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This two-fer CD from DRG Records combines the contents of successive LPs that Lena Horne recorded for United Artists Records in the mid-'60s, Feelin' Good and Lena in Hollywood. Feelin' Good was a typical effort, as she and arranger/producer Ray Ellis surveyed the then-current state of pop and show music to find some new items for her repertoire. They focused in on the just-opened (on Broadway, that is) Leslie Bricusse/Anthony Newley musical The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd for the opening track "On a Wonderful Day Like Today," as well as the album's title track and the song from the show that had already become a standard (and a hit for Tony Bennett), "Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)." The Great White Way also provided source material in the 1965 Richard Rodgers show Do I Hear a Waltz? with "Take the Moment" (lyrics by Stephen Sondheim) and the title song from Frank Loesser's Broadway-bound (but, as it turned out, never-arrived) musical Pleasures and Palaces. Horne and Ellis also turned to some recent hit parade material for covers, including "I Wanna Be Around" (Bennett again), "Willow Weep for Me" (a 1932 copyright just successfully revived by Chad & Jeremy), "The Girl from Ipanema" (Stan Getz with Astrud Gilberto), "Softly as I Leave You" (Frank Sinatra), and "And I Love Him" (aka "And I Love Her," the Beatles). To this material, Ellis applied neo-swing big-band arrangements, and Horne applied her characteristic vocal attitude and punch. It wasn't enough to make listeners forget the sometimes definitive recordings of these songs done earlier by others, but Horne was, as usual, a powerful enough musical personality to stake her claim to them stylishly and confidently. Lena in Hollywood found her in familiar territory, singing songs associated with motion pictures. Some, such as "In Love in Vain," the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II song from Centennial Summer, and Kern and Dorothy Fields' "A Fine Romance" from Swing Time, were standards of decades' standing, while others were recent. Horne treated them all with the same enthusiasm, shining especially on uptempo numbers like Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer's "It Had Better Be Tonight" from The Pink Panther. Ellis' charts were sometimes surprising, notably the unusual arrangement of "Singin' in the Rain" that kicked the album off (but is track 13 here). The result was a typically classy effort for Horne.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
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Ray Ellis, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Anthony Newley, ComposerLyricist - Leslie Bricusse, ComposerLyricist - Lena Horne, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1965 Capitol Records, LLC
Stephen Sondheim, Composer - Richard Rodgers, Composer - Lena Horne, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1965 Capitol Records, LLC
Johnny Mercer, ComposerLyricist - Sadie Vimmerstedt, ComposerLyricist - Lena Horne, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1965 Capitol Records, LLC
Anthony Newley, ComposerLyricist - Leslie Bricusse, ComposerLyricist - Lena Horne, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1965 Capitol Records, LLC
FRANK LOESSER, Composer - Lena Horne, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1965 Capitol Records, LLC
Anthony Newley, Composer - Leslie Bricusse, Composer - Lena Horne, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1965 Capitol Records, LLC
GEORGE DAVID WEISS, Composer - Lena Horne, MainArtist - Raymond S. Elliss, Composer
(C) 2007 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1965 Capitol Records, LLC
Lena Horne, MainArtist - Ann Ronell, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1965 Capitol Records, LLC
Norman Gimbel, Author - Vinicius De Moraes, Author - António Carlos Jobim, Composer - Lena Horne, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2007 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1965 Capitol Records, LLC
Antonio De Vita, ComposerLyricist - Hal Shaper, ComposerLyricist - Ray Ellis, Conductor - Giorgio Calabrese, ComposerLyricist - Lena Horne, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1965 Capitol Records, LLC
John Lennon, ComposerLyricist - Paul Mccartney, ComposerLyricist - Lena Horne, MainArtist - Kazumi Yasui, Translator
(C) 2007 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1965 Capitol Records, LLC
Richard Rodgers, Composer - Lena Horne, MainArtist - Oscar Hammerstein II , Author
(C) 2007 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1965 Capitol Records, LLC
Robert Norberg, Mastering Engineer, Remixer, StudioPersonnel - Ray Ellis, Conductor, Producer - ARTHUR FREED, Author - NACIO HERB BROWN, Composer - Lena Horne, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1966 Capitol Records, LLC
