Billie Holiday Strange Fruit DVD

Strange Fruit Music

List Price	$15.98 (You save $3.79)
Category	Rock/Pop Albums, Jazz CDs, Music Video, Jazz Vocals, Jazz, Music Video - Jazz, Jazz Vocals
All Time Sales Rank	283410
CD Universe Part number	7459465
Catalog number	44609
Discs	1
Release Date	Aug 20, 2008

Billie Holiday Strange Fruit Songs

1.	God Bless The Child	$0.99
2.	Now Baby Or Never
3.	My Man	$0.99
4.	Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
5.	Billie's Blues
6.	Easy To Remember
7.	What A Little Moonlight Can Do	$0.99
8.	Fooling Myself	$0.99
9.	I Only Have Eyes For You	$0.99
10.	Traveling Light
11.	Strange Fruit	$0.99
12.	I Love You Porgy
13.	Fine And Mellow

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