Stay with Me (Billie Holiday album)


Stay with Me is an album by jazz singer Billie Holiday accompanied by Tony Scott and his Orchestra. It contains all the material from a session recorded February 14, 1955, in New York City, and released in 1958 on producer Norman Granz' Verve label.
For the CD reissue in 1991 another session was appended, that Granz had previously issued as part of the self-titled Billie Holiday LP on his Clef Record label. The recording from April 14, 1954 at the same studio with "Billie Holliday and Her Band" consisted of the Oscar Peterson Trio, Ed Shaughnessy on drums, and trumpeter Charlie Shavers as the only members of both sessions beside Holiday. Beyond that all tracks were part of many compilations and the complete recording issues of Billie Holiday.

Track listing

;Side one
  1. "I Wished on the Moon" – 6:48
  2. "Ain't Misbehavin'" – 4:38
  3. "Everything Happens to Me" – 6:20
;Side two
  1. "Say It Isn't So" – 3:01
  2. "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" – 3:55
  3. "Always" – 3:57
  4. "Do Nothing till You Hear from Me" – 5:00
;Appended session on CD release in 1991, previously released on Billie Holiday
  1. "How Deep Is the Ocean" – 3:01
  2. "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" – 3:12
  3. "I Cried for You" – 2:29

    Personnel

;Original session of February 14, 1955
Billie Holiday with Tony Scott and his Orchestra
;Session of April 14, 1954, added on CD release 1991
Billie Holiday and Her Band