Released 1957 Length 35:39 | Recorded 1957 Release date 1957 Genre Traditional pop music | |
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Lena Horne at the Waldorf Astoria is a 1957 live album by Lena Horne, conducted by Lennie Hayton, recorded in Stereo at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on the evening of February 20, 1957. One of the first non-classical live albums to be recorded in Stereo, the monaural album peaked at #24 in the Billboard Hot 200 and became the best selling record by a female artist in the history of the RCA Victor label. The album was re-issued on CD in 2002, by Collectables Records, together with Horne's 1961 live album Lena Horne at the Sands.
Contents
Track listing
- "Today I Love Everybody" (Harold Arlen, Dorothy Fields) - 2.55
- "Let Me Love You" (Bart Howard, Lou Levy) - 3.06
- "Come Runnin'" (Roc Hillman) - 2.42
- Cole Porter Medley: "How's Your Romance?"/"After You"/"Love of My Life"/"It's All Right with Me" - 7:21
- "Mood Indigo"/"I'm Beginning to See the Light" (Duke Ellington, Mitchell Parish, Barney Bigard, Irving Mills)/(Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James) - 4:30
- "How You Say It" (Matt Dubey, Harold Karr) - 3:16
- "Honeysuckle Rose" (Fats Waller, Andy Razaf) - 2:59
- "Day In, Day Out" (Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer) - 2:07
- "New Fangled Tango" (Dubey, Karr) - 3:06
- "I Love to Love" (Herbert Baker) - 4:20
- "From This Moment On" (Porter) - 1:57
Personnel
Songs
1Today I Love Everybody2:55
2Let Me Love You3:06
3Come Runnin'2:42
References
Lena Horne at the Waldorf Astoria Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA