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Lady sings the blues She’s got them bad She feels so sad Wants the world to know Just what the blues is all about. Lady sings the blues She tells her side nothing to hide Now the world will now Just what the blues is all about. The blues ain’t nothing but a pain in your heart when you get a bad start When you and your man have to part
Nov 8, 2005 · The essence of Billie Holiday, one of America's most loved and memorable blues singers, is captured brilliantly in a tour-de-force debut performance by singer Diana Ross. Filled with the greatest songs of the incomparable "Lady Day," this stunning film biography received five Academy Award. nominations, including Diana Ross for "Best Actress."
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Lady Sings the Blues is a 1972 American biographical drama film directed by Sidney J. Furie about jazz singer Billie Holiday, loosely based on her 1956 autobiography which, in turn, took its title from Holiday's song. It was produced by Motown Productions for Paramount Pictures. Diana Ross, in her feature film debut, portrayed Holiday, alongside a cast including Billy Dee Williams, Richard ...
[Verse 1] Sadness had been Close as my next of kin Then happy came one day Chased my blues away [Chorus] My life began when Happy smiled Sweet like candy to a child Stay here and love me just a ...
Feb 8, 2022 · Full of showbiz cliches, and seriously deviating from the facts of Holiday’s real life, Lady Sings the Blues was nevertheless vastly entertaining and a commercial hot at the box office. The story begins in New York City in 1945, when Eleanora Fagan, aka Billie Holiday, is arrested on a drug charge.
