Carmen McRae Sings Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday Classics

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Carmen McRae Sings Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday Classics
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Studio album by
Carmen McRae
Released1962
RecordedJune 29, 1961 and July 26, 1961
StudioColumbia Studios, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length42:37
Label Columbia
CL 1730 (mono), CS 8530 (stereo)
Producer Teo Macero, Carmen McRae
Carmen McRae chronology
Tonight Only!
(1961)		Carmen McRae Sings Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday Classics
(1962)		 Take Five Live
(1962)

Carmen McRae Sings Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday Classics is a 1962 studio album by Carmen McRae, recorded in tribute to McRae's idol, Billie Holiday, who had died two years previously. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Scott Yanow of Allmusic said that the album was one of McRae's "best recordings of the 1960s. McRae always considered Billie Holiday to be her primary influence, so a tribute album was a natural project for her...Recommended". [1]

Track listing

  1. "Them There Eyes" (Maceo Pinkard, Doris Tauber, William Tracey) - 2:45
  2. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach) - 4:52
  3. "I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (And Throw Away the Key)" (Jimmy Eaton, Terry Shand) - 2:32
  4. "Strange Fruit" (Lewis Allen) - 2:47
  5. "Miss Brown to You" (Richard A. Whiting, Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) - 2:28
  6. "My Man" (Maurice Yvain, Jacques Charles, Albert Willemetz, Channing Pollack) - 4:05
  7. "I Cried for You (Now It's Your Turn to Cry Over Me)" (Gus Arnheim, Abe Lyman, Arthur Freed) - 2:52
  8. "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" (Jimmy Davis, Roger "Ram" Ramirez, James Sherman) - 4:18
  9. "Trav'lin' Light" (Trummy Young, Jimmy Mundy, Johnny Mercer) - 2:20
  10. "Some Other Spring" (Arthur Herzog, Jr., Irene Kitchings) - 3:02
  11. "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Harry Woods) - 3:31
  12. "God Bless the Child" (Herzog, Billie Holiday) - 3:24
Bonus tracks on the 1997 CD reissue
  2. "If the Moon Turns Green" (Bernie Hanighen, Paul Coates) - 3:28
  3. "The Christmas Song" (Bob Wells, Mel Tormé) - 3:55

Personnel

Norman Simmons' Sextet
Technical

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Carmen McRae Sings Lover Man and other Billie Holiday Classics". Allmusic . Retrieved May 28, 2011.
  2. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 138. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  3. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 986. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
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