AVID Easy here presents four classic Lena Horne albums plus, including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD.
“ Stormy Weather” “Give the Lady What She Wants”,. “At the Waldorf Astoria”, “A Friend of Yours” plus the rare E.P. “At the Cocoanut Grove”
The liner notes for our first album “Stormy Weather” very accurately describe AVID’s latest recruit to our four classic album series. “In singing there is Ella. In night clubs there is Hildegarde. In the movies there is Lana…………..and in all three- in singing, night clubs and movies there is the entertainer supreme – Lena…………..a fascinating mixture of talent, charm and beauty………….This is Lena”. Across these classic albums we can hear Lena covering the songs of Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke on “A Friend Of Yours”. Covering the great American songbook with such classics as “Summertime”, “Mad About The Boy” and “Just One Of Those Things” on “Stormy Weather”. Experience Lena live in person on the album “At The Waldorf” where she performed in 1956 to record number of customers twice a night. And again on the rare E.P. “At The Cocoanut Grove” where she storms through classics by Rodgers & Hammerstein and Lerner & Loewe. Our four albums plus represent sensational value for money as you would expect to pay way over £100 to get them all individually!
All four albums plus, have been digitally re-mastered for probably the finest sound quality ever!
CD1
1-11: ‘Stormy Weather’
1. Tomorrow Mountain
2. Out of This World
3. Summertime
4. Mad About the Boy
5. Ridin’ on the Moon
6. Stormy Weather
7. Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home
8. Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
9. I’ll Be Around
10. I Wonder What Became of Me
11. Just One of Those Things
12-15: ‘Lena Horne at the Cocoanut Grove’
12. The Surrey with the Fringe on Top
13. Wouldn’t It Be Loverly
14. A Cock-Eyed Optimist
15. I Have Dreamed
16-27: ‘Give the Lady What She Wants’
16. Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend
17. People Will Say We’re in Love
18. Just in Time
19. Honey in the Honeycomb
20. You Better Know It
21. Get Out of Town
22. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
23. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
24. At Long Last Love
25. Speak Low
26. Love
27. Let’s Put Out the Lights and Go To Sleep
CD2
1-18: ‘At The Waldorf Astoria’
1. Announcement, introduction and play-on
2. Today I Love Everybody
3. Let Me Love You
4. Come Runnin’
5. Cole Porter Medley: How’s Your Romance? / After You, Who? / Love of My Life / It’s All Right with Me
6. How About You? (Orchestral link)
7. Duke Ellington Medley: Mood Indigo / I’m Beginning to See the Light
8. How You Say It
9. Orchestral link
10. Honeysuckle Rose
11. Day In - Day Out
12. Orchestral link
13. A New Fangled Tango
14. Orchestral link
15. I Love to Love
16. Orchestral link
17. From This Moment On
18. Orchestral play-off
19-30: ‘A Friend of Yours’
19. You Don’t Have to Know the Language
20. Like Someone in Love
21. It’s Anybody’s Spring
22. But Beautiful
23. Just My Luck
24. Get Rid of Monday
25. A Friend of Yours
26. It Could Happen to You
27. Sleigh Ride in July
28. My Heart is a Hobo
29. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
30. Ring the Bell
