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Words and Music by : Jay Richard Kennedy - Harry Belafonte | |||
Recording #1 by Harry Belafonte Recording date: Feb 15, 1956, (13:00-17:00) Recorded at Webster Hall, New York City. Master number: G2PB 1827-9 Playing time: 2:50 Producer: Hugo Winterhalter Will Lorin: leader; Millard Thomas: guitar/contractor; Clifton Best: guitar; Norman Keenan: bass; Marty Grupp: percussion; Osie Johnson: drums; Harry Jones: piano; Gigi Gryce: saxophone; Hal McKusick: saxophone; Sol Schlinger: saxophone; Ed Wasserman: saxophone; Jimmy Cleveland: trombone; Ray Conniff: trombone; Urbie Green: trombone; Jack Satterfield: trombone; Ivor Lloyd: trumpet; Charles Margulis: trumpet; James Nottingham: trumpet; Bart Wallace: trumpet; Robert Pownall: tuba. 78 : 20-6458 45 : 47-6458, FA-6458, SPD-24 LP : PL43683, DLP1147 CD: BCD16262, |
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Recording #2 by Harry Belafonte Recording date: Feb 15, 1956, (13:00-17:00) Recorded at Webster Hall, New York City. Master number: G2PB 1827-6 Playing time: 2:50 Producer: Hugo Winterhalter The Musicians are the same as above CD: BCD16262, |
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Lyrics The blues ain't got a time or a place Just a lonely heart and a haunted face It's a fever or pain you can't erase Cause the blues ain't got a time or a place No the blues ain't got a time or a place Just a lonely heart and a haunted face Sometimes you'll see it run by in a glance Between lovers embraced in a lovers dance Then it shouts its story way out loud In the midst of a laughing lonely crowd Oh the blues ain't got a time or a place Just a lonely heart and a haunted face It's been thru war it's been thru peace It's been thru famine and and it's been thru feast From the jailhouse floor to the winding road With a high class bore or target of load It's always kept to each rhythm and rhyme Or it's back to step for a long, long time So don't try to dismiss it 'cause it has a way It's coming back stronger and lingering longer Till it's here to stay, till it's here to stay You can't dismiss it, ´cause it has that way A coming back stronger and lingering longer Till it's here to stay, till it's here to stay It can change it's beat, it's tune, it's face And when for a change it changes the base It really can't loose, but what's the use The rocks and rolls in real down spree And burns fever bright in a Jamboree God knows it'll burn in a Jamboree It sung it's own story since all this began For man is the blues, man the blues is man That's why it don't need a flag or a race Just a lonely heart and a haunted face Never changed it's tunes since all this began For man is the blues and blues is man For man is the blues oh the blues is man |
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