I wish we had singers like this this today. If you listen to what college students are listening to today, it's not music like this, but it's similar in the sense it sounds similar to other music of the time. They're gettin' back to non-synthetic music, the way it should be.
@ForeverComplaining What we need is a Lena REVIVAL. She seems to be forgotten since her death...how about some unreleased recordings? How about a coffeetable photo book? How about a good bio after the catty Gavin bio? Bio-pic?
If this is accurate, then I must echo nigel and carpentermanuel. She doesn't look a day past 30. Unlined, unwrinkled, fresh. She doesn't even sound 'old'. Damn good genes, that's for sure. RIP, Ms. Horne.
@tesubcalle , Black don't crack. It's true. White people have a lot of susceptibility to the sun damage and other elements of the atmosphere making them age physically much faster
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I see that apparently those shows were really live recording. But still I sometimes have the impression that her lip movements should alter a sound she makes slightly in its vibrance or intensity and they don't. Looks odd.
Besides that, beautiful singing! She's having fun and I love how she moves her mimics :) There should be more singers like her again. People should stop flashing their legs and breasts and really start singing again. It's much more satisfying and interesting.
ok i'm in 5th grade and for my black history program i'm doing lena horne and i did all her research but i finally decided to hear her. Dang. I just realized nobody can pick a better person for the program than me cuz wow she can sing.
Legend, hell. Lena Horne was a goddess. The song is from a sixties musical "High Spirits" (an adaptation of Coward's "Blithe Spirit") with Tammi Grimes. Petula Clarke recorded it, but Lena Horne's version here is all anyone needs.
Lena was what she was: a beautiful and talented lady who happened to break the color line just like Nat, Ella, Billie, Sammy - she was impossible to ignore. She lived in a world that was much more race-aware than today, & lost several roles in the movies because of her color. But by the sheer force of her talent she eventually overcame that and became universally accepted and admired. A shining prize in the Great American Songbook!
this is excellent singing -swinging and not corny at all!!!for me, very much in the 1960s mood although she wasn't a singer of the sixties but a star of the fourties.
@Rockstafeller I was very fortunate to meet and have a conversation with her in 1986, and I know that she would be very pleased and proud that people mentioned and acknowledged "the Black" in her..... She always did!
@Rockstafeller It is worthy to me because you said "the Black" in her is almost nonexistant. Does that mean that you prefer to IGNORE "the Black in her"? Why?
@ike60miles1 who says about ignoring? no one chooses their ancestry. you can be dominantly white mulatto, whats the problem? like jen beals and lots of prominent AAs from civil rights era
@Rockstafeller I was very fortunate to meet and have a conversation with her in 1986, and I know that she would be very pleased and proud that people mentioned and acknowledged "the Black" in her..... She always did! Her parents were Black and so was she!
@ike60miles1 sorry, but no, at least one of her parents was white and its mentioned in her biography. you dont have to be actually black racially to be black in pre-civil rights america, isnt that obvious? ever heard of segregation & one drop rule?
@Rockstafeller WRONG! Both sides of her family were a mixture of African American, European American, and Native American descent. Have I ever heard of segregation & one drop rule? You betcha! That's part of the history of my family!
@Rockstafeller Well, I won't continue the debate about something that's NONEXISTANT in your mind. I'll just have a look in my mirror. I suggest you do the same. Lena Horne was a great American who happened to be BLACK.
i dont have enough words to say how much i love you miss horne, the only word that came to my head is THANK YOU... thank you for so much joy you gave to my life.. i know that you are better now doing what you really wanted to do baby.. now you are maybe singing with miss fitzgerald and miss holiday in heaven and with all your friends, its been a long time gorgeous, now sleep and sweet dreams miss lena.... see you soon
Brings tears to my eyes knowing that she did. And Lena, I've always loved you. While you were here, and I will continue to while you're gone. Tell my auntie I'm doing fine. RIP you beautiful songbird.
"My identity is very clear to me now. I am a black woman. Im free. I no longer have to be a credit. I dont have to be a symbol to anybody; I dont have to be a first to anybody. I dont have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped Id become. Im me, and Im like nobody else. -Lena Horne
@Depstate. Your hatred against white people is exactly what you despise in racist whites
Read obit in NYTimes. Said black kids she grew up around teased her about having a white daddy, which she did not. You're a bully but at least those kids probably grew up!
@tizianoscott Just want to let you know that you are hypocritical because you just assumed that guy was black and he is not.. He is a racist (non-black) guy...
@tizianoscott I cant believe that Black people still have issues with our skin color. Most of us are mixed with white and come in varying shades and there is nothing we can do about it. My father was also teased for being too light and my mother was teased for being too dark sometimes and now Im teased for being too yellow. Humans are amazing! lol
@Deptstate799 Black enough? to white? makes no sense!! talent is universal and a gift to all, its not her color that made her great` it was her skill and talent that did. period.
