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Lady in Satin is an album
LP album

Long play record albums are 33? rpm Polyvinyl chloride Gramophone records , generally either 10 or 12 inches in diameter. They were first introduced in 1948, and served as a primary release format for Sound recording and reproduction until the compact disc began to significantly displace them by 1988, and eventually leaving the mainstr...
 by jazz singer Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter.Nicknamed Lady Day by her loyal friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing....
 released in 1958
1958 in music

Events*January 28 - Little Richard begins attending classes at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama*January 29 - Bo Diddley records "Say Man", a #3 R&B hit when it is released in the Fall of 1959....
 on Columbia Records
Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
, catalogue CL 1157 in mono
Monaural

Monaural sound reproduction is single-channel. Typically there is only one microphone, one loudspeaker, or, in the case of headphones or multiple loudspeakers, they are fed from a common Signalling path, and in the case of multiple microphones, mixed into a single signal path at some stage....
 and CS 8048 in stereo
STEREO

STEREO is a Sun observation mission which was launched on 26 October 2006 at 00:52 GMT. Two nearly identical spacecraft were launched into orbits that cause them to pull respectively further ahead of and fall gradually behind the earth....
. It is the final album completed by the singer and released in her lifetime. The original album was produced
Record producer

In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
 by Irving Townsend
Irving Townsend

Irving Townsend was an United States record producer and author. He is most famous for having produced, in March 1959, the Miles Davis album Kind of Blue, which at #12, is the highest-ranked jazz album on Rolling Stone Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and according to the RIAA, is the best-selling jazz album of all time....
, and engineered
Audio engineering

Audio engineering is a part of audio science dealing with the recording and reproduction of sound through mechanical and electronic means. The field draws on many disciplines, including electrical engineering, acoustics, psychoacoustics, and music....
 by Fred Plaut.

song material for Lady in Satin derived from the usual sources for Holiday in her three decade career, that of the Great American Songbook
Great American Songbook

Great American Songbook is a term referring to the interrelated music of Broadway theatre musical theater, the Hollywood musical, and Tin Pan Alley, in a period that begins roughly in the 1920s and tapers off around 1960 with the emerging dominance of rock and roll....
 of classic pop.






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Lady in Satin is an album
LP album

Long play record albums are 33? rpm Polyvinyl chloride Gramophone records , generally either 10 or 12 inches in diameter. They were first introduced in 1948, and served as a primary release format for Sound recording and reproduction until the compact disc began to significantly displace them by 1988, and eventually leaving the mainstr...
 by jazz singer Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter.Nicknamed Lady Day by her loyal friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing....
 released in 1958
1958 in music

Events*January 28 - Little Richard begins attending classes at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama*January 29 - Bo Diddley records "Say Man", a #3 R&B hit when it is released in the Fall of 1959....
 on Columbia Records
Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
, catalogue CL 1157 in mono
Monaural

Monaural sound reproduction is single-channel. Typically there is only one microphone, one loudspeaker, or, in the case of headphones or multiple loudspeakers, they are fed from a common Signalling path, and in the case of multiple microphones, mixed into a single signal path at some stage....
 and CS 8048 in stereo
STEREO

STEREO is a Sun observation mission which was launched on 26 October 2006 at 00:52 GMT. Two nearly identical spacecraft were launched into orbits that cause them to pull respectively further ahead of and fall gradually behind the earth....
. It is the final album completed by the singer and released in her lifetime. The original album was produced
Record producer

In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
 by Irving Townsend
Irving Townsend

Irving Townsend was an United States record producer and author. He is most famous for having produced, in March 1959, the Miles Davis album Kind of Blue, which at #12, is the highest-ranked jazz album on Rolling Stone Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and according to the RIAA, is the best-selling jazz album of all time....
, and engineered
Audio engineering

Audio engineering is a part of audio science dealing with the recording and reproduction of sound through mechanical and electronic means. The field draws on many disciplines, including electrical engineering, acoustics, psychoacoustics, and music....
 by Fred Plaut.

