Name: Billie Holiday - Lady In Satin
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Billie Holiday – Lady In Satin

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2LP 180g 45RPM. Mastered by Bernie Grundman from the original analogue tape Plated and pressed at Quality Record Pressings. Now in stock

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Billie Holiday – Lady In Satin

Lady in Satin was released in 1958 on Columbia Records, catalogue CL 1157 in mono and CS 8048 in stereo.

It is legendary singer Billie Holiday’s penultimate album completed by the singer and released in her lifetime (her final album, Billie Holiday, being recorded in March 1959 and released just after her death).

All Music says: “The feeling and tension she manages to put into almost every track set this album as one of her finest achievements.

‘You’ve Changed’ and ‘I Get Along Without You Very Well’ are high art performances from the singer who saw life from the bottom up.”

The song material for Lady in Satin derived from the usual sources for Holiday in her three-decade career, that of the Great American Songbook of classic pop.

Unlike the bulk of Holiday’s recordings, rather than in the setting of a jazz combo Holiday returns to the backdrop of full orchestral arrangements as done during her Decca years, this time in the contemporary vein of Frank Sinatra or Ella Fitzgerald on her Song Books series.

The album consists of songs Holiday had never recorded before.

Bandleader Ray Ellis used a 40-piece orchestra, complete with horns, strings, reeds and even a three-piece choir.

It would turn out to be Holiday’s most expensive music production. Soloists on the album included Mel Davis, Urbie Green, and bebop trombone pioneer J. J. Johnson.

Now with their 45 RPM release, mastered from the original analogue tape by Bernie Grundman, and pressed by their own Quality Record Pressings, the best-sounding version of this historic album gives listeners an even richer sonic experience.

The dead-quiet double-LP, with the music spread over four sides of vinyl, reduces distortion and high frequency loss as the wider-spaced grooves let your stereo cartridge track more accurately.

Original album produced by Irving Townsend, and engineered by Fred Plaut.

Track List: Billie Holiday – Lady In Satin

1. I’m A Fool To Want You
2. For Heaven’s Sake
3. You Don’t Know What Love Is
4. I Get Along Without You Very Well
5. For All We Know
6. Violets For Your Furs
7. You’ve Changed
8. It’s Easy To Remember
9. But Beautiful
10. Glad To Be Unhappy
11. I’ll Be Around

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Analogue Productions

Analogue Productions It was in 1992 that Acoustic Sounds owner Chad Kassem reissued his first Analogue Productions title, Virgil Thompson's The Plow That Broke The Plains, originally on Vanguard. Analogue Productions began as a vehicle for Kassem to license his favorite all-time recordings and reissue them as remastered and as a superior version to the original release. Since its inception AP has reissued hundreds of titles, ranging from classical to folk, pop, rock, blues and jazz. Included in the many highlights of Analogue Productions' history are the Fantasy 45 Jazz Reissues, the Blue Note Reissues, and premium box sets of the music of such legendary acts as The Doors, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Nat "King" Cole and Norah Jones. True to its name, Analogue Productions works with the original analogue master tapes - more than any other reissue label! The result is superior sound - richer, warmer and more lifelike, than digital.