Here's to My Lady

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Here's to My Lady
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Studio album by
Released1978
RecordedSeptember 1978
Genre Vocal jazz
Length40:59
Label Concord Jazz [1]
Producer Carl Jefferson
Rosemary Clooney chronology
Rosie Sings Bing
(1978)
Here's to My Lady
(1978)
Rosemary Clooney Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin
(1979)
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Here's to My Lady is a 1978 studio album by the American jazz singer Rosemary Clooney, recorded in tribute to Billie Holiday. [2] [3]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "I Cover the Waterfront" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 3:35
  2. "Good Morning Heartache" (Ervin Drake, Dan Fisher, Irene Higginbotham) – 4:19
  3. "Mean to Me" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 3:46
  4. "Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?)" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, James Sherman) – 4:32
  5. "Don't Explain" (Arthur Herzog, Jr., Billie Holiday) – 4:44
  6. "Comes Love" (Lew Brown, Sam H. Stept, Charles Tobias) – 4:46
  7. "He's Funny That Way" (Neil Moret, Richard A. Whiting) – 4:38
  8. "God Bless the Child" (Herzog, Holiday) – 2:24
  9. "Them There Eyes" (Maceo Pinkard, Doris Tauber, William Tracey) – 2:35
  10. "Everything Happens to Me" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) – 5:30

Personnel

Performance

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References

  1. 1 2 The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 143.
  2. 1 2 AllMusic review
  3. "Rosemary Clooney 1928-2002". The Cincinnati Enquirer. 1 July 2002. p. C4.