Billie Holiday - The End Of A Love Affair

[TheManzfield7]

Now I have to have this CD if available. Orchestrations, Voice are off the chain. This is true audio

love-making for the ears. Thank-You Billie, Love You, R.I.P. MSA.

[The808Prophet]

i like chaka khans version better

[jacobsimon]

What I love about "Lady in Satin" is the songs were mostly recorded by Billie for the first time. Along with the Ray Ellis arrangements to back her. Very sophisticated stuff. Many were songs that Frank Sinatra had recorded. But she owns them after this album.

[intelegentable]

Billie sang these songs with such raw honest emotion that every other female singer sounds like a school girl playing with dolls and pretending to know what love and life consist of. Her voice throbs with pain yet is moving and effective.Billie is the true great communicator

[acquamarina07]

Un voce di seta.....ruvida, unica e inimitabile. Splendida!!!

[bolder2009]

This was also one of Marvin Gaye's favourite albums. It moved him to tears like many who have experienced the genius of Billie on 'Lady In Satin'.

[bolder2009]

This was Billie's favourite album. She knew 'Lady in Satin' was her masterpiece. She was right.

[StaunchComic]

My favorite Holiday LP!

[MrOJAXX]

MAGNIFICA !

[fakessmile]

I grew up listening to a lot of Billie, and this was always my record (yes, a vinyl record) of choice when I was depressed. And it still is

[margaritavlog]

i came home one night after a drunken partying night and i put this record on and just lost it , i cried i felt her pain sounds cheesy but it was a crazy feeling

[boyinlalaland]

Their were many that were more skilled and talented, but no one could inject the feeling that Lady Day could! This might not be her best work skill wise, but the quality of her emotion is to die for.

[dpohunter]

A great cut from an amazing album, LADY IN SATIN is said to have been Billie's favorite. After buying it, I don't think I listened to anything else for two months.

[tuxguys]

The voice is gone... the musicianship and soul are intact, in spades... every cut on this LP breaks my heart, ennobles me, and, frankly, provides me with an arranging lesson.

Gorgeous, and heartbreaking, beyond words.

[74rawilliams1]

What delicate phrasing, soft approach, vocal artistry at its best. Ella was a great vocalist, but Billie was a Vocal artist, carressing the word, leading the tune where it needs to be. She only got better and better with the years.

[MusicLoverBrian1]

@74rawilliams1

I think Billie Holiday was more than a singer. While many singers call themselves "artists" I think Billie was most defintely an artist because she not only sung lyrics but she felt them and interpreted them not only the way what the song required and but also how she felt deep in her heart. I love this song, the musical arrangement, the lyrics, and Billie Holiday's voice which caresses each word--Frank Sinatra also carresses each word in his songs too.

[fromthesidelines]

The album was recorded in February 1958. To most people, it sounded as if Billie's voice was "shot"- but even Ray Ellis later realized "how great her performance really was". It was as if everything she'd endured in her life finally came to the surface during the production of the album...and that transcended everything. I just can't hear this without crying....

[NYVoice]

This, I believe, was her last recorded song. How appropriate.

[chrysos2008]

Thank you for so wonderful posting.

[Ern1940]

One of my absolute favorite albums by billie!

[DaiNadienne]

Oh my... If it is not enough the voice or the performance... there is the pic...

and how beautiful she looks in this pic...

thx Strawberry by the uploading