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Lady Sings the Blues (soundtrack)

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Released
  
October 1972

Label
  
Motown M 758-D

Producer
  
Gil Askey

Length
  
57:10

Release date
  
October 1972

Movie
  
Lady Sings the Blues

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Recorded
  
1972; MoWest Studios, Los Angeles, California; Glen Glenn Sound, Hollywood, California

Artists
  
Diana Ross, Michel Legrand, Blinky

Genres
  
Rhythm and blues, Jazz, Vocal jazz

Similar
  
Diana Ross albums, Jazz albums

Happy michael jackson from lady sings the blues scored by m legrand


Lady Sings the Blues is the successful soundtrack to the Billie Holiday biopic of the same name, which starred Diana Ross in her screen debut in 1972. The album went on to be Ross' 4th #1 album (eventually selling over 2,000,000 US copies), though the only one as a solo artist, on the U.S. Top 200 Billboard Albums Chart as a solo act, going to #2 on the U.S. Billboard R&B Album Chart, and #50 on the UK Albums Chart. It was certified gold on the UK for sales of over 100,000 copies.

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It was also the fourth best-selling R&B album and fifth best-selling Pop album of 1973.

It was critically acclaimed for Ross emulating Billie Holiday's voice while retaining her own individual sound. The soundtrack is also noted for being the only Motown album to have a special designed label to match the album cover on the vinyl release, rather than Motown's usual "Map of Detroit" design. This label design would also turn up on the single releases from the soundtrack.

Side one

  1. "The Arrest" – 0:15
  2. "Lady Sings the Blues" – 1:03
  3. "Baltimore Brothel" – 0:25
  4. "Billie Sneaks into Dean and Dean's/Swinging Uptown" – 0:49
  5. "'Taint Nobody's Bizness If I Do" – 1:06
  6. "Big Ben/C.C. Rider" – 1:06
  7. "All of Me" – 2:19
  8. "The Man I Love" – 2:27
  9. "Them There Eyes" – 1:03
  10. "Gardenias from Louis" – 2:03
  11. "Cafe Manhattan/Had You Been Around/Love Theme" – 2:03

Side two

  1. "Any Happy Home" – 0:37
  2. "I Cried for You" – 0:37
  3. "Billie and Harry/Don't Explain" – 0:37
  4. "Mean to Me" – 1:18
  5. "Fine and Mellow" – 0:45
  6. "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" – 2:09
  7. "Louis Visits Billie on Tour/Love Theme" – 0:45
  8. "Cafe Manhattan Party" – 1:37
  9. "Persuasion/'Taint Nobody's Bizness If I Do" – 3:48
  10. "Agent's Office" – 1:09
  11. "Our Love Is Here to Stay" – 2:01

Side three

  1. "Fine and Mellow" – 2:54
  2. "Lover Man" – 3:22
  3. "You've Changed" – 2:34
  4. "Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)" – 2:06
  5. "Good Morning Heartache" – 2:21
  6. "All of Me" – 2:04

Side four

  1. "Love Theme" – 2:53
  2. "My Man" – 2:26
  3. "Don't Explain" – 2:10
  4. "I Cried for You" – 2:13
  5. "Strange Fruit" – 3:35
  6. "God Bless the Child" – 2:42
  7. "Closing Theme" – 1:08

Personnel

  • Diana Ross - vocals
  • John Collins - guitar, banjo
  • Arthur Edwards, Max Bennett, George "Red" Callender - bass
  • Chester Lane, Don Abney, Gerald Wiggins - piano
  • Earl Palmer, Jessie Sailes - drums
  • Caughey Roberts - soprano saxophone, clarinet
  • William "Buddy" Collette, Ernie Watts, Georgie Auld, Jack Nimitz, Marshall Royal, Plas Johnson - saxophone
  • George Bohanon, Grover Mitchell, Henry Coker, Jimmy Cleveland, John Ewing, Maurice Spears - trombone
  • Al Aarons, Bobby Bryant, William "Cat" Anderson, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Teddy Buckner - trumpet
  • Benny Golson, Gil Askey, Oliver Nelson - arrangements
  • Michel Legrand - arrangements, conductor
  • Gil Askey - conductor
  • Berry Gordy - executive producer

    • Songs

    The Arrest0:15
    Lady Sings the Blues1:03
    Balti Brothel0:26

    References

    Lady Sings the Blues (soundtrack) Wikipedia
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