Tribute to the Lady
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{{Infobox album
| name = Tribute to the Lady
| type = Album
| artist = Sam Cooke
| cover = Tribute to the Lady.jpeg
| alt =
| released = April 1959
| recorded = January–February 1959
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Rhythm and blues, traditional pop, jazz
| length = 30:38
| label = Keen
| producer = Hugo & Luigi
| prev_title = Encore
| prev_year = 1958
| next_title = Cooke's Tour
| next_year = 1960
}}
Tribute to the Lady is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, released in April 1959. It was recorded in tribute to jazz vocalist Billie Holiday, who died later that year. The backing band is the René Hall Orchestra.
Track listing
= Side one =
- "God Bless the Child" (Arthur Herzog, Jr.) – 2:32
- "She's Funny That Way" (Charles N. Daniels, Richard A. Whiting) – 1:49
- "I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 2:31
- "Good Morning Heartache" (Dan Fisher, Ervin Drake, Irene Higginbotham) – 2:06
- "'T'aint Nobody's Bizness (If I Do)" (Porter Grainger, Everett Robbins) – 2:23
- "Comes Love" (Lew Brown, Sam H. Stept, Charles Tobias) – 2:38
= Side two =
- "Lover Girl (Man)" (Jimmy Davis, Roger "Ram" Ramirez, James Sherman) – 2:25
- "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:19
- "Lover Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:10
- "Solitude" (Duke Ellington, Eddie DeLange, Irving Mills) – 2:22
- "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:28
- "Crazy She Calls Me" (Carl Sigman, Bob Russell) – 2:33
Notes
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The album was recorded in January & February 1959 in Los Angeles.
External links
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20050217135701/http://www.songsofsamcooke.com/ Songs of Sam Cooke: Main Page]}}
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140305220108/http://songsofsamcooke.com/albums/tribute_to_the_lady.htm Songs of Sam Cooke: Tribute to the Lady]}}
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