At the Waldorf Astoria / At the Sands

Lena Horne | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 2, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B000063RUJ
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #86,845 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Today I Love Everybody

2. Let Me Love You

3. Come Runnin'

4. Cole Porter Medley: How's Your Romance/After You/Love Of My Life/It's All Right With Me

5. Mood Indigo/I'm Beginning To See The Light

6. How You Say It

7. Honeysuckle Rose

8. Day In - Day Out

9. New Fangled Tango

10. I Love To Love

11. From This Moment On

12. Maybe

13. The Man I Love

14. Get Rid Of Monday

15. Jule Styne Medley: A Ride On A Rainbow/Never Never Land/I Said No/Some People

16. You Don't Have To Know The Language

17. Out Of My Continental Mind

18. Rodgers And Hammerstein Medley: A Cock-Eyed Optimist/I Have Dreamed/Surrey With The Fringe On Top

19. Harburg Medley: Thrill Me/What Is There To Say/The Begat

20. Don't Commit The Crime

Editorial Reviews

Reissue of two - At The Waldorf Astoria & At The Sands RCA albums recorded live featuring renditions of 'The Man I Love', 'Honeysuckle Rose', and 'From This Moment On'. 20 tracks. 2002.

Customer Reviews

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Enchanting, July 9, 2003

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Oliver (Selma, IN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: At the Waldorf Astoria / At the Sands (Audio CD)

This is one of the Lena Horne recordings that make me wish I WAS Lena Horne. I don't usually enjoy live recordings but this album is perfect. She is very crisp and clear through the whole album. The audience creates a very curious atmosphere on the album- there are a few instances where the audience is laughing at Lena and something she is gesturing... but I think just the audio alone makes the listener outside of the joke.
In this album she is sassy and quirky- and I think these tracks give a little more insight into Lena's personality than the other non live recordings I have. Vocally she is very rich and obviously in her prime- she sings many standards but of course the one and only Lena Makes them her own! This is the number one Lena Album in my collection!

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Legendary recording, May 28, 2002

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Darius de Haas (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: At the Waldorf Astoria / At the Sands (Audio CD)

I couldn't wait 'til this CD arrived in the mail. I'm a hardcore Lena fan and I have owned the Lena at the Waldorf LP since I was a teen. What still gets me is how fresh it all still sounds. And those arrangements! Every student of popular singing (or singing period) should own this compilation. Her phrasing, intonation, her sense of time, her immaculate diction and just the way she puts over the song as a whole. I would venture to say that more singers than we realize are influenced (perhaps unconsciously) by Miss Horne. Just listen to the attitude and attack in the some of the 60's recordings of Streisand or recordings of Diahann Carroll, Johnny Mathis,Nancy Wilson,etc. I say all this to say, if you don't own this, you should!

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent Beyond Compare, June 26, 2002

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This review is from: At the Waldorf Astoria / At the Sands (Audio CD)

No one planned a club act the way Lena Horne and Lennie Hayton could. Unusual songs, little-heard songs, everything literate and sharp and meaningful and clever, arranged perfectly and delivered with supreme intelligence, heart and musical skill. Lena Horne is gorgeous, Lena Horne is a remarkable singer, Lena Horne is an entertainer without peer but above all she is an artist. And these two remarkable and thrilling albums proved it, as if it needs to be proved. The Waldorf album encouraged scores of other singers to open their shows with "Today I Love Everybody" and "Let Me Love You" and steal as much as they could from Lena, knowing she knew exactly what she was doing. Famous at the time for being sexy, aloof and simmeringly angry, Lena comes across today in the same exact recordings as warm, accessible and a great hostess. What a difference time makes! We just saw different things in her then than we see now, I guess. For anyone interested in the art of popular singing at its zenith, this is the C.D. to get. Forty years have not diminished this music's freshness and inventiveness nor the star power of this remarkable entertainer.