All Songs & Composers

 

SongComposers (Music / Lyrics)
A Fine RomanceJerome Kern / Dorothy Fields
A Foggy DayGeorge Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
A Sailboat in the MoonlightCarmen 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 DoEverett Robbins & Porter Grainger
All of MeSeymour Simons & Gerald Marks
All of YouCole Porter
All or Nothing at AllArthur Altman / Jack Lawrence
All the WayJimmy Van Heusen / Sammy Cahn
AlwaysIrving Berlin
Am I Blue?Harry Akst / Grant Clarke
Any Old TimeArtie Shaw
April in My HeartHoagy Carmichael / Meinardi
April in ParisVernon Duke / E. Y. Harburg
As Time Goes ByHerman Hupfeld
Autumn in New YorkVernon Duke
Baby Get LostLeonard Feather
Baby,  I Don’t Cry over YouMorton Krouse
Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home?Charles Warfield & Clarence Williams
Back in Your Own BackyardAl Jolson & Billy Rose & Dave Dreyer
Be Fair With Me BabyRavon Darnell & Frank Mesner
Beer Barrel Polka *Taromir Vejvoda & Wladimir Timm / Lew Brown
Big StuffLeonard Bernstein
Billie’s Blues (I Love My Man)Billie Holiday
Blue MoonRichard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart
Blue Turning Grey Over YouFats Waller / Andy Razaf
Body and SoulJohn Green / Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton
Born to LoveJack Scholl & M. K. Jerome
But BeautifulJimmy Van Heusen / Johnny Burke
But Not for MeGeorge Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat ManJerome Kern / Oscar Hammerstein II
CarelesslyNorman Ellis
Cheek to CheekIrving Berlin
Come Rain or Come ShineHarold Arlen / Johnny Mercer
Comes LoveSam Stept / Charles Tobias/ Lew Brown
Crazy He Calls MeCarl Sigman / Bob Russell
Darn That DreamJimmy Van Heusen / Eddie De Lange
Day in-Day OutRube Bloom / Johnny Mercer
Deed I DoWalter Hirsch & Fred Rose
Deep SongGeorge Cory & Douglas Cross
Detour AheadJohnny Fringo & Lou Carter & Gerb Ellis
Did I Remember?Walter Donaldson / Harold Adamson
Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From MeDuke Ellington / Bob Russell
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?Louis Alter / Eddie De Lange
Do Your DutyWesley Sox Wilson
Don’t ExplainArthur Herzog Jr. & Billie Holiday
Don’t Worry ’bout MeRube Bloom / Ted Koehler
Dream of LifeCarmen Mc Rae & L. Henderson
East of the SunBrooks Bowman
Easy LivingRalph Rainger / Leo Robin
Easy to LoveCole Porter
Eeny Meeny Miney MoMatty Malneck / Johnny Mercer
Embraceable YouGeorge Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
Everybody’s LaughingSammy  Lerner & Ben Oakland
Everything Happens for the BestBillie Holiday & T. Smith
Everything Happens to MeMatt Dennis / Tom Adair
Everything I Have Is YoursBurton Lane / Harold Adamson
Falling in Love Again (Can’t Help It)Friedrich Hollander & Sammy Lerner
Farewell To StoryvilleSpencer Williams & Clarence Williams
Fine And MellowBillie Holiday
Foolin’ MyselfPeter Tinturin / Jack Lawrence
For All We KnowJ. Fred Coots / Sam M. Lewis
For Heaven’s SakeDon Meyer & Elsie Bretton & Sherman Edwards
Forget If You CanJack Manus & K. Upham & L. Joy
Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to YouDon Redman / Andy Razaf
Georgia on My MindHoagy Carmichael / Stuart Gorrell
Getting Some Fun out of LifeEdgar Leslie & Joseph A. Burke
