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Abbey Lincoln

Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010), better known by her stage name Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress. Lincoln was unusual in that she wrote and performed her own compositions, expanding the expectations of jazz audiences.

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Song	Album	Duration
A Part of Me-There Are Such Things	When There Is Love 1992	4:36
A Part of Me/There Are Such Things	When There Is Love 1992	4:36
Afro-Blue	Unknown Album	3:20
Ain't Nobody's Business	It's Magic 1958	4:29
Ain't Nobody's Business	Abbey Is Blue/It's Magic 2010	4:29
Ain't Nobody's Business	Unknown Album	4:29
All Africa	Unknown Album	8:02
All Alone	Swingin' the '20s 1958	3:20
And How I Hoped for Your Love	You Gotta Pay the Band	3:39
Another World	Wholly Earth 1999	9:13
Another World	Unknown Album	9:13
Being Me	A Turtle's Dream 1994	6:17
Being Me	Abbey Sings Abbey 2007	3:56
Bird Alone	You Gotta Pay the Band	8:34
Bird Alone	NEA Jazz Masters 2004	8:32
Bird Alone	Through the Years: 1956-2007 2010	8:32
Bird Alone	The Best Jazz Is Played with Verve 1993	8:33
Bird Alone	Romeo Is Bleeding 1993	8:30
Bird Alone	Verve Story 1944-1994 1994	8:31
Bird Alone	Playboy's 40th Anniversary: Four Decades of Jazz 1953-1993 1993	8:33
Bird Alone	Abbey Sings Abbey 2007	4:57
Blue Monk	Unknown Album	6:39
Brother Can You Spare a Dime	You Gotta Pay the Band 1991	6:51
Brother Where Are You	The Complete Verve Remixed 2005	4:03
Brother Where Are You	Soul Jazz [Universal Japan] 2008	4:13
Brother Where Are You [Matthew Herbert Remix]	The Complete Verve Remixed 2005	4:03
Brother Where Are You?	LateNightTales 2007	5:37
Brother Where Are You? [Matthew Herbert Remix]	Verve Remixed, Vol. 2 2003	4:05
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?	Great Ladies of Jazz [Rebound] 1995	6:47
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?	You Gotta Pay the Band	6:45
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?	Great Ladies of Jazz [K-Tel] 1990
Brother, Where Are You	In Demand 2002	3:24
Brother, Where Are You	Mr. Oscar Brown, Jr. Goes to Washington 1965	5:38
Brother, Where Are You?	Abbey Is Blue	3:10
Brother, Where Are You?	Abbey Is Blue/It's Magic 2010	3:09
Brother, Where Are You?	Unknown Album	3:10
Brother? Can You Spare a Dime?	Women: The Best Jazz Vocals 2002
Can't Help Singing	When There Is Love 1992	2:32
Come Sunday	Abbey Is Blue	5:13
Come Sunday	Abbey Is Blue/It's Magic 2010	5:12
Come Sunday	Through the Years: 1956-2007 2010	5:13
Come Sunday [From Abbey Is Blue]	Abbey Lincoln HiFi Hits 2012	5:08
Crazy He Calls Me	Abbey Sings Billie, Vol. 1 1987	4:17
Crazy He Calls Me	Abbey Lincoln's Affair: A Story of a Girl in Love 1957	2:55
Crazy He Calls Me	Blue Vocals, Vol. 2 1992
Crazy He Calls Me	Abbey Sings Billie, Vols. 1-2 2001	4:26
Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me	Esquire Jazz Collection: Voice of the Soul 1995	2:14
Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me	Great Jazz Vocalists Sing Strayhorn & Ellington 1997	2:14
Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me [#]	Abbey Lincoln's Affair: A Story of a Girl in Love 1957	2:14
Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me	Best Jazz 50 2011	2:17
Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me	Best Jazz 100 2006	2:17
Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me	Unknown Album	2:17
Don't Explain	The Freelance Years: The Complete Riverside and Contemporary Recordings 2000	6:41
Don't Explain	Abbey Sings Billie, Vol. 2 1987	6:23
Don't Explain	That's Him [Bonus Tracks] 1957	6:43
Don't Explain	Jazz After Dark, Vol. 2 [Playboy] 2005	6:41
Don't Explain	That's Him 1957	6:43
Don't Explain	That's Him!
