Everything Happens for the Best

"Everything Happens For The Best"
Single by Billie Holiday
A-side	Under a Blue Jungle Moon
Format	78 rpm
Recorded	March 21, 1939
Genre	Jazz
Label	Vocalion
Writer(s)	Billie Holiday

"Everything Happens For The Best" is a song written by Billie Holiday.

Recording session

Session #35: New York, March 21, 1939 on the Vocalion label, Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra with ‘Hot Lips’ Page (trumpet), Tab Smith, Kenneth Hollon, Stanley Payne (saxophone), Kenny Kersey (piano), Jimmy McLin (guitar), John Williams (bass) Eddie Dougherty (drums), Billie Holiday (vocals).^[1]

The lyrics were written by Scott Billington and Lindsay Ellison.^[2]

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

References

↑ "Everything Happens for the Best". Billie Holiday. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
↑ "Everything Happens for the Best". Sing 365. Retrieved 25 December 2013.

Billie Holiday

Discography Awards and nominations

Albums	Billie Holiday Sings/Solitude An Evening with Billie Holiday Billie Holiday Billie Holiday at JATP Stay with Me Music for Torching Velvet Mood Lady Sings the Blues Body and Soul Songs for Distingué Lovers Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport All or Nothing at All Lady in Satin Last Recordings The Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert Recorded Live Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933–1944 Remixed and Reimagined

Songs	"Ain't Nobody's Business" "As Time Goes By" "Billie's Blues" "Blue Moon" "Body and Soul" "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?" "Don't Explain" "Easy Living" "Embraceable You" "Everything Happens for the Best" "Everything Happens to Me" "Fine and Mellow" "Gloomy Sunday" "God Bless the Child" "Good Morning Heartache" "I Cover the Waterfront" "I Loves You, Porgy" "I Thought About You" "I'll Be Seeing You" "I'll Get By" "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" "Just One of Those Things" "Lady Sings the Blues" "Left Alone" "Love for Sale" "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" "Me, Myself, and I" "Miss Brown to You" "My Man" "Moonlight in Vermont" "Night and Day" "No More" "Now or Never" "Our Love Is Different" "P.S. I Love You" "Pennies from Heaven" "Please Don't Do It Here" "Preacher Boy" "Sophisticated Lady" "Stormy Blues" "Strange Fruit" "Summertime" "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" "Too Marvelous for Words" "Trav'lin' Light" "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" "What Is This Thing Called Love?" "Who Needs You (Baby)" "Why Was I Born?" "Willow Weep for Me" "You Go to My Head"

Videography	The Emperor Jones Symphony in Black New Orleans Sugar Chile Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet The Sound of Jazz

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