Lena Horne - New York Jazz Club

Styles: Jazz, Vocal
Year: 2014
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 91:56
Size: 213,1 MB
Art: Front

(2:40)  1. There's a Boat That's Leavln' Soon for New York
(2:57)  2. You Don't Have to Know the Language
(2:49)  3. I'll Do Anything
(2:45)  4. Maybe
(2:40)  5. Take It Slow, Joe
(6:21)  6. Frankle and Johnny
(3:18)  7. Love Is the Thing
(3:12)  8. Then I'll Be Tired of You
(3:10)  9. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
(2:13) 10. It's Love
(2:36) 11. Just My Luck
(2:53) 12. Get Rid of Monday
(3:11) 13. A Friend of Yours
(2:21) 14. It's Anybody's Spring
(3:24) 15. Sleigh Ride In July
(1:56) 16. My Heart Is a Hobo
(2:57) 17. It Could Happen to You
(3:11) 18. Call Me Darling
(4:35) 19. Mood Indigo, I'm Beginning to See the Light
(2:40) 20. It's All Right With Me
(3:15) 21. How Do You Say It
(2:06) 22. Day In, Day Out
(3:07) 23. New Fangled Tango
(3:14) 24. Honeysuckle Rose
(4:19) 25. I Love to Love
(2:01) 26. You Do Something to Me
(1:55) 27. From This Moment On
(3:02) 28. Like Someone In Love
(3:32) 29. You're the One
(3:26) 30. Fun to Be Fooled

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American jazz and pop music singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of 16 and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the 1943 films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. Because of the Red Scare and her political activism, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood. Her career spanned over 70 years appearing in film, television, and on Broadway. Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer, Horne took part in the March on Washington in August 1963, and continued to work as a performer, both in nightclubs and on television, while releasing well-received record albums. She announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which ran for more than three hundred performances on Broadway. She then toured the country in the show, earning numerous awards and accolades. Horne continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s, disappearing from the public eye in 2000.


Lena Horne was born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Reportedly descended from the John C. Calhoun family, both sides of her family were a mixture of European American, Native American, and African-American descent, and belonged to the upper stratum of middle-class, well-educated people. Her father, Edwin Fletcher "Teddy" Horne, Jr. (1893–1970), a numbers kingpin in the gambling trade, left the family when she was three and moved to an upper-middle-class black community in the Hill District community of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Edna Louise Scottron (1894–1976), was a granddaughter of inventor Samuel R. Scottron; she was an actress with a black theatre troupe and traveled extensively. Edna's maternal grandmother, Amelie Louise Ashton, was a Senegalese slave. Horne was mainly raised by her grandparents, Cora Calhoun and Edwin Horne. When Horne was five, she was sent to live in Georgia. For several years, she traveled with her mother.

From 1927 to 1929 she lived with her uncle, Frank S. Horne, Dean of Students at Fort Valley Junior Industrial Institute (now part of Fort Valley State University) in Fort Valley, Georgia, who would later serve as an adviser to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.From Fort Valley, southwest of Macon, Horne briefly moved to Atlanta with her mother; they returned to New York when Horne was 12 years old. She then attended Girls High School, an all-girls public high school in Brooklyn that has since become Boys and Girls High School; she dropped out without earning a diploma. Aged 18, she moved in with her father in Pittsburgh, staying in the city's Little Harlem for almost five years and learning from native Pittsburghers Billy Strayhorn and Billy Eckstine, among others...More https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Horne

New York Jazz Club

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Various - Capitol Sings Johnny Mercer

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:03
Size: 162.7 MB
Styles: Vocal, Easy Listening
Year: 1991
Art: Front

[3:17] 1. Ella Mae Morse - Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive
[3:11] 2. Martha Tilton - And The Angels Sing
[2:49] 3. Gordon MacRae - Autumn Leaves
[3:12] 4. Jo Stafford - Blues In The Night
[1:53] 5. Blossom Dearie - Charade
[3:40] 6. Judy Garland - Come Rain Or Come Shine
[2:22] 7. Nat King Cole - Day In-Day Out
[3:16] 8. Matt Monro - Days Of Wine And Roses
[2:47] 9. The Pied Pipers - Dream
[2:32] 10. Benny Goodman - Goody Goody
[2:52] 11. Johnny Mercer - Glow Worm
[2:55] 12. The Four Freshmen - I Thought About You
[2:49] 13. Dinah Shore - I'm Old Fashioned
[2:57] 14. Dean Martin - In The Cool Cool Cool Of The Evening
[2:16] 15. Stan Kenton & His Orchestra - Jeepers Creepers
[2:22] 16. Vic Damone - Laura
[3:26] 17. Lena Horne - Moon River
[3:03] 18. Johnny Mercer - On The Atchison, Topeka & The Sante Fe
[4:13] 19. Harold Arlen - One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
[2:58] 20. Kay Starr - P.S. I Love You
[2:21] 21. Nancy Wilson - Satin Doll
[4:00] 22. Hoagy Carmichael - Skylark
[2:54] 23. Keely Smith - That Old Black Magic
[2:47] 24. Andy Russell - Too Marvelous For Words

Singer/songwriter Johnny Mercer was one of the founders of Capitol Records in the early '40s, so it's appropriate that he rates his own volume in the label's various-artists songbook compilation series of the 1990s (one that has already had discs devoted to Cole Porter and George Gershwin). As a lyricist working over a long career, Mercer provides a varied range of material for inclusion. This is a man who was setting words to 1930s swing hits like "And the Angels Sing," "Goody Goody," and "Satin Doll," and was still going strong in the 1960s, when he was writing movie themes like "Moon River" and "The Days of Wine and Roses" with Henry Mancini. In between, there were standards of the ‘40s such as "Blues in the Night" and "That Old Black Magic," and ‘50s favorites like "Autumn Leaves" and "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening." Capitol was devoted to singers, which allowed it to take advantage of the post-swing era of the late ‘40s and ‘50s when singers ruled. Tops among them was Frank Sinatra, a Capitol artist, who apparently didn't allow his recordings to be compiled on this sort of collection. But many other important singers are included, among them Judy Garland, Nat King Cole, Dinah Shore, and Dean Martin. And Mercer himself pops in several times, as do a couple of his composer collaborators, Harold Arlen and Hoagy Carmichael. Although Mercer has an identifiable writing style, full of a self-invented Southern slang ("swingeroonie!," "my huckleberry friend"), his teaming with different sorts of composers allows for many different musical styles on this disc, making it one of the rangier volumes in the series. ~William Ruhlmann

