Sings Lover Man and other Billie Holiday Classics

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Sings Lover Man and other Billie Holiday Classics
Studio album by Carmen McRae
Released 1962
Recorded June 29,1961 and July 26, 1961
Genre Jazz
Length 42:37
Label Columbia Records
Producer(s) Teo Macero, Carmen McRae
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Carmen McRae chronology
Take Five
(1961)
Sings Lover Man and other Billie Holiday Classics
(1962)
Something Wonderful
(1962)


Sings Lover Man and other Billie Holiday Classics is a 1962 (see 1962 in music) studio album recorded by Carmen McRae.

This album was one of her few studio recordings for Columbia Records, being a tribute from McRae to her idol, Billie Holiday, who had passed away two years previously.

[edit] Track Listing

  1. "Them There Eyes" (Maceo Pinkard, William Tracy, Doris Tauber) - 2:45
  2. "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) - 4:52
  3. "Im Gonna Lock My Heart" (J.Eaton, T.Shand) - 2:32
  4. "Strange Fruit" (L.Allen) - 2:47
  5. "Miss Brown To You" (Leo Robin, Richard A. Whiting, Ralph Rainger)
  6. "My Man" (C.Pollack, M.Yvain)
  7. "I Cried For You (Now Its Your Turn To Cry Over Me)"