Belafonte Sings the Blues

Belafonte Sings the Blues
Studio album by Harry Belafonte
Released 1958
Recorded 1958
Genre Vocal
Length 45:39
Label RCA Victor
Producer Ed Welker
Harry Belafonte chronology
To Wish You a Merry Christmas
(1958)		 Belafonte Sings the Blues
(1958)		 Love is a Gentle Thing
(1959)
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Belafonte Sings the Blues is an album by Harry Belafonte, released by RCA Victor (LPM-1972) in 1958. It was recorded in New York on January 29 (with Alan Greene as leader) and March 29 (with Bob Corman as leader), and in Hollywood on June 5 and 7 (with Dennis Farnon as leader).

Track listing

  1. "A Fool for You" (Ray Charles)
  2. "Losing Hand" (Charles Calhoun (Jesse Stone)
  3. "One For My Baby" (Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen)
  4. "In the Evenin' Mama" (C. C. Carter)
  5. "Hallelujah I Love Her So" (Ray Charles)
  6. "The Way That I Feel" (Fred Brooks)
  7. "Cotton Fields" (C. C. Carter)
  8. "God Bless the Child" (Billie Holliday. Arthur Herzog Jr.)
  9. "Mary Ann" (Ray Charles)
  10. "Sinner's Prayer" (Lowell Fulson)
  11. "Fare Thee Well" (Fred Brooks)

Personnel

Harry Belafonte
Studio albums
Mark Twain and Other Folk Favorites (1954)  • Belafonte (1956)  • Calypso (1956)  • An Evening with Belafonte (1957)  • Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean (1957)  • To Wish You a Merry Christmas (1958)  • Belafonte Sings the Blues (1958)  • Love Is a Gentle Thing (1959)  • My Lord What a Mornin' (1959)  • Swing Dat Hammer (1960)  • Jump Up Calypso (1961)  • Midnight Special (1962)  • The Many Moods of Belafonte (1962)  • Streets I Have Walked (1963)  • Ballads, Blues and Boasters (1964)  • In My Quiet Room (1966)  • Calypso in Brass (1966)  • Belafonte on Campus (1967)  • Belafonte Sings of Love (1968)  • Homeward Bound (1970)  • Belafonte by Request (1970)  • The Warm Touch (1971)  • Calypso Carnival (1971)  • Play Me (1973)  • Turn the World Around (1977)  • Loving You Is Where I Belong (1981)  • Paradise in Gazankulu (1988)
Live albums
Belafonte at Carnegie Hall (1959)  • Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall (1960)  • Belafonte at The Greek Theatre (1964)  • En Gränslös Kväll På Operan (1966)  • Belafonte...Live! (1972)  • Belafonte Concert in Japan (1974)  • Belafonte '89 (1989)  • An Evening with Harry Belafonte and Friends (1997)
Compilations
Very Best of Harry Belafonte (2001)  • The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music (2001)  • The Essential Harry Belafonte (2005)
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