Lady Day

by Billie Holiday

Lady Day cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1955
  • Label: Decca
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 37:56
  • Community rating: 4.31/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Another key compilation of her highly successful Decca Records era, 'Lady Day' features the vocalist backed by lush, commercial orchestrations. The recordings illustrate her profound ability to transcend standard pop arrangements through her deeply idiosyncratic and emotionally piercing phrasing.

Genres

Descriptors: ballad, female-vocals, bluesy, crooning, sophisticated

Tracklist

  1. Lady Sings The Blues (3:44)
  2. Trav'lin Light (3:07)
  3. I Must Have That Man! (3:03)
  4. Some Other Spring (3:35)
  5. Strange Fruit (3:02)
  6. No Good Man (3:17)
  7. God Bless The Child (3:58)
  8. Good Morning Heartache (3:28)
  9. Love Me Or Leave Me (2:34)
  10. Too Marvelous For Words (2:12)
  11. Willow Weep For Me (3:06)
  12. I Thought About You (2:46)

Credits

  • Alan Bergman - written-by
  • Carlos Velasquez - written-by
  • David Rodriguez - written-by
  • Marilyn Bergman - written-by
  • Marvin Hamlisch - written-by
  • Billie Holiday - Primary Artist

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