All or Nothing at All (album)


All or Nothing at All is a studio album featuring the vocals of Billie Holiday released in 1958 on Verve Records catalog MGV8329. There are 12 songs on the LP taken from five different recording sessions that took place in 1956 and 1957. Holiday was backed by a "relaxed and understanding" small combo which included the trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison and the saxophonist Ben Webster. A 1959 New York Times article noted that Holiday's voice "had become a very limited instrument which she used with the craft and guile of an aging pitcher who can no longer pour his fast one across the plate."
Album cover art is by David Stone Martin.

Track listing

Original LP release

LP side 1
  1. "Do Nothing till You Hear from Me" – 4:12
  2. "Cheek to Cheek" – 3:35
  3. "Ill Wind" – 6:14
  4. "Speak Low" – 4:25
  5. "We'll Be Together Again" – 4:24
  6. "All or Nothing at All" – 5:39
LP side 2
  1. "Sophisticated Lady" – 4:48
  2. "April in Paris" – 3:02
  3. "I Wished on the Moon" – 3:25
  4. "But Not for Me" – 3:48
  5. "Say It Isn't So" – 3:22
  6. "Our Love Is Here to Stay" – 3:41

    Personnel

A 2 CD re-issue from 1995 combined all of the tracks from this and two other Holiday albums recorded at the same time, Body and Soul and Songs for Distingué Lovers, with two additional bonus tracks taken from the same recording sessions.

CD Reissue track listing

CD disc 1
  1. "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me" – 4:12
  2. "Cheek to Cheek" – 3:35
  3. "Ill Wind" – 6:14
  4. "Speak Low" – 4:25
  5. "We'll Be Together Again" – 4:24
  6. "All or Nothing at All" – 5:39
  7. "Sophisticated Lady" – 4:48
  8. "April in Paris" – 3:02
  9. "I Wished on the Moon" – 3:25
  10. "Moonlight in Vermont" – 3:49
  11. "Foggy Day" – 4:40
  12. "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" – 5:59
  13. "Just One of Those Things" – 5:31
  14. "Comes Love" ' – 3:58
  15. "Comes Love" – 4:00
CD disc 2
  1. "Day In, Day Out" – 6:47
  2. "Darn That Dream" – 6:19
  3. "But Not for Me" – 3:48
  4. "Body and Soul" – 6:22
  5. "Just Friends" ' – 6:26
  6. "Stars Fell on Alabama" – 4:29
  7. "Say It Isn't So" – 3:22
  8. "Our Love Is Here to Stay" – 3:41
  9. "One for My Baby " – 5:39
  10. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" – 7:10
  11. "Embraceable You" – 6:47
  12. "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" – 3:24
  13. "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You" – 5:37