Content

The song material for Lady in Satin derived from the usual sources for Holiday in her three decade career, that of the Great American Songbook
Great American Songbook

Great American Songbook is a term referring to the interrelated music of Broadway theatre musical theater, the Hollywood musical, and Tin Pan Alley, in a period that begins roughly in the 1920s and tapers off around 1960 with the emerging dominance of rock and roll....
 of classic pop. Unlike the bulk of Holiday's recordings, rather than in the setting of a jazz combo
Jazz band

A jazz band is a musical ensemble that plays jazz music usually without a conductor. Jazz bands usually consist of a rhythm section and a horn section....
 Holiday instead sings over the backdrop of full orchestral arrangements
Arrangement

In music, an arrangement is either a rewriting of a piece of existing music with additional new material or a fleshing-out of a compositional sketch, such as a lead sheet....
 in the contemporary vein of Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
 or Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
 on her Songbooks series. The album consists of songs Holiday had never recorded before.

The arrangements were by bandleader Ray Ellis
Ray Ellis

Ray Ellis was an American record producer, arranger and conducting. The orchestration for Billie Holiday's Lady in Satin is probably his best known work in the jazz vein....
, Holiday familiar with his Ellis in Wonderland album. Soloists on the album included Mel Davis, Urbie Green
Urbie Green

Urban Clifford "Urbie" Green is an US professional jazz trombonist who toured with Woody Herman, Gene Krupa, Jan Savitt, and Frankie Carle. He appears on over 250 recordings and has released more than two dozen albums as a soloist and is highly respected by his fellow trombonists....
, and bebop
Bebop

Bebop or bop is a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos and improvisation based on harmonic structure rather than melody. It was developed in the early and mid-1940s....
 trombone
Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass instrument family. Like all brass instruments, it is a lip-reed aerophone: sound is produced when the player?s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate....
 pioneer J.J. Johnson
J.J. Johnson

J. J. Johnson in Indianapolis, Indiana, , was a United States of America jazz trombonist, composer and arranger.Johnson was one of the first trombonists to embrace bebop music....
. The song "The End of a Love Affair" did not appear on the stereo release, CS 8048, the final track of side two being "I'll Be Around
I'll Be Around (1942 song)

I'll Be Around" is a popular music song written by Alec Wilder and published in 1942 in music. The song has become a well-known standard, recorded by many artists....
."

Reception

Reaction to the album has been mixed. Holiday's voice had lost much of its upper range in her 40s, although she still retained her rhythmic phrasing. The Penguin Guide to Jazz
The Penguin Guide to Jazz

The Penguin Guide to Jazz is a non-fiction book that is an encyclopedic referencing of jazz recordings on compact disc which are currently available in Europe or the United States....
 gave the album a three-star rating of a possible four stars, but expressed a basic reservation about the album, describing it as "a voyeuristic look at a beaten woman." Trumpeter Buck Clayton
Buck Clayton

Buck Clayton was an United States of America jazz trumpet player, fondly remembered for being a leading member of Count Basie 'Old Testament' orchestra and leader of mainstream orientated jam session recordings in the 1950s....
 preferred the work of the later Holiday to that of the younger woman that he had often worked with in the 1930s
1930s

In Western Europe, Australia and the United States, more progressive reforms occurred as opposed to the extreme measures sought elsewhere. Roosevelt's New Deal attempted to use government spending to combat large-scale unemployment and severely negative growth....
. Ray Ellis said of the album in 1997:
I would say that the most emotional moment was her listening to the playback of "I'm a Fool to Want You". There were tears in her eyes...After we finished the album I went into the control room and listened to all the takes. I must admit I was unhappy with her performance, but I was just listening musically instead of emotionally. It wasn't until I heard the final mix a few weeks later that I realized how great her performance really was.


Lady in Satin was reissued by Legacy Records on September 23, 1997, remastering
Remaster

Remaster is a word marketed mostly in the digital audio age, although the remastering process has existed since recording began. The measure of its success depends on: 1....
 using 20-bit technology with four bonus tracks. Reissue producer Phil Schaap
Phil Schaap

Phil Schaap is an American jazz disc jockey and reissue producer. He hosts a daily morning radio program on WKCR, the radio station of Columbia University, his alma mater, in New York City....
 located the unused master tape for the stereo version of "The End of A Love Affair," and included a stereo mix
Audio mixing

Audio Mixing may refer to:*Audio mixing *Audio mixing *Audio mixing ...
 of the "I'm a Fool to Want You" take
Take

A take is a single continuous recorded performance. The term is used in film and music to denote and track the stages of production....
 which had been used on the mono LP. Lady in Satin was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame
List of Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients J-P

See also:*Grammy*Grammy Hall of Fame Award*List of Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients A-D*List of Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients E-I*List of Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients Q-Z...
 in 2000.

