She just absolutely nailed this. Totally shattering performance. I can't imagine anyone will ever sing it - or live it - anywhere near the way Lena did here. Brilliant.
The pain in her EYES express the bitterness of reflection, italicizing the lyrics Charles Aznevour wrote that could only be done justice by the exquisitely gorgeous, expressive being of Ms.LENA HORNE, who probably lived the lyrics
I had the pleasure of touring with Ms. Horne and also had the wonderful experience of hearing her do this song for over a year....she sang it everynight with the same fierceness as she did the 1st time I heard it live on my birthday 2 years before I joined the show.....great show...with great people and a great experience for me. Thank you Ms. Horne, Mama Auderie, Aunt Janice and my Lena Horne family.
Did you ever meet or speak with her wardrobe mistress Audrey Wittmore? Audrey was my god mother,because of her connection to Lena,Lena invited me&my mom to NYC to see her show,I have a couple of Lena stories that I cherish,let me no if you met Audrey 🦋🥀
@@bbrown333 Swing for both dancer singers and sang on the side stage microphone each night that I did not perform on stage. Miss Horne started as a first bringing Lance Hardy and I out on stage to be introduced and take a bow each night as well! We had a magnificent BROADWAY FAMILY IN THAT SHOW!!! Lance, Marva & Wesley are gone in our group now. Larry V Nash-pianist, Linda Twine-MD, Aunt Janice-Voice/Dance Captain , Fred Walker-executive producer, Steve Bargonneti-Guitarist, Ben Brown-upright Bassist and Ron Bridgewater-Trombone!
@@richellelacy3834 we all were such a family group! Marva, Lance and Edmond are gone now and walking those GOLDEN SHORES with Momma Auderie. 😊 I speak with Twine-MD, LARRY-pianist, FRED WALKER-executive producer, Aunt Janice-VOCAL/DANCE CAPTAIN, Ron, Bargonneti, Ben, are all still here…Thank God.
By far the best version of this song by anyone and also Lena Horne's best version. Someone should really clean up this video. I had the original version on tape from the mid 80s. It was never a very good quality video. Lena Horne deserves better. She was a beautiful woman and a superbly talented singer.
I feel so grateful that I saw this performance of hers on Broadway. This rendition of the song is the best ever. The hair still stands up on the back of my neck when I hear it! Brava Horne!
I am glad that I was an adult when I heard Lena's rendition of this song. Having had experiences of my own by then, I resonated with the lyrics and marveled at her ability to put the sum of her emotions into this piece. Even listening to it now, I have more goose bumps than I did when I saw her on Broadway
I admit I first heard her from Cosby Show. But OMG.. She touches me to my soul. Words are perfect... My mom passed from Cancer in 2005, and I was diagnosed in April of this year. Army veteran and single mom, so I don't fear ANYTHING..... Except leaving her
Watch mojo brought this person of the 90s generation here... She's amazing... Back when there was no lip syncing, no auto tune, and nothing but pure raw talent !!!!
I remember seeing this broadcast on PBS when I was a kid. It frightened me to learn that people could have good intentions yet repeatedly make poor choices & feel such aching regret in our latter years. Lena's voice & facial expressions while singing this song haunted me for a long time. Viewers who like this will probably also like Patti Labelle's "Somewhere over the rainbow." Look for the version of Patti singing in a red and silver dress, it's her best performance of the song.
It was a birthday present to me from my first wife's employers to go see Lena Horne in her Broadway show, A Lady and Her Music... we were seated in the second row between center stage and stage right and she LOOKED GREAT! And when she moved, I had that profile view of her figure and . . . and if the opportunity had presented itself, I would not have said "no"! One morning, while listening to the late morning music program of WNEW-AM 1130 disc-jockey, (the late)William B. Williams, he was soooo right when he said Lena Horne OWNED that song, "Yesterday, When I Was Young"! Gives me the shivers and brings tears to my eyes!
If you think this performance was 'frightening', imagine it without the music in the background! This is truly a magnificent performance, what I call heartbreakingly beautiful. Lena was definitely of that elite pantheon--Ella, Billie, Sarah, Carmen, Shirley Horn, very few others--who could grab your soul and wring the tears from you. Just awesome--her kind will not come this way again.
I adore the ladies that you mentioned but have you listened to Etta Jones and Gloria Lynne they never achieved the iconic status of the ladies you mentioned but I put them right up there based on their body of work
I saw this performance in NY for my mother's 40th B-day -- 35 years ago and this never gets old. Growing up watching her earlier films and performances was such a treat... Nothing fake about her... A perfect beauty inside and out! These songs when executed from the "heart" can really get to you.. and when you get to that stage in life -- this song carry's weight. Miss you Ms. Lena..... and God bless all the visitors to this site and I pray your days are abundantly full!
