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	"Strange fruit": 'Lady Sings the Blues' as a crossover film - Retrospectives - Critical Essay Journal of Popular Film ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lady Sings the Blues, starring Diana Ross as the famous jazz singer Billie Holiday, opened at New York's Loew's State 1, on October 12, 1972.
		Despite the film's prevarications, Lady Sings the Blues became the vehicle for Diana Ross's emergence as a "single" star in the entertainment industry.
		Lady is a historical marker for African Americans in Hollywood, for it ushers in the "crossover" film and defines the demise of the "blaxpoitation" era of filmmaking.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0412/is_2_30/ai_90301344 (952 words)

	Billie Holiday's bio, 'Lady Sings the Blues,' may be full of lies, but it gets at jazz great's core
		It was a ghastly end for a woman whose subtle artistry, with its rhythmic freedom and bare emotion, changed the sound of jazz and pop singing, and continues to seduce and move people who listen to her records.
		She began singing in Harlem speakeasies and nightclubs such as Monette's Supper Club, where she was heard by John Hammond, the young Vanderbilt heir who loved fl music and became a much-respected talent scout and record producer.
		It was Holiday's ability to sing like an instrumentalist, reshaping melodies with unexpected notes, varying her tone colors, stretching and clipping syllables and phrases, that drew musicians to her and made old songs sound new.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/18/DDG2VL68691.DTL (2399 words)

	Maria Hawkins - Ottawa Blues Lady Homepage
		After developing the Blues in the Schools program for Bluesfest in 1999 Maria continued to grow the program from 2 to 12 to 24 to 28 schools over the next 4 years until the program was awarded the "W.C. Handy Award" for "Keeping the Blues Alive".
		Blues 4 Kids music presentations and performances provide music which are all-inclusive for able-bodied individuals as well as those across the region who live with economic, development or physical disadvantage.
		Their ability to sing is supported in a coaching atmosphere which informs them about what they can do to improve their vocal and performance abilities through the use of "triggers" to help the performer keep their focus.
	www.blueslady.com (3125 words)

	Lady Sings the Blues - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Lady Sings the Blues, motion-picture dramatization of the life of jazz and blues singer Billie Holiday, based on the book by Holiday and William...
		Marriage: Mom and Pop were just…, Singers and Singing: I can't stand to sing…, Singers and Singing: People don't understand the sort of fight it…
		Holiday, Billie (1915-1959), one of the greatest jazz-blues singers of all time, also known as Lady Day.
	encarta.msn.com /Lady_Sings_the_Blues.html (144 words)

	Lady Sings the Blues: Candye Kane in Israel
		When I told the customs agent that I was a blues musician and a guest of guitarist Ronnie Peterson, the agent smiled knowingly.
		They have brought many blues musicians to Israel, including Sue Foley, Johnny Ferreira, and now me! The agent waved us through immigration and we were on our way.
		The musicians in Ronnie's blues band were top-notch, and they had meticulously learned all the arrangements on my CDs before my arrival.
	www.bluesrevue.com /kane2.html (500 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
		Lady Sings the Blues has similarities to the recent biopic, Ray, where the performance of the actor portraying the real-life figure is better than the film itself.
		Behind the Blues: Lady Sings the Blues is a 23-minute documentary that has some great, recent on-camera discussions with Diana Ross and Billy Dee Williams, as well as writer Suzanne de Passe.
		Lady Sings the Blues is a biopic along the lines of Ray and Chaplin, all pictures that featured stellar performances by actors that truly embodied their real-life subjects.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=8077 (1317 words)

	Lady Sings The Blues Movie, Review, Cast for Lady Sings The Blues \| TVGuide.com
		Ostensibly based on Holiday's autobiography, LADY SINGS THE BLUES begins in the early 1930s in Baltimore, where the teenaged Billie (Diana Ross) is raped and then sent to New York to stay with a friend of her mother's.
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	www.tvguide.com /detail/movie.aspx?tvobjectid=103673 (182 words)

	Lady Sings the Blues News
		Lady Sings the Blues News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Blue Diana Ross Motown Motown is touting "Blue," a collection of standards from Diana Ross, as a "new" album.
		Three decades after she earned an Oscar nomination channeling Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues, the Supreme diva is preparing to issue an...
	www.topix.net /movies/lady-sings-the-blues (713 words)