Known personnel

  • Billie Holiday
    Billie Holiday

    Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter.Nicknamed Lady Day by her loyal friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing....
    , vocal
  • Ray Ellis
    Ray Ellis

    Ray Ellis was an American record producer, arranger and conducting. The orchestration for Billie Holiday's Lady in Satin is probably his best known work in the jazz vein....
    , arranger and conductor
  • George Ockner, violin
    Violin

    The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
     and concertmaster
    Concertmaster

    The concertmaster/mistress, or concertmeister is the leader of the first violin section of an orchestra. Any violin solo in an orchestral work is played by the concertmaster ....
  • David Sawyer, cello
    Cello

    The violoncello is a bowed string instrument. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra....
  • Janet Putnam, harp
    Harp

    The 'harp' is a stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicular to the Sounding board. It is also considered to be a percussion instrument....
  • Danny Bank
    Danny Bank

    Daniel Bernard "Danny" Bank is an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist. He is credited on some releases as Danny Banks....
    , flute
    Flute

    The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike other woodwind instruments, a flute is a reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air against an edge....
  • Phil Bodner, flute
  • Romeo Penque, flute
  • Mel Davis, trumpet
    Trumpet

    The trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest Register in the brass instrument family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC....
  • J.J. Johnson
    J.J. Johnson

    J. J. Johnson in Indianapolis, Indiana, , was a United States of America jazz trombonist, composer and arranger.Johnson was one of the first trombonists to embrace bebop music....
    , trombone
    Trombone

    The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass instrument family. Like all brass instruments, it is a lip-reed aerophone: sound is produced when the player?s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate....
  • Urbie Green
    Urbie Green

    Urban Clifford "Urbie" Green is an US professional jazz trombonist who toured with Woody Herman, Gene Krupa, Jan Savitt, and Frankie Carle. He appears on over 250 recordings and has released more than two dozen albums as a soloist and is highly respected by his fellow trombonists....
    , trombone
  • Tom Mitchell
    Tom Mitchell

    Tom Mitchell is an Ireland Irish Republicanism.Thomas J. Mitchell was born in Dublin in 1931. In the United Kingdom general election, 1955, he was elected as Member of Parliament for the Mid Ulster constituency on an abstentionism Sinn F?in ticket, winning 29,737 votes....
    , trombone
  • Mal Waldron
    Mal Waldron

    Malcolm Earl Waldron was an United States jazz and world music pianist and composer, born in New York City.His jazz work was chiefly in the hard bop, post-bebop and free jazz genres....
    , piano
    Piano

    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
  • Barry Galbraith
    Barry Galbraith

    Joseph Barry Galbraith was an United States jazz guitarist.Galbraith moved to New York City from Vermont early in the 1940s and found work playing with Babe Russin, Art Tatum, Red Norvo, Hal McIntyre, and Teddy Powell....
    , guitar
    Electric guitar

    An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses pickup to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into an electrical current, which is made louder with an instrument amplifier and a speaker....
  • Milt Hinton
    Milt Hinton

    Milt Hinton born Milton John Hilton , "the dean of jazz bass players," was an United States jazz double bassist and photographer. He was nicknamed "The Judge"....
    , bass
    Double bass

    The double bass or contrabass is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow string instrument used in the modern orchestra. It is a standard member of the string section of the orchestra and smaller string musical ensembles in European classical music....
  • Osie Johnson
    Osie Johnson

    James "Osie" Johnson was a jazz drummer.He first worked with Sabby Lewis and then, after service in the United States Navy freelanced for a time in Chicago....
    , drums
    Drum kit

    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
  • Elise Bretton, backing vocals
  • Miriam Workman, backing vocals


Track listing


Side one

  1. "I'm a Fool to Want You" (Joel Herron, Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
    , Jack Wolf)  – 3:23
  2. "For Heaven's Sake
    For Heaven's Sake

    For Heaven's Sake may refer to:*For Heaven's Sake , starring Harold Lloyd*For Heaven's Sake , featuring Clifton Webb*For Heaven's Sake , starring Allison Lange...
    " (Elise Bretton, Sherman Edwards
    Sherman Edwards

    Sherman Edwards was an United States songwriter....
    , Donald Meyer)  – 3:26
  3. "You Don't Know What Love Is
    You Don't Know What Love Is