Ghost Of A Chance (I Don’t Stand A)Victor Young / Bing Crosby & Ned Washington
Ghost of YesterdayArthur Herzog Jr. & Irene Kitchings (Irene Wilson)
Gimme a Pigfoot And a Bottle of BeerWesley Sox Wilson
Girls Were Made to Take Care of BoysRalph Blane
Glad To Be UnhappyRichard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart
Gloomy SundayRezso Seress / Laszlo Javor (version Sam M. Lewis)
God Bless the ChildArthur Herzog Jr. & Billie Holiday
Gone with the WindAllie Wrubel & Herb Magidson
Good Morning HeartacheIrene Higginbotham & Ervin Drake & Dan Fischer
Guess WhoBurton Lane / Arthur Freed
GuiltyHarry Akst & Richard Whiting / Gus Kahn
Havin’ Myself a TimeRalph Rainger / Leo Robin
He Ain’t Got RhythmIrving Berlin
Hello My DarlingFrank Loesser & Frederick Hollander
Here It Is Tomorrow AgainP. Gibson & Roy Ringwald
He’s Funny That WayNeil Moret / Richard A. Whiting
How Am I to KnowJack 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 MeJimmy Mc Hugh / Clarence Gaskill
I Can’t Face the MusicRube Bloom / Ted Koehler
I Can’t Get StartedVernon Duke / Ira Gershwin
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, BabyJimmy Mc Hugh / Dorothy Fields
I Can’t PretendCharles Tobias / Paul Rusincky / Edward Breuder
I Cover The WaterfrontJohn Green / Edward Heyman
I Cried for YouGus Arnheim, Abe Lyman / Arthur Freed
I Didn’t Know What Time It WasRichard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart
I Don’t Know If I’m Coming or GoingLee Wainer & Lupin Fien
I Don’t Want to Cry AnymoreVictor Schertzinger
I Get a Kick out of YouCole Porter
I Get Along Without You Very WellHoagy Carmichael
I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) *Duke Ellington / Paul Francis Webster
I Gotta Right To Sing the BluesHarold Arlen / Ted Koehler
I Hadn’t Anyone Till YouRay Noble
I Hear MusicBurton Lane / Frank Loesser
I Must Have That ManJimmy Mc Hugh / Dorothy Fields
I Only Have Eyes for YouHarry Warren / Al Dubin
I Thought About YouJimmy Van Heusen / Johnny Mercer
I Wish I Had YouB. Green & A. Stillman & Claude Thornhill
I Wished on the MoonRalph Rainger / Dorothy Parker
I Wonder Where Our Love Has GoneBuddy Johnson
I Won’t Believe It *J. Russel Robinson & Martin Block & Victor Selsman
If Dreams Come TrueEdgar Sampson & Benny Goodman & Irving Mills
If I Were YouBuddy Bernier & Robert D. Emmerich
If My Heart Could Only TalkWalter Samuels & Leonard Whitcup & Teddy Powell
If the Moon Turns GreenPaul Coates & Bernard Hanighen
If You Were MineMatty Malneck / Johnny Mercer
I’ll Be AroundAlec Wilder
I’ll Be Seeing YouSammy Fain / Irving Kahal
I’ll Get ByFred E. Ahlert / Roy Turk
I’ll Look AroundGeorge Cory & Douglas Cross
I’ll Never Be the SameMatty Malneck & Frank Signorelli / Gus Kahn
I’ll Never Fail YouIrving Taylor & Vic Mizzy
I’ll Never Smile AgainRuth Lowe
Ill WindHarold Arlen / Ted Koehler
I’m A Fool To Want YouJ. Wolf & J. S. Harron & F. Sinatra
I’m All for YouBresler & Wynn
I’m Gonna Lock My Heart And Throw Away The KeyJimmy Eaton & Terry Shand
I’m in a Low-Down GrooveR. Jacobs
I’m Painting the Town RedCharles Tobias & Sam H. Stept / Charles Newman
I’m Pulling ThroughArthur 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 YoursJohn Green / E.Y. Harburg
Isn’t This a Lovely Day?Irving Berlin
Israel *Tony Scott  / Arthur Herzog Jr.