Capitol Sings Johnny Mercer

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Lena Horne & The Nat Brandwynne Orchestra - Lena Live In New York

Size: 99,6 MB
Time: 40:04
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. Today I Love Everybody (2:52)
02. Let Me Love You (3:10)
03. Come Runnin' (2:49)
04. Cole Porter Medley ( How's Your Romance - After You - Love Of My Life - It's Alright With Me ) (7:53)
05. Mood Indigo (2:16)
06. I'm Beginning To See The Light (2:07)
07. How You Say It (3:32)
08. Honeysuckle Rose (3:08)
09. Day In,day Out (2:33)
10. That Old Feeling (2:40)
11. I Love To Love (4:35)
12. From This Moment On (2:27)

More than anything else, Lena Horne was a nightclub entertainer, and having completed her film commitments to MGM in 1956, she was free to turn her attention to performing full-time. Starting on New Year's Eve, she spent eight weeks at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, and at the end of the run RCA Victor Records brought in recording equipment. The result is an excellent representation of Horne in her natural environment. Backed by Nat Brandwynne's Orchestra as conducted by her husband, Lennie Hayton, Horne essays a series of vintage standards that go back to 1929's "Honeysuckle Rose," which she sang in the 1943 film Thousands Cheer. There is a Cole Porter medley ("the always-surprising Cole Porter tunes," she calls them) that includes a triumphant "It's All Right With Me," and the set concludes with "From This Moment On," showing Horne to be the perfect interpreter of Porter's sophisticated songs. And there is a shorter Duke Ellington medley consisting of "Mood Indigo" and "I'm Beginning to See the Light" that is equally impressive. Among the more contemporary tracks, Horne borrows "Let Me Love You" from Mabel Mercer, who introduced it; "Today I Love Everybody" from Betty Grable, who sang it in the 1953 film The Farmer Takes a Wife; and "A New Fangled Tango" from Ethel Merman, who performed it in the 1956 musical Happy Hunting. These are good choices given sympathetic arrangements, and Horne performs them with just the right tone of romance and sly humor. Lena Horne may have left Hollywood behind her by early 1957, but this live album, which charted in the Top Ten, demonstrated that in doing so she had only returned to her greatest strength as a performer. ~by William Ruhlmann

Lena Live In New York

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Lena Horne - I Sing...!: Musical Moments To Remember (Remastered)

Size: 144,3 MB
Time: 61:00
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. I Concentrate On You (From Broadway Melody Of 1940) (2:41)
02. I Surrender Dear (From Broadway Melody Of 1940) (3:25)
03. I Got Rhythm (From Girl Crazy) (2:49)
04. I Get The Blues When It Rains (From Girl Crazy) (3:38)
05. I've Grown Accustomed To His Face (From My Fair Lady) (3:02)
06. I Found A New Baby (From My Fair Lady) (2:07)
07. I'm Confessin' (From My Fair Lady) (3:26)
08. I Ain't Got Nobody (From My Fair Lady) (2:18)
09. I Understand (From My Fair Lady) (3:43)
10. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart (From My Fair Lady) (2:42)
11. I Only Have Eyes For You (From Dames) (3:18)
12. I Want To Be Happy (From No, No, Nanette) (1:43)
13. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child (From No, No, Nanette) (2:46)
14. Frankie And Johnny (From No, No, Nanette) (5:47)
15. Beale Street Blues (From No, No, Nanette) (3:03)
16. Hesitating Blues (From No, No, Nanette) (3:04)
17. What Is This Thing Called Love (From Wake Up And Dream) (2:38)
18. Stormy Weather (From Wake Up And Dream) (3:19)
19. I'll Wind (From Wake Up And Dream) (2:27)
20. Mad About The Boy (From Words And Music) (2:53)

Lena Calhoun Horne was born June 30, 1917, in Brooklyn, New York. In her biography she stated that on the day she was born, her father was in the midst of a card game trying to get money to pay the hospital costs. Her parents divorced while she was still a toddler. Her mother left later in order to find work as an actress and Lena was left in the care of her grandparents. When she was seven her mother returned and the two traveled around the state, which meant that Lena was enrolled in numerous schools (for a time she also attended schools in Florida, Georgia and Ohio). Later she returned to Brooklyn. She quit school when she was 14 and got her first stage job at 16, dancing and later singing at the famed Cotton Club in Harlem (a renowned theater in which black performers played before white audiences. It was immortalized in The Cotton Club (1984)). She was in good hands at the club, especially when people such as Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington took her under their wings and helped her over the rough spots. Before long her talent resulted in her playing before packed houses. If she had never made a movie, her music career would have been enough to have ensured her legendary status in the entertainment industry, but films were icing on the cake. After she made an appearance on Broadway, Hollywood came calling. At 21 years of age Lena made her first film, The Duke Is Tops (1938). It would be four more years before she appeared in another, Panama Hattie (1942), playing a singer in a nightclub. By now Lena had signed with MGM but, unfortunately for her, the pictures were shot so that her scenes could be cut out when they were shown in the South, since most theaters in the South refused to show films that portrayed blacks in anything other than subservient roles to whites, and most movie studios did not want to take a chance on losing that particular source of revenue. Lena did not want to appear in those kinds of stereotyped roles (and who could blame her?). In 1943 MGM loaned her to 20th Century-Fox to play the role of Selina Rogers in the all-black musical Stormy Weather (1943), which did extremely well at the box-office. Her rendition of the title song became a major hit on the musical charts. In 1943 she appeared in Cabin in the Sky (1943), regarded by many as one of the finest performances of her career. She played Georgia Brown opposite Ethel Waters and Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson in the all-black production. Rumors were rampant that she and Waters just did not get along well, although there was never any mention of the source of the alleged friction. That was not the only feud on that picture, however. Other cast members sniped at one another and it was a wonder the film was made at all. Regardless of the hostilities, the movie was released to very good reviews from the ever tough critics. It went a long way in showing the depth of the talent that existed among black performers in Hollywood, especially Lena. Lena's musical career flourished, but her movie career stagnated. Minor roles in films such as Boogie-Woogie Dream (1944), Words and Music (1948) and Mantan Messes Up (1946) did little to advance her film career, due mainly to the ingrained racist attitudes of the time (even at the height of Lena's musical career, she was often denied rooms at the very hotels in which she performed, because they would not let blacks stay there). After Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956), Lena left films to concentrate on music and the stage. She returned in 1969, as Claire Quintana in Death of a Gunfighter (1969). Nine years later she returned to the screen again in the all-black musical The Wiz (1978), where she played Glinda the Good Witch. Although that was her last big-screen appearance, she stayed busy in television, appearing in A Century of Women (1994) and That's Entertainment! III (1994).