Oh my. Her rendition of this beautiful song sends me reeling. What an incredible restrained yet intense performance … and the explosive drama at the end when she really lets go. What emotion … she’s incredible.
oir esto es oir musica de verdad........interpretar de verdad.............a una edad avansada................donde seria ............en estos dias imposibles............como se puede cantar mejor con los años.....en todos los sentidos...........................
I was privileged to hear her perform this song in New Orleans after she took her Broadway show on tour. This song changed my life It's been since 1982, and still I can't get it out of my mind. No one else can touch this song compared to her. I guility confess that I just watched a performance of Jack Jones singing it, and I am sorry to say I posted a comment basically saying "What were you thinking?" NO ONE else can touch this song.l
What a wonderful performer and a such a GRAND LADY. You are sorely missed indeed. I So look forward to what is promised in this SCRIPTURE for those that find favor in Our CREATOR'S EYES, John 5:28-29 New King James Version "28 Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice 29 and come forth-those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation." I so hope that I measure up!!!!! Love YOU MISS HORNE.......
This was perhaps the greatest show/concert in the history of music. Oh how she will be sadly missed. She was beautiful, brilliant and perfect in a world that was often ugly, ignorant and imperfect.
I saw this gifted lady on Broadway when she did her Grammy and Tony award winning show The Lady and her Music she was amazing to see an artist bare their soul thru dialogue and of course great music what else can I say except MISS LENA HORNE!!!
Lena Horne was amazing. She was of a time when you really had to sing and not just look good while a computer "fixed" your voice for you like so many of today's "artists", if you could call half of them that after seeing this woman at work. Thanks for uploading!
@Ruffian - I can truly understand how this performance could be frightening for a child to see. Lena sang it with so much emotion and such truth that only a very sensitive, intuitive child would be swamped with these unexplainable feelings and run from them. It was the same way for me when I was a child and heard Billie Holliday sing. It was physically painful to me. Almost excrutiatingly so. I would run to another room or from the house to get away from all that hurt.
GottDAMN! Having one of those nights and needed to hear this, that performance guts me every time. Thank you for the video. Tremendous, simply tremendous.
@Ruffian144 _I TOO am such as you described! And I am also a singer! And THIS is how I WANT to sing THIS song! All of the other renditions just never 'did' it for me, until I heard Mamma Horne 'DO IT"! WOW! I won't be her, but this type of approach, and arrangement is what I have always heard of it! I am sooo Moved by HER treatment of it, I am driven to tears......everytime! God Bless Mama Lena, and God Bless YOU! Much Love to you all, Bro. Carl Jenkins
We use to have the mentality that when one of us wins we all win. The spirit of this song is a reminder of how the wind blows even in todays time. We only pray that one grows to beautiful maturity.
Stunning then, stunning now, just perfection, Rips me to shreds when I watch it. Saw her live in London and then it was recorded and shown on British TV in early 1985 but I wiped the video. Is it available on DVD?
I found a copy of Ms. Horne's show on DVD, but I can't recall where. It might even have been Ebay. Just keep googling until you find it. I saw her perform 3 times in Broadway show soon after her opened in the early 1980's. Truly Lena was an incredible talent.
Today, May 9, 2020 marks ten years since she died in 2010 of congestive heart failure at the age of 92. Lena Horne , the enchanting jazz singer known for her signature song, “Stormy Weather,” and for her triumph over bigotry that allowed her to entertain white audiences but not socialize with them, died in New York.
Descriptive phrasing. raw expression, dripping with melancholy, heartbreak and disappointment, compelling and driven: an ode to the fleeting nature of time and the glorious weapon of beauty...should be seen by all. beautiful women under 40...Autobiographical???? one is a desolate number
Die USA hatten und haben eine unzählige Menge an großartigsten und bedeutenden Künstlern - Namen die für immer unvergesslich bleiben - die mit ihrem künstlerischen Schaffen Musik und Filmgeschichte geschrieben haben.
@MsBonesBaby You understand perfectly! I've come to realize that I am what is called a highly sensitive person, that's why I was so affected by Lena's performance of this song. Since you were overwhelmed by the pain in Billie Holliday's singing, you may be an HSP too.
It felt as if I were being sliced by razor blades.I didn't realize why I reacted this way to her music until I saw the movie - Lady Sings the Blues. Billie sang with such pain and fear that as a young child, I felt it slice through me too deeply.
