Lena Like Latin

Lena Like Latin
Studio album by Lena Horne
Released	1963
Recorded	1963
Genre	Traditional pop
Length	29:31
Label	Charter Records
Producer	Dick Peirce
Lena Horne chronology
Lena Horne Sings Your Requests (1963) Lena Like Latin (1963) Here's Lena Now! (1964)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Record Mirror	[2]

Lena Like Latin (a.k.a. Lena Goes Latin) is a 1963 studio album by Lena Horne, arranged by Shorty Rogers and Marty Paich.[3] Recorded in Hollywood in July 1963 and released in the summer of 1963 on the Chater label. The album was reissued on CD in 2008 by Fresh Sound Records, together with the album Lena Horne Sings Your Requests. The CD issue featured a bonus track "He Loves Me" that was previously only issued on 45rpm single.

Track listing

1. "From This Moment On" (Cole Porter) – 1:52
2. "Take Me" (Mack David, Rube Bloom) – 2:23
3. "Night and Day" (Porter) – 2:41
4. "Old Devil Moon" (Yip Harburg, Burton Lane) – 2:39
5. "More (Theme From Mondo Cane)" (Riz Ortolani, Nino Oliviero, Marcello Ciorciolini, Norman Newell) – 1:43
6. "My Blue Heaven" (George A. Whiting, Walter Donaldson) – 2:25
7. "Cuckoo in the Clock" (Johnny Mercer, Donaldson) – 3:34
8. "Meditation" (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Norman Gimbel, Newton Mendonça) – 2:19
9. "By Myself" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 2:44
10. "Island in the West Indies" (Ira Gershwin, Vernon Duke) – 2:21
11. "Ours" (Porter) – 2:48
12. "Falling In Love with Love" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 2:02

CD bonus track

13. "He Loves Me" (Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick) – 1:53

Personnel

Performance

• Lena Horne – vocals
• Lennie Hayton – arranger, conductor, orchestration
• Shorty Rogers, Marty Paich – arranger

Production

• Ken Whitmore – photography
• Dick Peirce – producer

References

1. Allmusic review
2. "Lena Horne: Like Latin" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 164. 2 May 1964. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 April 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
3. Lena Like Latin at AllMusic