Here is the finest single-CD compilation available of the 40s & 50s hits of one of the most exciting entertainers of them all: Lena Horne.

In May 2010 Lena Horne died at the ripe age of 92. She was an exciting, dynamic performer of striking appearance and elegant style. With her satin-smooth, attractively husky voice, and stunning, exotic good looks she had been a great star for nearly seven decades - alongside the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee and Judy Garland.

Retrospective’s 'Stormy Weather' pays tribute by encapsulating her career from her very first recording, her Judy Garland-sounding teenage debut track That’s What Love Did To Me, through to 1959. There is a lively quartet of W C Handy hits, dixieland-style from 1941, as well as sessions with several of the great jazz bands, led by Charlie Barnet, Artie Shaw and Teddy Wilson.

Also from the 40s are nine superb standards that include her marvellous interpretation of Stormy Weather, the finest ever recorded. Nine vibrant numbers from the 50s present Lena Horne as the nightclub entertainer par excellence, closing with her unforgettable A New-Fangled Tango.

Contents:
1. Stormy Weather
2. That’s What Love Did To Me
3. Good-For-Nothin’ Joe
4. You’re My Thrill
5. The St. Louis Blues
6. Careless Love
7. Aunt Hagar’s Blues
8. Beale Street Blues
9. Don’t Take Your Love From Me
10. Out Of Nowhere
11. Prisoner Of Love
12. What Is This Thing Called Love?
13. Ill Wind
14. Mad About The Boy
15. Moanin’ Low
16. Where Or When
17. One For My Baby And One More For The Road
18. As Long As I Live
19. How Long Has This Been Going On?
20. Love Me Or Leave Me
21. Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?
22. That Old Feeling
23. It Ain’t Necessarily So
24. Come Runnin’
25. From This Moment On
26. A New-Fangled Tango