LENA HORNE - TYPED LYRIC(S) SIGNED - HFSID 201073

LENA HORNE
Typed lyrics to the jazz standard I Can't Give You Anything But Love, signed "Sincerely" by Tony and Grammy-winning singer Lena Horne. She sang this song in the 1943 movie Stormy Weather.
Typed lyrics signed "Sincerely/Lena Horne". 1 page, 8½x11. Headed: "I Can't Give You Anything But Love/Words by Dorothy Fields/Music by Jimmy McHugh". Four stanzas of lyrics. This song was originally written for Blackbirds (1928), the longest running black American musical of the 1920s. Although the song has been covered by dozens of performers, Horne gave a notable performance of it in the 1943 film Stormy Weather. Horne won critical acclaim for her performance in Stormy Weather, in which she also sang the movie's title song. Sultry American jazz singer and actress Horne (1917-2010) began performing at age six and left school at 16 to support her sick mother. She began singing at Harlem's Cotton Club in 1933, where Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington took her under their wings. She later performed with Noble Sissle's Orchestra and Teddy Wilson's big band. Although she was the first black American woman to sign a long-term movie contract with a major studio (MGM), her films were shot so that her scenes could be cut out before being shown in the South. Horne placed a single, Love Me or Leave Me, in the Billboard Top 20 in 1955 and won two Grammy Awards (1981 for her album Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music and 1995 for her album An Evening with Lena Horne) and was nominated for a Tony in 1958 for her performance in Jamaica (1957-1959). Horne also won a special Tony in 1981 for her one-woman show Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music. Lightly creased and soiled at corners. Fine condition.