Had it not been for the prevailing racial attitudes during the time when Lena was just starting her career, it's fair to say that it would have been much bigger, and come much sooner, than it was. Even taking those factors into account, Lena Horne is still one of the most respected, talented and beautiful performers of all time--and she's still singing! ~by Denny Jackson

I Sing...!

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Sir Simon Rattle - Duke Ellington Album

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 78:58
Size: 180.8 MB
Styles: Big band, Contemporary jazz
Year: 2000
Art: Front

[ 9:05] 1. Take The 'A' Train
[ 2:56] 2. You're The One (with Joshua Redman)
[ 5:12] 3. Sophisticated Lady (With Bobby Watson)
[14:09] 4. Harlem (A Tone Parallel To Harlem)
[ 4:50] 5. Isfahan (With Peter Walden)
[ 8:56] 6. Ad Lib On Nippon (Part 2) (With Colin Parr)
[ 9:04] 7. That Doo-Wah Thing From 'it Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing' Part 2, Duet Fugue (With Joe Lovano)
[ 4:33] 8. Something To Live For
[ 5:30] 9. Come Sunday (With Regina Carter)
[ 4:38] 10. Solitude In Transblucency (With Richard Simpson)
[ 2:44] 11. Maybe
[ 7:15] 12. Things Ain't What They Used To Be (With Regina Carter)

Clark Terry, John Barclay, Simon Gardner- trumpet; Joshua Redman, Joe Lovano- tenor saxophone; Bobby Watson- alto saxophone; Regina Carter- violin; Andrew Barnell- bassoon; Colin Parr- clarinet; Peter Walden- English horn; Richard Simpson- oboe; Geri Allen, Mike Renzi- piano; Peter Washington, Mark Goodchild- double bass; Lewis Nash- drums; Lena Horne- vocals; City of Birmingham [England] Symphony Orchestra.

Sir Simon Rattle conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in a celebration of Duke Ellington’s music. Each impressive orchestration has been reworked by Luther Henderson to provide a full sound. The orchestra performs admirably with accurate interpretations of classic Ellington songs. Along the way, we find Clark Terry, Bobby Watson, Joe Lovano, Regina Carter, Lewis Nash and Josh Redman trading solos with the ensemble. They work together on three tracks, recalling the personal spirit of Ellington’s music and how it was created to fit his individual band members.

Some time ago, Duke Ellington and Luther Henderson discussed what would some day become this particular project. Ellington asked Henderson to arrange “Harlem” (from “Far East Suite”) for performance by a symphony orchestra, combined with his band in concerto grosso form. The two gentlemen agreed that it would represent a blending of two cultural traditions: Western European and African.

Lena Horne sings three songs. Her vocal lines, however, were prerecorded. Thus, there’s a distinct separation in sound between vocalist and accompaniment. Horne’s features appear cold and distant, while Lovano, Watson, Nash, Geri Allen and Peter Washington attempt to make things appear more convincing. Watson has a feature on “Isfahan” and Allen has a feature on “Ad Lib on Nippon,” while Carter and Terry take center stage for a lovely arrangement of “Come Sunday.” Much of the 80-minute album remains focused on celebrating Ellington’s music through full orchestral colors and carefully interwoven instrumental voices. As if to remind us of the balance achieved here between jazz and classical, Clark Terry takes over the closing number with a classic mumbles and wah-wah trumpet routine. The program makes a fine tribute to the music of Duke Ellington and presents these treasured pieces in a slightly different light. ~Jim Santella

Duke Ellington Album

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Various - Capitol Sings Hollywood

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:43
Size: 134.4 MB
Styles: Vocal, Easy Listening
Year: 1995
Art: Front

[2:57] 1. Betty Hutton - Stuff Like That There
[2:56] 2. Bob Manning - That Old Feeling
[2:41] 3. Bobby Darin - There's A Rainbow 'round My Shoulder
[1:53] 4. Dakota Staton - On Green Dolphin Street
[2:17] 5. Dean Martin - Louise
[3:01] 6. Ethel Ennis - My Foolish Heart
[3:04] 7. Johnny Mercer - If I Had A Talking Picture Of You
[3:13] 8. Julie London - It Could Happen To You
[2:39] 9. June Christy - They Can't Take That Away From Me
[3:29] 10. June Hutton - My Baby Just Cares For Me
[3:12] 11. Keely Smith - When Your Lover Has Gone
[2:48] 12. Lena Horne - Singin' In The Rain
[2:46] 13. Mark Murphy - Put The Blame On Mame
[3:11] 14. Mel Tormé - Again
[4:02] 15. Nancy Wilson - But Beautiful
[2:54] 16. Nat King Cole - Smile
[3:07] 17. Peggy Lee - Stormy Weather
[4:17] 18. Sue Raney - I Remember You
[2:06] 19. Trudy Richards - You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me
[2:00] 20. Vic Damone - Stella By Starlight

Capitol Records has one of the most distinctive buildings in Los Angeles and if a movie shows the city begin destroyed by aliens or tornadoes it usually involves the destruction of the round building that bears the company's name. Capitol was founded by songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1942, the first major label on the West Coast competing with New York City's Columbia, Decca and RCA-Victor. Starting with artists like Paul Whiteman and Martha Tilton, by the end of the decade the label was recording Bing Crosby, Peggy Lee, Les Brown, Nat King Cole, and Frank Sinatra. While the works of Crosby and Sinatra are exempt from the Capitol Sings series, you will always find familiar singers singing familiar songs, as with the title track sung by Lena Horne, as often as you hear unfamiliar songs sung by forgotten singers, such as Ethel Ennis singing "My Foolish Heart."

