For this double-disc set commemorating her American postage stamp (and patterned after Ella Fitzgerald's Songbook series), Verve compiled two discs of Billie Holiday covering the best of American popular song, from Ellington to Gershwin to Berlin to Porter and others. Though most of the material comes from the late '50s, when Holiday's voice was often in poor shape, her versions never fail to stir the heart ? often because her voice was in such bad repair. All of the tracks are familiar standards, including light-hearted songs like A Fine Romance, Embraceable You, Prelude to a Kiss and I Get a Kick Out of You as well as darker fare like But Not for Me, Stormy Weather, One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) and I Got a Right to Sing the Blues.