RIP Madame Horne, your voice was legendary and you will be eternally missed... and for the record, she just passed away today, so I'm not trying to start anything...so please no backlash. My apologies if this upsets anyone...
@MCLAMB4LIFE92 You can tell this is NOT dubbed! I actually can't recall one Lena Horne performance where she did lipsync.... P.S. Can u believe she is 50 here! Gosh... a true gem.
It is classless of you to bash Shirley Bassey. Both Lena Horne and Dame Shirley Bassey are beautiful, talented, and accomplished women of color. What have you done of note?
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I dont get it. Whats so great about Lena Horne? I much prefer Ella, Streisand, Aretha, Dinah Washington, Besse Smith, Billie Holiday, Whitney... hell, even Lady Gaga is less boring. Maybe I'm just not seeing the right performance.
Gosh, I think this clip shows exactly what made her special. The voice itself is perhaps not the greatest, but the musicality, the style, and, for me, the diction that makes every word clear and meaningful set her apart. Apart from all that, who could be more beautiful? I could just sit and stare at her. Give her another chance!
I think you have answered your own question with the answer. You have listed some of the great female voices and each and every one is different. It's o.k. if you don't care for a particular artist but you can still appreciate the fact that they do have something to sustain a career as long as Lena! I will send you an e-mail on some performances to check out. As for comparing Lena to Lady Gaga--that is plain Gaga!
What was so great about Lena Horne is: she's got beauty, energy, intensity, a great voice, class, elegance, and a totally unique singing style that was different from anyone else, often imitated but never really successfully. In front of a live audience, she was awesome. I saw her live in 1982, and it was an experience. You couldn't take your eyes off her. She had a very, very long career as a singer, with recordings going back from around 1940 until 1999 or so. That's almost 60 years!
There was another tune from this exact show- I Concentrate on you and someone took it off . Does anyone know where I can see it again. It is astounding it is so good.
The dress may be a Pucci or a Pucci knockoff. This type of dress was very popular during the mid to late 60s. In fact, I guessed correctly that the year was 1967 just seeing the dress, before I saw the year on the right side. Author Jackie Susann helped popularize Pucci, saying they folded and traveled well.
I didn't say they looked Identical. But they do feature one another. Maybe not now but when Shirley was younger they did. You must not like Shirley or something? Anyway, both I love and both are beautiful!
@NYCguys2007 I agree, They just happen to be two light skinned Black women with poise and class. Shirley is half African and British with totally different features and they have two totally different voices. Strong, classy women but different.
Wow, can jadenight express his/her opinion without being jumped on? I personally agree to a certain degree. I think Lena Horne looks even whiter than some white people I know. But that isn't what's important. Her talent is what's important. And I don't think it's fair when someone gets slammed for expressing an opinion. It's their frickin' opinion, man...let's lighten up! :)
she is mixed has both white and black descent thats why shes like thats yes it look like a wig but look at her when she was young you could really tell she was mixed
Your saying that because you are white yeah she may not have the stereotypical deep dark brown skin super coarse hair large negroid feautures but it's obvious she has a significant amount of black in her ..
You can look at her skin color and hair texture and tells shes not white.
lol i am not white. She is white, sorry. Her skin is white, her features screams white. But yeah...its whatever not going to argue with someone over the computer
Did it ever occur to you that Ms. Horne had plastic surgery on her nose? Most all black glamour girl types did, such as Diahann Carroll. Plus, Lena is wearing a wig.
Wrong! Lena Horne is of mixed ancestry! She has the same complexion and features(except my mom has red, no..flaming red hair) as the woman who gave birth to me....a black woman. You need to learn that people in all ethnicities come in an array of different colors. My great aunt was one of the first black performers to perform at Carnegie Hall.. only they did not know she was black they thought, as you do of Ms Horne that she was a white woman.
She learned that when satisfactory evidence of respectable black parents is lacking, being light-skinned implies illegitimacy and having an underclass white parent and is thus a disgrace in the black community. When her mother married a white Cuban, Lena also learned that blacks can be very hostile to the white spouse, especially when the "black" mate is very light. At this time she began to blame the confused color line for her childhood troubles.
Lena Horne's parents had separated, and when she was seven her entertainer mother began placing her in a succession of homes in different states. Her favorite place was in the home of her Uncle Frank, her father's brother, a red-haired, blue-eyed teacher in a black. school in Georgia. The black children in that community asked her why she was so light and called her a "yellow bastard."
Lena lived with her father's parents until she was about seven years old. Her grandfather was very light and blue-eyed. Her fair-skinned grandmother was the daughter of a slave woman and her white owner, from the family of John C. Calhoun, well-known defender of slavery. One of her father's great-grandmothers was a Blackfoot Indian, to whom Lena Horne has attributed her somewhat coppery skin color.
