Tracks
- I'm a Fool to Want You
- For Heaven's Sake
- You Don't Know What Love Is
- I Get Along Without You Very Well
- For All We Know
- Violets for Your Furs
- You've Changed
- It's Easy to Remember
- But Beautiful
- Glad to Be Unhappy
- I'll Be Around
- The End of a Love Affair
There's nothing uplifting at all about Lady in Satin. Most of the songs are about love, but Billie Holiday's voice and the musical accompaniment only convey loneliness.
I haven't heard Billie Holiday sing anywhere else but on this album, but apparently, by the time she had recorded this album, she had lost her ability to sing at the upper register and she also sounded like a woman much older than 44 years of age. The latter is obvious from the start. It was almost enough to turn me off from the album. However, it has also been noted that the significance of this album was not her singing, but the emotion she conveyed through each song. After having listened several times, I agree. That is indeed what makes this album so good.
The whole album is worth listening to. I suppose the stand out songs are I'm a Fool to Want You, You Don't Know What Love Is, I Get Along Without You Very Well, Violets for Your Furs, It's Easy to Remember, Glad to Be Unhappy and The End of a Love Affair.
★★★★★★★★★★
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