Robert Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jerome Kern, Composer - Lena Horne, MainArtist - Leo Robin, Composer
(C) 2007 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1992 Capitol Records, LLC
Billy Towne, ComposerLyricist - Ray Ellis, Producer - Lena Horne, MainArtist - Manos Hadjidakis, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1996 Capitol Records, LLC
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Stephen Sondheim, Composer - Lena Horne, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1966 Capitol Records, LLC
Robert Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ray Ellis, Conductor, Producer - Sammy Cahn, ComposerLyricist - Lena Horne, MainArtist - Jimmy Van Heusen, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1966 Capitol Records, LLC
Burt Bacharach, Composer - Hal David, Author - Lena Horne, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1966 Capitol Records, LLC
Robert Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Johnny Mercer, ComposerLyricist - Henry Mancini, ComposerLyricist - Lena Horne, MainArtist - Bob Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - FRANCO MIGLIACCI, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1997 Capitol Records, LLC
Ray Ellis, Producer - Johnny Mercer, ComposerLyricist - Henry Mancini, ComposerLyricist - Kevin Reeves, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lena Horne, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2007 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1991 Capitol Records, LLC
Ray Ellis, Producer - Jerome Kern, ComposerLyricist - Dorothy Fields, ComposerLyricist - Lena Horne, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1966 Capitol Records, LLC
Robert Norberg, Mastering Engineer, Remix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ray Ellis, Conductor, Producer - Cole Porter, ComposerLyricist - Lena Horne, MainArtist
(C) 2007 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1994 Capitol Records, LLC
David, ComposerLyricist - Lena Horne, MainArtist - Ernest Gold, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1966 Capitol Records, LLC
Album review
This two-fer CD from DRG Records combines the contents of successive LPs that Lena Horne recorded for United Artists Records in the mid-'60s, Feelin' Good and Lena in Hollywood. Feelin' Good was a typical effort, as she and arranger/producer Ray Ellis surveyed the then-current state of pop and show music to find some new items for her repertoire. They focused in on the just-opened (on Broadway, that is) Leslie Bricusse/Anthony Newley musical The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd for the opening track "On a Wonderful Day Like Today," as well as the album's title track and the song from the show that had already become a standard (and a hit for Tony Bennett), "Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)." The Great White Way also provided source material in the 1965 Richard Rodgers show Do I Hear a Waltz? with "Take the Moment" (lyrics by Stephen Sondheim) and the title song from Frank Loesser's Broadway-bound (but, as it turned out, never-arrived) musical Pleasures and Palaces. Horne and Ellis also turned to some recent hit parade material for covers, including "I Wanna Be Around" (Bennett again), "Willow Weep for Me" (a 1932 copyright just successfully revived by Chad & Jeremy), "The Girl from Ipanema" (Stan Getz with Astrud Gilberto), "Softly as I Leave You" (Frank Sinatra), and "And I Love Him" (aka "And I Love Her," the Beatles). To this material, Ellis applied neo-swing big-band arrangements, and Horne applied her characteristic vocal attitude and punch. It wasn't enough to make listeners forget the sometimes definitive recordings of these songs done earlier by others, but Horne was, as usual, a powerful enough musical personality to stake her claim to them stylishly and confidently. Lena in Hollywood found her in familiar territory, singing songs associated with motion pictures. Some, such as "In Love in Vain," the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II song from Centennial Summer, and Kern and Dorothy Fields' "A Fine Romance" from Swing Time, were standards of decades' standing, while others were recent. Horne treated them all with the same enthusiasm, shining especially on uptempo numbers like Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer's "It Had Better Be Tonight" from The Pink Panther. Ellis' charts were sometimes surprising, notably the unusual arrangement of "Singin' in the Rain" that kicked the album off (but is track 13 here). The result was a typically classy effort for Horne.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 23 track(s)
- Total length: 01:03:53
- Main artists: Lena Horne
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Capitol Records
- Genre: Jazz
© 2007 Capitol Records, LLC This Compilation ℗ 2007 Capitol Records, LLC
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