Feelin' Good (Lena Horne album)

Feelin' Good
Studio album by Lena Horne
Released	1965
Recorded	1965
Genre	Traditional pop Vocal jazz
Length	31:51
Label	United Artists
Producer	Ray Ellis
Lena Horne chronology
Here's Lena Now! (1964) Feelin' Good (1965) Lena in Hollywood (1966)

Feelin' Good is a 1965 studio album by Lena Horne, arranged by Ray Ellis ^[1] and released on United Artists Records.

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Record Mirror	[2]

The Allmusic review by William Ruhlmann awarded the album three and a half stars and said that "Feelin' Good was a typical effort as she (Horne) and arranger/producer Ray Ellis surveyed the current state of pop and show music to find some new items for her repertoire...To this material, Ellis applied neo-swing big-band arrangements, and Horne applied her characteristic vocal attitude and punch. It wasn't enough to make listeners forget the sometimes definitive recordings of these songs done earlier by others, but Horne was, as usual, a powerful enough musical personality to stake her claim to them stylishly and confidently". ^[1]

Track listing

1. "A Wonderful Day Like Today" (Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse)
2. "Take the Moment" (Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim)
3. "I Wanna Be Around" (Sadie Vimmerstedt, Johnny Mercer)
4. "Feeling Good" (Newley, Bricusse)
5. "Pleasures and Palaces" (Frank Loesser)
6. "Who Can I Turn To?" (Newley, Bricusse)
7. "Less Than a Second" (Ray Ellis, George David Weiss)
8. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronnell)
9. "The Boy from Ipanema" (Vinícius de Moraes, Norman Gimbel, Antônio Carlos Jobim)
10. "Softly as I Leave You" (Hal Shaper, Antonio De Vita, Giorgio Calabrese)
11. "And I Love Him" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
12. "Hello Young Lovers" (Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II)

Personnel

• Lena Horne – vocals
• Ray Ellis – arranger

References

1. "Feelin' Good". Allmusic . Retrieved October 15, 2011.
2. Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (April 2, 1966). "Lena Horne: Feelin' Good" (PDF). Record Mirror . No. 264. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 1, 2022. Retrieved August 22, 2022.