Odetta Sings Ballads And Blues (studio album)
by Odetta

Odetta Sings Ballads And Blues by Odetta
Year: 1956
Overall rank: 4,838th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 43 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1956 (22nd)
Award Top albums of the 1950s (142nd)
Award Best albums of all time (4,838th)

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Odetta Sings Ballads And Blues is ranked as the best album by Odetta.

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  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Latest 20 charts that this album appears in:

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2025 IgtonumamaTop 100 Music Albums of 195618/1004
2025TastyandTemptinTop 21 Music Albums of 195614/212
2025 skelter54Top 99 Music Albums of the 1950s72/996
2025 Patman360Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s36/10013
2025WayneMCUncut The 500 Greatest Albums Of The 1950s (1-100)20/100 -
2025 EyeKanFlyTop 35 Music Albums of 195722/35 -
2025dukeboxkool55 more albums I listened to in 202523/40 -
2025henrygreen0203Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s83/1004
2025 Patman360Top 26 Music Albums of 19566/264
2025 ExTeaSeaTop 36 Music Albums of the 1950s1/3620
2025 TamthebamTop 70 Music Albums of 195613/704
2025dukeboxkoolTop 19 Music Albums of 195613/192
2025 ExTeaSeaFav Black Woman albums21/38 -
2025dukeboxkoolTop 100 Music Albums of the 1950s47/10011
2025 TamthebamTop 100 Music Albums of the 1950s97/1001
2024 JoaoMoreiraTop 12 Music Albums of the 1950s2/1218
2024LosWochosTop 100 Music Albums of 195624/1004
2024 ExTeaSeaTop 8 Music Albums of 19561/85
2024babsfanatic87Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s41/10012
2024WeepingguitarmanTop 50 Music Albums of the 1950s26/5010
Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 51
Total Rank Score: The total rank score. 285

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Odetta Sings Ballads And Blues ratings

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73/100 (from 43 votes)
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10/28/2025 08:24 TonySayers61  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 22,69564/100
 
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08/29/2025 06:53 duelek  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 1,55477/100
 
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06/26/2025 15:32 Igtonumama  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 10,78763/100
 
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01/16/2025 16:40 dukeboxkool  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 1,95072/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.2/100, a mean average of 73.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.3.

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70/100
From 01/16/2025 16:41
This woman has Soul and her debut in 1956 should have taken the musical world by storm.
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From 01/01/2023 21:54
Such a raw and intense performer.
It doesn’t sound like it happened in the 50s.
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From 03/06/2022 03:31
I can say this about a lot of people, but it is as true of Odetta as anyone-- without her music in my childhood I would not be the person I am... "The Freedom Trilogy" taught a generation of us that the trick to living unafraid is not to have nothing to fear, but rather to refuse to be deterred by fear.
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From 01/25/2016 16:37
This woman may have been a folk singer but baby she had soul.
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Best Albums of 1956
1. Elvis Presley by Elvis Presley
2. Songs For Swingin' Lovers! by Frank Sinatra
3. Pithecanthropus Erectus by Charles Mingus
4. Ellington At Newport by Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
5. Ella & Louis by Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
6. Lady Sings The Blues by Billie Holiday
7. Elvis by Elvis Presley
8. Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Song Book by Ella Fitzgerald
9. J.S. Bach: The Goldberg Variations (1956) by Glenn Gould
10. The Wildest! by Louis Prima
11. This Is Fats Domino! by Fats Domino
12. Johnny Burnette And The Rock N' Roll Trio by Johnny Burnette & The Rock 'n Roll Trio
13. Music Of India (Three Classical Ragas) by Ravi Shankar
14. Jazz At Massey Hall by The Quintet
15. Bluejean Bop by Gene Vincent
16. Calypso by Harry Belafonte
17. Moondog by Moondog
18. Rock And Rollin' With Fats Domino by Fats Domino
19. Gospel Train by Sister Rosetta Tharpe
20. Tragic Songs Of Life by The Louvin Brothers
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