lena was no angel for the cause. she sold out often and most times refused to associate with or be seen with too many blacks., later on she tried to save her self but too many blacks who were there knew th e truth. bill bojangles robinson told some things about her that were not very nice but totally accurate as to what type of sister she really was.
@08...Indeed. I feel the same about Lucille Bremer's misfortune in Hollywood. Somehow, I suspect economics fueled those misfortunes. When it came to money, financial backers played it safe. After all, there was such a thing in Hollywood called a flop. If I remember rightly, there were former big stars who became box office poison after a flop or two.
Evyn Rae Ward So do I!!! And didn't I see vivacious Marie Bryant in the chorus line, the same Bryant we saw in Horne's "Love," who ran up those stairs after a fight with another luscious beauty of that day and age, Suzette Harbin? Those were the times.
Pamela Boyd they didn't have too much of a choice, Lena was under contract and she refused to allow the studios to cast her as a Latin American or any other culture appropriation other then her black roots which in turn caused her to be blacklisted by Hollywood cause she didn't want to comply. She became difficult as they put it
@@BlaxicanBeautyTV333 They did it because she was racially ambitious and they didn't want angry white people thinking she was a white woman next to black men. It was to avoid backlash.
Lena Horne performs "Brazilian Boogie" in an Brazilian setting introducing Brazilian culture of dance. There's beautiful black dancing girls dressed in colorful costumes, some of the girls are Kathleen Hartsfield, Juliette Ball, Maggie Hathaway, Marie Bryant, Louise Franklin, Mildred Boyd, and Artie Young. One of the male dancers is Archie Savage. This number if one of the best black musical numbers and it's in color. Check it out! Hazel Scott performs Waltz in D Flat Major (Minute Waltz)
Martin, don't do this to me. You've transported me back in time I remember to this day VIVIDLY. And you name names I still dream about to this day, also: Juliette Ball (who within the last decade at least died at 92), Marie Bryant (sidekick of socialite Maria Hawkins Cole, mother of Natalie), Archie Savage (whom I remember from movies, MGM) and, of course, witty and in your face, Hazel Scott. In Horne's 'Love," the fight between the two girls is carried out by Suzette Harbin and Marie Bryant, the girl who runs up the staircase. Weren't those treasured days? Martin, you've made my day! And I just want to thank you!
Martin Spisak only if we sign a book deal. :-) i will present a paper at an academic conference next saturday (10/3) in indianapolis, if you are interested.
Thank you so much for finding and posting this! Juliette Ball was my aunt and I thought I had seen most footage with her in it, but had not seen this. If I had seen this just a little over a year ago she could have named the others you don't have the names for. Yes, so many unsung black entertainers, thank you for helping to keep them alive!
A star in every sense of the word. She stole every scene. There has never been a performer who could use her eyes and her hands to completely beguile an audience. She just mesmerizes you.
Thank you very much for posting this clip. I've never seen it before and I truly enjoyed watching it. Dorothy Dandridge did a similar routine in the movie A JIG IN THE JUNGLE.
That’s the thing, they thought they were just for the black community. Even tho they were as beautiful and sexy as Monroe, they were about promoting white beauty, not black. Even though most of the white women were copying black women like Mae West.
MusicandDancing4Ever Not much has changed.. many trends come from black women but we barely receive credit from it! I’m happy that Halle Berry brought so much attention to Dorothy Dandridge with her movie because more people need to know about these amazing melanated Queens that paved the way.
@@HoneytheSiren Interesting comment. But remember this: business is business. Profit making. And in our capitalistic culture, the object is to make money. So glad Berry hasn't allowed controversial themes impede money making progress. Leave those topics to the human rights organizations.
I m Hispanic & raised in places like Harlem and the Bronx. This show looks like a typical Caribbean entertainment show. It s all African roots . Lena Horne and Co. were very much aware of their African based culture. However, they were entertainers within the North American scenario. There is a historical clash of the cultures. But, let it go. Enjoy folks like Lena Hone here of youtube and try to control those cultural emotions that always seem to be within us. Lena is defintely a beautiful lady and she must have been more popular in the Caribbean nations than she was here. Pls don t forget that Jackie Robinson and all the rest of the Negro Leagues played ball in the Caribbean long before 1947. BTW, I m a little bit off geographically. This film is supposed to be Brazilian in origen. However, it's all African based. Brazilian boogie woogie is the same as Caribbean boogie woogie. LOL
Lena Horne wore skin-darkening makeup. It was custom made for her by Max Factor. Producers didn't want whites to be upset at her white appearance alongside black men. She's wearing the makeup here.
