Lover Man

E178490
jazz standard song

"Lover Man" is a classic jazz ballad closely associated with Billie Holiday, renowned for its haunting melody and emotionally charged portrayal of longing and heartbreak.

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Label Occurrences
Lover Man canonical 2
Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf jazz standard ⓘ
song ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Lover Man ⓘ
surface form: Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
associatedEra 1940s jazz ⓘ
closelyAssociatedWith Billie Holiday ⓘ
composer James Sherman ⓘ
Jimmie Davis ⓘ
surface form: Jimmy Davis

Roger Ramirez ⓘ
firstPopularizedBy Billie Holiday ⓘ
genre jazz ⓘ
jazz ballad ⓘ
hasNotableInterpretationBy Barbra Streisand ⓘ
Bill Evans ⓘ
Carmen McRae ⓘ
Charlie Parker ⓘ
Diana Ross ⓘ
Dinah Washington ⓘ
Duke Ellington ⓘ
Ella Fitzgerald ⓘ
Oscar Peterson ⓘ
Red Garland ⓘ
Sarah Vaughan ⓘ
Sonny Stitt ⓘ
Stan Getz ⓘ
language English ⓘ
lyricalMood haunting ⓘ
melancholic ⓘ
yearning ⓘ
lyricist James Sherman ⓘ
Jimmie Davis ⓘ
surface form: Jimmy Davis

Roger Ramirez ⓘ
notableRecordingBy Billie Holiday ⓘ
performanceContext jazz club standard ⓘ
standardIn bebop repertoire ⓘ
jazz repertoire ⓘ
vocal jazz repertoire ⓘ
tempo slow ⓘ
theme heartbreak ⓘ
loneliness ⓘ
romantic longing ⓘ
typicalInstrumentation double bass ⓘ
drums ⓘ
piano ⓘ
saxophone ⓘ
voice and jazz combo ⓘ
vocalAssociation Billie Holiday signature song ⓘ
vocalStyle torch song ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Billie Holiday → notableWork → Lover Man ⓘ
Lover Man → alsoKnownAs → Lover Man ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
Eleanora → hasNotableWork → Lover Man ⓘ
subject surface form: Eleanora Fagan