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Released April 02, 2002

Due the permanence of film, Lena Horne may be destined to be best known for her guest appearances in a series of MGM musicals, but her real strength was live performance, whether she was dancing on the stage of the Cotton Club in her teens or sweeping across the stage of a Las Vegas casino hotel in her forties. This discount-priced two-fer reissue captures two of her typical live appearances, one from New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in 1957, the other from the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas in 1960. At both she is supported by her husband, conductor Lennie Hayton. She proves to be the epitome of sophisticated supper-club entertainment, turning in medleys of songs by Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Jule Styne, Rodgers & Hammerstein, and E.Y. "Yip" Harburg. The selections range from pop standards to obscure gems, each of them given a letter-perfect reading in Horne's knowing voice. The singer is just as effective rendering a song like "The Man I Love," which has been recorded many times, as she is introducing her audience to Burt Bacharach's still-unknown "Out of My Continental Mind." Put together on one disc, the two albums (each of which was long for an LP in its day) come off like one almost-80-minute show that is full of delights and discoveries. These are well-balanced nightclub sets, but they are not recitals of Horne's hits; only "Honeysuckle Rose" was a song she sang in one of her movies. Thus, this collection is a good complement to a Horne best-of, with little overlapping material. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

TRACKS

1. Today I Love Everybody [From the Farmer Takes a Wife]
2. Let Me Love You
3. Come Runnin'
4. Cole Porter Medley: How's Your Romance?/After You/Love of My Life/It's
5. Mood Indigo/I'm Beginning to See the Light
6. How Do You Say It
7. Honeysuckle Rose
8. Day In - Day Out
9. New-Fangled Tango
10. I Love to Love
11. From This Moment On [From Out of This World]
12. Maybe
13. The Man I Love
14. Get Rid of Monday
15. Jule Styne Medley: A Ride on a Rainbow/Never Never Land/I Said No/Some
16. You Don't Have to Know the Language
17. Out of My Continental Mind
18. Rodgers and Hammerstein Medley: A Cock-Eyed Optimist/I Have Dreamed
19. Harburg Medley: Thrill Me / What Is There to Say / The Begat
20. Don't Commit the Crime

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