Lyz...that was also the practice in advertising. In early copies of black publications, Dandridge is considerably darker. The same went for Isabelle Cooley (is she still living? It's almost next to nothing by the way of information on Cooley).
TheLoveme0 I see you have no more news on Isabelle Cooley ("Anna Lucasta" and Antony and Cleopatra, "Charmion"). As with Horne and Dandridge, Cooley wasn't "negroid" enough. So it's laughable that it took this medium so long to acknowledge Viola Davis! lol!!!
+LynRuiz It wasn't so much the producers as it was the market place, which dictated the race tinted narrative of black America's place in the movies. Listen, we need to take a close examination of Hollywood. it was a business, pure and simple. For example, would you believe that even the great Fred Astaire and continental Marlene Dietrich were once considered "box office poison"? Come to think of it, so was preppy Kate Hepburn. It's money, honey!
True she's wearing darker makeup. Look at the contrast between the upper and lower part of her body. The makeup department forgot to apply the darker makeup to her legs. She was still gorgeous and talented. That was something Hollywood couldn't take away from her.
In those days, dancer Marie Bryant had her day in court, too. She could be seen doing a thing as a backup dancer in many of the Hollywood musical productions using the talents of the chorus girls of color. Bryant was quite a character. And when you hear her sing, instantly you see a connection between her style and that of the eternal Billie Holiday. Interesting that she should employ such a "cover" of styles, since among all singers of color it was rare to find one sounding like another. The only other experience I've had is with Arthur Prysock who, on one of his numbers, sounded a tad too much like his contemporary, Billie Eckstine.
Well let me be the first to comment on your new clip...very cool as always!! Thanks to some of your other clips a can really cut a rug 1970;s style now too:)
This was Lena's first musical number in a film, prior to this film she played a maid in a movie where they also darkened her up as well. Interesting enough, this movie was hailed a flop by critics except for Lena in this number.
Maurice Randle Jr Did you catch that dapper gentlemen in the audience who was none other than Republican senator and former movie hoofer, George Murphy? Oh, yes, Murphy could strut his stuff all right!
+Maurice Randle Jr Hi Maurice: This was by NO means Lena's first musical number in a film, nor am I aware of any movie where she played a maid. She starred in big MGM production numbers in "Panama Hattie" in 1941, "Cabin in the Sky, in 1942, "Stormy Weather (at 20th Fox)," "Swing Fever, and "Thousands Cheer" in 1943, then in "Two Girls and a Sailor and this film, "Broadway Rhythm (in which she had two major numbers) in 1944. Your comments are appreciated, but you need to get your history right.
+sandaglad ...and I forgot "I Dood It" in 1943, in which she sang the 10-minute long "Jericho" along with Hazel Scott and a large chorus. Lena was always showcased and glamourized in these films, as she would continue to be well into the 50's. She was on the cover (in a beautiful color photograph) of Motion Picture magazine, considered the classiest of the many movie magazines of the 40's. That was groundbreaking at the time. Yes, it may well be true that some of her scenes were cut by Southern theatre owners, but she was hugely popular with general audiences and considered by MGM as one of the Crown jewels of their star lineup during the height of their golden age of lavish musicals..
Whatever the drama surrounding her films being edited for audiences in the South. Lena Horne was a star! Her entire presentation was magic: the movement of her body in rhythm with her singing, the motion of her arms, the emotion in the face. I seriously believe she was grossly underrated for the star she was. She had that same magnetism MJ had. In fact, both were visual singers, meaning you got more when you saw them in person or at least a musical. I personally saw Horne more of a song stylist than a singer. She didn't ever sing for Billboard ratings, And the only commercial hit she enjoyed in her career was "Lena at the Waldorf."
Uh-oh. I saw Marie Bryant as one of the backup dancers. Bryant was also featured in Horne's "Love," as the girl who gets into a fight with Suzette Harbin at the bar over a man, of course, with Bryant running drunkenly up the staircase.