"Captiol Sings Hollywood" is Volume 20 in the series and one brings together twenty tracks representing a particular venue (e.g., Broadway) instead of a specific songwriter (e.g., Irving Berlin). Just be aware that if a song originated in a Broadway show that was made into a Hollywood musical then it is exempt from being included in this collection. That would explain why you may well be unfamiliar with most of these twenty songs. "Singin' in the Rain" and "Stormy Weather" are recognizable classics, and the same should be said for Charlie Chaplin's "Smile," sung here by Nat King Cole in one of the best tracks on the album. and June Christy's swing version of "They Can't Take That Away From Me." But after that you may recognize singers like Dean Martin, Bobby Darin, and Mel Torme more than "Louise," "There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder," and "Again." Still you will find a few new little gems on this album, what with Sarah Vaughn's "I Remember You" and Nancy Murphy's saucy "Put the Blame on Mame." That last is from the movie "Gilda" (I mention this because I was drawing blanks on the vast majority of these tracks as to what movies they were culled from and this one immediately jumped to my mind, as did the fact that Anita Ellis sang it for Rita Haywroth).

Despite the unfamiliar songs this is still an enjoyable album, even if it is a lesser one by the standard of the Capitol Sings series. But if you like one of these albums you will certainly enjoy the rest of them. Final Note: On this album Peggy Lee sings Harold Arlen's "Stormy Weather," but on the "Over the Rainbow: Capitol Sings Harold Arlen" the song is sung by Keely Smith. So even when a song by a particular composer or lyricist shows up on more than one album, you will find different cover versions on each album. Again, this simply reflects how deep the Capitol vault is when it comes to these songs. ~Lawrence Bernabo

Capitol Sings Hollywood

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Lena Horne - Greatest Hits

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:40
Size: 95.4 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 2000
Art: Front

[2:49] 1. I Got Rhythm
[3:11] 2. Someone To Watch Over Me
[2:40] 3. It's All Right With Me
[3:20] 4. Stormy Weather
[2:38] 5. What Is This Thing Called Love
[2:23] 6. Get Out Of Town
[3:33] 7. The Rules Of The Road
[2:39] 8. Darn That Dream
[2:38] 9. At Long Last Love
[3:13] 10. You're My Thrill
[3:16] 11. Let Me Love You
[2:48] 12. Come On Strong
[3:05] 13. Mad About The Boy
[3:19] 14. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)

Lena Horne had three separate stays on RCA Victor Records: The first in the 1940s, the second lasting from the mid- '50s into the early '60s, and the third in the mid- '70s. During these stints, she scored only one hit single, "Love Me or Leave Me" in 1955 -- a recording not included on this compilation. In 1943, she appeared in the film Stormy Weather, and for the rest of her career that 1933 hit was identified as her signature song. Actually, she had recorded it for RCA two years before she sang it on film, and that recording is included here. Otherwise, this is a sampler of her RCA recordings stretching over the '40s, '50s, and '60s, most of them standards from the pens of George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, and others. There is even one track from Horne's brief period as singer with Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra in early 1941. But the disc does not justify the title "Greatest Hits," and it is not a comprehensive collection of the highlights of Horne's RCA work. Rather, it is a discount-priced, 42-minute survey of that work that contains many excellent performances. But there's plenty more where this came from. ~William Ruhlmann

Greatest Hits

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Various - Capitol Sings Around The World: Far Away Places

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:01
Size: 132.8 MB
Styles: Vocal pop
Year: 1994
Art: Front

[2:31] 1. Nat King Cole - Around The World
[3:18] 2. Lena Horne - I Love Paris
[3:08] 3. The Andrews Sisters - Tulip Time
[2:18] 4. Vic Damone - The Moon Of Manakoora
[2:16] 5. Dakota Staton - A Foggy Day
[3:16] 6. Dean Martin - Canadian Sunset
[3:24] 7. Bing Crosby - New Vienna Woods
[2:39] 8. The Dinning Sisters - Brazil
[2:30] 9. Bobby Darin - Sunday In New York
[1:54] 10. Kay Starr - On A Slow Boat To China
[2:11] 11. Nancy Wilson - The Boy From Ipanema
[3:07] 12. Peggy Lee - Bali Ha'i
[2:47] 13. The Four Freshmen - Frenesi
[2:54] 14. Dinah Shore - April In Paris
[3:12] 15. The Andrews Sisters - The Japanese Sandman
[4:45] 16. Nat King Cole - A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
[2:49] 17. June Christy - A Night In Tunisia
[2:39] 18. Dean Martin - Arrivederci Roma
[3:13] 19. Margaret Whiting - Far Away Places
[3:01] 20. The King Sisters - Aloha Oe (Hawaiian Farewell Song)

Capitol Sings Around The World: Far Away Places

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Lena Horne, Gabor Szabo - Watch What Happens

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:06
Size: 82.7 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals, Jazz guitar
Year: 1970/2009
Art: Front

[4:05] 1. Watch What Happens
[3:09] 2. Something
[2:54] 3. Everybody's Talkin'
[3:45] 4. The Fool On The Hill
[4:07] 5. Yesterday
[3:30] 6. Rocky Racoon
[4:41] 7. My Mood Is You
[3:17] 8. Message To Michael
[3:39] 9. Night Wind
[2:56] 10. In My Life

