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Lena Horne at the Waldorf Astoria is a 1957 live album by Lena Horne, conducted by Lennie Hayton, recorded in Stereo at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on the evening of February 20, 1957. One of the first non-classical live albums to be recorded in Stereo, the monaural album peaked at #24 in the Billboard Hot 200 and became the best selling record by a female artist in the history of the RCA Victor label. The album was re-issued on CD in 2002, by Collectables Records, together with Horne’s 1961 live album Lena Horne at the Sands.

Reception

AllMusic review by William Ruhlmann awarded the album 4 stars stating “Lena Horne may have left Hollywood behind her by early 1957, but this live album, which charted in the Top Ten, demonstrated that in doing so she had only returned to her greatest strength as a performer.”

Track listing:
“Today I Love Everybody” (Harold Arlen, Dorothy Fields) – 2.55
“Let Me Love You” (Bart Howard, Lou Levy) – 3.06
“Come Runnin'” (Roc Hillman) – 2.42
Cole Porter Medley: “How’s Your Romance?”/”After You”/”Love of My Life”/”It’s All Right with Me” – 7:21
“Mood Indigo”/”I’m Beginning to See the Light” (Duke Ellington, Mitchell Parish, Barney Bigard, Irving Mills)/(Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James) – 4:30
“How You Say It” (Matt Dubey, Harold Karr) – 3:16
“Honeysuckle Rose” (Fats Waller, Andy Razaf) – 2:59
“Day In, Day Out” (Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer) – 2:07
“New Fangled Tango” (Dubey, Karr) – 3:06
“I Love to Love” (Herbert Baker) – 4:20
“From This Moment On” (Porter) – 1:57

Personnel:
Lena Horne – vocals
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra
Lennie Hayton – conductor

Released: 1957
Recorded: 1957
Length: 35:39
Label: RCA Victor