Don't Explain	Jazz Compilation
Don't Explain	Through the Years: 1956-2007 2010	6:42
Don't Explain	You & I 1997	6:22
Don't Explain	Swing Journal Gold, Vol. 2 2003
Don't Explain	Abbey Sings Billie, Vols. 1-2 2001	6:23
Down Here Below	A Turtle's Dream 1994	8:50
Down Here Below	Through the Years: 1956-2007 2010	8:48
Down Here Below	Abbey Sings Abbey 2007	6:33
Driva' Man	Unknown Album	5:16
Exactly Like You	It's Magic 1958	2:55
Exactly Like You	Jazz Ladies, Vol. 2 2001	2:55
Exactly Like You	Abbey Is Blue/It's Magic 2010	2:55
Exactly Like You	Jazz Ladies [Warner Longbox 4 Disc] 2004
Exactly Like You	Unknown Album	2:55
First Song	The World Is Falling Down 1991	6:31
First Song	Through the Years: 1956-2007 2010	6:30
First Song	Jazz Divas: Studio 1992	6:30
For All We Know	Abbey Sings Billie, Vol. 2 1987	5:37
For All We Know	You & I 1997	5:37
For All We Know	Abbey Sings Billie, Vols. 1-2 2001	5:37
For All We Know	Unknown Album
For Heaven's Sake	Abbey Sings Billie, Vol. 2 1987	5:29
For Heaven's Sake	Abbey Sings Billie, Vols. 1-2 2001	5:30
Freedom Day	Unknown Album	6:07
Gimme a Pigfoot	Abbey Sings Billie, Vol. 2 1987
Gimme a Pigfoot	Abbey Sings Billie, Vols. 1-2 2001	7:02
Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)	Abbey Sings Billie, Vol. 2 1987	6:59
Gloomy Sunday	Abbey Sings Billie, Vols. 1-2 2001	5:09
God Bless the Child	Abbey Sings Billie, Vol. 2 1987	5:23
God Bless the Child	Sophisticated Abbey 2015	6:23
God Bless the Child	You & I 1997	5:21
God Bless the Child	Abbey Sings Billie, Vols. 1-2 2001	5:23
Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe	Harold Arlen Centennial Celebration 2005	5:57
Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe	That's Him [Bonus Tracks] 1957	5:57
Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe	That's Him 1957	5:57
Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe	The Essential Sonny Rollins on Riverside 1986	5:53
Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe	Jazz Ladies [Warner Longbox 4 Disc] 2004
Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe	Jazz Compilation
Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe	Jazz Ladies Best 2005
Happiness is a Thing Called Joe	The Freelance Years: The Complete Riverside and Contemporary Recordings 2000	5:56
Hey, Lordy Mama	A Turtle's Dream 1994	7:13
How High the Moon	The World Is Falling Down 1991	7:33
How High the Moon (	C'est Si Bon : Jazz a LA Francaise 1999
How High the Moon (La Lune Est Grise...Mon Coeur Aussi)	The World Is Falling Down 1991	7:33
I Am in Love	The Riverside Records Story 1997	2:46
I Am in Love	It's Magic 1958	2:49
I Concentrate On You [1959]	Abbey Lincoln HiFi Hits 2012	4:52
I Concentrate on You	Cole Porter Songbook: Night & Day 2005	4:45
I Concentrate on You	Mercury Songbook 2002	4:44
I Must Have That Man	The Freelance Years: The Complete Riverside and Contemporary Recordings 2000	3:56
I Must Have That Man	That's Him [Bonus Tracks] 1957	3:59
I Must Have That Man	Through the Years: 1956-2007 2010	3:57
I Must Have That Man	Carnegie Hall Salutes the Jazz Masters: Verve at 50 1994	4:19
I Must Have That Man	That's Him 1957	3:59
I Must Have That Man	Jazz Divas: Gold 2007	4:18
I Must Have That Man [Take 3, Alternate]	The Freelance Years: The Complete Riverside and Contemporary Recordings 2000	3:54
I Must Have That Man [Take 3]	That's Him [Bonus Tracks] 1957	3:57
I Must Have That Man [Take 3]	That's Him 1957	3:57
I Must Have That Man!	That's Him 1957	4:00
I Must Have That Man!	That's Him!