The pairing of chanteuse Lena Horne and guitarist Gabor Szabo may seem incongruous on paper, but Watch What Happens! is an unexpected delight, capturing a soulfulness and sass largely absent from the singer's previous efforts. Producer and arranger Gary McFarland's candy-coated orchestral settings afford Horne the opportunity to step out of the elegant but often stuffy refinement of her classic LPs and let down her hair. Her vocals pirouette around Szabo's hypnotically funky guitar leads with the focused abandon of a child playing hopscotch. Keyboardist Richard Tee, bassist Chuck Rainey, and drummer Grady Tate contribute the supple grooves that highlight so many McFarland sessions, and the material is top-notch, including no fewer than three Beatles covers: "In My Life," "Fool on the Hill," and "Rocky Raccoon," the latter featuring the most purely joyful performance of Horne's career. [Watch What Happens! was originally released on Szabo's Skye Records label as Lena & Gabor in 1970.] ~Jason Ankeny

Watch What Happens

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Lena Horne & Gabor Szabo - Empathy

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:51
Size: 84.4 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz, Guitar jazz
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[4:06] 1. Watch What Happens
[3:12] 2. Something
[2:58] 3. Everybody's Talkin'
[3:49] 4. The Fool On The Hill
[4:13] 5. Yesterday
[3:36] 6. Rocky Raccoon
[4:46] 7. My Mood Is You
[3:22] 8. Message To Michael
[3:44] 9. Night Wind
[2:59] 10. In My Life

This is the sound track of the original "LENA & GABOR" by A&R Recording Studio produced during Oct-Nov, 1969 by SKYE Recording Co LTD N.Y. The original LPs went out of production in 1970. This album was used during the 1970's to demo hi-end speakers and stereo systems as the quality of it nearly the same as the Direct-to Disc recordings of that time. I recommend this CD as it is the same as my original SKYE LPs. ~Gregory K Lewis

Empathy

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Lena Horne - Lena Goes Latin & Sings Your Requests

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 1964
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:08
Size: 119,9 MB
Art: Front

(1:54)  1. From This Moment On
(2:27)  2. Take Me
(2:44)  3. Night And Day
(2:43)  4. Old Devil Moon
(1:47)  5. More
(2:28)  6. My Blue Heaven
(3:37)  7. Cuckoo In The Clock
(2:23)  8. Meditation
(2:47)  9. By Myself
(2:24) 10. Island In The West Indies
(2:49) 11. Ours
(2:03) 12. Falling In Love With Love
(1:52) 13. He Loves Me
(2:44) 14. Every Little Bit Hurts
(3:22) 15. Stormy Weather
(2:25) 16. Poppa Don't Preach To Me
(2:58) 17. Honeysuckle Rose
(2:22) 18. The Lady Is A Tramp
(3:27) 19. Lover Man
(2:44) 20. Can't Help Lovin' That Man

In 1963, Lena Horne left a long association with RCA Victor Records and signed to the smaller Charter label, for which she recorded two albums, Goes Latin and Sings Your Requests. Those two albums are combined on this two-fer compilation. The first ten tracks, which comprised the original Goes Latin LP, were arranged by Shorty Rogers and conducted by Horne's husband, Lennie Hayton. In keeping with the title, the arrangements feature Latin percussion, with punchy big-band horn charts on top. Horne was no stranger to such material, at least in the diluted form heard here, having performed Latin-style arrangements in the movies and on Broadway, and in fact her lively, take-charge interpretations are well-suited to Rogers' arrangements, whether applied to a Cole Porter show tune or a more contemporary song such as the Mondo Cane movie theme "More" or Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Meditation." Sings Your Requests earned its title by featuring re-recordings of several songs long associated with Horne, including "Stormy Weather," "Honeysuckle Rose," "The Lady Is a Tramp," and "Can't Help Lovin' That Man." (All are songs she sang in the movies.) But the combination of the two albums onto one disc is justified by their similarity. The first four tracks of the second LP (tracks 11-14 here) are also Rogers arrangements conducted by Hayton, some of them with more Latin percussion, suggesting they came from the same sessions as those for the first LP. (The rest were arranged and conducted by Marty Paich.) Horne remains masterful on the familiar material, and she gives an excellent reading to the newly minted show tune "He Loves Me," a gender-switched version of the title song from the Broadway musical She Loves Me. Lena Horne may have fallen out of commercial favor on records by 1963, but these recordings demonstrate that she hadn't lost her appeal. ~ William Ruhlmann  http://www.allmusic.com/album/lena-goes-latin-sings-your-requests-mw0000649569

Personnel:  Lena Horne – vocals;  Lennie Hayton - arranger, conductor (#1-14);  Shorty Rogers - arranger (#1-14);  Marty Paich - arranger (#15-20)

Lena Goes Latin & Sings Your Requests

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Lena Horne - An Evening with Lena Horne: Live At The Supper Club 1994

Styles: Jazz, Vocal 
Year: 1995
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:13
Size: 127,6 MB
Art: Front + Back

(3:08)  1. Come Runnin'
(2:47)  2. Maybe
(4:56)  3. I've Got The World On A String
(3:13)  4. Old Friend
(5:12)  5. Something To Live For
(1:11)  6. Mood Indigo
(1:20)  7. Squeeze Me
(4:21)  8. Do Nothing 'Till You Hear From Me
(5:45)  9. Yesterday When I Was Young
(1:50) 10. How's Your Romance
(2:56) 11. Why Shouldn't I
(2:50) 12. Ours
(3:27) 13. Just One Of Those Things
(1:24) 14. Band Introduction
(3:36) 15. We'll Be Together Again
(3:04) 16. Watch What Happens
(3:03) 17. The Lady Is A Tramp

The sentiment that comes embedded in Lena Horne's classy 1994 concert performance at the Supper Club in New York, is enough to carry the show all by itself. Her magnetic personality gives the cabaret performance a full charge of passion that's complemented by her convincing vocal expressions. She's a born communicator. This performance was broadcast on the A&E television network in December 1994 and was issued on VHS the following year. This release marks its first appearance on DVD. The camera angles provide views of Horne from the front and sides as well as from afar. Instrumental soloists appear in close-ups, but Horne's image remains at arm's length. The looks that she gives her live audience say it all. This is one veteran singer who's used to explaining a lyric through body language. Most of the program is performed with her regular backing quintet; five numbers are performed with The Count Basie Orchestra.

