Posted on 05/11/2010 9:54:32 AM PDT by jazzo
A song for Lena Horne 1917-2010
Don’t know why There’s no sun up in the sky...
If there's no sun up in the sky, it's because he's mourning the passing of the great Lena Horne, a few weeks shy of her 93rd birthday. Miss Horne was born on June 30th 1917 into a middle-class black family in Brooklyn. Her father left in 1920, and her mother turned to acting, touring in all-black productions of white shows, in one of which - Madame X - her young daughter made her stage debut. For the next six decades, she was rarely off-stage. Even at the end, she was busy working on a biopic in which, somewhat alarmingly, she was to be played by Whitney Houston. She didn't record much in the last couple of years, but a decade and a half back she and Frank Sinatra combined on one of the true gems of his otherwise problematic Duets project - a lovely, warm, mature, heartfelt take on the Gershwins' "Embraceable You", a duet for two old friends grown comfortable in love.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
He has a book of obits.
Mark Steyn’s Passing Parade by Mark Steyn (Paperback - Nov. 1, 2006)
Where have I been? Never saw that one on his site. I’ll order today.
I enjoyed it
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