Andra Day's cover of 'All of Me,' the Gerald Marks and Seymour Simons classic deeply associated with Billie Holiday from upcoming movie soundtrack for The United States Vs. Billie Holiday, somehow misses piercing the emotional bull's-eye.

See if you agree by sampling some other versions down the years. The past competes, not even the right word, manifests itself, to sit with the present when it comes to records. That thing when the planets all aligned in the studio or club back whenever microphones were present and someone pressed up the results and got them to the public has become a deathless enchantment and humane legacy that inspires and delights the already born and unborn of the future alike. These moments become monuments that then belong to our internal lives as we grasp their significance.

The Sassy is my pick by a mile. Tony Bennett's treatment is also certainly a thrill. But these all hit the spot. Dee Dee's crests a riot of rhythm, Dinah's a joy, Big Maybelle's in-your-face and exuberant. Ultimately however you know you have to return to Billie, the inhabitant of the song, its intimate, and great champion, to play what she brought to the melody, to the words, to the heartbeat of it all in an inspired instant, by listening time after time and always because how she sang was so meaningful.