It Had to Be YouIsham Jones / Gus Kahn
It’s a Sin to Tell a LieBilly Mayhew
It’s Easy to Blame the WeatherSaul Chaplin / Sammy Cahn
It’s Easy To RememberRichard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart
It’s Like Reaching for the MoonAl Lewis & Al Sherman & Gerald Marqusee
It’s Not for Me to SayRobert Allen / Albert Stillman
It’s The Same Old StoryM. Field & N. Oliphant
It’s Too Hot for WordsWalter Samuels & Leonard Whitcup & Teddy Powell
I’ve Got a Date with a DreamMack Gordon & Harry Revel
I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me WarmIrving Berlin
Jeepers CreepersHarry Warren / Johnny Mercer
JimN. Shawn & C. Petrillo & E. Ross
Just Friends *John Klenner / Samuel Lewis
Just One More ChanceArthur Johnston / Sam Coslow
Just One of Those ThingsCole Porter
Keeps On A Rainin’Spencer Williams & Max Kortlander
Lady Sings the BluesBillie Holiday & Herbie Nichols
Lady’s Back in Town *Tony Scott
Laughing at LifeNick Kenney & Charles Kenney & B. Todd & C. Todd
Let’s Call a Heart a HeartArthur Johnston / Johnny Burke
Let’s Call the Whole Thing OffGeorge Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
Let’s Do ItCole Porter
Let’s Dream in the MoonlightR. Walsh & Matty Malneck
Life Begins When You’re in LoveBrown & Victor Schertzinger & Andrew Acquarulo Ackers
Long Gone BluesBillie Holiday & T. Smith
Love for SaleCole Porter
Love Me or Leave MeWalter Donaldson / Gus Kahn
Loveless LoveW. C. Handy
Lover Come Back To MeSigmund Romberg / Oscar Hammerstein
Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)Jimmy Davis & Roger Ramirez & Jimmy Sherman
Mandy Is TwoFulton Mc Grath / Johnny Mercer
Maybe You’ll Be ThereRube Bloom / Sammy Gallop
Me,  Myself and IIrving Gordon & Allan  Roberts & Alvin S. Kaufman
Mean to MeFred E. Ahlert / Roy Turk
Misery *Tony Scott
Miss Brown To YouRichard Whiting, Ralph Rainger / Leo Robin
Moanin’ LowRalph Rainger / Howard Dietz
MoonglowWill Hudson & Irving Mills / Edgar De Lange
Moonlight in VermontKarl Suessdorf / John Blackburn
More Than You KnowVincent Youmans / Billy Rose & Edward Eliscu
My First Impression of YouSam 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 FlameArthur Johnston / Sam Coslow
My Sweet Hunk of TrashJames P. Johnson & Flournoy E. Miller
Nice Work If You Can Get ItGeorge Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
Night and DayCole Porter
No Good ManIrene Higginbotham & Dan Fischer & Sammy Gallop & Ervin Drake
No More (You Ain’t Gonna Bother Me)Toots Camarata / Bob Russell
No RegretsIngraham & Harry Tobias
Now Or NeverCurtis R. Lewis & Billie Holiday
Now They Call It SwingW. Hirsch & Vaughn  Deleath & N. Cloutier & L. Handman
On the Sentimental SideJames Monaco / Johnny Burke
On The Sunny Side of The StreetJimmy Mc Hugh / Dorothy Fields
One for My Baby, And One More for the RoadHarold Arlen / Johnny Mercer
One Never Knows, Does One?Mack Gordon & Harry Revel
One, Two, Button Your ShoeCharles Tobias & Paul Rusincky / Johnny Burke
Our Love Is DifferentBillie Holiday & R. Conway & B. Alba & Sonny White
Our Love Is Here to StayGeorge Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
P.S. I Love YouGordon Jenkins / Johnny Mercer
Pennies from HeavenArthur Johnston / Johnny Burke
Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m GoneSam Stept / Sidney Clare
Please Keep Me in Your DreamsTot Seymour & Vee Lawnhurst
Please Tell Me NowArnold Clawson & Toussaint Pope
Porgy (I Love You)George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin & Dubose Heyward
Practice Makes PerfectD. Roberts & E. Gold
Prelude to a KissDuke Ellington / Irving Gordon & Irving Mills
RememberIrving Berlin
Riffin’ the ScotchJohnny Mercer & Dick Mcdonough & Benny Goodman
Rocky Mountain BluesDonald Heywood & Monroe Tucker
Romance in the DarkSam Coslow & G. Nelsen
Saddest Tale (aka Big City Blues)Duke Ellington
Say It Isn’t SoIrving Berlin
Say It with a KissHarry Warren / Johnny Mercer
Says My HeartBurton Lane / Frank Loesser
Sentimental and MelancholyRichard Whiting / Johnny Mercer
SoftlyBeal & Greene
SolitudeDuke Ellington / Eddie De Lange & Irving Mills
Some of These Days *Shelton Brooks
Some Other SpringArthur Herzog Jr. & Irene Kitchings (Irene Wilson)
Somebody’s on My MindArthur Herzog Jr. & Billie Holiday
Sometimes I’m HappyVincent Youmans & Clifford Grey/ Irving Caesar
Sophisticated LadyDuke Ellington / Mitchell Parish& Irving Mills
