"God Bless the Child" (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog, Jr."No Good Man" (Irene Higginbotham, Sammy Gallop, Dan Fisher) - 3:18."Some Other Spring" (Irene Higginbotham, Arthur Herzog, Jr.) - 3:36."I Must Have That Man" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) - 3:04.Billys recordings on Clef and Verve were not distinguished by neat sound engineering work, sometimes they. "Trav'lin' Light" (Trummy Young, Jimmy Mundy, Johnny Mercer) - 3:08 Billie Holiday Lady Sings The Blues, 1956 LP Rip.Lady Sings the Blues was taken from sessions taped during 19. It was Holiday's last album released on Clef Records the following year, the label would be absorbed by Verve Records. "Lady Sings the Blues" (Billie Holiday, Herbie Nichols) - 3:46 Lady Sings the Blues is an album by American jazz vocalist Billie Holiday released in December 1956.Some of the material in the book, however, must be taken with a grain of salt. The show was planned to commemorate the edition of her autobiography, some paragraphs being read during the performance. Her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues (1956), was written in collaboration by William Dufty. On November 10, 1956, Holiday appeared in concert at Carnegie Hall in front of a sold out crowd. The book was written with William Dufty, assistant to the editor of the New York Post Seldom in the book does she talk about her singing Lady Sings The Blues is Billie Holiday's autobiography she tries to get the reader on her side of the mirror, so don't expect a three-dimensional view of the subject. Though Holiday's voice had arguably deteriorated by the 1950s, the album is well regarded – in a 1956 review, Down Beat awarded the album 5 out of 5 stars, and had this to say about the co-current book: Taken from sessions taped during 1954–56, Lady Sings the Blues features Holiday backed by tenor saxophonist Paul Quinichette, trumpeter Charlie Shavers, pianist Wynton Kelly, and guitarist Kenny Burrell.
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