One More Chance Arthur Johnston / Sam Coslow
Just One of Those Things Cole Porter
Keeps On A Rainin’ Spencer Williams & Max Kortlander
Lady Sings the Blues Billie Holiday & Herbie Nichols
Lady’s Back in Town * Tony Scott
Laughing at Life Nick Kenney & Charles Kenney & B. Todd & C. Todd
Let’s Call a Heart a Heart Arthur Johnston / Johnny Burke
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
Let’s Do It Cole Porter
Let’s Dream in the Moonlight R. Walsh & Matty Malneck
Life Begins When You’re in Love Brown & Victor Schertzinger & Andrew Acquarulo Ackers
Long Gone Blues Billie Holiday & T. Smith
Love for Sale Cole Porter
Love Me or Leave Me Walter Donaldson / Gus Kahn
Loveless Love W. C. Handy
Lover Come Back To Me Sigmund Romberg / Oscar Hammerstein
Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) Jimmy Davis & Roger Ramirez & Jimmy Sherman
Mandy Is Two Fulton Mc Grath / Johnny Mercer
Maybe You’ll Be There Rube Bloom / Sammy Gallop
Me,  Myself and I Irving Gordon & Allan  Roberts & Alvin S. Kaufman
Mean to Me Fred E. Ahlert / Roy Turk
Misery * Tony Scott
Miss Brown To You Richard Whiting, Ralph Rainger / Leo Robin
Moanin’ Low Ralph Rainger / Howard Dietz
Moonglow Will Hudson & Irving Mills / Edgar De Lange
Moonlight in Vermont Karl Suessdorf / John Blackburn
More Than You Know Vincent Youmans / Billy Rose & Edward Eliscu
My First Impression of You Sam Stept & Charles Tobias / Lew Brown
My Last Affair (This Is) Haven Johnson
My Man (Mon Homme) Maurice Yvain / A. Williametz & Jacques Charles (version Channing Pollock)
My Old Flame Arthur Johnston / Sam Coslow
My Sweet Hunk of Trash James P. Johnson & Flournoy E. Miller
Nice Work If You Can Get It George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
Night and Day Cole Porter
No Good Man Irene Higginbotham & Dan Fischer & Sammy Gallop & Ervin Drake
No More (You Ain’t Gonna Bother Me) Toots Camarata / Bob Russell
No Regrets Ingraham & Harry Tobias
Now Or Never Curtis R. Lewis & Billie Holiday
Now They Call It Swing W. Hirsch & Vaughn  Deleath & N. Cloutier & L. Handman
On the Sentimental Side James Monaco / Johnny Burke
On The Sunny Side of The Street Jimmy Mc Hugh / Dorothy Fields
One for My Baby, And One More for the Road Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer
One Never Knows, Does One? Mack Gordon & Harry Revel
One, Two, Button Your Shoe Charles Tobias & Paul Rusincky / Johnny Burke
Our Love Is Different Billie Holiday & R. Conway & B. Alba & Sonny White
Our Love Is Here to Stay George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
P.S. I Love You Gordon Jenkins / Johnny Mercer
Pennies from Heaven Arthur Johnston / Johnny Burke
Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone Sam Stept / Sidney Clare
Please Keep Me in Your Dreams Tot Seymour & Vee Lawnhurst
Please Tell Me Now Arnold Clawson & Toussaint Pope
Porgy (I Love You) George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin & Dubose Heyward
Practice Makes Perfect D. Roberts & E. Gold
Prelude to a Kiss Duke Ellington / Irving Gordon & Irving Mills
Remember Irving Berlin
Riffin’ the Scotch Johnny Mercer & Dick Mcdonough & Benny Goodman
Rocky Mountain Blues Donald Heywood & Monroe Tucker
Romance in the Dark Sam Coslow & G. Nelsen
Saddest Tale (aka Big City Blues) Duke Ellington
Say It Isn’t So Irving Berlin
Say It with a Kiss Harry Warren / Johnny Mercer
Says My Heart Burton Lane / Frank Loesser
Sentimental and Melancholy Richard Whiting / Johnny Mercer
Softly Beal & Greene
Solitude Duke Ellington / Eddie De Lange & Irving Mills
Some of These Days * Shelton Brooks
Some Other Spring Arthur Herzog Jr. & Irene Kitchings (Irene Wilson)
Somebody’s on My Mind Arthur Herzog Jr. & Billie Holiday
Sometimes I’m Happy Vincent Youmans & Clifford Grey/ Irving Caesar
Sophisticated Lady Duke Ellington / Mitchell Parish& Irving Mills
Speak Low Kurt Weill / Ogden Nash
Spreadin’ Rhythm Around Jimmy Mc Hugh / Ted Koehler
St. Louis Blues W. C. Handy
Stars Fell on Alabama Frank Perkins / Mitchell Parish
Stormy Blues Billie Holiday
Stormy Weather Harold Arlen / Ted Koehler
Strange Fruit Lewis Allan
Sugar (That Sugar Baby of Mine) Maceo Pinkard / Sidney Mitchell & Edna Alexander
Summertime George Gershwin / Dubose Heyward
Sun Showers Nacio Herb Brown / Arthur Freed
Swing,  Brother,  Swing L. Raymond & W. Bishop & C. Williams
Tell Me More and More, and Then Some Billie Holiday
Tenderly Walter Gross / Jack Lawrence
That Old Devil Called Love Allan Roberts / Doris Fischer
That’s All I Ask of You R. E. Pope
That’s Life I Guess Peter De Rose & Lewis
The Blues Are Brewin’ Louis Alter / Eddie De Lange
The End Of A Love Affair (mono) Edward C. Redding