Lena Horne's parents were both very light in color and came from black upper-middle-class families in Brooklyn (Horne and Schickel, 1965; Buckley, 1986).
what does it matter what her race is? i mean yes she is lighter than most black ppl but as a black person i can say that we have all different shades from very dark to very (light) areu saying lena wouldnt be beautiful if she were dark skinned?
OK everyone, i'd just like to say i am mixed race black caribbean father white english mother,i of all people can spot another mixed race person,even if they are almost white,Lenas parents could have been both black and even darker than lena,but because they have a white ancestor lena inherited this,so she is classed as black even though she looks mulatto like me,but race is superficial anyway,shes black and white,its sad that mgm were racist towards this talentedbeautiful woman, Enjoy folks!
lena is 60+ years in this video old and still very beautiful and exellent voice,ive never seen a 60 year old look so good,even better than a comparable 30 year old.
She's actually 50 years old in this video (born 1917). But if you check out later videos of her taken in the 1970s thru the 1990s, you'll see how youthful she remained.
It's in her autobiography; there's also a book about her family history.
Lena's partents were black but the entire family on both sides is racial mixed. There's all sorts of white, and native american in there. Her mother had blue eyes and passed for white; her son green eyes.
A new book bio is coming out soon I hear that will detail all of this too, if you care.
Lena Horne is probably one of the most beautiful women in the entertainment business. The great thing about her is that she endured the racism and came out on top as a woman, as an entertainer and as a great human being. She raised the bar for what people can achieve in life if they just apply themselves.
Lena Horne is a great example for every race in existence, and not just blacks. There should be more women like her and fortunately for me I married one.
Whitney Houston (When she was younger) was actually the most beautiful woman in show buisness. i don't really know lena horne she's not of my generation as i was born in the 90's but i've heard alot about her and i know she was in the wiz with michael jackson and diana ross
I know what its about but was referring to an earlier comment regarding her being black. Follow the comments and you'd see that. I am not going to go into some diatribe w/ you about what i said. I said it and that is that. Blacks age better than whites and she brings up that conversation all of the time so get used to it!
I wish we had singers like this this today. If you listen to what college students are listening to today, it's not music like this, but it's similar in the sense it sounds similar to other music of the time. They're gettin' back to non-synthetic music, the way it should be.
SpazChat 3 weeks ago
Wow she looks lovely and sounds good!
I love people like her judy garland and ella fitzgerald! They are my favourites from that era =)
ForeverComplaining 1 month ago
@ForeverComplaining What we need is a Lena REVIVAL. She seems to be forgotten since her death...how about some unreleased recordings? How about a coffeetable photo book? How about a good bio after the catty Gavin bio? Bio-pic?
NYCguys2007 1 month ago
@NYCguys2007 Yes!
ForeverComplaining 1 month ago
I thought I had heard all of Lena's songs, but I had not heard this one nor have I ever seen this performance. Thanks!
tomayahokov 5 months ago
"A New Fangled Tango" sung live is a gem beyond compare. Can anyone help an old man please?
Alkibiades2010 5 months ago
Extremely beautiful woman. There could only be one Lena. Sadly missed beautiful angel...thank you for your talent and tremendous class.
jim4146 5 months ago
Spectacular:)
jewelsheartsmakeup 6 months ago
DUDE. 50?!!!!!!!!
If this is accurate, then I must echo nigel and carpentermanuel. She doesn't look a day past 30. Unlined, unwrinkled, fresh. She doesn't even sound 'old'. Damn good genes, that's for sure. RIP, Ms. Horne.
tesubcalle 7 months ago
@tesubcalle , Black don't crack. It's true. White people have a lot of susceptibility to the sun damage and other elements of the atmosphere making them age physically much faster
SpazChat 3 weeks ago
Simply put...a beautiful gal with a marvelous voice.
zildj1an 7 months ago
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Cerandubois 8 months ago
I see that apparently those shows were really live recording. But still I sometimes have the impression that her lip movements should alter a sound she makes slightly in its vibrance or intensity and they don't. Looks odd.
Besides that, beautiful singing! She's having fun and I love how she moves her mimics :) There should be more singers like her again. People should stop flashing their legs and breasts and really start singing again. It's much more satisfying and interesting.
Jokaire 8 months ago
The microphone is usually on a boom above the performer.....those shows were live...in those days people had TALENT! x
tyjeffries 9 months ago
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And who wouldn't love a white woman that pretends to be black!
