Blue (Diana Ross album)

Blue
Studio album by Diana Ross
Released June 20, 2006
Recorded 1971–1972
Genre Soul, R&B, vocal jazz
Label Motown
Producer Gil Askey
Diana Ross chronology
Love & Life: The Very Best of Diana Ross
(2001)		 Blue
(2006)		 I Love You
(2006)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
About.com [1]
All About Jazz (favorable)[2]
Allmusic [3]
Entertainment Weekly (B+)[4]
The Independent [5]
Metro Weekly (mixed)[6]
PopMatters [7]
Rolling Stone [8]
The Times [9]

Blue, also referred to as The Blue Album,[10] is a 2006 studio album released on Motown by American pop singer Diana Ross.

Recorded in late 1971 and early 1972,[11] the album was conceived as follow-up to the successful Lady Sings the Blues soundtrack but was shelved in order to return Ross to the pop charts with the more pop oriented "Touch Me in the Morning" single and album.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes" (Adams, Grever) - 3:28
  2. "No More" (Camarata, Russell) - 3:09
  3. "Let's Do It" (Cole Porter) - 3:00
  4. "I Loves Ya Porgy" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 5:11
  5. "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin, Geoffrey Parsons, John Turner) - 2:58
  6. "But Beautiful" (Burke, VanHeusen) - 2:50
  7. "Had You Been Around" (Richard Jacques, Ronald Miller, Avery Vandenburg, Bernard Yuffy) - 3:29
  8. "Little Girl Blue" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 4:00
  9. "Can't Get Started with You" (Duke, Gershwin) - 3:10
  10. "Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 2:13
  11. "You've Changed" (Bill Carey, Carl Fischer) - 2:54
  12. "My Man" (Charles, Pollack, Willemetz, Yvain) - 3:31
  13. "Easy Living" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) - 2:54
  14. "Solitude" (Eddie DeLange, Edward Ellington, Irving Mills) - 2:05
  15. "He's Funny That Way" (Daniels, Richard Whiting) - 3:02
  16. "T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do" (Peter Grainger, Everett Robbins) - 2:22

Tracks 12-15 were originally recorded for Lady Sings the Blues but some were left out of the movie or, were included in the movie in a different version and in the soundtrack.[11]

"Blue" peaked at #2 on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart.

Personnel

References

  1. ^ About.com review
  2. ^ All About Jazz review
  3. ^ Allmusic review
  4. ^ Entertainment Weekly review
  5. ^ The Independent review
  6. ^ Metro Weekly review
  7. ^ PopMatters review
  8. ^ Rolling Stone review
  9. ^ The Times review
  10. ^ Rolling Stone: The Blue Album
  11. ^ a b Motown - Never released Diana Ross album discovered!

External links

Diana Ross
Studio albums
Diana Ross (1970) · Everything Is Everything (1970) · Surrender (1971) · Touch Me in the Morning (1973) · Last Time I Saw Him (1973) · Diana Ross (1976) · Baby It's Me (1977) · Ross (1978) · The Boss (1979) · diana (1980) · Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1981) · Silk Electric (1982) · Ross (1983) · Swept Away (1984) · Eaten Alive (1985) · Red Hot Rhythm & Blues (1987) · Workin' Overtime (1989) · The Force Behind the Power (1991) · Take Me Higher (1995) · Every Day Is a New Day (1999) · Blue (2006) · I Love You (2006)
Compilations
Live albums
Soundtrack albums
Other albums
Singles
(US/UK Top Ten singles)
Films

Lady Sings the Blues (1972) · Mahogany (1975) · The Wiz (1978) · Out of Darkness (1994) · Double Platinum (1999)
Tours
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