I Must Have That Man!	Jazz Compilation
I Must Have That Man!	Carnegie Hall Salutes the Jazz Masters: Verve at 50 1994	4:22
I Must Have That Man!	The Freelance Years: The Complete Riverside and Contemporary Recordings 2000	3:58
I Must Have That Man!	Unknown Album	4:00
I Must Have That Man! [Take 3, Alternate]	Jazz Compilation
I Must Have That Man! [Take 3]	The Freelance Years: The Complete Riverside and Contemporary Recordings 2000	3:56
*I Must Have That Man! [Take 3][]**	That's Him 1957	3:56
I Only Have Eyes For You	Abbey Sings Billie, Vol. 1 1987	2:45
I Only Have Eyes for You	Abbey Sings Billie, Vols. 1-2 2001	2:52
I Only Have Eyes for You	Unknown Album	2:45
I'll Be Seeing You	Abbey Sings Billie, Vol. 1 1987	5:06
I'll Be Seeing You	You & I 1997	5:21
I'll Be Seeing You	Abbey Sings Billie, Vols. 1-2 2001	5:20
I'll Be Seeing You	Unknown Album	5:06
I'll Wind	Abbey Sings Billie, Vols. 1-2 2001	9:02
If I Only Had a Brain	Get Happy: The Harold Arlen Centennial Celebration 2005	5:31
If I Only Had a Brain	Wholly Earth 1999	5:33
If I Only Had a Brain	Festival International De Jazz De Montreal: 1999 1999
If I Only Had a Brain	Unknown Album
Ill Wind	Abbey Sings Billie, Vol. 1 1987	9:02
Ill Wind	Unknown Album	9:02
In the Red	Unknown Album	8:31
It's Magic	It's Magic 1958	4:03
It's Magic	Jazz Ballads Vol. 2: The Best Jazz Vocalists 2006
It's Magic	Abbey Is Blue/It's Magic 2010	4:03
It's Magic	Unknown Album	4:03
It's Me, O' Lord	Through the Years: 1956-2007 2010	3:40
It's Me, O' Lord (Standin' in the Need of Prayer)	It's Me 2003	3:42
Laugh / Clown / Laugh [From Abbey Is Blue]	Abbey Lincoln HiFi Hits 2012	5:19
Laugh! Clown! Laugh!	Swingin' the '20s 1958	3:20
Laugh! Clown! Laugh! [Alternate Take]	Swingin' the '20s 1958	2:51
Laugh, Clown, Laugh	Jazz Ladies, Vol. 2 2001	5:23
Laugh, Clown, Laugh	Abbey Is Blue	5:24
Laugh, Clown, Laugh	Abbey Is Blue/It's Magic 2010	5:24
Laugh, Clown, Laugh	Jazz Ladies [Warner Longbox 4 Disc] 2004
Laugh, Clown, Laugh	Jazz Session: Chilling with the Best Jazz Voices	5:24
Left Alone	Unknown Album	6:48
Let Up	Unknown Album	5:32
Live for Life	The World Is Falling Down 1991	4:50
Lonely House	Abbey Is Blue/It's Magic 2010	3:39
Lonely House	Abbey Is Blue 1959	3:40
Lonely House	Unknown Album	3:38
Long a You're Living	Unknown Album	2:35
Lost In The Stars	Abbey Is Blue	4:11
Lost in the Stars	Abbey Is Blue/It's Magic 2010	4:10
Lost in the Stars [From Abbey Is Blue]	Abbey Lincoln HiFi Hits 2012	4:05
Love Has Gone Away	Unknown Album	7:45
Love Walked In	Abbey Lincoln's Affair: A Story of a Girl in Love 1957	2:32
Love Walked In	Jazz Vocalists Sing George Gershwin 2017	2:33
Love Walked In	Great Jazz Vocalists Sing the Gershwin Songbook 1992	2:33
Lucky to Be Me	Over the Years 2000	7:30
Mendacity	Unknown Album	8:54
Moon Glow	Centennial Celebration 2009	2:57
Music Is the Magic	The Best Jazz Is Played with Verve 1993	5:49
My Love Is You	A Turtle's Dream 1994	5:43
My Man	The Freelance Years: The Complete Riverside and Contemporary Recordings 2000	3:57
My Man	That's Him [Bonus Tracks] 1957	3:58
My Man	That's Him 1957	3:58
My Man	That's Him!