Coco dan when this movie was made it wasn't on television. It was shown in movie theaters. The movie censorship didn't allow "belly buttons " to be shown. By anyone, especially women.
I just watched this number in the 1944 film Broadway Rhythm. I was hoping to find some attribution on the astoundingly talented backup dancers and singers...thrilled to get this far. Any notes on the gentlemen? Than you! Heather, Asheville, NC
PF D no Dorothy Dandridge is not in this number with Lena Horne. Second from the back at the end it not Dorothy. Second from the back at the end does not look like Dorothy Dandridge DOROTHY DANDRIDGE WAS EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL HELL TO THE NO!!!!!!!!!!!
+sierria64 Not necessarily Hollywood but the market place of the times. Hollywood was a business. Profit and loss. Nothing more. Nothing less. Read about the break up, for example, between America's then singing sweetheart Alice Faye and 20th Century Fox, Ltd. You'd have never thought of such a tragic ending. And if that doesn't knock you off your pin, try reading the uber tragic bio of Frances Farmer and tell me whose life was more tragic, Billie Holiday's or blonde, all American Frances Farmer? My point is we all have our crosses to bear.
myeyesinside out I agree somewhat but look how Hollywood treats people then & now. It was a blessing in disguise. Sometimes God puts us in places for our protection
They put on make-up to make her skin darker than it really was........ What's wrong being a mixed racial person??? I am mixed myself and very proud of my heritage.
and also she wasnt directly mixed, both her parents were a mix of african american, Native American and European descent. sorry i dont mean to rant i just really love lena horne lol
I don't think she was mixed at all. She identified herself as a black woman, though her parents were both a mix of African-American, Native-American, and European-American. But she mentions the tanning makeup (called "Light Egyptian") in her one-woman show.
Victor Emmanuell Fernandes Apolônio dos Santos Nothing wrong at all My nephew is also mixed race dad is of Indian descent and mom swedish. It was different times back then.
What is ironic is Aretha Franklin was Lena's FAVORITE singer! She wished she could sing like Aretha and move like Tina Turner. She just absolutely loved those ladies.
I like them both and yet they are 2 women who have different styles of singing. Aretha came from the gospel church singing and Lena is from the standard singing of that era. Both ladies ❤️ were good at their profession.
She was such a STAR! Hollywood really missed out, but I'm glad she kept singing. What a strong and beautiful lady
lena was no angel for the cause. she sold out often and most times refused to associate with or be seen with too many blacks., later on she tried to save her self but too many blacks who were there knew th e truth. bill bojangles robinson told some things about her that were not very nice but totally accurate as to what type of sister she really was.
@@thomasdelvin3683 Where did you even get this info from?
@08...Indeed. I feel the same about Lucille Bremer's misfortune in Hollywood. Somehow, I suspect economics fueled those misfortunes. When it came to money, financial backers played it safe. After all, there was such a thing in Hollywood called a flop. If I remember rightly, there were former big stars who became box office poison after a flop or two.
So much talent. And such class, strength, and beauty inside and out. Damn, I miss her.
Evyn Rae Ward So do I!!! And didn't I see vivacious Marie Bryant in the chorus line, the same Bryant we saw in Horne's "Love," who ran up those stairs after a fight with another luscious beauty of that day and age, Suzette Harbin? Those were the times.
Gosh she was sooo BEAUTIFUL!!!❤
Lena was so elegant, sexy, and sophisticated! she carried herself with such class!
Lena is wearing skin darkening make up in this clip, which the studio's sometimes made her wear as she was very light skinned
Wow... They really wanted to seperate her from the rest...
Are you serious?
Pamela Boyd they didn't have too much of a choice, Lena was under contract and she refused to allow the studios to cast her as a Latin American or any other culture appropriation other then her black roots which in turn caused her to be blacklisted by Hollywood cause she didn't want to comply. She became difficult as they put it
loirin lancaster wow didn’t know that. Gonna do my research
@@BlaxicanBeautyTV333 They did it because she was racially ambitious and they didn't want angry white people thinking she was a white woman next to black men. It was to avoid backlash.
