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'''''Lady Sings the Blues''''' is the soundtrack to [[Lady Sings the Blues (film)|the Billie Holiday biopic of the same name]], which starred [[Diana Ross]] in her screen debut in 1972. The album became Ross' 4th #1 album (eventually selling over 2,000,000 US copies),<ref>http://www.greasylake.org/the-circuit/index.php?%2Ftopic%2F116321-the-supremes-diana-ross-stevie-wonder-and-ray-charlesusa-album-sales%2F</ref> though the only one as a solo artist, on the [[Billboard 200|U.S. Top 200 ''Billboard'' Albums Chart]] as a solo act, going to #2 on the [[Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums|U.S. ''Billboard'' R&B Album Chart]], and #50 on the [[UK Albums Chart]]. It was certified gold on the UK for sales of over 100,000 copies.<ref name="bpi">{{cite web|url=http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx |title=UK Certified Awards Search > Diana Ross |publisher=[[British Phonographic Industry]] |accessdate=2012-02-29 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6DaMNbmDo?url=http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx |archivedate=2013-01-11 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was also the fourth best-selling R&B album and fifth best-selling Pop album of 1973.
'''''Lady Sings the Blues''''' is the soundtrack to [[Lady Sings the Blues (film)|the Billie Holiday biopic of the same name]], which starred [[Diana Ross]] in her 1972 screen debut. It became Ross' first #1 album (eventually selling over 2 million US copies), though the only one as a solo artist. It was certified gold in the UK for sales of over 100,000 copies.<ref name="bpi">{{cite web|url=http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx |title=UK Certified Awards Search > Diana Ross |publisher=[[British Phonographic Industry]] |access-date=2012-02-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115055129/http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx |archive-date=2013-01-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was the fourth best-selling R&B album and fifth best-selling Pop album of 1973 in the US.


Music writers said Ross emulated [[Billie Holiday]]'s voice while retaining her own individual sound. This soundtrack album was the only Motown album to have a special designed label to match the album cover on the vinyl release, rather than Motown's usual "Map of [[Detroit]]" design. This label design would also turn up on the single releases from the soundtrack.
Music writers said Ross emulated [[Billie Holiday]]'s voice while retaining her own individual sound. This soundtrack album was the only Motown album to have a special designed label to match the album cover on the vinyl release, rather than Motown's usual "Map of [[Detroit]]" design. This label design would also turn up on the single releases from the soundtrack.
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|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}} [{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r16951|pure_url=yes}} link]
|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r16951|pure_url=yes}} link]
|rev2 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
|rev2 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
|rev2Score = B+<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: R|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=R&bk=70|accessdate=March 12, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref>
|rev2Score = B+<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: R|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=R&bk=70|access-date=March 12, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref>
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#"Persuasion/'Taint Nobody's Bizness If I Do" – 3:48
#"Persuasion/'Taint Nobody's Bizness If I Do" – 3:48
#"Agent's Office" – 1:09
#"Agent's Office" – 1:09
#"[[Love Is Here to Stay|Our Love Is Here to Stay]]" – 2:01
#"[[Love Is Here to Stay]]" – 2:01


===Side three===
===Side three===
#"Fine and Mellow" – 2:54
#"Fine and Mellow" – 2:54
#"[[Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)|Lover Man]]" – 3:22
#"[[Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)|Lover Man]]" – 3:22
#"[[You've Changed]]" – 2:34
#"[[You've Changed (1941 song)|You've Changed]]" – 2:34
#"Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)" – 2:06
#"[[Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)]]" – 2:06
#"[[Good Morning Heartache]]" – 2:21
#"[[Good Morning Heartache]]" – 2:21
#"All of Me" – 2:04
#"All of Me" – 2:04
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===Side four===
===Side four===
#"Love Theme" – 2:53
#"Love Theme" – 2:53
#"[[Mon Homme|My Man]]" – 2:26
#"[[Mon Homme|My Man]]" – 3:26
#"[[Don't Explain (song)|Don't Explain]]" – 2:10
#"[[Don't Explain (song)|Don't Explain]]" – 2:10
#"I Cried for You" – 2:13
#"I Cried for You" – 2:13
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#"Closing Theme" – 1:08
#"Closing Theme" – 1:08