MrSluggo666 9 months ago
Absolutely friggin brilliant.
imonthebox 9 months ago
ok i'm in 5th grade and for my black history program i'm doing lena horne and i did all her research but i finally decided to hear her. Dang. I just realized nobody can pick a better person for the program than me cuz wow she can sing.
xxHanna99 9 months ago
@xxHanna99 We who grew up with these people in our lives feel sorry for you kids.
dyinglikeflies 9 months ago
That's my great Gram!!!
elmobear21 11 months ago
nyc cant be talkin cause i bet you cant sang!
realroxane77 11 months ago
Half of my high school graduating class didn't look as good as she does here! lol
LaCriollaRoja 11 months ago
Legend, hell. Lena Horne was a goddess. The song is from a sixties musical "High Spirits" (an adaptation of Coward's "Blithe Spirit") with Tammi Grimes. Petula Clarke recorded it, but Lena Horne's version here is all anyone needs.
unclealand 1 year ago
she is so beautiful ! True Legend
MegaRubyWoo 1 year ago
Lena was what she was: a beautiful and talented lady who happened to break the color line just like Nat, Ella, Billie, Sammy - she was impossible to ignore. She lived in a world that was much more race-aware than today, & lost several roles in the movies because of her color. But by the sheer force of her talent she eventually overcame that and became universally accepted and admired. A shining prize in the Great American Songbook!
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i lovve this song;)
boxxes14 1 year ago
i lovve this song<3
boxxes14 1 year ago
Beautiful singer and women. So sad we have lost her.
Pattifish 1 year ago
I saw this and Fell in Love with this song wish I could find it on a cd or something !!!! It's so up beat
carebearfaith 1 year ago
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ike60miles1 1 year ago
she looked like she had soo much fun singing this... :-)
dolemitedavis 1 year ago
j'adore
light2ame 1 year ago
Just a effortlessly regal beauty, always class personafied.
keashle 1 year ago
Halle Berry should play the role as Lena Horne in a bio pic . In this vid they look like they could be related . RIP Lena Horne .
BlackMusicGenre 1 year ago
Lena is at her best here. Such a marvelous talent, RIP Ms. Horne.
I've also heard this song sung by Petula Clark.
pgh45rpms 1 year ago
this is excellent singing -swinging and not corny at all!!!for me, very much in the 1960s mood although she wasn't a singer of the sixties but a star of the fourties.
swingmanu 1 year ago
ii cant believed shedied...lena horne was my hero.!!!!!!!
brenus08 1 year ago
She was 50?!
She looks 30!
Black don't crack(x
What a darling, the music world will miss her dearly. RIP
nigel1034 1 year ago 11
@nigel1034 lol the Black in her is almost NONEXISTANT, why did you have to mention that
Rockstafeller 1 year ago
@Rockstafeller I was very fortunate to meet and have a conversation with her in 1986, and I know that she would be very pleased and proud that people mentioned and acknowledged "the Black" in her..... She always did!
ike60miles1 1 year ago
@ike60miles1 but how is that worthy admiration? it's a FACT, its neither good or bad.
Rockstafeller 1 year ago
@Rockstafeller It is worthy to me because you said "the Black" in her is almost nonexistant. Does that mean that you prefer to IGNORE "the Black in her"? Why?
ike60miles1 1 year ago
@ike60miles1 who says about ignoring? no one chooses their ancestry. you can be dominantly white mulatto, whats the problem? like jen beals and lots of prominent AAs from civil rights era
Rockstafeller 1 year ago
@Rockstafeller I was very fortunate to meet and have a conversation with her in 1986, and I know that she would be very pleased and proud that people mentioned and acknowledged "the Black" in her..... She always did! Her parents were Black and so was she!
ike60miles1 1 year ago
@ike60miles1 sorry, but no, at least one of her parents was white and its mentioned in her biography. you dont have to be actually black racially to be black in pre-civil rights america, isnt that obvious? ever heard of segregation & one drop rule?
Rockstafeller 1 year ago
@Rockstafeller WRONG! Both sides of her family were a mixture of African American, European American, and Native American descent. Have I ever heard of segregation & one drop rule? You betcha! That's part of the history of my family!
ike60miles1 1 year ago
@ike60miles1 nope. her grandma was 3/4 white, married with half white, half indian man. that makes at least 1 of lena's parents WHITE.
Rockstafeller 1 year ago
@Rockstafeller Well, I won't continue the debate about something that's NONEXISTANT in your mind. I'll just have a look in my mirror. I suggest you do the same. Lena Horne was a great American who happened to be BLACK.
ike60miles1 1 year ago
@Rockstafeller both of her parents were black. Get over it she was a beautiful black woman, as many are!
missVeemack 1 year ago
@Rockstafeller She even said she was black. and she clearly looks like a black woman. Get over it! She was beautiful and black!
missVeemack 1 year ago
@missVeemack wtf? of course she wasnt. and get over what? im merely stating a fact, like sky is blue and yall actin all offended, like always smh
yeah, halle berry says shes black too, black is a vague term in america
Rockstafeller 1 year ago
@missVeemack she could say she's asian. no one chooses to be black or not geez
Rockstafeller 1 year ago
She aged soooo well. Beautiful.
teeizhot 1 year ago
She was 50 here omg she looks amazing!
