LENA HORNE - 20 Golden Pieces Of LP 78 w The Incomparable LP 63 w The Essential (feat. Gabor Szabo) 2LP 76 w The Lady And Her Music [Live On Broadway] 2LP 83 w LENA HORNE & GABOR SZABO - Lena & Gabor LP 70 w LENA HORNE & RICARDO MONTALBAN - Jamaica LP 57

 Bringing my Lena collection to harvest this weekend and having got from Goodwill and not heard before they are all keepers--especially the Lena & Gabor album from 1970 which first featured her Rocky Raccoon which was familiar to me but had other great Super Bad kind of tunes.  She was very in touch with her audience and I would put her up with Chuck Mangione as similar or perhaps the US female response to the Beatles since she covered so many of their tunes.  Per Discogs:  

Real Name:  Lena Mary Calhoun Horne

Profile:  American singer, actress, dancer and civil rights activist.

Born June 30, 1917, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Died May 9, 2010, Manhattan, New York, USA.

She was secretly married to musical director and composer Lennie Hayton in 1947, but because of the delicate politics of the interracial match led the couple to move to Paris for a while, and they avoided publicly announcing the marriage for three years.

In 1942, she became the first African-American performer to be put under contract by a major studio. She fought with first lady Eleanor Roosevelt to pass anti-lynching laws. The combination of Horne’s disarming talent and fierce individuality created a powerful force in breaking down racial barriers in Hollywood and beyond.

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