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Ebony Magazine Idris Elba Rude Boy, Lena Horne, Summer Sexiest, 10 Stars Who Bring the Heat, 5 Ways to Save $500 a month, August 2010 ... Read more

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Commentary (music and lyrics not included).Chapters: Lena Horne: the Lady and Her Music, Porgy and Bess, Seasons of a Life. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music was a 1981 Broadway musical revue, written for and starring American singer and actress Lena Horne. The musical was produced by Michael Frazier and Fred Walker, and the subsequent musical soundtrack was produced by Quincy Jones. The show opened on May 12, 1981, and after 333 performances, closed on June 30, 1982, Horne's 65th birthday. Horne then toured the show in the U.S. and Canada, and performed the show in London and Stockholm in the Summer of 1984. Lena Horne (born June 30, 1917- May 9, 2010), is an American singer and actress. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a band singer and nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood where she had small parts in numerous movies, and much more substantial parts in the films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather (1943). Due to the red scare and her progressive political views, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood. She then returned to her roots as a nightclub performer. In the 1960s Horne took part in the March on Washington, and continued to work as a performer, both in nightclubs as well as television. Horne announced her retirement in March 1980, and performed a two month farewell tour of the United States that June. Only months later, Horne and her manager, Sherman Sneed, conceived of a one woman show for Broadway which became Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music Throughout the show Horne sang and danced to a variety of popular songs, songs from Tin Pan Alley and jazz standards, music from films in which she had appeared, and songs specificall...http://booksllc.net/?id=26519578 ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Fantastic Album!!!
I just found this album at our local music shop (they have lots of vintage vinyl) and it's a GREAT album.I picked it up out of curiousity (because of the eye-catching cover art & I do like Lena Horne).This album SWINGS latin style very similar to many of Peggy Lee's Capitol albums & also like some of Ann Margret's best (think "They'll Be Some Changes Made...one of her best RCA tracks).It's a great "lounge" sound!The tempo is UP thoughout.I found out thru a little research the album is from 1964.
From the album cover credits, the 12 songs areProduced by Dick Peirce andArranged By SHORTY ROGERS & Conducted By LENNIE HAYTON.The 12 songs are (+ running times):SIDE 1) From This Moment On 1:52, Take Me 2:25, Night and Day 2:40, Old Devil Moon 2:38, More (theme from the film "Mondo Cane") 1:43, My Blue Heaven 2:24. SIDE 2) Cuckoo in the Clock 3:28, Meditation 2:17, By Myself 2:44, Island in the West Indies 2:20, Ours 2:46, Falling in Love with Love 1:59.
The album is in Mono sound but the quality is crisp.Lena Sounds Great!!! The instrumentation is fantastic (especially the lively horn section).The label is C*R*C Charter Records ("distributed by MGM Records) and the Catalog # is CLM 106.I'll try to snap a digital photo to post of the cover...Thanks for reading! :-) ... Read more