Laurencestar 1 year ago
@Laurencestar I agree !
New2010Me 1 year ago
Continental elemental... I love her eye movements... and eyebrow lifts.
SuddenSparkles 1 year ago
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r i p lena xx
chachaheels1 1 year ago
r. i p lena xx
chachaheels1 1 year ago
RIP "Mother DIVA OF ALL Divas....
motorcitymiguel 1 year ago
Incredibly beautiful! I saw an interview of her in 1997 when she was 80. She still was still beautiful and elegant.
traductoritaliano 1 year ago
i dont have enough words to say how much i love you miss horne, the only word that came to my head is THANK YOU... thank you for so much joy you gave to my life.. i know that you are better now doing what you really wanted to do baby.. now you are maybe singing with miss fitzgerald and miss holiday in heaven and with all your friends, its been a long time gorgeous, now sleep and sweet dreams miss lena.... see you soon
TheJazzStreet 1 year ago
@TheJazzStreet With you . Great sentiments-thanks.
teazle2 1 year ago
"Love me while you may, tomorrow I may fly away"
Brings tears to my eyes knowing that she did. And Lena, I've always loved you. While you were here, and I will continue to while you're gone. Tell my auntie I'm doing fine. RIP you beautiful songbird.
LaBelleOfTheBall2 1 year ago
Goodbye, Miss Lena; you were a gift to life itself.
Salutes.
N.
ThinkingManNeil 1 year ago
"My identity is very clear to me now. I am a black woman. Im free. I no longer have to be a credit. I dont have to be a symbol to anybody; I dont have to be a first to anybody. I dont have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped Id become. Im me, and Im like nobody else. -Lena Horne
3sun3reign3 1 year ago 7
@Depstate. Your hatred against white people is exactly what you despise in racist whites
Read obit in NYTimes. Said black kids she grew up around teased her about having a white daddy, which she did not. You're a bully but at least those kids probably grew up!
tizianoscott 1 year ago
@tizianoscott Just want to let you know that you are hypocritical because you just assumed that guy was black and he is not.. He is a racist (non-black) guy...
3sun3reign3 1 year ago
@tizianoscott I cant believe that Black people still have issues with our skin color. Most of us are mixed with white and come in varying shades and there is nothing we can do about it. My father was also teased for being too light and my mother was teased for being too dark sometimes and now Im teased for being too yellow. Humans are amazing! lol
khalilahinjapan 1 year ago
HER TEETH OMG!! FLAWLESS! She's was GORGEOUS!
UrLvr4Lf 1 year ago
@Deptstate799 Black enough? to white? makes no sense!! talent is universal and a gift to all, its not her color that made her great` it was her skill and talent that did. period.
globehunter2 1 year ago
God gave her so much beauty she needed 92 years just to share it with the world.
she actually lived 3 life times in one` what a rich and glorious career. Lena Horne
was universal and touched many people around the globe. Even in passing she
still amazes us with her magic.
globehunter2 1 year ago
This is one Classy talented woman..RIP beautiful lady:)
giveluv1 1 year ago
tatooss would be uncivilized on this classy lady.....way too much charm and grace.
MICKEYSMONKEY 1 year ago
She was 49 years old here! Man She looks good!
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newsandviews2009 1 year ago
She did this one the year I was born....
cherriac19 1 year ago
Talented, poised, beautiful, courageous, a difference maker - how can it be any better. Love you Lena and thank you so much.
bestfire2004 1 year ago
I would have never know she was 50 when she was singing this, she was so pretty.
volleyball994pimp 1 year ago
Genius!! She's one of the greats. It's also hard to believe she's 50 in this clip. Good genes I guess.
xx
ScottCapurro 1 year ago
She was black, beautiful, and aged so well
yael8907 1 year ago
beautiful woman
lovelydiva06 1 year ago
Real Talent! Real Singing! Grace & Poise!
Where has it all gone today???
surfitlive 1 year ago
rip
BigPreme 1 year ago
her teeth look weird.
rip lena.
k77jones 1 year ago
One of the greats of all time. Thanks for the memories, Lena.
pdelliot 1 year ago
God blessyou we love you Lena- RIP
dzssavvyevents 1 year ago
Thank you for everything, Ms. Horne! May God rest your soul in sweet heavenly peace!
SEFYH 1 year ago
what is she 50 here? She is so beautiful!
delov1 1 year ago
A great song from a great lady and a good lesson for us all
crobj001 1 year ago
VIVA LENA, we will miss you
joesatana 1 year ago
Dear, beautiful, talented Lena, rest in peace.
