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Diana Ross Blue Is Beautiful
 This
beautiful long overdue release from Diana Ross is made up of tracks
recorded for the 1972 movie and soundtrack of Billie Holiday’s life,
‘Lady Sings The Blues’. Diana Ross played the leading role of Billie
Holiday and these tracks never made the soundtrack and appear here for
the first time.
Around the time Diana Ross recorded her fabled soundtrack to “Lady
Sings The Blues” in the early 1970s, she had also recorded an
additional jazz standards album in the Billie Holiday-styled vein, of
which the result is some of the most emotionally satisfying music that
Ross ever made yet it never saw the light of day. Her vocals, like
Billie’s, embrace the paradoxes of sweet pain and bitter joy and at
age 27, she rose to the artistic challenge of a lifetime – recording
these timeless classics and making them her own.
These songs are finally able to be heard on
her new CD release, “Blue.” The album is a compilation of hauntingly
memorable tracks with emotional intensity in each song and is due for
release on 26th June 2006.
“Blue” contains 16 tracks of beautiful
American Classics sung by an American Icon - songs of heartache and
hope that touch the heart and soul today just as the songs of “Lady
Sings The Blues” did over 30 years ago.
Tracklisting:
What A Diff’rence A Day Makes
No More
Let’s Do It
I Loves Ya Porgy
Smile
But Beautiful
Had You Been Around
Little Girl Blue
Can’t Get Started With You
Love Is Here To Stay
You’ve Changed
My Man (Mon Homme)
Bonus Tracks
Easy Living
Solitude
He's Funny That Way
T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
Universal
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