MFSL 2-094 LENA HORNE The Lady And Her Music JVC JAPAN AUDIOPHILE 2 LP SEALED

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LENA HORNE The Lady And Her Music
Live On Broadway
New & Sealed Audiophile Vinyl 2 Record Set

Record Label: Mobile Fidelity MFSL 2-094

This Original Master Recording was made using the half-speed production process. The pressing was sourced from the original stereo master tapes. The disc was specially plated and pressed on high definition Vinyl. These are considered by audiophiles to be among the finest recordings ever produced and very limited in quantity.

Record is new and still sealed in it's original loose shrink-wrap.  There is a price sticker on the shrink. There is some shelf wear along the top of the album and about a half inch tear in the shrink on the top. Corners are sharp, colors vibrant and spine is straight.

Songs:

Side One
1. Overture
2. From This Moment On
3. I Got a Name
4. I'm Glad There Is You
5. I Want to Be Happy
6. Copper Colored Gal
7. Raisin' the Rent
8. As Long as I Live
9. Lady With the Fan
10. Lena's Dialogue: "Cotton Club to Hollywood"
11. Where or When (Hollywood Sequence)

Side Two
12. Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
13. Lena's Dialogue: "Hollywood"
14. Just One of Those Things
15. Stormy Weather (Part I)
16. Love
17. Lena's Dialogue: "Broadway"
18. Push de Button
19. Lady Is a Tramp, The

Side 3
20. Deed I Do
21. Life Goes On
22. Watch What Happens
23. The Surrey With the Fringe on Top
24. Fly
25. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

Side 4
26. A Lady Must Live
27. Lena's Dialogue: "Love This Business"
28. That's What Miracles Are All About
29. Lena's Dialogue: "Early Career"
30. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
31. Stormy Weather (Part II)
32. If You Believe
33. Curtain Music / Stormy Weather

Review: The success of Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which opened at the Nederlander Theater on Broadway on May 12, 1981, and ran 333 performances, until June 30, 1982 (Horne's 65th birthday) was a cumulative one. Horne had been performing in nightclubs, theaters, and casinos for 40 years, singing many of the same songs she sang at the Nederlander, but somehow the Broadway context and her perseverance combined to make this more than a glorified club act.

Horne had the benefit of being an artist who had faced adversity (particularly, the vicissitudes of being an African-American star in Hollywood in the 1940s) and, if not triumphed, at least persisted, so that, as she reached her golden age, her struggles within the entertainment business could be seen as heroic. And, she was still at it, which made her, in the nomenclature of the time, a "survivor." That earned her gales of applause from theatergoers who had made the journey with her and from new fans who were too young to remember her and were discovering her anew.

The show made some attempt to at least trace the outlines of Horne's career from being a Cotton Club chorus girl in the 1930s to a movie star in the '40s. After a clutch of initial songs, an announcer made a Cotton Club announcement, and there was a short dramatic scene featuring several other performers who gave Horne a breather by doing a few numbers. Otherwise, she periodically interrupted the run of songs for personal reminiscences about her career as introductions to songs with which she was associated from her movie and previous Broadway musical appearances. The bulk of the show, however, was given over to her typically moving interpretations of classic songs by Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, Harold Arlen, and others. Among the new material, there was an emphasis on songs about endurance and self-reliance, in keeping with the overall theme, notably the Jim Croce hit "I Got a Name" and Paul Williams' "Life Goes On," both of which were turned into showstoppers. But then, the show was one showstopper after another, and a fitting capper to a great career.

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