Outstanding woman singer and dancer! Merci beaucoup from Paris France
Lena Horne performs "Brazilian Boogie" in an Brazilian setting introducing Brazilian culture of dance. There's beautiful black dancing girls dressed in colorful costumes, some of the girls are Kathleen Hartsfield, Juliette Ball, Maggie Hathaway, Marie Bryant, Louise Franklin, Mildred Boyd, and Artie Young. One of the male dancers is Archie Savage. This number if one of the best black musical numbers and it's in color. Check it out! Hazel Scott performs Waltz in D Flat Major (Minute Waltz)
Martin, don't do this to me. You've transported me back in time I remember to this day VIVIDLY. And you name names I still dream about to this day, also: Juliette Ball (who within the last decade at least died at 92), Marie Bryant (sidekick of socialite Maria Hawkins Cole, mother of Natalie), Archie Savage (whom I remember from movies, MGM) and, of course, witty and in your face, Hazel Scott. In Horne's 'Love," the fight between the two girls is carried out by Suzette Harbin and Marie Bryant, the girl who runs up the staircase. Weren't those treasured days? Martin, you've made my day! And I just want to thank you!
how did you find out the names of the dancers in the chorus? i have been looking for years! a third of my dissertation is about this musical number.
please email a copy of your dissertation, would love to read it
speze59@gmail.com
Martin Spisak only if we sign a book deal. :-) i will present a paper at an academic conference next saturday (10/3) in indianapolis, if you are interested.
Omg that smile... that is one beautiful woman
Lena horn simplified, the term black Hollywood, she personified style class and elegance.
Horne
Thank you so much for finding and posting this! Juliette Ball was my aunt and I thought I had seen most footage with her in it, but had not seen this. If I had seen this just a little over a year ago she could have named the others you don't have the names for. Yes, so many unsung black entertainers, thank you for helping to keep them alive!
Please give me back these must lost Hollywood golden years! Merci beaucoup from Paris France!
A star in every sense of the word. She stole every scene. There has never been a performer who could use her eyes and her hands to completely beguile an audience. She just mesmerizes you.
She's such a fluent dancer 👌🏾
This quality is spectacular. And what a body on Ms. Horne!!! She looks beautiful.
SmartFashionFairy 💯
4/29/19
Thank you very much for posting this clip. I've never seen it before and I truly enjoyed
watching it. Dorothy Dandridge did a similar routine in the movie A JIG IN THE JUNGLE.
An incredible incomparable TechniColor STAR!
Ms. LENA HORNE was an incredible talent and thank you for providing info regarding the dancers who were overlooked.
I wish her and Dorothy were pushed in pop culture as much as Marilyn Monroe because they were very important to and for the black community!
That’s the thing, they thought they were just for the black community. Even tho they were as beautiful and sexy as Monroe, they were about promoting white beauty, not black. Even though most of the white women were copying black women like Mae West.
MusicandDancing4Ever Not much has changed.. many trends come from black women but we barely receive credit from it! I’m happy that Halle Berry brought so much attention to Dorothy Dandridge with her movie because more people need to know about these amazing melanated Queens that paved the way.
@@HoneytheSiren Interesting comment. But remember this: business is business. Profit making. And in our capitalistic culture, the object is to make money. So glad Berry hasn't allowed controversial themes impede money making progress. Leave those topics to the human rights organizations.
@@glennyoung1251
BS! It's a RACIST society 1st and foremost because that's the ONLY WAY they can COMPETE WITH ANYTHING BLACK and BEAUTIFUL!‼️
Alicia Keys would be the perfect role to play Lena Horne in Biopic about her life.
Or jurnee smolette
Lena Horne is my grandmothers 1st cousin...my grandma is now 93 in 2019😍
Who are you to the Horne clan?
Lena was my great grandma’s sister who’s your grandmother
Wow!!!!!
Katlin wow Lena Horne is your AUNT!! Royalty in the house 🤩🤩
@@katlin1411 I didn't know Lena had sisters🤔
I m Hispanic & raised in places like Harlem and the Bronx. This show looks like a typical Caribbean entertainment show. It s all African roots . Lena Horne and Co. were very much aware of their African based culture. However, they were entertainers within the North American scenario. There is a historical clash of the cultures. But, let it go. Enjoy folks like Lena Hone here of youtube and try to control those cultural emotions that always seem to be within us. Lena is defintely a beautiful lady and she must have been more popular in the Caribbean nations than she was here. Pls don t forget that Jackie Robinson and all the rest of the Negro Leagues played ball in the Caribbean long before 1947. BTW, I m a little bit off geographically. This film is supposed to be Brazilian in origen. However, it's all African based. Brazilian boogie woogie is the same as Caribbean boogie woogie. LOL
Lena Horne wore skin-darkening makeup. It was custom made for her by Max Factor. Producers didn't want whites to be upset at her white appearance alongside black men. She's wearing the makeup here.
