Lady Sings the Blues (soundtrack)

Lady Sings the Blues was the successful soundtrack to the Billie Holiday biopic of the same name, which starred Diana Ross in her screen debut in 1972.

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cover of Lady Sings The Blues soundtrack...this Lp reached #1 on the Billboard album chart

Save for the interludes that were included from the movie, the album was a heralded attempt by Ross to channel some of jazz-blues legend Billie Holiday's emotional song output. Though Ross hardly had Holiday's raspy delivery, she held her own and the album and movie, for better or for worse, helped reintroduce a new generation of music lovers to the sounds of Holiday's music.

The album went on to be Ross' only #1 album on the Billboard Pop Albums Chart.

Tracklisting

1. "The Arrest" (0:15)
2. "Lady Sings the Blues" (1:03)
3. "Baltimore Brothel" (0:25)
4. "Billie Sneaks Into Dean & 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)
12. "Any Happy Home" (0:37)
13. "I Cried For You" (0:37)
14. "Billie & Harry/Don't Explain" (0:37)
15. "Mean to Me" (1:18)
16. "Fine and Mellow" (0:45)
17. "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (2:09)
18. "Louis Visits Billie on Tour/Love Theme" (0:45)
19. "Cafe Manhattan Party" (1:37)
20. "Persuasion/'Taint Nobody's Bizness If I Do" (3:48)
21. "Agent's Office" (1:09)
22. "Love Is Here to Stay" (2:01)
23. "Fine and Mellow" (2:54)
24. "Lover Man" (3:22)
25. "You've Changed" (2:34)
26. "Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)" (2:06)
27. "Good Morning Heartache" (2:21)
28. "All of Me" (2:04)
29. "Love Theme" (2:53)
30. "My Man" (2:26)
31. "Don't Explain" (2:10)
32. "I Cried for You" (2:13)
33. "Strange Fruit" (3:35)
34. "God Bless the Child" (2:42)
35. "Closing Theme" (1:08)