Name: Lady Sings The Blues - Billie Holiday
Brand: Billie Holiday
SKU: 8437012830615
Price: 9.65 EUR
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Description

thick cardboard fold open DIGI-SLEEVES with inner

Artist

Billie Holiday (born April 7, 1915, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - died July 17, 1959, New York City, New York, USA) was an American jazz singer and songwriter.

Daughter of jazz guitarist Clarence Holiday. Godmother of Mala Waldron and Lorraine Feather.

She made her debut circa 1930 singing in various nightclubs in Harlem. In early 1933, the producer John Hammond heard her sing and was impressed by her talent. In 1935 he signed her to Brunswick Records. She made her first recordings with Benny Goodman. Also in 1935 she made her first appearance in a movie, with more roles in the 1940's. From 1939 she started recording songs with notable jazz artists of that time. In the 1950's, her voice was deteriorating as a result of unhappy relationships, heroin use and excessive drinking. In May 1959 she collapsed and was taken to the Metropolitan Hospital in New York City for treatment of liver and heart disease. She was arrested for heroin possession while she lay dying.

She was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1991 and the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2000 (Early Influence).

Tracks

1 Trav'lin' Light 03:12

2 I Must Have That Man 03:08

3 Some Other Spring 03:41

4 Lady Sings The Blues 03:48

5 Strange Fruit 03:06

6 God Bless The Child 04:01

7 Good Morning, Heartache 03:33

8 No Good Man 03:20

9 Love Me Or Leave Me 02:36

10 Too Marvelous For Words 02:14

11 Willow Weep For Me 03:08

12 I Thought About You 02:48

13 P.S. I Love You 03:37

14 Softly 02:57

15 Stormy Blues 03:28

16 Announcement By Johnny Mercer 00:41

17 Lady Be Good (Theme) 00:10

18 Nice Work If You Can Get It 02:38

19 Willow, Weep For Me 03:08

20 My Man 03:29

21 Lover, Come Back To Me 02:05

22 Lady Sings The Blues 02:59

23 What A Little Moonlight Can Do 02:53

24 Lady Be Good (Theme & Closing Announcements) 00:18

Releases

Formats

Vinyl, Cassette, CD, File

Labels

Jazz Images, Columbia, Poll Winners Records, DOL, Not Now Music, PGP RTB, F&R, World Record Club, Verve Records, Wax Love Records, Pan Am Records, WaxTime In Color, World Cassette Club, Jazz Wax Records, State Of Art , Doxy, Clef Records, Folio, Metro Records, American Recording Society, Imagem Jazz, 20th Century Masterworks

Countries

Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Europe, Yugoslavia, Scandinavia

years

1956, 1957, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1986, 1989, 1990, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

Members