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LENA HORNE - PLANET JAZZ SERIES FROM 1941 to 1958 (1999)

1.Stormy Weather     
2.What Is This Thing Called Lo...
3.Ill Wind
4.The Man I Love
5.Where or When
6.I Gotta Right to Sing the Blu...     
7.Moanin' Low      
8.I Didn't Know About You
9.One for My Baby     
10.As Long As I Live
11.I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Bl...
12.How Long Has This Been Go...     
13.It's Love  
14.Let Me Love You     
15.It's All Right With Me          
16.People Will Say We're In Lov...     
17.Just In Time           
18.Get Out of Town

Lena Horne served three separate tours of duty with RCA Victor Records, from 1941 to 1945, from 1955 to 1963, and from 1975 to 1976, making the label the largest repository for her recordings. While RCA has never reissued her work in any comprehensive manner, periodically the label assembles a single-disc compilation, and The Classic Lena Horne, part of its "100 Years of Music" centenary series, is yet another one. For once, terms like "greatest hits" and "best of" are not being used, which is a relief in Horne's case since, as annotator Colin Escott is at pains to point out, she didn't have much in the way of chart hits. Actually, unlike RCA's 2000 Greatest Hits album, this one does have her sole Top 20 hit, "Love Me or Leave Me." Also included is her 1941 recording of "Stormy Weather," made before she sang it in the movie of the same name and it became her signature song. Otherwise, compiler/sequencer Buzz Ravineau has adopted a roughly chronological approach and chosen a couple of other '40s performances ("One for My Baby [And One More for the Road]" and "How Long Has This Been Going On?") to go with various studio recordings made in the '50s and early '60s. Standards like Ira and George Gershwin's "Someone to Watch Over Me" and "I Got Rhythm" are mixed with less-well-known, but nevertheless impressive songs like Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh's "The Rules of the Road." The result is a sampler that is not, and does not claim to be, the best of Lena Horne on RCA, but that is instead a representative sampling of the kind of high-quality work she did for the label.

LENA HORNE - SONGS OF BURKE AND VAN HEUSEN (1959)

1.You Don't Have to Know the Language
2.Like Someone in Love
3.It's Anybody's Spring
4.But Beautiful
5.Just My Luck
6.Get Rid of Monday
7.A Friend of Yours
8.It Could Happen to You
9.Sleigh Ride in July
10.My Heart Is a Hobo
11.Polka Dots and Moonbeams
12.Ring the Bell

Songs by Burke and Van Heusen is a 1959 studio album by Lena Horne, of songs written by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen. This album was released in some countries with the alternative title A Friend Of Yours. Recorded with Lennie Hayton and His Orchestra at the RCA Victor studio, New York on December the 1st and 9th 1958, completed on January the 5th 1959.

LENA HORNE & HARRY BELAFONTE - PORGY & BESS (1959)

Harry Belafonte – A Women Is A Sometime Thing         
Lena Horne – Summertimme         
Harry Belafonte – Oh, I Got Plenty Of Nothin'         
Lena Horne – I Wants To Stay Here         
Lena Horne With Harry Belafonte – Bess, You Is My Women         
Lena Horne – It Ain't Necessarily So         
      
Street Calls

Harry Belafonte – Strawberry Women         
Harry Belafonte – The Honey Man         
Harry Belafonte – Crab Man         
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Lena Horne – My Man's Gone Now         
Harry Belafonte – Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?         
Lena Horne ; Harry Belafonte –     There's A Boat That's Leavin' Soon For New York

Porgy and Bess is an album by Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne, released by RCA Victor in 1959. It includes songs from George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess. Belafonte and Horne sing two songs together: "There's a Boat That's Leavin' Soon for New York" and "Bess, You is My Woman.

LENA HORNE - WE'LL BE TOGETHER AGAIN (1997)

1. Maybe    
2. Something To Live For    
3. Day Follows Day    
4. Prelude To A Kiss    
5. Love Like This Can't Last    
6. We'll Be Together Again    
7. A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing    
8. Old Friend    
9. You're The One    
10. Havin' Myself A Time    
11. My Mood Is You    
12. I'll Always Leave The Door A Little Open    
13. Do Nothin' 'Til You Hear From Me    
14. Forever Was A Day    
15. I've Got to Have You    
16. My Buddy

Lena Horne is nine years older than the 70-something Tony Bennett, and like him has lost a good bit of power and tone from her voice. Unlike Bennett, though, she doesn't try to bull her way through her vocal limits on We'll Be Together Again; she stays within those limits and fashions a striking testament to the subtleties of romance and friendship in one's autumnal years. Billy Strayhorn was one of Horne's very best off-stage friends, and seven of the 16 tracks here were written by Strayhorn and/or his partner Duke Ellington. Three more songs--"My Buddy," "Old Friend" and the title tune--are heartfelt remembrances of those once dearest to Horne and now gone--Strayhorn, her ex-husband, her son, her hairdresser and her wardrobe mistress. --Geoffrey Himes

LENA HORNE - YOU'RE MY THRILL (1990)

01. You're my thrill
02. Good-for-nothin' joe
03. Love me a little
04. Don't take your love from me
05. Stormy weather
06. What is this thing called love_
07. I'll wind
08. The man i love
09. Where or when
10. I gotta right to sing the blues
11. Moanin' low
12. I didn't know about you
13. One for my baby
14. As long i live

LENA HORNE AND GABOR SZABO - LENA & GABOR & GUITAR (2005)

1. My Mood Is You    
2. Galatea's Guitar    
3. Watch What Happens    
4. Something
5. Everybody's Talkin'
6. Fool on the Hill    
7. Song of Injured Love    
8. Ferris Wheel    
9. Yesterday When I Was Young    
10. Rocky Racoon    
11. A Message to Michael    
12. Night Wind    
13. In My Life
14. Fire Dance

Released in the autumn of 1970, 'Lena and Gabor' quickly charted in America and spawned a top 40 hit in 'watch what happens'. Gabor's eclectic guitar compliments Ms Horne's distinctive vocals perfectly in a set that includes covers of popular compositions by Bacharach & David, Fred Neil, George Harrison and three Lennon and McCartney songs, 'Fool on the Hill' 'In My Life' and the whimsical 'Rocky Racoon'