Speak LowKurt Weill / Ogden Nash
Spreadin’ Rhythm AroundJimmy Mc Hugh / Ted Koehler
St. Louis BluesW. C. Handy
Stars Fell on AlabamaFrank Perkins / Mitchell Parish
Stormy BluesBillie Holiday
Stormy WeatherHarold Arlen / Ted Koehler
Strange FruitLewis Allan
Sugar (That Sugar Baby of Mine)Maceo Pinkard / Sidney Mitchell & Edna Alexander
SummertimeGeorge Gershwin / Dubose Heyward
Sun ShowersNacio Herb Brown / Arthur Freed
Swing,  Brother,  SwingL. Raymond & W. Bishop & C. Williams
Tell Me More and More, and Then SomeBillie Holiday
TenderlyWalter Gross / Jack Lawrence
That Old Devil Called LoveAllan Roberts / Doris Fischer
That’s All I Ask of YouR. E. Pope
That’s Life I GuessPeter 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 LoveGeorge Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
The Mood That I’m InAbner Silver & Al Sherman
The Moon Looks Down and LaughsBert Kalmar & Sid Silvers & Harry Ruby
The Nearness of You *Hoagy Carmichael / Ned Washington
The Very Thought of YouRay Noble
The Way You Look TonightJerome Kern / Dorothy Fields
Them There EyesMaceo Pinkard& William Tracy / Doris Tauber
There Is No Greater LoveIsham Jones / Marty Simes
There’ll Be Some Changes MadeW. Benton Overstreet / Billy Higgins
These Foolish ThingsJack Strachey & H. Link / Eric Maschwitz (aka Holt Marvell)
These ‘n’ That ‘n’ ThoseMilton Pascal & Edgar Fairchild
They Can’t Take That Away from MeGeorge Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
They SayEdward Heyman & Paul Mann & Stephan Weiss
Things Are Looking UpGeorge Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
This Is Heaven to MeErnest Schweikert & Frank Reardon
This Year’s KissesIrving Berlin
Time on My HandsVincent Youmans / Harold Adamson & Mack Gordon
Too Marvelous For WordsRichard Whiting / Johnny Mercer
Trav’lin’ All AloneJ. C. Johnson
Trav’lin’ LightJimmy Mundy & Trummy Young / Johnny Mercer
Twenty-Four Hours a DayArthur Swanstrom / James Frederick Hanley
Under a Blue Jungle MoonR. Conway & N. Brisben
Until the Real Thing Comes AlongAlberta Nichols & Saul Chaplin & L. E. Freeman / Mann Holiner & Sammy Cahn
Violets For Your FursMatt Dennis / Tom Adair
Weep No MoreGordon Jenkins / Tom Adair
We’ll Be Together AgainCarl Fischer / Frankie Laine
What A Little Moonlight Can DoHarry Woods
What A Nigth, What a Moon, What a GirlJohn Jacob Loeb
What Is This Going to Get Us?Arthur Herzog Jr. & Irene Kitchings (Irene Wilson)
What Is This Thing Called LoveCole Porter
What Shall I Say?Peter Tinturin
What’s New?Bob Haggart / Johnny Burke
When a Woman Loves a ManGordon Jenkins & Bernie Hanighen / Johnny Mercer
When It’s Sleepy Time Down SouthLeon Rene & Otis Rene & Clarence Muse
When You Are Away, Dear *Victor Herbert  & Henry Blossom
When Your Lover Has GoneEinar Aaron Swan
When You’re SmilingMark Fisher & Joe Goodwin & Larry Shay
Where Is the Sun?John Redmond & Lee David
Wherever You AreC. 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 MeAnn Ronell
With Thee I SwingBasil George Adlam & Alexander Hyde & Stillman
Without Your LoveJohnny Lange & Stryker
Yankee Doodle Never Went to TownBernie Hanighen / Arthur Freed
YesterdaysJerome Kern / Otto Harbach
You Better Go NowIrvin Graham & Bickley Reichner
You Can’t Be Mine (And Someone Else’s Too)J. C. Johnson & C. Webb
You Can’t Lose A Broken HeartJames P. Johnson & Flournoy E. Miller
You Don’t Know What Love IsGene De Paul / Don Raye
You Go To My HeadJ. Fred Coots / Haven Gillespie
You Gotta Show MeBillie Holiday
You Let Me DownHarry Warren / Al Dubin
You Showed Me the WayBud Green & Teddy Mcrae & Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald
You Took Advantage of MeRichard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart
You Turned the Tables on MeLouis Alter & Sidney D. Mitchell
Your Mother’s Son-In-LawAlberta Nichols / Mann Holiner
You’re A Lucky GuySaul Chaplin / Sammy Cahn
You’re Driving Me CrazyWalter Donaldson
You’re Gonna See a Lot of MeA.Hoffman & A.Goodhard & M.Curtis
You’re Just a No AccountSaul Chaplin / Sammy Cahn
You’re My ThrillJay Gorney / Sidney Clare
You’re So DesirableRay Noble
You’re Too Lovely to LastTeddy Mc Rae & C. Beal & E. Fraser
Yours and MineNacio Herb Brown / Arthur Freed
You’ve ChangedBill 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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