Carmen Mc Rae Sings Lover Man And Other Billie Holiday Classics
Carmen McRae Sings Lover Man and other Billie Holiday Classics is a 1962 studio album by Carmen McRae, recorded in tribute to McRae's idol, Billie Holiday, who had died two years previously.
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