Lena Horne at the Sands explained

Lena Horne at the Sands
Type:live
Artist:Lena Horne
Cover:Lena Horne-Lena At The Sands.jpg
Released:1961
Recorded:November 3–5, 1960
Venue:Sands Hotel, Las Vegas Strip
Genre:Traditional pop
Length:52:02
Label:RCA Victor
Producer:Dick Peirce
Prev Title:Songs by Burke and Van Heusen
Prev Year:1959
Next Title:Lena on the Blue Side
Next Year:1962

Lena Horne at the Sands is a 1961 live album by Lena Horne, her second live recording released by RCA Victor. Recorded over three evenings, the 3rd to the 5th of November 1960, at the Sands Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. Re-issued on CD in 2002 on the BMG Collectables label together with Lena Horne at the Waldorf Astoria.

Track listing

  1. "Maybe" (Billy Strayhorn) - 2:25
  2. "The Man I Love" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 4:20
  3. "Get Rid of Monday" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 2:56
  4. Jule Styne Medley: "A Ride on a Rainbow"/"Never Never Land"/"I Said No"/"Some People" - 7:15
  5. "You Don't Have to Know the Language" (Burke, Van Heusen) - 2:12
  6. "Out of My Continental Mind" (Shaw, Burt Bacharach) - 2:27
  7. Rodgers and Hammerstein Medley: "A Cock-Eyed Optimist"/"I Have Dreamed"/"The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" - 7:04
  8. Yip Harburg Medley: "Thrill Me"/"What Is There to Say"/"The Begat" - 6:35
  9. "Don't Commit the Crime" (Shaw, Horne) - 5:34

Personnel

Performance