The Lady Sings

The Lady Sings
Compilation album by
Released1956
Recorded1945, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950
GenreVocal jazz
LabelDecca
ProducerMilt Gabler
Billie Holiday chronology
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(1956)
The Lady Sings
(1956)
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(1956)

The Lady Sings (DL 8215) is a compilation album by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released by Decca Records in 1956.[1] The featured songs on the album are from when Holiday was signed with Decca in the mid to late 1940s. By the time this album was released, she was on Norman Granz's jazz label Verve Records.

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New Record Mirror[2]
  1. ^ The Lady Sings, Discogs.com, accessed Feb 13, 2016
  2. ^ Watson, Jimmy (22 June 1963). "Billy Holliday: The "Lady" Sings, Vol. 1" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 119. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.