Hunterunc 1 year ago
RIP Madame Horne, your voice was legendary and you will be eternally missed... and for the record, she just passed away today, so I'm not trying to start anything...so please no backlash. My apologies if this upsets anyone...
Renj 1 year ago
Is this on one of her albums or just a cover live performance?
MCLAMB4LIFE92 1 year ago
@MCLAMB4LIFE92 It's not on an album I think it was because she was between recording contracts.
NYCguys2007 1 year ago
@MCLAMB4LIFE92 this was obviously recorded in a studio and libdubbed for television as often those days
swingmanu 1 year ago
@swingmanu no, it's live. No dub. Dean Martin's shows were always LIVE.
NYCguys2007 1 year ago
@MCLAMB4LIFE92 You can tell this is NOT dubbed! I actually can't recall one Lena Horne performance where she did lipsync.... P.S. Can u believe she is 50 here! Gosh... a true gem.
jillianryan 1 year ago
Drop dead GORGEOUS and oooh sooooo TALENTED! Thanks for posting. Lena is an original.
miznatacha 1 year ago
I want a dress like this one... it is georgeous
Reneefah7 1 year ago
shirley bassey looks like a transvestite next to this woman!
less01 1 year ago
@less01
It is classless of you to bash Shirley Bassey. Both Lena Horne and Dame Shirley Bassey are beautiful, talented, and accomplished women of color. What have you done of note?
direfranchement 1 year ago
Sexy and Amazing voice.
Drealist87 2 years ago
Let me think about that but she was born in 1917 and if it was 1967 she was 50 years old!! oh my she looked great at that age!!!
carpentermanuel 2 years ago 17
@carpentermanuel
great point. She was 50 then, and Madonna is 50 now, uggghhhhh
simply2ghetto 1 year ago
LADY LENA the most beautiful woman in the world. May God bless you with many more years of health and strength.
goldleader505 2 years ago
Streisand stole everything from this woman.....
yaleboy716 2 years ago
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I dont get it. Whats so great about Lena Horne? I much prefer Ella, Streisand, Aretha, Dinah Washington, Besse Smith, Billie Holiday, Whitney... hell, even Lady Gaga is less boring. Maybe I'm just not seeing the right performance.
cinemaman3105 2 years ago
she is class..
jvane2010 2 years ago 3
Gosh, I think this clip shows exactly what made her special. The voice itself is perhaps not the greatest, but the musicality, the style, and, for me, the diction that makes every word clear and meaningful set her apart. Apart from all that, who could be more beautiful? I could just sit and stare at her. Give her another chance!
bjmiceli 2 years ago
I think you have answered your own question with the answer. You have listed some of the great female voices and each and every one is different. It's o.k. if you don't care for a particular artist but you can still appreciate the fact that they do have something to sustain a career as long as Lena! I will send you an e-mail on some performances to check out. As for comparing Lena to Lady Gaga--that is plain Gaga!
leesterg 2 years ago
What was so great about Lena Horne is: she's got beauty, energy, intensity, a great voice, class, elegance, and a totally unique singing style that was different from anyone else, often imitated but never really successfully. In front of a live audience, she was awesome. I saw her live in 1982, and it was an experience. You couldn't take your eyes off her. She had a very, very long career as a singer, with recordings going back from around 1940 until 1999 or so. That's almost 60 years!
dave00004483 2 years ago 2
Yes, the wig is a tip-off. I'd say the dress is Pucci-inspired, let's put it that way.
defundthewar 2 years ago
Beautiful woman, so full of class and so talented....wow....
juanchito26 2 years ago
Does anyone know what happened to the black and white version of I Concentrate on You?? SO incredible - please repost it!!
meghanstettler 2 years ago
Her dentist was beautiful too! But nevertheless! Very nice!
HR5308 2 years ago
There was another tune from this exact show- I Concentrate on you and someone took it off . Does anyone know where I can see it again. It is astounding it is so good.
waymarie 2 years ago
That dress is beautiful!!
Bigewest 2 years ago 2
The dress may be a Pucci or a Pucci knockoff. This type of dress was very popular during the mid to late 60s. In fact, I guessed correctly that the year was 1967 just seeing the dress, before I saw the year on the right side. Author Jackie Susann helped popularize Pucci, saying they folded and traveled well.
defundthewar 2 years ago
Many of us come from families that look like Lena. It's that American mixture of Native American/ Black /European.
Personally, the idea of "race" is a stupid one that has only come about in the last 500 years or so.
Cino1 2 years ago
is she lip syncing becuase i don't see a microphone
brianjohns5 2 years ago
The singing is LIVE (song was never on a record) using a boom mike from above. There's no audience, just a sound stage - the audience is fake.