My Man	Jazz Ladies [Warner Longbox 4 Disc] 2004
My Man	Jazz Compilation
My Man	Moi J'aime Le Jazz 2008
Nature Boy	A Turtle's Dream 1994	5:06
Nature Boy	Through the Years: 1956-2007 2010	5:05
Never Leave Me	Unknown Album	6:45
Not to Worry	A Turtle's Dream 1994	5:47
Please Don't Talk About Me (When I'm Gone)	Abbey Sings Billie, Vol. 2 1987
Please Don't Talk About Me (When I'm Gone)	Abbey Sings Billie, Vols. 1-2 2001	3:21
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone	Abbey Sings Billie, Vol. 2 1987	3:21
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone	You & I 1997	3:21
Retribution	Unknown Album	3:50
Runnin' Wild	It's Me 2003	3:52
Should've Been	A Turtle's Dream 1994	7:58
Should've Been	Through the Years: 1956-2007 2010	7:56
Should've Been	Abbey Sings Abbey 2007	5:28
Skylark	It's Me 2003	5:25
Skylark	Through the Years: 1956-2007 2010	5:24
Skylark	Jazz Vocalists: Hear and Now 2006	5:22
Softly As In a Morning Sunrise	The Very Best of Jazz Divas
Softly As in a Morning Sunrise [From Abbey Is Blue]	Abbey Lincoln HiFi Hits 2012	2:24
Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise	Abbey Is Blue	2:46
Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise	Abbey Is Blue/It's Magic 2010	2:46
Somos Novios	Over the Years 2000	6:11
Somos Novios (It's Impossible)	Sophisticated Abbey 2015	5:15
Somos Novios [It's Impossible]	Sophisticated Abbey 2015	5:15
Somos Novos	Over the Years 2000	6:12
Sophisticated Lady	Painted Lady 1995	7:45
Strange Fruit	Abbey Sings Billie, Vol. 1 1987	4:55
Strange Fruit	Abbey Sings Billie, Vols. 1-2 2001	6:16
Strange Fruit	Unknown Album	4:55
Street of Dreams	Who Used to Dance 1996	6:34
Street of Dreams	Unknown Album	6:32
Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do	Unknown Album	7:13
Take Me in Your Arms	Abbey Lincoln's Affair: A Story of a Girl in Love 1957	3:06
Ten Cents a Dance	Jazz 'Round Midnight 1993	5:23
Ten Cents a Dance	We'll Have Manhattan: The Rodgers & Hart Songbook	5:24
Ten Cents a Dance	A Lovesome Thing 1990	5:23
Ten Cents a Dance	Jazz Singing 2002	5:26
Ten Cents a Dance	The Complete Rodgers & Hart Songbooks 1996	5:24
Ten Cents a Dance	Let Me Entertain You: Carol Burnett Sings 2000	3:34
Ten Cents a Dance	With a Song in My Heart 1999	4:21
Ten Cents a Dance	Unknown Album	5:23
Tender as a Rose	Over the Years 2000	3:18
Tender as a Rose	That's Him [Bonus Tracks] 1957	3:00
Tender as a Rose	That's Him 1957	3:00
Tender as a Rose	That's Him!
