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Released July 15, 1997

This British compilation chronicles the first decade of Lena Horne's recording career, from her start at age 18 with Noble Sissle and His Orchestra to the end of her 20s. Though it is subtitled "22 Hits," the disc contains only two actual hits, "Stormy Weather" and "One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)," which were the only hits Horne scored during this period. Nevertheless, she enjoyed a varied career, starting with the breathless -- and probably nervous -- performance of "I Take You" with Sissle and continuing with more confident stints in the bands of Charlie Barnet and Artie Shaw, a session of W.C. Handy songs with a Dixieland band, and the lush, orchestral arrangements she encountered on the Hollywood sound stages. Throughout, she sings winningly, clearly articulating the lyrics of Cole Porter, Noël Coward, and Johnny Mercer, among others, and swinging even the more staid charts. She did not record extensively during this period, and one is struck by her growth as a singer and the changes in musical style from session to session. But she always handles the material well, if not always as masterfully as she would later in her career. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

TRACKS

1. I Take to You
2. That's What Love Did to Me?
3. Good-For-Nothin' Joe
4. You're My Thrill
5. All I Desire
6. St. Louis Blues
7. Careless Love
8. Aunt Hagar's Blues
9. Beale Street Blues
10. Don't Take Your Love from Me
11. Out of Nowhere
12. Prisoner of Love
13. Stormy Weather
14. What Is This Thing Called Love?
15. Ill Wind
16. Mad About the Boy
17. Moanin' Low
18. Where or When
19. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
20. As Long as I Live
21. How Long Has This Been Going On?
22. Frankie and Johnny

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