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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; the following year, the label would be absorbed by Verve Records. Lady Sings the Blues was taken from sessions taped during 1954 and 1956. It was released simultaneously with her ghostwritten ...
Herbie Nichols. " Lady Sings the Blues " is a song written by jazz singer Billie Holiday and jazz pianist Herbie Nichols. [1] It is the title song to her 1956 album, released on Clef/Verve Records (MGC 721/Verve MV 2047). The song was also chosen to be the title of the 1956 autobiography by Holiday and author William Dufty, and the 1972 movie ...
Billie Holiday singles chronology. "Trav'lin' Light". (1942) " Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) (1945) "Don't Explain". (1946) " Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) " (often called simply " Lover Man ") is a 1941 popular song written by Jimmy Davis, Roger ("Ram") Ramirez, and James Sherman. It is particularly associated with Billie Holiday, for ...
Billie Holiday singles chronology. "Strange Fruit". (1939) " God Bless the Child ". (1942) "Good Morning Heartache". (1946) " God Bless the Child " is a song written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr. in 1939. It was first recorded on May 9, 1941, by Billie Holiday and released by the Okeh Records in 1942.
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues. "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" is a popular song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Ted Koehler, published in 1932 for the Broadway show Earl Carroll's Vanities (1932). [ 1] The song has become a jazz and blues standard. Popular recordings in 1933 and 1934 were those by Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong and ...
Billie Holiday. Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed " Lady Day " by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday made a significant contribution to jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly influenced by jazz instrumentalists, inspired a ...
"Miss Brown to You" is a song with music composed by Richard A. Whiting and Ralph Rainger, and lyrics written by Leo Robin. It was first recorded on July 25, 1935, by Billie Holiday accompanied by Teddy Wilson and his orchestra.
Producer (s) Bernie Hanighen. " Billie's Blues " is a blues song written by jazz singer Billie Holiday, composing it just before being recorded in a session on July 10, 1936. [1] According to the article in Melody Maker, on August 1, 1936: "Billie Holiday has her first solo recording at Brunswick last week...