	Citrus: Lady sings the blues
		Switching gears from gospel to blues is not as big a stretch as it seems, said KathyJo Meier, who is currently winning over local audiences as lead singer for KathyJo and the Bluzification Band.
		KathyJo (her professional name), sang in a gospel group for many years before becoming a full-time blues and jazz singer about three years ago.
		After starting her jazz and blues career by performing gigs at local bars using recorded tracks, KathyJo made a quick and strong connection with audiences.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/07/18/news_pf/Citrus/Lady_sings_the_blues.shtml (480 words)

	Lady Sings The Blues - Billie Holiday - Music Records Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Lady Sings The Blues - Billie Holiday : It's not over....
		"Lady Day", as she was named by Lester Young, had an unusual voice.
		The album is a compilation of recordings taken at the peak of her career and the choice of songs illustrates Billie's particular versatility.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /music-records/lady-sings-the-blues-billie-holiday (251 words)

	LADY SINGS THE BLUES - SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION DVD
		Still, Lady Sings the Blues never quite establishes her as anything else.
		That she was an innovator and a giant in her field never registers: the movie Holliday occasionally has "inspirational" moments ("Strange Fruit" comes from a convenient roadside lynching) but never delves into how she managed to cast a spell on so many people regardless of her troubles.
		It's not a bad documentary, except when it tries to inflate the film's importance--while it might have been a nice change of pace from blaxploitation, that doesn't mean it's the classic it's touted as here.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/ladysingstheblues.htm (781 words)

	Lady Sings The Blues \| The A.V. Club
		But of all the pimps, players, and leeches she hooked up with, only her husband Louis McKay was lucky enough to serve as technical advisor on Lady Sings The Blues, the 1972 feature-film adaptation of her largely fictionalized autobiography.
		Lady Sings The Blues opens with Holiday (Diana Ross) getting busted for heroin possession; it then flashes back to her hardscrabble youth doing odd jobs at a whorehouse before graduating to full-on prostitution.
		Lady Sings The Blues incongruously transforms Holiday's messy, bisexual, masochistic romantic history into a glossy romance about a troubled, needy woman-child and the endlessly patient dreamboat who could slow but never entirely halt her march toward self-destruction.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/43323 (344 words)

	Amazon.com: Lady Sings the Blues: Video: Diana Ross,Billy Dee Williams,Richard Pryor,James T. Callahan,Paul Hampton,Sid ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ross is surprisingly good when she sings Billie's songs, copying her phrasing and creating a sound that somewhat resembles hers, though Billie's gutsy heart is missing.
		Lady Sings the Blues is for those who want to get a glimpse of the tragic life of Billy Holiday.
		Lady Sings the Blues is a must for people who like the oldies to include movies that tells a story and leaves a lesson for the viewers.
	www.amazon.com /Lady-Sings-Blues-Diana-Ross/dp/6300216381 (1393 words)

	Amazon.com: Lady Sings the Blues: Books: Billie Holiday,William Dufty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lady Sings the Blues the 50th Anniversary Edition (Harlem Moon Classics) by Billie Holiday
		Lady Sings The Blues is an amazing chronicle of one of music's most gifted and soulful human beings.
		In Lady Day's time, almost all biographies were mere collections of colorful anecdotes and moral tales; true or not, few people really cared as long as they were entertaining.
	www.amazon.com /Lady-Sings-Blues-Billie-Holiday/dp/0140067620 (1691 words)

	CNN - Susan Tedeschi: Another lady sings the blues - August 11, 1999
		In June, she was given two coveted W.C. Handy Blues Awards for "Just Won't Burn." That award is her genre's equivalent of the Grammy.
		Tedeschi, who was born in 1970 and grew up in a suburb of Boston, started singing as a toddler and was weaned on her dad's blues and folk records.
		After playing a number of blues competitions, Tedeschi was named "Best RandB Act" in 1995 by Boston magazine and nominated as "Outstanding Blues Act" at the Boston Music Awards two years running.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Music/9908/11/tedeschi/index.html (1021 words)

	Lady Sings the Blues - Cloth Dolls
		his is a curvaceous 23" lady bodied doll, representing a singer in the middle of a song.
		She is constructed entirely from 'velour', a slightly stretchable fabric, her purchased wig is a size 8 and she holds a microphone made from Sculpey III.
		Although, Lady will balance unaided, for a short period, she is not a free-standing doll and should have a stand to give her stability.
	craftycollege.com /academics/ladysings.html (746 words)