NYCguys2007 2 years ago 3
Does anyone else see any resembles between Lena and Shirley Bassey?
mikenoil2 2 years ago
Um, no. NO NO NO NO.
NYCguys2007 2 years ago
I didn't say they looked Identical. But they do feature one another. Maybe not now but when Shirley was younger they did. You must not like Shirley or something? Anyway, both I love and both are beautiful!
mikenoil2 2 years ago
Incorrect, I have nothing against Shirley. But Lena and Shirley = nothing similar, don't look alike, don't sound alike. Apples and oranges, imho.
NYCguys2007 2 years ago
@NYCguys2007 i think it might be the cosmetics they used back then. everybody looked the same. one time i mistook flip wilson for tom jones! lol j/k
lorimneal 1 year ago
@NYCguys2007 I agree, They just happen to be two light skinned Black women with poise and class. Shirley is half African and British with totally different features and they have two totally different voices. Strong, classy women but different.
HaliB75 1 year ago
She looked hella good at 50.
GurlCaa 2 years ago
Was thinking the exact same thing, people could take notice of that nowadays! No botox, just natural beauty.
AnonymousPrincess 2 years ago 12
that is kind of offensive are you saying a black person cant be attractive unless they have lenas complexion?
leplaq 2 years ago
I love Lena Horne...She is supposed to be related down the line...and i can seriously see it...
SexiSimone05 3 years ago
Yeah, related, I'm sure....(LOL)
NYCguys2007 2 years ago
Really...No lie
SexiSimone05 2 years ago
Love Lean Horne...what a beautiful legend who paved the way for all minorities
bbennett04 3 years ago 2
Wow, can jadenight express his/her opinion without being jumped on? I personally agree to a certain degree. I think Lena Horne looks even whiter than some white people I know. But that isn't what's important. Her talent is what's important. And I don't think it's fair when someone gets slammed for expressing an opinion. It's their frickin' opinion, man...let's lighten up! :)
dtp8806 3 years ago
She's not "white" she's olive.
NYCguys2007 2 years ago
Great song! And she looks fabulous. She was already 50 that time! There are nearly no lines in her face!
19myself91 3 years ago
she is mixed has both white and black descent thats why shes like thats yes it look like a wig but look at her when she was young you could really tell she was mixed
vegrox 3 years ago
This is such a feel good song! You can tell Lena is having so much fun singing it! She is so damn gorgeous!
SEFYH 3 years ago 2
she is white. She has no black features whatso ever..i hate that one drop rule...no one would know she's black unless she told them
jadenight0 3 years ago
YOu sound ignorant !
Your saying that because you are white yeah she may not have the stereotypical deep dark brown skin super coarse hair large negroid feautures but it's obvious she has a significant amount of black in her ..
You can look at her skin color and hair texture and tells shes not white.
ANyone wiht eyes can see leena horne is BLACK !!!
suconi1234 3 years ago
lol i am not white. She is white, sorry. Her skin is white, her features screams white. But yeah...its whatever not going to argue with someone over the computer
jadenight0 3 years ago
it doesn't matter, she has black in her genetic makeup so she is black and white mixed, get over yourself.
Anandaluv 3 years ago
suconi1234, the "hair texture" is a wig.
jadenight0, see my nose comment.
lenahorneclub 3 years ago
Did it ever occur to you that Ms. Horne had plastic surgery on her nose? Most all black glamour girl types did, such as Diahann Carroll. Plus, Lena is wearing a wig.
lenahorneclub 3 years ago
jadenight0, you're an idiot.
leadingbyxample 3 years ago
Wrong! Lena Horne is of mixed ancestry! She has the same complexion and features(except my mom has red, no..flaming red hair) as the woman who gave birth to me....a black woman. You need to learn that people in all ethnicities come in an array of different colors. My great aunt was one of the first black performers to perform at Carnegie Hall.. only they did not know she was black they thought, as you do of Ms Horne that she was a white woman.
hiemsgirl 2 years ago
Lena is fucking Haley up very bad she looks damn good this comming from someone young enough to be her grandchild
puzziemonster 3 years ago
LOVE LENA HORNE.Thanks for the vid.deejaygrl
deejaygrl 3 years ago 2
she seemed to get more beautiful w/ age....and thnx connel for the information, its really really interesting.
starcharm 3 years ago 2
She learned that when satisfactory evidence of respectable black parents is lacking, being light-skinned implies illegitimacy and having an underclass white parent and is thus a disgrace in the black community. When her mother married a white Cuban, Lena also learned that blacks can be very hostile to the white spouse, especially when the "black" mate is very light. At this time she began to blame the confused color line for her childhood troubles.
