The Blues Is Man, part 2

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,


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,


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