Today I Sing the Blues | 
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| Artist: Helen Humes
Label: Acrobat [Cit570]
Category: Music
List Price: $25.98
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Sales Rank: 458753
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 824046533625
EAN: 0824046533625
ASIN: B0017SBMPQ
Release Date: June 17, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Garlic Blues - Helen Humes, Williams, C. | | • | Nappy Headed Woman - Helen Humes, Weaver, Sylvester | | • | If Papa Has Outside Lovin' - Helen Humes, Johnson, J.C. | | • | Blues with Helen - Helen Humes, Basie, Count | | • | Sub-Deb Blues - Helen Humes, Basie, Count | | • | My Wandering Man - Helen Humes, Feather, Leonard | | • | Unlucky Woman - Helen Humes, Feather, Leonard | | • | Gonna Buy Me a Telephone - Helen Humes, Williams, C. | | • | I Would If I Could - Helen Humes, Feather, Leonard | | • | Suspicious Blues - Helen Humes, Feather, L. | | • | Fortune Tellin' Man - Helen Humes, Coots, J. Fred | | • | Be Baba Leba - Helen Humes, Humes | | • | Blue Prelude - Helen Humes, Bishop, Joe | | • | He May Be Your Man - Helen Humes, Humes, Helen | | • | Central Avenue Boogie - Helen Humes, Hunter | | • | He Don't Love Me Anymore - Helen Humes, Humes, Helen | | • | Pleasing Man Blues - Helen Humes, Humes, Helen | | • | It's Better to Give Than to Receive - Helen Humes, Mayes, M.L. | | • | Jet Propelled Papa - Helen Humes, Humes, Helen | | • | They Raided the Joint - Helen Humes, Burley, Dan | | • | Flippity Flop Flop - Helen Humes, Weir | | • | Today I Sing the Blues - Helen Humes, Lewis, C. [2] |
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Album Description
2008 CD that represents highlights from the first 20 years of this great Blues singer's recording career. She made her first recordings at the age of 14, singing to the guitar accompaniment of the legendary Sylvester Weaver. These 1927 recordings in the classic female Blues style of the period brought her to the attention of the American music business. Although she worked and recorded with Harry James, she next appears on our CD recorded in 1938 as vocalist for The Count Basie Orchestra, a role she inherited from Billie Holiday. She managed to become as equally adept at small group R&B as she was at fronting Big Bands and worked in both genres throughout her career. Our compilation ends with a Buck Clayton All Stars session from 1947. 22 tracks. Acrobat.
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