connellterell 3 years ago
Lena Horne's parents had separated, and when she was seven her entertainer mother began placing her in a succession of homes in different states. Her favorite place was in the home of her Uncle Frank, her father's brother, a red-haired, blue-eyed teacher in a black. school in Georgia. The black children in that community asked her why she was so light and called her a "yellow bastard."
connellterell 3 years ago
Lena lived with her father's parents until she was about seven years old. Her grandfather was very light and blue-eyed. Her fair-skinned grandmother was the daughter of a slave woman and her white owner, from the family of John C. Calhoun, well-known defender of slavery. One of her father's great-grandmothers was a Blackfoot Indian, to whom Lena Horne has attributed her somewhat coppery skin color.
connellterell 3 years ago
Lena Horne's parents were both very light in color and came from black upper-middle-class families in Brooklyn (Horne and Schickel, 1965; Buckley, 1986).
connellterell 3 years ago
what does it matter what her race is? i mean yes she is lighter than most black ppl but as a black person i can say that we have all different shades from very dark to very (light) areu saying lena wouldnt be beautiful if she were dark skinned?
leplaq 3 years ago
You tell it like it's. Almost all races have different shades of color. And most probably make distinction of it.
airjor1 3 years ago
OK everyone, i'd just like to say i am mixed race black caribbean father white english mother,i of all people can spot another mixed race person,even if they are almost white,Lenas parents could have been both black and even darker than lena,but because they have a white ancestor lena inherited this,so she is classed as black even though she looks mulatto like me,but race is superficial anyway,shes black and white,its sad that mgm were racist towards this talentedbeautiful woman, Enjoy folks!
jasy221 3 years ago
lena is 60+ years in this video old and still very beautiful and exellent voice,ive never seen a 60 year old look so good,even better than a comparable 30 year old.
jasy221 3 years ago
She's actually 50 years old in this video (born 1917). But if you check out later videos of her taken in the 1970s thru the 1990s, you'll see how youthful she remained.
beaugarsNYC 3 years ago
she is not 60 in this video lol she is in her 30's
leplaq 3 years ago
dude. didnt you read the guy's comment above you? she was born in 1917. the vid is 1967. in her 30's? do the math lol
cologneprince 3 years ago
very beautiful lady i did a portrait of her.
bentleysportraits 3 years ago
She is so stunning ...I hope when I am older ... I look that pretty. She reminds me of my aunt!!!
YellowTexasRose90 3 years ago
no. she isn't.
acfg1989 3 years ago
wikipedia isn't an accurate source.
on her imdb page there is no mention of native american blood.
on her nnd page her ethnicity is listed as black.
she is NOT indian.
acfg1989 3 years ago
she is not multiracial.
acfg1989 3 years ago
NO SHE IS NOT
millsbrothers 3 years ago
she probably has native or white blood
so i guess on that level she's mixed
but nearly half of african americans are mixed then
acfg1989 3 years ago
She has said she is, why don't you call her and tell her "NO, YOU ARE NOT!!!"
lenahorneclub 3 years ago
WHERE DID SHE SAY IT?
millsbrothers 3 years ago
It's in her autobiography; there's also a book about her family history.
Lena's partents were black but the entire family on both sides is racial mixed. There's all sorts of white, and native american in there. Her mother had blue eyes and passed for white; her son green eyes.
A new book bio is coming out soon I hear that will detail all of this too, if you care.
lenahorneclub 3 years ago
she's not a black indian.
she's african american.
acfg1989 3 years ago
Lena is so talented! Not too mention beautiful and classy as well.
Keezie27 3 years ago
Lena Horne is probably one of the most beautiful women in the entertainment business. The great thing about her is that she endured the racism and came out on top as a woman, as an entertainer and as a great human being. She raised the bar for what people can achieve in life if they just apply themselves.
Lena Horne is a great example for every race in existence, and not just blacks. There should be more women like her and fortunately for me I married one.
BoomerNavy70 3 years ago
Whitney Houston (When she was younger) was actually the most beautiful woman in show buisness. i don't really know lena horne she's not of my generation as i was born in the 90's but i've heard alot about her and i know she was in the wiz with michael jackson and diana ross
xMizShaylax 3 years ago
She is 50 here??!!! Good Lord, she looks much better than someone my age (22)! Well, I guess one more thing that makes her AMAZING!
sweetbabyblack 3 years ago
I know what its about but was referring to an earlier comment regarding her being black. Follow the comments and you'd see that. I am not going to go into some diatribe w/ you about what i said. I said it and that is that. Blacks age better than whites and she brings up that conversation all of the time so get used to it!
fxjma34 3 years ago 2
I love that smile she gives at the very end of the performance! Classic Lena!!
SEFYH 3 years ago
I think i'll be humming this around the office tmrw as well. May even skip while i hum it!
fxjma34 3 years ago
She is 50 years old on this which is proof she is black. Look at that! And.i am white
fxjma34 3 years ago