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6/12/25

Billie Holiday – Lady Sings The Blues

Billie Holiday – Lady Sings The Blues, Clef Records – MG C-721 Vinyle, LP, Album

Clef Records 1956   – MG C-721

notes:

Lady Sings the Blues is an album by American jazz vocalist Billie Holiday 
released in December 1956. It was Holiday's last album released on Clef Records

credits:

June 6 & 7 1956, Fine Sound Studios, New York City (Tracks A1 to B2)

    Billie Holiday, vocals
    Paul Quinichette, tenor saxophone
    Charlie Shavers, trumpet
    Tony Scott, clarinet
    Wynton Kelly, piano
    Kenny Burrell, guitar
    Lenny McBrowne, drums
    Aaron Bell, bass

September 3, 1954, Capitol Studios (B3 to B6)

    Billie Holiday, vocals
    Willie Smith, alto saxophone
    Harry Edison, trumpet
    Bobby Tucker, piano
    Barney Kessel, guitar
    Chico Hamilton, drums
    Red Callender, bass
 

Tracklist

A1        Lady Sings The Blues
Written-By – Holiday*, Nichols*
A2        Trav'lin' Light
Written-By – Mundy*, Mercer*
A3        I Must Have That Man
Written-By – Fields*, McHugh*
A4        Some Other Spring
Written-By – Herzog*, Kitchings*
A5        Strange Fruit
Written-By – Allan*
A6        No Good Man
Written-By – Fisher*, Higginbotham*, Gallop*
B1        God Bless The Child
Written-By – Herzog, Jr.*, Holiday*
B2        Good Morning Heartache
Written-By – Fisher*, Drake*, Higginbotham*
B3        Love Me Or Leave Me
Written-By – Kahn*, Donaldson*
B4        Too Marvelous For Words
Written-By – Mercer*, Whiting*
B5        Willow Weep For Me
Written-By – Ronell*
B6        I Thought About You
Written-By – Van Heusen*, Mercer*

 

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