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Loading... Lady in Satinby Billie Holiday
   None No current Talk conversations about this book. 1   comfypants | Jun 21, 2019 |   1 I'm a Fool to Want You (Joel Herron / Frank Sinatra / Jack Wolf), 3:23 2 For Heaven's Sake (Elise Bretton / Sherman Edwards / Don Meyer / Donald Meyer / Sherman Edwards & Donald Meyer), 3:26 3 You Don't Know What Love Is (Gene DePaul / Don Raye), 3:48 4 I Get Along Without You Very Well (Hoagy Carmichael), 2:59 5 For All We Know (J. Fred Coots / Sam M. Lewis), 2:53 6 Violets for Your Furs (Tom Adair / Matt Dennis), 3:24 7 You've Changed (Bill Carey / Carl Fischer), 3:17 8 It's Easy to Remember (Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers), 4:01 9 But Beautiful (Johnny Burke / James Van Heusen), 4:29 10 Glad to Be Unhappy (Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers), 4:07 11 I'll Be Around (Alec Wilder), 3:23 12 The End of a Love Affair (Edward Redding), 4:45 Lemeritus | Dec 24, 2013 |
This was Billie Holiday's penultimate album, recorded when her body was telling her enough was enough. During the sessions with arranger Ray Ellis she was drinking vodka neat, as if it were tap water. Despite her ravaged voice (the sweetness had long gone), she was still an incredible singer. The feeling and tension she manages to put into almost every track set this album as one of her finest achievements. "You've Changed" and "I Get Along Without You Very Well" are high art performances from the singer who saw life from the bottom up.
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4/4 (Great).
She's only 43 here, but from her voice you might guess she's twice that age. She uses what she has left effectively. It's a striking sound. But it's also a limited and unavoidably melancholy sound. (