She's at her best when singing a medley of Duke Ellington songs alone with bass or when working with the highly expressive "Yesterday, When I Was Young while the full orchestra provides a glowing ambience. Both the Ellington medley and her Cole Porter medley stand out for their comfortable texture and caring attitude. The Count Basie Orchestra performs "April in Paris and "Jumpin' at the Woodside as instrumental arrangements with all the usual trimmings. They were in fine form for this event, and both arrangements offer superb ensemble counterpoint as well as thrilling solo opportunities. The band's soloists include trombonist Bill Hughes and trumpeter Bob Ojeda on "April in Paris, and tenors Kenny Hing, Doug Miller and Frank Foster on "Jumpin' at the Woodside.  An Evening with Lena Horne, which includes a textual, on-screen biography and liner notes, provides a vivid glimpse of the singer in the twilight of her career, expressing with the kind of sincere passion that only a seasoned veteran can muster. ~ Jim Santella https://www.allaboutjazz.com/an-evening-with-lena-horne-lena-horne-by-jim-santella.php

Personnel:  Lena Horne: vocals;  Donald Harrison: tenor saxophone;  Mike Renzi: piano, synthesizer;  Rodney Jones: guitar; Ben Brown: bass;  Akira Tana: drums;  The Count Basie Orchestra: Frank Foster: director, tenor saxophone; Danny Turner: alto saxophone, flute; Doug Miller, Kenny King: tenor saxophone, flute; John Williams: baritone saxophone; Bob Ojeda, Michael Williams, Derrick Gardner, Scotty Barnhart: trumpet, flugelhorn; Clarence Banks, Melvin Wanzo, Bill Hughes: trombone; George Caldwell: piano; Charlton Johnson: guitar; Cleveland Eaton: bass; Davie Gibson: drums.

An Evening with Lena Horne: Live At The Supper Club 1994

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Lena Horne - The Classic Lena Horne

Styles: Jazz, Vocal
Year: 2001
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:05
Size: 101,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:23)  1. Stormy Weather
(3:22)  2. One for My Baby (And One More For the Road)
(3:26)  3. How Long Has This Been Going On?
(3:13)  4. Love Me Or Leave Me
(3:32)  5. Fun To Be Fooled
(2:51)  6. I'd Do Anything
(2:23)  7. Get Out Of Town
(2:43)  8. Darn That Dream
(2:52)  9. Come On Strong
(2:47) 10. I Hadn't Anyone Till You
(3:15) 11. Someone To Watch Over Me
(3:36) 12. The Rules Of The Road
(3:44) 13. I Get The Blues When It Rains
(2:51) 14. I Got Rhythm

Lena Horne served three separate tours of duty with RCA Victor Records, from 1941 to 1945, from 1955 to 1963, and from 1975 to 1976, making the label the largest repository for her recordings. While RCA has never reissued her work in any comprehensive manner, periodically the label assembles a single-disc compilation, and The Classic Lena Horne, part of its "100 Years of Music" centenary series, is yet another one. For once, terms like "greatest hits" and "best of" are not being used, which is a relief in Horne's case since, as annotator Colin Escott is at pains to point out, she didn't have much in the way of chart hits. Actually, unlike RCA's 2000 Greatest Hits album, this one does have her sole Top 20 hit, "Love Me or Leave Me." Also included is her 1941 recording of "Stormy Weather," made before she sang it in the movie of the same name and it became her signature song. Otherwise, compiler/sequencer Buzz Ravineau has adopted a roughly chronological approach and chosen a couple of other '40s performances ("One for My Baby [And One More for the Road]" and "How Long Has This Been Going On?") to go with various studio recordings made in the '50s and early '60s. Standards like Ira and George Gershwin's "Someone to Watch Over Me" and "I Got Rhythm" are mixed with less-well-known, but nevertheless impressive songs like Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh's "The Rules of the Road." The result is a sampler that is not, and does not claim to be, the best of Lena Horne on RCA, but that is instead a representative sampling of the kind of high-quality work she did for the label. ~ William Ruhlmann http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-classic-lena-horne-mw0000005796

The Classic Lena Horne

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Lena Horne - Love Is The Thing

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:28
Size: 138.4 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 1994
Art: Front

[2:47] 1. I'd Do Anything
[3:17] 2. Love Is The Thing
[3:28] 3. Fun To Be Fooled
[2:11] 4. It's Love
[3:35] 5. You're The One
[3:40] 6. I Get The Blues When It Rains
[2:39] 7. Darn That Dream
[2:56] 8. I'm Through With Love
[3:15] 9. Someone To Watch Over Me
[2:42] 10. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
[3:24] 11. I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
[2:18] 12. It's Anybody's Spring
[3:33] 13. The Rules Of The Road
[3:37] 14. Paradise
[2:49] 15. I Got Rhythm
[3:43] 16. I Understand
[2:35] 17. It's A Lonesome Old Town
[2:43] 18. I Hadn't Anyone Till You
[2:15] 19. They Didn't Believe Me
[2:50] 20. Come On Strong

Since there isn't much out there from Lena's 50s career this is the only collection available. It finds Miss Horne backed by hot jazz combos on such numbers as "Love Is The Thing" and strings for instance on "Fun To Be Fooled." This is an overall satisfying compilation by a fine pop singer, who at times does sing straight ahead jazz. ~Aaron/Amazon

Love Is The Thing

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Lena Horne - Being Myself

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:09
Size: 87.4 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 1998
Art: Front

[3:40] 1. Some Of My Best Friends Are The Blues
[2:25] 2. As Long As I Live
[4:24] 3. Autumn In New York
[3:14] 4. It's All Right With Me
[3:35] 5. A Sleepin' Bee
[5:47] 6. Imagination
[4:40] 7. How Long Has This Been Going On
[3:12] 8. After You
[3:51] 9. Willow Weep For Me
[3:16] 10. What Am I Here For

At 81, Lena Horne's voice has retained its wonderful clarity and abundant expression. She seems to sound better in every outing, and these 10 tracks underscore that conviction. Her distinctive style is most evident on the ballads, "As Long as I Live," "Autumn in New York," "Imagination," "Willow Weep for Me" and "How Long Has This Been Going On?"

