Tony Bennet & Lena Horne Tribute to Harold Arlen
Harold Arlen is the composer of classic blues songs like Blues In The Night, I \Gotta Right To Sing The Blues as well as soaring ballads like Over The Rainbow and torch songs like One For My Baby, Come Rain or Come Shine and Ill Wind, a Cotton Club song written with lyricist Ted Koehler.
Tony Bennett, after working with Arlen on a television tribute to the Buffalo born composer stated that
" Besides him being the greatest professional man I ever met, he was the most beautiful human being I ever met," Strong praise indeed.
Legendary singer Lena Horne also met Arlen while they worked together in Harlem's Cotton Club where Arlen was particularly suited to write material for black performers like Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, the Nicholas Brothers as well as Lena Horne.
This is a 12 minute medley of well known Arlen songs with Tony Bennett and Lena on a live Judy Garland TV Show. ( Arlen also wrote Over The Rainbow and The Man That Got Away for Garland films.)
https://youtu.be/lYPpW8Puj8I
Bonus track Frank Sinatra & Lene Horne with a different Harold Arlen medley.
https://youtu.be/FeiprgKDR3A
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