==Personnel==
==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
⚫
*Diana Ross - vocals
⚫
*John Collins - guitar, banjo
⚫
*Arthur Edwards, [[Max Bennett (musician)|Max Bennett]], [[Red Callender|George "Red" Callender]] - bass
⚫
*Chester Lane, [[Don Abney]], [[Gerald Wiggins]] - piano
⚫
*[[Earl Palmer]], Jessie Sailes - drums
⚫
*Caughey Roberts - soprano saxophone, clarinet
⚫
*[[Buddy Collette|William "Buddy" Collette]], [[Ernie Watts]], [[Georgie Auld]], [[Jack Nimitz]], [[Marshall Royal]], [[Plas Johnson]] - saxophone
⚫
*[[George Bohanon]], [[Grover Mitchell]], [[Henry Coker]], [[Jimmy Cleveland]], [[Streamline Ewing|John Ewing]], Maurice Spears - trombone
⚫
*[[Al Aarons]], [[Bobby Bryant (musician)|Bobby Bryant]], [[Cat Anderson|William "Cat" Anderson]], [[Harry "Sweets" Edison]], [[Teddy Buckner]] - trumpet
⚫
*[[Benny Golson]], [[Gil Askey]], [[Oliver Nelson]] - arrangements
⚫
*[[Michel Legrand]] - arrangements, conductor
⚫
*Gil Askey - conductor
⚫
*[[Berry Gordy]] - executive producer

==Chart positions==
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Chart
!Position
|-
|-
|rowspan="3"|1973
! scope="col"| Chart (1973)
! scope="col"| Peak<br />position
|align="left"|[[Billboard 200|U.S. Billboard 200]]
|align="center"|1
|-
|-
!scope="row"| Australia ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=281}}</ref>
|align="left"|[[Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums|U.S. Billboard R&B Albums Chart]]
|43
|align="center"|2
|-
{{album chart|Canada|5|chartid=4814|rowheader=true|access-date=October 11, 2021}}
|-
{{album chart|UK|50|artist=Diana Ross|rowheader=true|access-date=October 11, 2021}}
|-
{{album chart|Billboard200|1|artist=Diana Ross|rowheader=true|access-date=October 11, 2021}}
|-
{{album chart|BillboardRandBHipHop|2|artist=Diana Ross|rowheader=true|access-date=October 11, 2021}}
|-
|-
|align="left"|[[UK Albums Chart]]
|align="center"|50
|}
|}


==Certifications==
==Certifications==
{{certification Table Top}}
{{certification Table Top}}
{{certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|artist=Diana Ross|title=Lady Sings The Blues|award=Gold|relyear=1973|certyear=1973|type=album}}
{{certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|artist=Diana Ross|title=Lady Sings The Blues|award=Gold|relyear=1973|certyear=1973|type=album|id=3723-2600-2}}
{{Certification Table Bottom}}
{{Certification Table Bottom | nosales=true}}

==Personnel==
⚫
*[[Diana Ross]] - [[Singing|vocals]]
⚫
*[[Gil Askey]] - [[Conducting|conductor]]
⚫
*[[Gil Askey]], [[Benny Golson]], [[Oliver Nelson]] - arrangements
⚫
*[[Al Aarons|Albert Aarons]], [[Cat Anderson|William "Cat" Anderson]], [[Bobby Bryant (musician)|Bobby Bryant]], [[Harry Edison|Harry "Sweets" Edison]], [[Teddy Buckner]] - [[Trumpet|trumpets]]
⚫
*[[Georgie Auld]], [[Buddy Collette|William "Buddy" Collette]], [[Plas Johnson]], [[Jack Nimitz]], [[Marshal Royal|Marshall Royal]], [[Ernie Watts]] - [[saxophone]]
⚫
*[[George Bohanon]], [[Jimmy Cleveland]], [[Henry Coker]], [[Grover Mitchell]], Maurice Spears, [[Streamline Ewing|John Ewing]] - [[Trombone|trombones]]
⚫
*[[Max Bennett (musician)|Max Bennett]], [[Red Callender|George "Red" Callender]], Arthur Edwards - bass
⚫
*John Collins - [[guitar]], [[banjo]]
⚫
*[[Earl Palmer]], [[Jesse Sailes]] - [[Drum|drums]]
⚫
*[[Don Abney]], [[Gerald Wiggins]], Chester Lane - [[piano]]
⚫
*[[Caughey Roberts|"Caughey" Roberts]] - [[clarinet]], [[soprano saxophone]]

