Lena Horne - Songs by Burke and Van Heusen '2004

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. You Dont Have to Know the Language (2:59)
02. Like Someone in Love (3:01)
03. Its Anybodys Spring (2:23)
04. But Beautiful (4:05)
05. Just My Luck (2:37)
06. Get Rid of Monday (2:54)
07. A Friend of Yours (3:12)
08. It Could Happen to You (2:58)
09. Sleigh Ride in July (3:25)
10. My Heart Is a Hobo (1:57)
11. Polka Dots and Moonbeams (3:11)
12. Ring the Bell (3:12)

The songwriting team of lyricist Johnny Burke and composer Jimmy Van Heusen may
have been the most successful of the 1940s, even if it wasnt the most visible.
Since Burke and Van Heusen were staff songwriters at Paramount Pictures and were
Bing Crosbys personal songwriters, their material was given tremendous exposure,
leading to numerous hits. But as Hollywood songwriters, they gained much less
recognition than attends Broadway songwriters. Its hard to think of an
album-length tribute to the team (which dissolved in 1953) before Lena Hornes A
Friend of Yours: Songs by Burke and Van Heusen. She proves that there should be
more. This is only a slice of their work, but even at that it presents
recognizable standards such as Like Someone in Love and But Beautiful, and the
combination of singable melodies and well-constructed lyrics impresses
throughout. The songs also work surprisingly well as vehicles for Horne, having
been introduced by much more staid performers such as Crosby, Dinah Shore, and
Tommy Dorsey. Theres nothing staid about Horne, of course, and it seems fair to
say that Burke and Van Heusen have never seemed as sexy as they do here,
certainly not in Crosbys avuncular readings. Horne even makes an innocuous
number like the old Dorsey chestnut Polka Dots and Moonbeams smolder, and that
takes some doing. And this is really just the tip of the iceberg, perhaps
signaling an overdue comeback for one of the ‘40s most popular (if largely
unknown) songwriting duos.~William Ruhlmann

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