Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill: Original Broadway Cast Recording

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Annotazione

Experience on disc the performance that won Audra McDonald her unprecedented sixth Tony Award. "One of the greatest performances I ever hope to see" is how New York Magazine described McDonald's portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, Lanie Robertson's award-winning play with music dramatizing one of the final concerts in the beloved singer's extraordinary, tragic life. Recorded live at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre, the two-disc set features McDonald's "spellbinding, tour-de-force" (NY Daily News) renditions of signature Holiday songs such as "God Bless the Child," "What a Little Moonlight Can Do," "Strange Fruit" and "Taint Nobody's Biz-ness." The Associated Press proclaimed Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill "one of the supreme honors of the Broadway season," while The New York Times delighted in "the pleasure of hearing Ms. McDonald breathe aching life into some of Holiday's greatest songs... with sensitive musicianship and rich seams of feeling that command rapt admiration." Now, "the best 90 minutes you'll ever witness" (NY1) have been preserved on disc by PS Classics, giving audiences the chance to savor "not just one but two of the most extraordinarily gifted dramatic vocalists America has produced" (Los Angeles Times).

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#TitoloValutazioneDurata
1“Nobody but me ever liked Sonny…”
6:56
2Foolin’ Myself/Somebody’s on My Mind
medley che comprende una registrazione di:
Foolin’ Myself
autore:
Jack Lawrence (US songwriter) e Peter Tinturin
editore:
Chappell Music Co. Inc.
medley che comprende una registrazione di:
Somebody's on My Mind
autore:
Arthur Herzog, Jr. e Billie Holiday
2:16
3Easy Living
registrazione di:
Easy Living
paroliere:
Leo Robin (US composer, lyricist & songwriter)
autore:
Ralph Rainger (nel 1937) e Leo Robin (US composer, lyricist & songwriter) (nel 1937)
compositore:
Ralph Rainger e Leo Robin (US composer, lyricist & songwriter)
editore:
Famous Music Corporation (renamed since 2007‐05 as Sony/ATV Harmony/Melody) (nel 1937, nel 1964)
2:32
4“I was singin’ with Artie’s band…”
7:24
5Strange Fruit
registrazione di:
Strange Fruit
paroliere e compositore:
Lewis Allan
editore:
Basart Editions, Carlin Music Corporation, Edward B. Marks Music Co. (founded originally as J. Stern & Co. in 1894, renamed in 1919) e Music Sales Corporation (American copyright holder in both popular and classical music)
versione di:
Bitter Fruit
2:57
6“It’s bad again, Jimmy…”
1:18
7Blues Break
registrazione di:
Blues Break
compositore:
Lanie Robertson
2:31
8“Now I’ll take a little break right here…”
0:17
9’Tain’t Nobody’s Biz‐ness If I Do
registrazione di:
T’ain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do
paroliere:
Porter Grainger
compositore:
Porter Grainger e Everett Robbins
editore:
MCA Music (not for release label use! this is a music publisher, ASCAP-affiliated) e MCA Music Publishing (renamed since c. 1996 as Universal Music Publishing Group)
parte di:
American Splendor
3:14
10“I want you all to meet Pepi…”
7:10
11“I was doin’ the bad drugs heavy…”
3:59
12Don’t Explain / What a Little Moonlight Can Do (reprise)
medley che comprende una registrazione di:
Don’t Explain
autore:
Arthur Herzog, Jr. e Billie Holiday
editore:
Duchess Music Corporation (BMI-affiliated) e Universal Music Publishing (use ONLY if no country‐specific information is available)
medley che comprende una registrazione di:
What a Little Moonlight Can Do
paroliere e compositore:
Harry M. Woods (American 1920/30s songwriter)
editore:
Connelly Basart, Warner Bros. Music (publisher; do NOT use as release label) e Warner Brothers Music Inc.
2:31
13Deep Song
registrazione di:
Deep Song
paroliere:
Douglass Cross (US songwriter)
compositore:
George Cory
editore:
Northern Music Company
4:22

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