Lyz...that was also the practice in advertising. In early copies of black publications, Dandridge is considerably darker. The same went for Isabelle Cooley (is she still living? It's almost next to nothing by the way of information on Cooley).
Wow I didn't know that thanks for sharing!
TheLoveme0 I see you have no more news on Isabelle Cooley ("Anna Lucasta" and Antony and Cleopatra, "Charmion").
As with Horne and Dandridge, Cooley wasn't "negroid" enough. So it's laughable that it took this medium so long to acknowledge Viola Davis! lol!!!
+LynRuiz It wasn't so much the producers as it was the market place, which dictated the race tinted narrative of black America's place in the movies. Listen, we need to take a close examination of Hollywood. it was a business, pure and simple. For example, would you believe that even the great Fred Astaire and continental Marlene Dietrich were once considered "box office poison"? Come to think of it, so was preppy Kate Hepburn. It's money, honey!
True she's wearing darker makeup. Look at the contrast between the upper and lower part of her body. The makeup department forgot to apply the darker makeup to her legs. She was still gorgeous and talented. That was something Hollywood couldn't take away from her.
I Love Love Love Her!!!!✨
This probably ended up on the cutting room floor when the movie played in certain parts of the US.
emerybayblues that's exactly what happened
Lena Horne does an excellent cover of Rocky Raccoon by the Beatles.
Yes she does!
In those days, dancer Marie Bryant had her day in court, too. She could be seen doing a thing as a backup dancer in many of the Hollywood musical productions using the talents of the chorus girls of color. Bryant was quite a character. And when you hear her sing, instantly you see a connection between her style and that of the eternal Billie Holiday. Interesting that she should employ such a "cover" of styles, since among all singers of color it was rare to find one sounding like another. The only other experience I've had is with Arthur Prysock who, on one of his numbers, sounded a tad too much like his contemporary, Billie Eckstine.
Archie Savage is in this! (Dancer, choreagrapher) 01:05. Love this...love Lady Lena!
She looks like Alicia Keys.
She does! I think I was the only one who knew that too, to guess like that she looks like Alicia Keys... O, well.
No Alicia Keys looks like Lena Horne😏
@@florapatino8603 Exactly 💯
Happy 94th Birthday Lena Horne
Lena is BOSS! Love her.
Top flight!!!
Every inch a Star
Well let me be the first to comment on your new clip...very cool as always!! Thanks to some of your other clips a can really cut a rug 1970;s style now too:)
Notice her belly button is strategically covered lol❤️💞
It looked like she was having fun!
Excellent
Love how belly buttons were taboo-lol.
This was Lena's first musical number in a film, prior to this film she played a maid in a movie where they also darkened her up as well. Interesting enough, this movie was hailed a flop by critics except for Lena in this number.
Maurice Randle Jr Did you catch that dapper gentlemen in the audience who was none other than Republican senator and former movie hoofer, George Murphy? Oh, yes, Murphy could strut his stuff all right!
+Maurice Randle Jr
Hi Maurice:
This was by NO means Lena's first musical number in a film, nor am I aware of any movie where she played a maid. She starred in big MGM production numbers in "Panama Hattie" in 1941, "Cabin in the Sky, in 1942, "Stormy Weather (at 20th Fox)," "Swing Fever, and "Thousands Cheer" in 1943, then in "Two Girls and a Sailor and this film, "Broadway Rhythm (in which she had two major numbers) in 1944.
Your comments are appreciated, but you need to get your history right.
+sandaglad
...and I forgot "I Dood It" in 1943, in which she sang the 10-minute long "Jericho" along with Hazel Scott and a large chorus. Lena was always showcased and glamourized in these films, as she would continue to be well into the 50's. She was on the cover (in a beautiful color photograph) of Motion Picture magazine, considered the classiest of the many movie magazines of the 40's. That was groundbreaking at the time. Yes, it may well be true that some of her scenes were cut by Southern theatre owners, but she was hugely popular with general audiences and considered by MGM as one of the Crown jewels of their star lineup during the height of their golden age of lavish musicals..
