Left Alone (song)

"Left Alone"
Song by Mal Waldron
Composer(s)	Mal Waldron
Lyricist(s)	Billie Holiday

"Left Alone" is a jazz song written by singer Billie Holiday and pianist/composer Mal Waldron, and published by E.B. Marks.

Background

This is one of seven songs written by or co-written by Holiday that she never recorded.^[1]^[2] According to Waldron, Holiday "came up with the lyrics and sang them to him on a cross-country flight; when the plane landed the song was done."^[3]

Mal Waldron began working as pianist for Holiday in mid-1953. Holiday had intended to record the song a number of times but "always forget the damned sheet music."^[4] However, Waldron himself recorded the song on his 1959 album Left Alone, and near the end of the LP discusses the origin of the song.^[5]

Recordings

Waldron frequently performed the song for albums, often with tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin (who also played on the Left Alone album). Versions are included in Mal: Live 4 to 1 (1971), Like Old Times (1976), Left Alone '86 (1986), Into the Light (1989), My Dear Family (1993), and Left Alone Revisited (2002).

Other jazz performers who've recorded the song include:

Abbey Lincoln – Straight Ahead (with Waldron on piano, 1961)
Johnny Griffin – White Gardenia (1961).
Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake – The Newest Sound Around (1962)
Eric Dolphy and Booker Little – Far Cry (1962)
Kimiko Kasai – One For Lady (with Waldron on piano, 1971)
Archie Shepp and Dollar Brand – Duet (1978)
Abraham Burton – Closest to the Sun (1994)
Jackie McLean and Junko Onishi – Hat Trick (1996)
Steve Kuhn – Plays Standards (2009)
Tsuyoshi Yamamoto – Gentle Blues (2013)
Jane Ira Bloom - Sixteen Sunsets (2013)^[6]

An instrumental version of the song appeared on Joe Satriani's Time Machine in 1993. The Satriani version, titled "All Alone", was released as a single, reached No. 21 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart^[7] and received a nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance at the 1995 Grammy Awards.^[8]

Notes

^ Stuart Nicholson (1995). Billie Holiday. Northeastern University Press. ISBN 1-55553-303-5.
^ Billie Holiday. THE BEST OF BILLIE HOLIDAY: Songs Recorded and Made Famous By Lady Day. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 0-7935-3687-1.
^ Griffin, Farah Jasmine (2002). If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday. Random House. p. 173.
^ Studio chatter. The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve, 1945–1959. ASIN: B0000046P3, Polygram Records
^ Liner Notes for Mal Waldron LP "Left Alone"
^ "Sixteen Sunsets - Jane Ira Bloom | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved July 21, 2020.
^ "Time Machine – Joe Satriani | Awards". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
^ "37th Grammy Awards – 1995". Rock on the Net. Retrieved May 13, 2016.

References

Stuart Nicholson, Billie Holiday, ISBN 1-55553-303-5
Billie Holiday, THE BEST OF BILLIE HOLIDAY: Songs Recorded and Made Famous By Lady Day. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 0-7935-3687-1.
Donald Clarke, Wishing On the Moon. Viking. ISBN 0-670-83771-7.
John Chilton, Billie's Blues. Da Capo Preess. ISBN 0-306-80363-1
John White, Billie Holiday: Her Life and Times ISBN 0-87663-668-7
Mal Waldron, Left Alone LP Liner Notes ASIN: B00004YR36
Amazon.com Editorial Review for Mal Waldron CD Left Alone
Ken Vail, Lady Day's Diary. Sanctuary Publishing. ISBN 1-86074-131-2

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Discography Awards and nominations
Albums	Billie Holiday Sings/Solitude An Evening with Billie Holiday Billie Holiday Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic 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 Recording 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 Lady Day Swings Remixed and Reimagined The Complete Commodore & Decca Masters
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" "If You Were Mine" "I Thought About You" "I'll Be Seeing You" "I'll Get By" "I'll Never Be the Same" "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" "Stormy Weather" "Strange Fruit" "Sugar" "Summertime" "That Ole Devil Called Love" "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?" "Why Was I Born?" "Willow Weep for Me" "You Go to My Head" "Your Mother's Son-In-Law"
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