| Lena Horne at the Waldorf Astoria | ||||
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| Live album by Lena Horne | ||||
| Released | February 20, 1957 | |||
| Recorded | December 31, 1956 | |||
| Venue | Empire Room, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City | |||
| Genre | Traditional pop | |||
| Length | 35:39 | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
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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 December 31, 1956. 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.
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
- Lena Horne – vocals
- Nat Brandwynne & His Orchestra – orchestra
- Lennie Hayton – conductor
References
- Allmusic review
- "Lena Horne at the Waldorf Astoria". Allmusic. Archived from the original on October 2, 2011. Retrieved March 5, 2011.
- www.playbill; RCA Victor Lena Horne at the Waldorf Astoria Archived 2011-06-29 at the Wayback Machine
- New York Times; Lena Horne Lena Horne at the Waldorf Astoria. Archived 2010-08-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Lena Horne Lena Horne at the Waldorf Astoria Billboard Hot 200 album charts