Horne's blues bag is enhanced by tenor saxophonist Houston Person and organist Bobby Forrester on "Some of My Best Friends Are the Blues" and guitarist George Benson on "It's All Right With Me." Also on the album are vibraphonist Milt Jackson, saxophonist Donald Harrison, pianist Mike Renzi, bassist Benjamin Brown, drummer Akira Tana, and her longtime producer, Rodney Jones, on guitar. A thoroughly enjoyable half-hour-plus. ~Patricia Myers

Being Myself

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Lena Horne - Love Songs

Styles: Jazz, Vocal
Year: 1999
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:13
Size: 115,9 MB
Art: Front

(2:16)  1. It's Love
(3:12)  2. Love Me Or Leave Me
(3:21)  3. The Man I Love
(3:35)  4. You're The One
(3:25)  5. People Will Say We're In Love
(3:09)  6. Don't Take Your Love From Me
(3:20)  7. Love Is The Thing
(3:15)  8. Someone To Watch Over Me
(2:41)  9. At Long Last Love
(3:27) 10. I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
(3:05) 11. Love Me A Little Little
(3:19) 12. Let Me Love You
(3:08) 13. Mad About The Boy
(3:00) 14. I'm Through With Love
(2:41) 15. What Is This Thing Called Love?
(3:14) 16. You're My Thrill

Some of the more jazz-oriented highlights of Lena Horne's recording career are on this CD. Unfortunately the full personnel is not given, although the recording dates and the various orchestra leaders are. As one can ascertain from the CD's title, the emphasis is on love songs, but most of the music swings too. Horne is heard with the orchestras of Charlie Barnet in 1941 ("You're My Thrill"), Artie Shaw in 1941 ("Don't Take Your Love From Me" and "Love Me a Little Little" which also include uncredited solos from trumpeter Henry "Red" Allen and altoist Benny Carter), Lou Bring (also 1941), Marty Gold (1961), and her husband, Lennie Hayton (1955 and 1958). Among the highlights are "Love Me or Leave Me," "At Long Last Love," "I'm Confessin'," and "Mad About the Boy." If the packaging was more complete and the music programmed in chronological order, the rating would have been higher, for the music is quite good. ~ Scott Yanow  http://www.allmusic.com/album/love-songs-2000-mw0000673007

Personnel: Lena Horne (vocals); Artie Shaw (clarinet); Benny Carter (alto saxophone); Charlie Barnet (tenor saxophone); Henry "Red" Allen (trumpet).

Love Songs

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Lena Horne - The Essential Lena Horne: The RCA Years (2-Disc Set)

A scintillating and seductive singer, a great beauty, an enduring star and an African-American woman who profoundly influenced the world around her throughout a long,richly varied career. Lena Horne was a unique figure in American culture during the 20th century. Winner of four Grammys and a Tony Horne made some of her finest recordings for RCA Victor in the 1940s and 1950s,and they return to the catalogue in this collection of golden standards that begins and ends with the irreplaceable versions of her haunting signature song, "Stormy Weather".

Album: The Essential Lena Horne: The RCA Years (Disc 1)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:48
Size: 148.4 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2010

[3:21] 1. Stormy Weather
[3:20] 2. Good-For-Nothin' Joe
[2:55] 3. I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues
[2:41] 4. Where Or When
[3:22] 5. How Long Has This Been Going On
[3:21] 6. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
[2:39] 7. What Is This Thing Called Love
[3:09] 8. Love Me Or Leave Me
[3:15] 9. Let Me Love You
[2:55] 10. Mad About The Boy
[1:52] 11. From This Moment On
[3:15] 12. Love Is The Thing
[2:50] 13. If You Can Dream [from Meet Me In Las Vegas]
[2:10] 14. It's Love
[2:51] 15. Summertime
[3:06] 16. New-Fangled Tango
[2:15] 17. That Old Feeling
[3:29] 18. Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
[4:30] 19. Mood Indigo I'm Beginning To See The Light
[7:20] 20. Cole Porter Medley How's Your Romance After You Love Of My Life It's

The Essential Lena Horne: The RCA Years (Disc 1)

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Album: The Essential Lena Horne: The RCA Years (Disc 2)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:27
Size: 147.6 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[1:59] 1. Just One of Those Things
[2:58] 2. Honeysuckle Rose
[4:02] 3. Ain't it the Truth
[2:32] 4. Give Me Love [From I, Mobster]
[3:11] 5. Someone to Watch over Me
[2:25] 6. Push de Button [From Jamaica]
[3:26] 7. Speak Low
[3:33] 8. The Rules of the Road
[2:12] 9. You Don't Have to Know the Language
[3:53] 10. Napoleon
[2:38] 11. At Long Last Love
[2:40] 12. I Concentrate on You
[3:02] 13. Take It Slow, Joe [From Jamaica]
[7:15] 14. Jule Styne Medley A Ride on a Rainbow Never Never Land I Said No Some
[2:43] 15. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
[4:20] 16. The Man I Love
[3:58] 17. Watch What Happens
[3:41] 18. I Will Wait for You (Je Ne Pourrai Jamais Vivre Sans Toi)
[3:51] 19. Stormy Weather

The Essential Lena Horne: The RCA Years (Disc 2)

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Lena Horne - We'll Be Together Again

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:25
Size: 131.5 MB
Styles: Jazz-pop vocals
Year: 1994
Art: Front

