“Lady In Satin” by Billie Holiday - album review
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There's a morbid fascination in delving into the last Billie Holiday album released in her lifetime, the well-documented struggles with heroin all too apparent in her croaked vocals. For me, “I’m A Fool To Want You” is the only track where that results in an artistic positive. By and large, the critically acclaimed “Lady In Satin” was, alas, another “Great American Songbook” yawnathon; I guess Hoagy Carmichael and Rodgers & Hart are just not my thing.
The Jukebox Rebel
11–Oct–2015
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [03:25]  Billie Holiday - I’m A Fool To Want You (Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf, Noel Herron) Jazz |
| A2 | [03:29]  Billie Holiday - For Heaven’s Sake (Donald Meyer, Elise Bretton, Sherman Edwards) Crooner / Cabaret |
| A3 | [03:51]  Billie Holiday - You Don’t Know What Love Is (Don Raye, Gene DePaul) Crooner / Cabaret |
| A4 | [03:02]  Billie Holiday - I Get Along Without You Very Well (Hoagy Carmichael) Crooner / Cabaret |
| A5 | [02:55]  Billie Holiday - For All We Know (John Frederick Coots, Sam Lewis) Crooner / Cabaret |
| A6 | [03:26] Billie Holiday - Violets For Your Furs (Matt Dennis, Tom Adair) Jazz |
| B1 | [03:20]  Billie Holiday - You’ve Changed (Bill Carey, Carl Fischer) Crooner / Cabaret |
| B2 | [04:03]  Billie Holiday - It’s Easy To Remember (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) Crooner / Cabaret |
| B3 | [04:32]  Billie Holiday - But Beautiful (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) Crooner / Cabaret |
| B4 | [04:10] Billie Holiday - Glad To Be Unhappy (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) Jazz |
| B5 | [03:26] Billie Holiday - I’ll Be Around (Alec Wilder) Crooner / Cabaret |
| B6 | [04:52]  Billie Holiday - The End Of A Love Affair (Edward C. Redding) Crooner / Cabaret |
