Lady Day (Amii Stewart album)
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Lady Day is a studio album
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by Amii Stewart
Amii Stewart
Amy 'Amii' Paulette Stewart is an American contemporary R&B/disco/dance-pop singer, dancer and actress most famous for her hit disco record "Knock on Wood". Stewart is the stepsister of actress-singer Miquel Brown and aunt to Brown's actress-singer daughter Sinitta.-Career:Amy Stewart was the...

 released in 2004. The album is the Italian cast recording of a musical based on the life of American jazz and blues singer Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing...

 co-written by and starring Stewart.

Track listing

  1. "All the Men in Her Life" (Intro) (Emanuele Friello, Amii Stewart) - 1:05
  2. "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn
    Billy Strayhorn
    William Thomas "Billy" Strayhorn was an American composer, pianist and arranger, best known for his successful collaboration with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington lasting nearly three decades. His compositions include "Chelsea Bridge", "Take the "A" Train" and "Lush Life".-Early...

    ) - 2:37
  3. "The Man I Love
    The Man I Love (song)
    "The Man I Love" is a popular standard, with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by his brother Ira. Originally part of the 1924 score for the Gershwin government satire Lady, Be Good as "The Girl I Love", the song was deleted from the show as well as from both the 1927 anti-war satire Strike Up...

    " (George Gershwin
    George Gershwin
    George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...

    , Ira Gershwin
    Ira Gershwin
    Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....

    ) - 3:31
  4. "Them There Eyes
    Them There Eyes
    "Them There Eyes" is a jazz song written by Maceo Pinkard, Doris Tauber, and William Tracey. It was published in 1930. One of the early recorded versions was done by Louis Armstrong in 1931...

    " (Maceo Pinkard, Doris Tauber, William Tracey) - 3:23
  5. "Last Blues Refrain" (Emanuele Friello, Amii Stewart) - 4:40
  6. "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Roger Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) - 4:06
  7. "Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do" (Porter Grainger, Everett Robbins) - 2:55
  8. "Strange Fruit
    Strange Fruit
    "Strange Fruit" is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who released her first recording of it in 1939, the year she first sang it. Written by the teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem, it exposed American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans. Such lynchings had occurred...

    " (Lewis Allan
    Abel Meeropol
    Abel Meeropol was an American writer and song-writer, best known under his pseudonym Lewis Allan and as the adoptive father of the young sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.-Biography:...

    ) - 3:14
  9. "It Don't Mean a Thing" (Duke Ellington
    Duke Ellington
    Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...

    , Irving Mills
    Irving Mills
    Irving Mills was a jazz music publisher, also known by the name of "Joe Primrose."Mills was born to Jewish parents in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. He founded Mills Music with his brother Jack in 1919...

    ) - 2:51
  10. "God Bless the Child
    God Bless the Child (Billie Holiday song)
    "God Bless the Child" is a song written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr. in 1939, first recorded on May 9, 1941 under the Okeh label.Holiday's version of the song was honored with the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in...

    " (Arthur Herzog Jr.
    Arthur Herzog Jr.
    Arthur Herzog, Jr. was a songwriter most known for work with Billie Holiday. He co-wrote several jazz songs she popularized, including "Don't Explain" and "God Bless the Child".-External links:*[ All Music page]...

    , Billie Holiday
    Billie Holiday
    Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing...

    ) - 2:56
  11. "All the Men in Her Life" (Emanuele Friello, Amii Stewart) - 4:50
  12. "Fine and Mellow
    Fine and Mellow
    Fine and Mellow is a 1974 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by many famous jazz musicians. It opens with the eponymous song written by Billie Holliday...

    " (Billie Holiday) - 4:11
  13. "Don't Explain" (Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday) - 3:10
  14. "Night and Day
    Night and Day (song)
    "Night and Day" is a popular song by Cole Porter. It was written for the 1932 musical play Gay Divorce. It is perhaps Porter's most popular contribution to the Great American Songbook and has been recorded by dozens of artists....

    " (Cole Porter
    Cole Porter
    Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...

    ) - 2:27
  15. "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Finale) (Harry Woods) - 2:17
  16. "All the Men in Her Life" (Bonus Track) (Emanuele Friello, Amii Stewart) - 4:50

Personnel

  • Amii Stewart - vocals
  • Timothy Martin - vocals (tracks 2 & 5)
  • Massimo Reale - vocals (track 11)
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