== Production ==

⚫
* [[Michel Legrand]] - [[Composer|composed]], arranged, [[Conducting|conductor]]
* Guy Costa - engineering and technical direction
* Larry Miles, [[Cal Harris (engineer)|Cal Harris]], Bill Macmeekin, Dave Ramsey, [[Art Stewart (producer)|Art Stewart]], Russ Terrana - [[Motown|Mowest]] engineers
* Gordon Day, Dave Docendort, John Norman - [[Glen Glenn Sound|Glen Glen]] engineers
* Katarina Pettersson - art direction
* John Le Prevost, Frank Frezzo - design
* Orlando Suero - photography
* Sandra Forney - graphic production
* [[Suzanne de Passe]], [[Iris Gordy]] - edited, coordinated
* Tony Jones - creative assistance
⚫
* [[Berry Gordy]] - [[executive producer]]


==See also==
==See also==
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Latest revision as of 22:35, 23 August 2024

For the Billie Holiday album, see Lady Sings the Blues (Billie Holiday album).

Lady Sings the Blues
Soundtrack album by
Diana Ross
ReleasedOctober 1972
Recorded1972; MoWest Studios, Los Angeles, California; Glen Glenn Sound, Hollywood, California
GenreR&B, vocal jazz
Length57:10
LabelMotown
M 758-D
ProducerGil Askey
Diana Ross chronology
Surrender
(1971) 		Lady Sings the Blues
(1972) 		Greatest Hits
(1972)
Singles from Lady Sings the Blues
  1. "Good Morning Heartache"
    Released: December 18, 1972

Lady Sings the Blues is the soundtrack to the Billie Holiday biopic of the same name, which starred Diana Ross in her 1972 screen debut. It became Ross' first #1 album (eventually selling over 2 million US copies), though the only one as a solo artist. It was certified gold in the UK for sales of over 100,000 copies.[1] It was the fourth best-selling R&B album and fifth best-selling Pop album of 1973 in the US.

Music writers said Ross emulated Billie Holiday's voice while retaining her own individual sound. This soundtrack album was the only Motown album to have a special designed label to match the album cover on the vinyl release, rather than Motown's usual "Map of Detroit" design. This label design would also turn up on the single releases from the soundtrack.

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic link
Christgau's Record GuideB+[2]

Track listing

[edit]

Side one

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  1. "The Arrest" – 0:15
  2. "Lady Sings the Blues" – 1:03
  3. "Baltimore Brothel" – 0:25
  4. "Billie Sneaks into Dean and 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

Side two

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  1. "Any Happy Home" – 0:37
  2. "I Cried for You" – 0:37
  3. "Billie and Harry/Don't Explain" – 0:37
  4. "Mean to Me" – 1:18
  5. "Fine and Mellow" – 0:45
  6. "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" – 2:09
  7. "Louis Visits Billie on Tour/Love Theme" – 0:45
  8. "Cafe Manhattan Party" – 1:37
  9. "Persuasion/'Taint Nobody's Bizness If I Do" – 3:48
  10. "Agent's Office" – 1:09
  11. "Love Is Here to Stay" – 2:01

Side three

[edit]
  1. "Fine and Mellow" – 2:54
  2. "Lover Man" – 3:22
  3. "You've Changed" – 2:34
  4. "Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)" – 2:06
  5. "Good Morning Heartache" – 2:21
  6. "All of Me" – 2:04

Side four

[edit]
  1. "Love Theme" – 2:53
  2. "My Man" – 3:26
  3. "Don't Explain" – 2:10
  4. "I Cried for You" – 2:13
  5. "Strange Fruit" – 3:35
  6. "God Bless the Child" – 2:42
  7. "Closing Theme" – 1:08

Charts

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Chart (1973) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[3] 43
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[4] 5
UK Albums (OCC)[5] 50
US Billboard 200[6] 1
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[7] 2

Certifications

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[8] Gold 100,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Personnel

[edit]

Production

[edit]

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "UK Certified Awards Search > Diana Ross". British Phonographic Industry. Archived from the original on 2013-01-15. Retrieved 2012-02-29.
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: R". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 12, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 281. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  4. ^ "Top RPM Albums: Issue 4814". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved October 11, 2021.
  5. ^ "Diana Ross | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved October 11, 2021.
  6. ^ "Diana Ross Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved October 11, 2021.
  7. ^ "Diana Ross Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved October 11, 2021.
  8. ^ "British album certifications – Diana Ross – Lady Sings The Blues". British Phonographic Industry.
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