![]() ![]() "Lady Sings the Blues" is the soundtrack for those final, troubled years.Ībout this product: this vinyl LP comes with a CD. Lady Sings the Blues is an album by American jazz vocalist Billie Holiday released in December 1956. In 1959, Holiday would die with 70 cents in her bank account. It was a sellout and despite the limitations with Billie's voice she delivered a superb performance. When the album came out, there was a concert at New York City's Carnegie Hall on 10 November 1956 featuring much of this material along with readings from her autobiography. Beautiful, Smoky, Slow-Burning Piece Of Jazz Vocal History On Vinyl LP Limited To 500 Copies Wax Love present a reissue of Billie Holidays Lady Sings The. The lynching depicted in Strange Fruit is certainly made even more powerful and harrowing by her slow, wrenching delivery. On such cuts as Too Marvelous for Words, the contrast between the lyrics and Holiday's heavy-heartedness is disconcerting, but the juxtaposition works on I Must Have That Man, where Holiday's interpretations seem to be saying that even good love is tragic. These sessions from 19 clearly show the results of a life marked by alcohol and drug abuse, horrific love affairs and racism. This item: Lady Sings The Blues by Billie Holiday Audio CD 10.98 Lady In Satin by Billie Holiday Audio CD 4.99 Billie Holiday Ultimate Collection by Billie Holiday Audio CD 11.99 Customers who viewed this item also viewed of 1 Start over Platinum Collection HOLIDAY,BILLIE 1,140 Vinyl 5 offers from 36. Some Holiday fans embrace the very weariness and faults of her late recordings that others find heartbreaking and disappointing. ![]()
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