Whatever the drama surrounding her films being edited for audiences in the South. Lena Horne was a star! Her entire presentation was magic: the movement of her body in rhythm with her singing, the motion of her arms, the emotion in the face. I seriously believe she was grossly underrated for the star she was. She had that same magnetism MJ had. In fact, both were visual singers, meaning you got more when you saw them in person or at least a musical. I personally saw Horne more of a song stylist than a singer. She didn't ever sing for Billboard ratings, And the only commercial hit she enjoyed in her career was "Lena at the Waldorf."
Uh-oh. I saw Marie Bryant as one of the backup dancers. Bryant was also featured in Horne's "Love," as the girl who gets into a fight with Suzette Harbin at the bar over a man, of course, with Bryant running drunkenly up the staircase.
Great number.
Notice..the belly button was covered.
The couldn't show them on T.V in those days.
Coco dan when this movie was made it wasn't on television. It was shown in movie theaters. The movie censorship didn't allow "belly buttons " to be shown. By anyone, especially women.
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Choreographed by Charles Walters
I just watched this number in the 1944 film Broadway Rhythm. I was hoping to find some attribution on the astoundingly talented backup dancers and singers...thrilled to get this far. Any notes on the gentlemen? Than you! Heather, Asheville, NC
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I assume Juliette Ball passed away in '2011. Rest In Peace. Thank you Juliette Ball for all your contribution to entertainment and our society
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Broadway rhythm.
@RememberTheTime09 Correction 1944.
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My husband is from Brevard NC! Sorry for the randomness.
The First Mariah Carey ❤
thanks for naming the movie
Is that Dorothy Dandridge on right second from the back at the end. It looks like her
PF D no Dorothy Dandridge is not in this number with Lena Horne. Second from the back at the end it not Dorothy. Second from the back at the end does not look like Dorothy Dandridge DOROTHY DANDRIDGE WAS EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL HELL TO THE NO!!!!!!!!!!!
No,that was not Dorothy Dandridge.
What's the name of the movie
Werk it Lena!
@eartha78 Broadway Rhythm (1943)
opportunities
lena was a real talent ... too bas hollywood did her wrong.. made her where that dam make up.. look at her face wrong
+sierria64 Not necessarily Hollywood but the market place of the times. Hollywood was a business. Profit and loss. Nothing more. Nothing less. Read about the break up, for example, between America's then singing sweetheart Alice Faye and 20th Century Fox, Ltd. You'd have never thought of such a tragic ending. And if that doesn't knock you off your pin, try reading the uber tragic bio of Frances Farmer and tell me whose life was more tragic, Billie Holiday's or blonde, all American Frances Farmer? My point is we all have our crosses to bear.
myeyesinside out I agree somewhat but look how Hollywood treats people then & now. It was a blessing in disguise. Sometimes God puts us in places for our protection
Chile, Lena Horne had on all that dark make up.
They put on make-up to make her skin darker than it really was........ What's wrong being a mixed racial person??? I am mixed myself and very proud of my heritage.
I think it was tan or tent , because they wanted her to look more Brazilian to fit the dance and song. I dont think she was ashamed or anything :)
and also she wasnt directly mixed, both her parents were a mix of african american, Native American and European descent. sorry i dont mean to rant i just really love lena horne lol
I don't think she was mixed at all. She identified herself as a black woman, though her parents were both a mix of African-American, Native-American, and European-American. But she mentions the tanning makeup (called "Light Egyptian") in her one-woman show.
Victor Emmanuell Fernandes Apolônio dos Santos Nothing wrong at all My nephew is also mixed race dad is of Indian descent and mom swedish. It was different times back then.
Well in those days being mixed was considered "impure" so glad those days are gone although some people still refuse to be civilized. America was ugly
she is much better singer than aretha franklin
What is ironic is Aretha Franklin was Lena's FAVORITE singer! She wished she could sing like Aretha and move like Tina Turner. She just absolutely loved those ladies.
I like them both and yet they are 2 women who have different styles of singing. Aretha came from the gospel church singing and Lena is from the standard singing of that era. Both ladies ❤️ were good at their profession.
She had a nice voice but she was no Aretha Franklin.
Beyonce is way better than this.