Baby Washington - The Sue Singles (1996)

She may never have enjoyed the cross-over success of Dionne Warwick but Baby Washington's haunting singing is one of the most singular sounds to have emerged from the New York soul scene of the early 1960s.Her hypnotic That's How Heartaches Are Made has been heavily covered (by the likes of Randy Crawford, Loleatta Holloway and Jerry Butler) and her own rendition is still the classic performance. The Sue Singles assembles all A and B-sides of all the single-play recordings Baby Washington made for Juggy Murray's Sue Label (including That's How Heartaches Are Made) and, as Goldmine's Robert Pruter asserts, showcases the legacy that will ensure that "the name of Baby Washington should be mentioned in the same breath as that of Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Etta James and Diana Ross".