Billie Holiday Sings (MGC-118) is a 10-inch LP album made by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released in the United States on Mercury Records in 1952 and on Clef Records in 1953.[3][6] It was her first album for Clef, and her first album of original material, following several compilations of previously released 78rpm sides on the Columbia, Commodore, and Decca record labels.
In 1956, when the 10-inch format was phased out, the album was reissued by Clef Records as Solitude (MG C-690),[7] with four extra tracks recorded at a second session sometime in April 1952 (exact date unknown), with the same musicians.[8] The final track, "Tenderly", had been previously released on her second 10-inch LP, An Evening with Billie Holiday (MG C-144). The other three new songs had been previously released on her third 10-inch LP, simply titled Billie Holiday (MG C-161).[9]
There is a compilation album with the same title, Billie Holiday Sings, released in 1950 by Columbia Records as a 10-inch vynil (CL 6129).[3] It includes old 78-rpm sides from the mid 1930s to the early 1940s, with Holiday accompanied by Lester Young, Teddy Wilson, Buck Clayton and Claude Thornhill among others.[10]
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