The Story of the Blues / Melancholy Baby

Who played on The Story of the Blues / Melancholy Baby

• Della Reese vocals on 12 tracks
• Sid Bass arranger, conductor on 12 tracks

Tracklist

1. 1 The Story of the Blues 1:27
2. 2 Good Morning Blues 3:48
3. 3 Empty Bed Blues 3:36
4. 4 Squeeze Me — Fats Waller 3:12
5. 5 You've Been a Good Old Wagon — John Henry ‘Perry’ Bradford 3:34
6. 6 Sent for You Yesterday — Count Basie, Eddie Durham 2:28
7. 7 St. James Infirmary standard — [traditional] 3:59
8. 8 Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be) standard 3:43
9. 9 Things Ain't What They Used to Be standard — Mercer Ellington 2:45
10. 10 Stormy Weather standard — Harold Arlen 4:09
11. 11 There's Always the Blues 3:21
12. 12 My Melancholy Baby standard 3:34
13. 13 Who Can I Turn To standard 3:00
14. 14 Mood Indigo standard — Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington 3:23
15. 15 I Get Along Without You Very Well — Hoagy Carmichael 2:40
16. 16 Cottage for Sale standard — Willard Robison 3:18
17. 17 They Can't Take That Away From Me standard — George Gershwin 2:56
18. 18 One for My Baby standard — Harold Arlen 3:57
19. 19 I Could Have Told You So — Jimmy Van Heusen 3:28
20. 20 When Your Lover Has Gone standard — Einar Aaron Swan 2:51
21. 21 Say It Isn't So — Irving Berlin 3:33
22. 22 All Alone standard — Irving Berlin 2:58
23. 23 It's Monday Every Day 3:17

Production

• Johnny Cue engineer
• Morty Palitz producer

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