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Lena Horne
| No. | Track Name | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Polka Dots And Moonbeams | Lena Horne |
| 2 | It's Anybodys Spring | Lena Horne |
| 3 | But Beautiful | Lena Horne |
| 4 | My Heart Is A Hobo | Lena Horne |
| 5 | Summertime | Lena Horne |
| 6 | Mad About The Boy | Lena Horne |
| 7 | I Wonder What Became Of Me | Lena Horne |
| 8 | You Don’t Have To Know The Language | Lena Horne |
| 9 | Like Someone In Love | Lena Horne |
| 10 | Ring The Bell | Lena Horne |
| 11 | Baby Wont You Please Come Home | Lena Horne |
| 12 | Get Rid Of Monday | Lena Horne |
| 13 | A Friend Of Yours | Lena Horne |
| 14 | Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home | Lena Horne |
| 15 | Just My Luck | Lena Horne |
| 16 | Tomorrow Mountain | Lena Horne |
| 17 | Out of This World | Lena Horne |
| 18 | I'll Be Around | Lena Horne |
| 19 | It Could Happen To You | Lena Horne |
| 20 | Sleigh Ride In July | Lena Horne |
| 21 | Ridin On The Moon | Lena Horne |
| 22 | Stormy Weather | Lena Horne |
| 23 | Just One of Those Things | Lena Horne |
Civil Rights Movement
Horne was deep involved within the Civil Rights movement. During World War II, strongly she refused to perform “for segregated audiences”, when she saw the black soldiers sit in the back seats, she walked off the stage to the first row where the black troops were seated and performed with the Germans behind her. She was involved in the Medgar Evers’ fight, and she was at a rally with him the weekend before Evers was assassinated. She also met President John F. Kennedy at the White House two days before he was assassinated. She was at the March on Washington and worked with Eleanor Roosevelt to pass anti-lynching laws.
Career
Lena Horne was born in Brooklyn in 1917. Both sides of her family were a mixture of European American, Native American, and African-American descent, and belonged to the upper part of the middle-class.
In 1933 she started her career as chorus line of the Cotton Club in New York City and sooner after che moved to the cinema world, where, step by step, movie by movie, song by song, became famouse. But in the middle of the Fifties, after a lot of major appearences, she decided to leave Hollywood and its fakeness firstly for the night club scene then for TV programs.
