Lena’s musical home was in the American Songbook, which she approached with a natural and entertaining manner. A good example of this is the first number here – the Cole Porter classic “I Concentrate On You”, which swings along to the perfectly recorded big-band sound of the Marty Paich Orchestra. A surprise element is the extensive palette of vocal sound-coloring with which the diva enhances her voice to achieve the drama of a Shirley Bassey or the dusky depths of a Dinah Washington. Each and every number on this Grammy-worthy album has been thought out in great detail and guarantees sophisticated entertainment, and a hint of West Coast Jazz is perceptible when Jack Sheldon treats us to the sound of his warm and dark trumpet solos.

• 1I Concentrate on You
• 2I Get the Blues When It Rains
• 3I’ve Grown Accustomed to His Face
• 4I Got Rhythm
• 5I’m Confessin’ (That I Love You)
• 6I Want to Be Happy
• 7I Surrender, Dear
• 8I Found a New Baby
• 9I Understand
• 10I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
• 11I Ain’t Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares for Me)
• 12I Only Have Eyes for You