Lena: A New Album

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Lena: A New Album
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Studio album by
Released1976
Recorded1976
Genre Traditional pop
Length52:02
Label RCA Records
Producer Nat Shapiro, Norman Schwartz
Lena Horne chronology
Lena & Michel
(1975)
Lena: A New Album
(1976)
Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music
(1981)
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Lena: A New Album is a 1976 studio album by Lena Horne, arranged by Robert Farnon. [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "I've Grown Accustomed to His Face" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 3:55
  2. "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:30
  3. "My Funny Valentine" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:39
  4. "Some Day My Prince Will Come" (Frank Churchill, Larry Morey) – 4:18
  5. "I've Got the World on a String" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 5:33
  6. "Softly, as I Leave You" (Hal Shaper, Antonio DeVito, Giorgio Calabrese) – 3:48
  7. "I Have Dreamed" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Rodgers) – 4:46
  8. "A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing" (Billy Strayhorn) – 3:18
  9. "I've Got to Have You" (Kris Kristofferson) – 3:52
  10. "My Ship" (I. Gershwin, Kurt Weill) – 5:20

Personnel

Performance

Production

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