Blue, also referred to as The Blue Album, is a 2006

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 studio album released on Motown by American pop singer Diana Ross

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Recorded in late 1971 and early 1972, the album was conceived as follow-up to the successful Lady Sings the Blues soundtrack but was shelved in order to return Ross to the pop charts with the more pop oriented "Touch Me in the Morning

Touch Me in the Morning

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Track listing

1. "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes" (Adams, Grever) - 3:28
2. "No More" (Camarata, Russell) - 3:09
3. "Let's Do It
   Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love
   "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" is a popular song written in 1928 by Cole Porter. It was introduced in Porter's first Broadway success, the musical Paris by French chanteuse Irène Bordoni for whom Porter had written the musical as a starring vehicle...
   
   " (Cole Porter
   Cole Porter
   Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...
   
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4. "I Loves Ya Porgy" (George Gershwin
   George Gershwin
   George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...
   
   , Ira Gershwin
   Ira Gershwin
   Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....
   
   , DuBose Heyward
   DuBose Heyward
   Edwin DuBose Heyward was a white American author best known for his 1925 novel Porgy. This novel was the basis for the play by the same name and, in turn, the opera Porgy and Bess with music by George Gershwin.-Life and career:Heyward was born in 1885 in Charleston, South Carolina and was a...
   
   ) - 5:11
5. "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin
   Charlie Chaplin
   Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...
   
   , Geoffrey Parsons, John Turner
   John Turner (lyricist)
   John Turner was the pseudonym used by the English lyricist James John Turner Phillips.He ran the Peter Maurice Music Company whose most important lyricist was Geoffrey Parsons. The company specialized in adapting songs originally in foreign languages into the English language. He would usually...
   
   ) - 2:58
6. "But Beautiful" (Burke, VanHeusen) - 2:50
7. "Had You Been Around" (Richard Jacques, Ronald Miller, Avery Vandenburg, Bernard Yuffy) - 3:29
8. "Little Girl Blue" (Lorenz Hart
   Lorenz Hart
   Lorenz "Larry" Milton Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart...
   
   , Richard Rodgers
   Richard Rodgers
   Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
   
   ) - 4:00
9. "Can't Get Started with You" (Duke, Gershwin) - 3:10
10. "Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 2:13
11. "You've Changed" (Bill Carey, Carl Fischer) - 2:54
12. "My Man" (Charles, Pollack, Willemetz, Yvain) - 3:31
13. "Easy Living" (Ralph Rainger
    Ralph Rainger
    Ralph Rainger was an American composer of popular music principally for films.-Biography:Born Ralph Reichenthal in New York City, Rainger embarked on a legal career before escaping to Broadway where he became Clifton Webb's accompanist...
    
    , Leo Robin
    Leo Robin
    Leo Robin was an American composer, lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Oscar-winning song "Thanks for the Memory," sung by Bob Hope in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938.-Biography:Robin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and...
    
    ) - 2:54
14. "Solitude" (Eddie DeLange, Edward Ellington, Irving Mills
    Irving Mills
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    ) - 2:05
15. "He's Funny That Way" (Daniels, Richard Whiting
    Richard A. Whiting
    Richard Armstrong Whiting was a composer of popular songs including the standards, "Hooray for Hollywood", "Ain't We Got Fun?" & "On the Good Ship Lollipop"....
    
    ) - 3:02
16. "T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do" (Peter Grainger, Everett Robbins) - 2:22

Tracks 12-15 were originally recorded for Lady Sings the Blues but some were left out of the movie or, were included in the movie in a different version and in the soundtrack.

"Blue" peaked at #2 on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart.

Personnel

• Gil Askey – Conductor, Producer
• Guy Costa – Engineer
• Cal Harris, Sr. – Engineer
• Michele Horie – Producer, Artwork
• Harry Langdon – Photography, Cover Photo
• Pat Lawrence – Executive Producer
• Ralph Lotten – Assistant
• Bill MacMeeken – Engineer
• Larry Miles – Engineer
• John B. Norman – Engineer
• Ryan Null – Photo Coordination
• Kevin Reeves – Mastering, Mixing
• David Ritz – Liner Notes
• Greg Ross – Design
• George Solomon – Consultant
• Art Stewart – Engineer
• Russ Terrana – Engineer
• Harry Weinger – Liner Notes, Compilation Producer