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Stormy Weather

"Stormy Weather," Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler s 1933 standard was written for Cab Calloway introduced by Arlen himself on a hit recording, and sung on-stage at the Cotton Club by Ethel Waters But it became the signature song of a teenager who was in the club's chorus line in those days, Lena Horne when she sang it a decade later in the movie musical of the same name. It was 14 years later that Horne would use the song as the title track of her first full-length studio LP. She had made a comeback with Lena Horne at the Waldorf Astoria and followed it with this collection of favorites such as "Summertime" and "Just One of Those Things," plus three songs from the Arlen Johnny Mercer musical St. Louis Woman The orchestra, packed with jazz musicians, was conducted by her husband, Lennie Hayton and the project was a triumph, matching a singer at her peak with some of her best material. The 2002 reissue on RCA BMG s Bluebird imprint adds ten bonus tracks to the original 11, including a previously unreleased earlier version of "Stormy Weather" employing a full string section, another unreleased track, "Come Runnin'," and period recordings drawn from singles and EPs, among them such show tune standards as Cole Porter s "From This Moment On," Lerner & Loewe s "Wouldn't It Be Loverly," and Rodgers & Hammerstein s "A Cock-Eyed Optimist," "I Have Dreamed," and "The Surrey With the Fringe on Top." The result is a superlative augmentation of the original release. Note that the title Stormy Weather is confusingly overused in Horne releases, even by RCA BMG which also has out a 2000 international release that is a compilation and an earlier Bluebird release called Stormy Weather: The Legendary Lena (1941-1958) not to mention European compilations on Prime Cuts Charly and Hallmark Don't be fooled. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

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Stormy Weather

UPC:

090266391127

Label:

RCA Victor

Released:

4/23/2002

Rating:

0

Disc:

1

Genre:

Music

Discs » 1

	Title	Time	Preview
1	Tomorrow Mountain (Remastered 2002)	4:15
2	Out Of This World (From "Out Of This World") (Remastered 2002)	5:37
3	Summertime (From "Porgy and Bess")	2:52
4	Mad About The Boy (Remastered 2002)	5:03
5	Ridin' On The Moon (Remastered 2002)	2:36
6	Stormy Weather (From "Cotton Club Parade")	3:45
7	Baby, Won't You Please Come Home	2:12
8	Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home (From "St. Louis Woman")	3:30
9	I'll Be Around	2:54
10	I Wonder What Became of Me (Remastered 2002)	4:17
11	Just One Of Those Things (From "Jubilee") (Remastered 2002)	3:20
12	Stormy Weather	3:52
13	Come Runnin'	2:53
14	From This Moment On (From "Kiss Me Kate")	1:53
15	A Cock-Eyed Optimist (From "South Pacific") (Remastered 2002)	5:28
16	I Have Dreamed	2:14
17	Surrey With The Fringe On The Top	3:48
18	Wouldn't It Be Loverly	2:51
19	What's Right For You (Is Right For Me) (Remastered 2002)	4:15
20	Sweet Thing (Remastered 2002)	3:49
21	That Old Feeling (Remastered 2002)	3:36