The film, and a score album that also featured Michel Legrand and Blinky Williams, undoubtedly helped to revive Holiday’s legacy and to introduce her to an entirely new audience, via one of the biggest stars of the 1970s. It was Holidays last album released on Clef Records. Eleanora Fagan, professionally known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz and swing music. Lady Sings the Blues is an album by American jazz vocalist Billie Holiday released in December 1956. Beginning with Holidays traumatic youth, the film depicts her early attempts at a singing career and her eventual rise to stardom, as well as her difficult relationship with Louis McKay (Billy.
Packaging All items are shipped brand-new and unopened in. Lady Day Sings the Blues: Billie Holiday.
It’s a poignant reminder of Lady Day’s sadly early demise that, when Lady Sings The Blues was released, she had already been gone for some 13 years. Protection Each record is protected within its record sleeve by a white vellum anti-dust sleeve. The double LP featured Ross singing such gems from the tragic singer’s catalog as “God Bless The Child,” “Strange Fruit,” and the title song. The soundtrack album from the movie became Diana’s only US No.1 solo pop album - aptly, on the chart date that would have been Billie’s 58th birthday, April 7, 1973. The Los Angeles sessions dating from 1954 offer a fresher-sounding Billie, but that in no way. She was little more than two years into the official launch of her solo career, and only one of her four post- Supremes albums to date had made the US Top 40. Vinyl LP repressing of this album from the Jazz legend. When Diana Ross chose to make her feature film debut playing the role of Billie Holiday, in the biopic Lady Sings The Blues, released on October 12, 1972, it was a bold move for the Motown queen.
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