	Amazon.ca: Lady Sings the Blues: DVD: Sidney J. Furie,Norman Bartold,Harry Caesar,James Callahan,Virginia ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Rather than concentrate on the fascinating real life of the woman who was arguably the world's most influential jazz vocalist, the screenwriters and directors have fallen back on the same old rise-and-fall showbiz story that Hollywood has churned out for years.
		As the lady herself, Diana Ross is a far cry from Billie Holiday, but since the script as written could be about any tortured singer, this doesn't really matter.
		Therefore, LADY SINGS THE BLUES misses the boat in portraying Billie's life, but hits the target in casting Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams and Richard Pryor.
	www.amazon.ca /Lady-Sings-Blues-Sidney-Furie/dp/B000B5XOT8 (1243 words)

	Lady Sings the Blues - MSN Encarta
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	Lady Sings the Blues
		Shug's character represents the culture of women's blues music: her life and her music tell of struggle and triumph.
		What they are doing on the Internet is finding out that there is a world of blues out there, and that it is a part of American cultural history that connects to the novel that they are reading in class.
		How do blues lyrics portray everyday life for women of the 20's, 30's, and 40's in terms of urban life, rural life, Jim Crow laws, economic privation, and relations between men and women.
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	Lady Sings the Blues
		LADY SINGS THE BLUES captures the essence of Billie Holliday in this semi-biographic sketch of the tragic life of the famous blues singer.
		She doesn't sing in her own style, and she never tries to imitate Holiday, but she sings somehow in the manner of Holiday.
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	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/lady_sings_the_blues (575 words)

	Lady Sings the Blues Trivia -- notstarring.com
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	Lady Sings the Blues \| DVDs \| MTV Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Diana Ross plays the magnificent, tragic song stylist Billie Holliday, who while writhing in a strait jacket in a prison cell, awaiting sentencing on drug charges, reflects on her turbulent life.
		Raped in her youth by a drunk (Adolph Caesar), then compelled to work as a domestic in a Harlem whorehouse, Holliday is encouraged to try for a singing career by bordello pianist Richard Pryor.
		She rises as high as it is possible to go in the white-dominated show business world of the 1930s, but can't handle the pressure and turns to narcotics.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/19741/dvds.jhtml (177 words)

	Lady Sings the Blues - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lady Sings the Blues is a 1972 biographical film which tells the story of jazz singer Billie Holiday.
		Produced by Motown Productions for Paramount Pictures, the film stars Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James T. Callahan and Scatman Crothers.
		The same year, Motown released a successful soundtrack double-album of Ross' recordings of Billie Holiday songs from the film, also titled Lady Sings the Blues.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lady_Sings_the_Blues (224 words)

	Lady Sings the Blues
		In this lesson, the character Shug Avery comes alive for students as they immerse themselves in the world of blues music and the real life models from which the character is based on.
		The lesson begins by examining Alice Walker's characterization of Shug Avery in THE COLOR PURPLE.
		Students then research the lives and music of blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday to find parallels between these singers, their lives and music, and Shug Avery herself.
	www.thirteen.org /edonline/lessons/blues/index.html (254 words)

	Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
		When "Lady Sings The Blues" was first released in 1972, critic Vincent Canby pointed out that the facts of Billie Holiday’s life had been "generalized." This measure had been taken, he wrote, to protect the privacy of those involved in Miss Holiday’s life who would not give releases to the movie producers.
		With the outstanding acting and singing of Diana Ross, this movie does have lasting qualities.
		Most of the musicians who have movies made about them have unhappy private lives and in this film, there is no exception that Miss Holiday deserves a lot of notice for her musical gifts--even if she couldn’t pull her personal life together.
	www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=850 (500 words)

	Lil' Kim \| Not So Lady Sings the Blues
		Thus a devious plan was hatched (by her lawyers and music producer, no doubt) to create Not So Lady Sings the Blues, inspired by one of music’s all time great singers: Billie “Lady Day” Holiday, with the proceeds from the sales reportedly going to local charities.
		But for all the hype about this recording, the music is typical commercial rap, providing little more than a method to generate a quick buck.
		Track listing: Lady Sings the Blues; My Tormented Heart; Love Pains; She Got Served; Full Court Dress; I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues; Forgive But Never Forget; Love Em and Leave Em.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=21206 (494 words)

	Family Ties: Lady Sings the Blues - TV.com
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	Billie Holiday Was Born
		Jazz singer Billie Holiday, later nicknamed "Lady Day," was born on April 7, 1915, in Baltimore, Maryland.
		In her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, Holiday says, "Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married; he was 18, she was 16, and I was three." Despite a challenging childhood and no formal musical training, Billie Holiday made her professional singing debut in Harlem nightclubs in 1931.
		By 1933, she had made her first recordings.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/jazz/holliday_1 (87 words)

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