[2:43] 1. Maybe
[4:43] 2. Something To Live For
[2:58] 3. Day Follows Day
[4:39] 4. Prelude To A Kiss
[3:23] 5. Love Like This Can't Last
[3:38] 6. We'll Be Together Again
[2:37] 7. A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing
[2:50] 8. Old Friend
[3:45] 9. You're The One
[2:56] 10. Havin' Myself A Time
[3:06] 11. My Mood Is You
[3:35] 12. I'll Always Leave The Door A Little Open
[4:33] 13. Do Nothing Til' You Hear From Me
[4:39] 14. Forever Was A Day
[4:17] 15. I've Got To Have You
[2:56] 16. My Buddy

Lena Horne is nine years older than the 70-something Tony Bennett, and like him has lost a good bit of power and tone from her voice. Unlike Bennett, though, she doesn't try to bull her way through her vocal limits on We'll Be Together Again; she stays within those limits and fashions a striking testament to the subtleties of romance and friendship in one's autumnal years. Billy Strayhorn was one of Horne's very best off-stage friends, and seven of the 16 tracks here were written by Strayhorn and/or his partner Duke Ellington. Three more songs--"My Buddy," "Old Friend" and the title tune--are heartfelt remembrances of those once dearest to Horne and now gone--Strayhorn, her ex-husband, her son, her hairdresser and her wardrobe mistress. ~Geoffrey Himes

We'll Be Together Again

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VA - Ladies In Blue: The Best Blue Note Female Vocals

Size: 175,6+164,6 MB
Time: 75:40+70:50
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Label: Blue Note Records
Art: Front

CD 1:
01. Stacey Kent - What A Wonderful World (4:24)
02. Norah Jones - Those Sweet Words (3:24)
03. The Bird & The Bee - How Deep Is Your Love (3:22)
04. Sabrina Starke - Yellow Brick Road (4:07)
05. Cassandra Wilson - Time After Time (4:05)
06. Traincha - What The World Needs Now (3:56)
07. Abbey Lincoln - Do Nothin' 'Til You Hear From Me (2:14)
08. China Moses - What A Difference A Day Makes (7:17)
09. Alice Ricciardi - Comes Love (4:27)
10. Billie Holiday - Detour Ahead (3:01)
11. Blossom Dearie - May I Come In (20 Bit Mastering 1998 Remastered Version) (2:12)
12. Julie London - I Left My Heart In San Francisco (2:48)
13. Jacinta - Baby Won't You Please Come Home (5:45)
14. Jutta Hipp With Zoot Sims - Violets For Your Furs (6:07)
15. Holly Cole & Javon Jackson - Hum Drum Blues (5:36)
16. Molly Johnson - Melody (3:44)
17. Grant Greens - Down Here On The Ground (Ummah Remix Feat. Dianne Reeves) (4:36)
18. Cecilie Norby - Set Them Free (4:27)

CD 2:
01. Priscilla Ahn - Dream (3:29)
02. Marlena Shaw - Feel Like Making Love (4:58)
03. Shirley Eikhard - There But For Love Go I (5:12)
04. Eliane Elias - They Can't Take That Away From Me (3:43)
05. Carmen Mcrae - The Man I Love (4:15)
06. Denise Jannah - You Must Believe In Spring (7:13)
07. Betty Carter - There Is No Greater Love (3:49)
08. Dodo Greene - Jazz In My Soul (2:35)
09. Jackie Allen - Lazy Afternoon (3:49)
10. Helen Eriksen - Arms Around You (4:45)
11. Lena Horne - Something To Live For (Live) (4:43)
12. Sarah Vaughan - Stormy Weather (With Jimmie Jones And Orchestra) (3:26)
13. Nancy Wilson - Call Me Irresponsible (2000 Remastered Version) (2:25)
14. Nina Simone - The House Of The Rising Sun (Live At The Village Gate 2004 Remastered Version) (4:37)
15. Sheila Jordan - Baltimore Oriole (2:34)
16. Sue Raney - Maybe You'll Be There (2006 Remastered Version) (2:23)
17. Annie Ross - I'm Just A Lucky So And So (4:46)
18. George Shearing - In The Night (2003 Remastered Version) (2:00)

Ladies In Blue CD 1
Ladies In Blue CD 2

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Lena Horne - Lovely And Alive

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1963
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 35:50
Size: 82,9 MB
Art: Front

(2:45)  1. Concentrate on You
(3:43)  2. I Get the Blues When It Rains
(3:06)  3. I've Grown Accustomed to His Face
(2:54)  4. I Got Rhythmn
(3:30)  5. I'm Confessin'
(1:49)  6. I Want to Be Happy
(3:31)  7. I Surrender, Dear
(2:11)  8. I Found a New Baby
(3:49)  9. I Understand
(2:45) 10. I Let a Song Go out of My Heart
(2:22) 11. I Aint' Got Nobody
(3:18) 12. I Only Have Eyes For You

"This is what James Gavin has in the book about the Lovely and Alive LP:"

Horne's RCA contract ran out in 1962...most of the record buying public just wouldn't warm to her...her last LP in the RCA contract finished her run in a blaze of glory.  On LENA...LOVELY & ALIVE (arranger) Marty Paich brought out the swing in Horne that Lennie Hayton never had; no wonder the gloss of his arrangements now felt smothering to her. Hayton couldn't have generated the crackling excitment that Paich did in his updating of "I Concentrate on You"....she growled and hissed, she bit ravenously into words like "sweet" and "tender"...so much of Horne's sexy singing had been an eye-rolling put-on; this time it had a ring of truth.  So did her smoldering desperation in "I Surrender Dear."  Stereo Review: "repudiating the excesses that have frequently marred her performances before audiences, she emerges here a supreme technician with an unerring ability to extract meaning from the material...her interpretive art is so formidable that even the most ordinary lyric takes on special meaning."  LOVELY & ALIVE received two Grammy Award nominations including Best Female Pop Vocal. http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/TheLenaHornePage/conversations/topics/2646 

Lovely And Alive

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