Lena Sings Your Requests is a 1963 studio album by Lena Horne, arranged by Bob Florence and Marty Paich. After a long and successful partnership with RCA Victor, where Horne was signed between 1955-1962, Lena Horne signed at the lesser known Charter label releasing only two albums on the label both in 1963. This the first was recorded in Hollywood on January the 15th and 17th 1963 and released in the spring of 1963 on the Charter label.[2] For this album Horne returned to re-record many songs that she had previously recorded in the 1940s and 1950s, several of which she had performed on screen, such as "Honeysuckle Rose" and "Can't Help Lovin' That Man". The album also features the fourth studio recording of the song "Stormy Weather" by Lena Horne. The album was reissued on CD in 2008 by Fresh Sound Records together with the album Lena Like Latin.
| Lena Sings Your Requests | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1963 | |||
| Recorded | 1963 | |||
| Genre | Traditional pop | |||
| Label | Charter Records | |||
| Producer | Dick Peirce | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| New Record Mirror |  [1] |
Track listing edit
- "Love" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – 2:47
- "I Wish I Was Back In My Baby's Arms" (K. Goell, Duke Ellington) - 2:29
- "Why Was I Born?" (Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern) - 2:19
- "Good For Nothin' Joe" (Ted Koehler, Rube Bloom) - 3:34
- "Love Me Or Leave Me" (Gus Kahn, Walter Donaldson) - 2:53
- "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" (Paul Francis Webster, Duke Ellington) - 3:43
- "Stormy Weather" (Ted Koehler, Harold Arlen) - 3.17
- "Poppa Don't Preach To Me" (Frank Loesser) - 2:20
- "Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf, T. Waller) - 2:54
- "The Lady Is A Tramp" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 2:17
- "Lover Man" (James Edward Davis, Roger 'Ram' Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman - 3:23
- "Can't Help Lovin' That Man" (Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern) - 2:43
Personnel edit
Performance
- Lena Horne – vocals
- Jack Sheldon - trumpet
- Bud Shank - alto sax
- Gene DiNovi - piano
- Shelly Manne - drums
- Marty Paich – arranger (tracks 3-7, 9, 11, 12), conductor, orchestration
- Bob Florence - arranger (tracks 1, 2, 8, 10)
Production
- Dick Peirce - producer
- Jim Malloy - recording engineer
References edit
- ^ Watson, Jimmy (2 November 1963). "Lena Horne: Sings Your Requests" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 138. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-06-07. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
- ^ Lena Sings Your Requests at AllMusic