Give the Lady What She Wants explained

Give the Lady What She Wants
Type:	studio
Artist:	Lena Horne
Cover:	Lena-Horne-Give The Lady What She Wants.jpg
Released:	1958
Recorded:	1958
Genre:	Traditional pop
Length:	31:51
Label:	RCA Victor
Producer:	Fred Reynolds
Prev Title:	Lena Horne at the Cocoanut Grove
Prev Year:	1957
Next Title:	Porgy & Bess
Next Year:	1959

Give the Lady What She Wants is a 1958 studio album by Lena Horne, with Lennie Hayton and His Orchestra. The third studio album Lena Horne released on the RCA Victor label, this album peaked at #20 in the Billboard 200 album charts.^[1] The album has been re-issued on CD, firstly by BMG/RCA, Japan in 2004 and in 2010 by Avid Easy Records, together with two other studio albums, Stormy Weather and A Friend of Yours. This 2CD release also includes the live RCA Victor recordings At the Waldorf Astoria and the four tracks previously only available on the EP At the Cocoanut Grove.

Track listing

1. "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" (Leo Robin, Jule Styne) – 2:15
2. "People Will Say We're in Love" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 3:23
3. "Just in Time" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Styne) – 2:56
4. "Honey in the Honeycomb" (Vernon Duke, John La Touche) – 2:29
5. "You Better Know It" (Duke Ellington) – 2:55
6. "Get Out of Town" (Cole Porter) – 2:24
7. "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" (Robert C. Wright, George Forrest, Alexander Borodin) – 2:44
8. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:14
9. "At Long Last Love (song)" (Porter) – 2:40
10. "Speak Low" (Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill) – 3:29
11. "Love" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – 3:23
12. "Let's Put Out the Lights (and Go to Sleep)" (Herman Hupfeld) – 2:10

Personnel

Performance

• Lena Horne – vocals
• Lennie Hayton – arranger
• Ralph Burns - arranger

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lena Horne . AllMusic . 2012-02-18.