The Jitterbug Waltz	When There Is Love 1992	3:16
The Music Is the Magic	Unknown Album	5:48
The Music Is the Magic	Devil's Got Your Tongue 1993	5:48
The Music Is the Magic	Through the Years: 1956-2007 2010	3:54
The Music Is the Magic	Abbey Sings Abbey 2007	3:54
The Nearness of You	A Night Out With Verve 2000	5:40
The Nearness of You	When There Is Love 1992	5:40
The Windmills of Your Mind	Through the Years: 1956-2007 2010	5:55
The World Is Falling Down	The World Is Falling Down 1991	6:22
The World Is Falling Down	Through the Years: 1956-2007 2010	6:22
The World Is Falling Down	Abbey Sings Abbey 2007	3:41
The World Is Falling Down	Blue Moon: The Ultimate Female Jazz Vocals
These Foolish Things	Abbey Sings Billie, Vol. 1 1987	4:31
These Foolish Things	You & I 1997	4:38
These Foolish Things	Abbey Sings Billie, Vols. 1-2 2001	4:41
Throw It Away	A Turtle's Dream 1994	5:45
Throw It Away	Jazziz: October 1995 1995
Throw It Away	Through the Years: 1956-2007 2010	6:36
Throw It Away	Something to Live For 1999	3:05
Throw It Away	Painted Lady 1995	6:37
Throw It Away	Love Having You Around: Live at the Keystone Korner, Vol. 2 2016	7:59
Throw It Away	Abbey Sings Abbey 2007	5:19
Thursday's Child	Abbey Is Blue	3:31
Thursday's Child	Abbey Is Blue/It's Magic 2010	3:30
Thursday's Child	Unknown Album
Thursday's Child [From Abbey Is Blue]	Abbey Lincoln HiFi Hits 2012	3:27
Time After Time	When There Is Love 1992	4:34
Triptych: Prayer/Protest/Peace	Unknown Album	8:08
What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?	Painted Lady 1995	9:35
What a Little Moonlight Can Do	Abbey Sings Billie, Vol. 1 1987	3:07
What a Little Moonlight Can Do	You & I 1997	3:07
What a Little Moonlight Can Do	Abbey Sings Billie, Vols. 1-2 2001	3:18
What a Little Moonlight Can Do	Unknown Album	3:07
When I'm Called Home	You Gotta Pay the Band	5:28
When I'm Called Home	Through the Years: 1956-2007 2010	5:25
When Malindy Sings	Unknown Album	4:05
When a Woman Loves a Man	The Freelance Years: The Complete Riverside and Contemporary Recordings 2000	4:26
When a Woman Loves a Man	That's Him [Bonus Tracks] 1957	4:28
When a Woman Loves a Man	Sessions: Live 1976	4:01
When a Woman Loves a Man	That's Him 1957	4:28
When a Woman Loves a Man	That's Him!
When a Woman Loves a Man	Jazz Compilation
When the Lights Go on Again	Over the Years 2000	5:53
Whistling Away the Dark	Sophisticated Abbey 2015	5:03
Whistling Away the Dark	Talking to the Sun 1983	4:29
Whistling Away the Dark	You & I 1997	4:26
Windmills of Your Mind	Over the Years 2000	5:02
Yellow Bird	It's Me 2003	4:45
You Came a Long Way from St. Louis	Through the Years: 1956-2007 2010	3:55
You Came a Long Way from St. Louis	When There Is Love 1992	3:57
You Must Believe in Spring and Love	The World Is Falling Down 1991	5:58
You Must Believe in Spring and Love	Through the Years: 1956-2007 2010	6:01
You Won't Forget Me	When There Is Love 1992	5:15
You and I	Talking to the Sun 1983	3:55
You and I	Enja 20th Anniversary Sampler 1992	3:57
You and I	You & I 1997	3:52
You're My Thrill	Talking to the Sun 1983	5:59
You're My Thrill	You & I 1997	5:52

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