The Man I Love George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
The Mood That I’m In Abner Silver & Al Sherman
The Moon Looks Down and Laughs Bert Kalmar & Sid Silvers & Harry Ruby
The Nearness of You * Hoagy Carmichael / Ned Washington
The Very Thought of You Ray Noble
The Way You Look Tonight Jerome Kern / Dorothy Fields
Them There Eyes Maceo Pinkard& William Tracy / Doris Tauber
There Is No Greater Love Isham Jones / Marty Simes
There’ll Be Some Changes Made W. Benton Overstreet / Billy Higgins
These Foolish Things Jack Strachey & H. Link / Eric Maschwitz (aka Holt Marvell)
These ‘n’ That ‘n’ Those Milton Pascal & Edgar Fairchild
They Can’t Take That Away from Me George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
They Say Edward Heyman & Paul Mann & Stephan Weiss
Things Are Looking Up George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
This Is Heaven to Me Ernest Schweikert & Frank Reardon
This Year’s Kisses Irving Berlin
Time on My Hands Vincent Youmans / Harold Adamson & Mack Gordon
Too Marvelous For Words Richard Whiting / Johnny Mercer
Trav’lin’ All Alone J. C. Johnson
Trav’lin’ Light Jimmy Mundy & Trummy Young / Johnny Mercer
Twenty-Four Hours a Day Arthur Swanstrom / James Frederick Hanley
Under a Blue Jungle Moon R. Conway & N. Brisben
Until the Real Thing Comes Along Alberta Nichols & Saul Chaplin & L. E. Freeman / Mann Holiner & Sammy Cahn
Violets For Your Furs Matt Dennis / Tom Adair
Weep No More Gordon Jenkins / Tom Adair
We’ll Be Together Again Carl Fischer / Frankie Laine
What A Little Moonlight Can Do Harry Woods
What A Nigth, What a Moon, What a Girl John Jacob Loeb
What Is This Going to Get Us? Arthur Herzog Jr. & Irene Kitchings (Irene Wilson)
What Is This Thing Called Love Cole Porter
What Shall I Say? Peter Tinturin
What’s New? Bob Haggart / Johnny Burke
When a Woman Loves a Man Gordon Jenkins & Bernie Hanighen / Johnny Mercer
When It’s Sleepy Time Down South Leon Rene & Otis Rene & Clarence Muse
When You Are Away, Dear * Victor Herbert  & Henry Blossom
When Your Lover Has Gone Einar Aaron Swan
When You’re Smiling Mark Fisher & Joe Goodwin & Larry Shay
Where Is the Sun? John Redmond & Lee David
Wherever You Are C. Friend & C. Tobias
Who Loves You? J. Fred Coots / Benny Davis
Who Wants Love? Franz Waxman / Gus Kahn
Why Did I Always Depend on You? T. Mc Rea & R. Smith & P. Greenwood
Why Was I Born? Jerome Kern / Oscar Hammerstein II
Willow Weep For Me Ann Ronell
With Thee I Swing Basil George Adlam & Alexander Hyde & Stillman
Without Your Love Johnny Lange & Stryker
Yankee Doodle Never Went to Town Bernie Hanighen / Arthur Freed
Yesterdays Jerome Kern / Otto Harbach
You Better Go Now Irvin Graham & Bickley Reichner
You Can’t Be Mine (And Someone Else’s Too) J. C. Johnson & C. Webb
You Can’t Lose A Broken Heart James P. Johnson & Flournoy E. Miller
You Don’t Know What Love Is Gene De Paul / Don Raye
You Go To My Head J. Fred Coots / Haven Gillespie
You Gotta Show Me Billie Holiday
You Let Me Down Harry Warren / Al Dubin
You Showed Me the Way Bud Green & Teddy Mcrae & Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald
You Took Advantage of Me Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart
You Turned the Tables on Me Louis Alter & Sidney D. Mitchell
Your Mother’s Son-In-Law Alberta Nichols / Mann Holiner
You’re A Lucky Guy Saul Chaplin / Sammy Cahn
You’re Driving Me Crazy Walter Donaldson
You’re Gonna See a Lot of Me A.Hoffman & A.Goodhard & M.Curtis
You’re Just a No Account Saul Chaplin / Sammy Cahn
You’re My Thrill Jay Gorney / Sidney Clare
You’re So Desirable Ray Noble
You’re Too Lovely to Last Teddy Mc Rae & C. Beal & E. Fraser
Yours and Mine Nacio Herb Brown / Arthur Freed
You’ve Changed Bill Carey & Carl Fischer
Notes:
(*) recorded incomplete from rehearsal sessions.
Total 291 original songs (304 counting the rehearsals).
(&) indicates partnership

© www.billieholidaysongs.com – December 2013

2 thoughts on “All Songs & Composers

  1. Jestem bardzo wdzięczny autorowi tej strony poświęconej Lady DAY że każdy który jest zafascynowany jej śpiewem znajdzie tu rozliczne wiadomości dotyczące jej-a każdy z nas słuchaczy będzie miał okazję do powiększenia wiedzy dotyczącej jej osoby oraz towarzyszącym jej muzykom. Pozdrawiam z szacunkiem dla benedyktyńskiej pracy jaką wykonał autor tej strony . jeszcze raz wielkie dzięki.Pozdrawiam wszystkich fanów jej głosu Leszek Garstka.

    • Dear Leszek,
      as far as I could understand from google translator, I would like to thank you for the compliments. Stay in touch.
      Paulo

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