    "You Don't Know What Love Is" is a popular music song of the Great American Songbook.The music was written by Gene de Paul, the lyrics by Don Raye....
    " (Gene DePaul, Don Raye
    Don Raye

    Don Raye , born Donald MacRae Wilhoite, Jr., in Washington, DC, was an American vaudevillian and songwriter, best known for his songs for the Andrews Sisters such as "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar", "Just For A Thrill" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."...
    )  – 3:48
  4. "I Get Along Without You Very Well" (Hoagy Carmichael
    Hoagy Carmichael

    Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael was an United States composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust " , and "Heart and Soul ", two of the most-recorded American songs of all time....
    )  – 2:59
  5. "For All We Know
    For All We Know (1934 song)

    For the 1970 song from the movie Lovers and Other Strangers and made popular by Carpenters, see For All We Know ."For All We Know" is a popular music song....
    " (J. Fred Coots
    J. Fred Coots

    John Frederick Coots was an United States songwriter. He wrote over 700 songs.He is most famous for the song "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", a song that became one of the biggest best sellers in American music history....
    , Sam M. Lewis
    Sam M. Lewis

    Sam M. Lewis was an United States singer and lyricist, born in New York City, New York on October 25, 1885. Lewis began his music career by singing in cafes throughout New York City, and began writing songs in 1912....
    )  – 2:53
  6. "Violets for Your Furs" (Tom Adair
    Tom Adair

    Thomas "Tom" Montgomery Adair was an United States songwriter, composer, and screenwriter....
    , Matt Dennis
    Matt Dennis

    Matt Dennis was a singer, pianist, bandleader, arranger, and writer of music for popular music songs.He was born in Seattle, Washington. His mother was a violinist and his father a singer, and the family was in vaudeville, so he was early exposed to music....
    )  – 3:24


Side two

  1. "You've Changed
    You've Changed

    "You've Changed" is a popular song originally written by Bill Carey and Carl Fischer in 1941. It has been covered by many singers, including:*Harry James's band with vocals by Dick Haymes ...
    " (Bill Carey, Carl Fischer
    Carl Fischer

    Karl or Carl Fischer may refer to:*Carl H. Fischer, American floriculturalist*Carl Fischer Music, American music publishing company*Carl Fischer , American baseball player...
    )  – 3:17
  2. "It's Easy to Remember" (Lorenz Hart
    Lorenz Hart

    Lorenz "Larry" Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway theatre songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include, "Blue Moon ", "Isn't It Romantic?", "Mountain Greenery", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Manhattan", "Where or When", "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", "Falling in Love with Love", "I%27ll_Tell_the_M...
    , Richard Rodgers
    Richard Rodgers

    Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
    )  – 4:01
  3. "But Beautiful
    But Beautiful (song)

    "But Beautiful" is a popular music song with music written by Jimmy Van Heusen, the lyrics by Johnny Burke . The song was published in 1947 in music....
    " (w. Johnny Burke
    Johnny Burke (lyricist)

    Johnny Burke was a lyricist, widely regarded as one of the finest writers of popular songs in America between the 1920s and 1950s....
    , m. Jimmy Van Heusen)  – 4:29
  4. "Glad to Be Unhappy
    Glad to Be Unhappy

    "Glad to Be Unhappy" is a popular song composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Lorenz Hart It was introduced in their 1936 musical On Your Toes by Doris Carson and David Morris....
    " (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers)  – 4:07
  5. "I'll Be Around
    I'll Be Around (1942 song)

    I'll Be Around" is a popular music song written by Alec Wilder and published in 1942 in music. The song has become a well-known standard, recorded by many artists....
    " (Alec Wilder
    Alec Wilder

    Alec Wilder was an United States composer.His family was prominent in Rochester; a downtown building bears the family's name. As a young boy, he travelled to New York City with his mother and stayed at the Algonquin Hotel....
    )  – 3:23
  6. "The End of a Love Affair" (Edward Redding)  – 4:46 [mono CL 1157 only]


Bonus tracks 1997 reissue

  1. "I'm a Fool to Want You" [take 3 stereo]  – 3:24
  2. "I'm a Fool to Want You" [take 2]  – 3:23
  3. "The End of a Love Affair" The Audio Story  – 9:49
  4. "The End of a Love Affair" [stereo]  – 4:46


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