Love Me or Leave Me

Who played on Love Me or Leave Me

• Billie Holiday lead vocals, vocals on 16 tracks
• Jimmy Hamilton clarinet, tenor saxophone on 7 tracks
• Teddy Wilson piano on 7 tracks
• Emmett Berry trumpet on 6 tracks
• Hymie Shertzer alto saxophone on 6 tracks
• Irving “Babe” Russin tenor saxophone on 6 tracks
• J.C. Heard drums (drum set) on 6 tracks
• Johnny Williams double bass on 6 tracks
• Eddie Heywood Sextet piano on 5 tracks
• Roy Eldridge trumpet on 5 tracks
• Al Casey guitar on 4 tracks
• Ernie Powell tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, clarinet on 4 tracks
• Grachan Moncur II double bass on 4 tracks
• Herbert Cowans drums (drum set) on 4 tracks
• Jimmy Powell alto saxophone on 4 tracks
• Lester Boone alto saxophone on 4 tracks
• Paul Chapman guitar on 4 tracks
• Georgie Auld alto saxophone, tenor saxophone on 3 tracks
• John Collins guitar on 3 tracks
• Kenny Clarke drums (drum set) on 3 tracks
• Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra performing orchestra on 3 tracks
• Benny Carter alto saxophone, clarinet on 2 tracks
• Bill Coleman trumpet on 2 tracks
• Eddie Barefield alto saxophone on 2 tracks
• Eddie Heywood piano on 2 tracks
• Eugene Fields guitar on 2 tracks
• Leslie Johnakins alto saxophone on 2 tracks
• Lester Young tenor saxophone on 2 tracks
• Shad Collins trumpet on 2 tracks
• Sonny White piano on 2 tracks
• Ted Sturgis double bass on 2 tracks
• Ulysses Livingston guitar on 2 tracks
• Wilson Myers double bass on 2 tracks
• Yank Porter drums (drum set) on 2 tracks
• Al Hall double bass on 1 track
• Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra performing orchestra on 1 track
• Don Byas tenor saxophone on 1 track
• Don Redman alto saxophone on 1 track

Tracklist

1. 1 Let's Do It standard — Cole Porter 2:59
2. 2 Mandy Is Two — Fulton McGrath 3:02
3. 3 Until The Real Thing Comes Along — Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, L.E. Freeman, Mann Holiner 3:12
4. 4 I Cover the Waterfront standard — Johnny Green, Edward Heyman 2:59
5. 5 Am I Blue? standard — Harry Akst 2:52
6. 6 I Hear Music standard — Burton Lane 2:43
7. 7 Loveless Love — William Christopher Handy 3:17
8. 8 Gloomy Sunday — Rezső Seress 3:15
9. 9 I'm in a Low Down Groove — Louis Jordan 3:10
10. 10 God Bless the Child standard — Arthur Herzog, Jr. 2:58
11. 11 All of Me standard 3:03
12. 12 Romance in the Dark — Big Bill Broonzy, Sam Coslow, Bud Green, Gertrude Niesen 2:19
13. 13 Wherever You Are — Cliff Friend, Charles Tobias 3:02
14. 14 Love Me or Leave Me standard — Walter Donaldson 3:22
15. 15 Jim — Caesar Petrillo, Milton Samuels 3:11
16. 16 It's a Sin to Tell a Lie — Billy Mayhew 3:06
17. 17 Solitude standard — Duke Ellington 3:17
18. 18 St. Louis Blues standard — William Christopher Handy 2:56
19. 19 Practice Makes Perfect — Ernest Gold, Don Roberts 2:42
20. 20 Georgia on My Mind standard — Hoagy Carmichael 3:18

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