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Ladies Sing The Blues [Union Square]

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Release Date

2009

Duration

02:57:32

Genre

Blues

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Ladies Sing The Blues [Union Square]

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Track Listing - Disc 1

	Sample		Title/Composer	Performer	Time
		1	Frankie & Johnny Traditional	Ethel Waters	3:09
		2	Why Don't You Do Right?	Lil Green	2:58
		3	That Old Feeling	Adelaide Hall	3:08
		4	Trouble in Mind	Bertha "Chippie" Hill	2:43
		5	Crazy Blues	Mamie Smith	3:20
		6	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Ma Rainey	3:11
		7	Young Woman's Blues	Bessie Smith	3:08
		8	Black Snake Blues	Victoria Spivey	3:06
		9	I'm a Mighty Tight Woman	Sippie Wallace	3:04
		10	No Good Man	Trixie Smith	2:48
		11	Death Letter Blues	Ida Cox	3:03
		12	Nobody Know the Way I Feel Dis Morning	Alberta Hunter	2:51
		13	Jelly, Jelly, Look What You Done Done		2:54
		14	Too Late	Memphis Minnie	2:59
		15	Booze and Blues	Ma Rainey	3:18
		16	Me and the Blues	Mildred Bailey	3:08
		17	Nobody Knows You (When You're Down and Out)	Julia Lee	3:05
		18	St. Louis Blues	Bessie Smith	3:06

Track Listing - Disc 2

	Sample		Title/Composer	Performer	Time
		1	Lady Sings the Blues	Billie Holiday	3:47
		2	God Bless the Child	Ethel Ennis	5:58
		3	Billie's Blues	Carmen McRae	5:14
		4	Lover Man	Sarah Vaughan	3:22
		5	Basin St. Blues	Ella Fitzgerald	3:07
		6	Carless Love	Lena Horne	2:44
		7	Don't Smoke in Bed		3:09
		8	A Touch of the Blues	Lee Wiley	4:14
		9	Georgia on My Mind	Etta Jones	4:33
		10	I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)	Big Maybelle	2:54
		11	Good Morning Heartache	Billie Holiday	3:11
		12	Downhearted Blues	Miss Rhapsody	3:03
		13	(I've Got A) Longing in My Heart	Little Esther	2:25
		14	What's the Matter with Me?	Albinia Jones	2:50
		15	What a Little Moonlight Can Do	Etta Jones	4:01
		16	Blues Serenade	Sarah Vaughan	2:38
		17	Lover Come Back to Me	Mildred Bailey	3:13
		18	Oh, Lady Be Good	Ella Fitzgerald	3:12

Track Listing - Disc 3

	Sample		Title/Composer	Performer	Time
		1	Blues in the Night		3:16
		2	Body and Soul	Sarah Vaughan	2:56
		3	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Billie Holiday	5:54
		4	Willow Weep for Me	Ethel Ennis	5:48
		5	Baby Please Come Home		3:05
		6	Black Coffee	Ella Fitzgerald	3:07
		7	East of the Sun	Etta Jones	3:32
		8	You Can Bet Your Life I Do	Little Esther	2:46
		9	Evil Gal Blues	Albinia Jones	3:05
		10	Candy	Big Maybelle	2:41
		11	Blues in My Heart	Miss Rhapsody	2:41
		12	Romance in the Dark	Lil Green	3:22
		13	What Is the Soul of Man?	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	2:33
		14	Hound Dog	Big Mama Thornton	2:50
		15	R.B. Blues	Ruth Brown	2:39
		16	Jim Dandy	LaVern Baker	2:13
		17	Can't We Be Friends	Mildred Bailey	3:08
		18	One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer	Lena Horne	3:22

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