Dinah Washington - Legendary Recordings: Dinah Washington (2023)
Artist: Dinah Washington
Title: Legendary Recordings: Dinah Washington
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: UMG Recordings, Inc.
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Blues, R&B, Gospel
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 6:16:07
Total Size: 1.85 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Legendary Recordings: Dinah Washington
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: UMG Recordings, Inc.
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Blues, R&B, Gospel
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 6:16:07
Total Size: 1.85 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
01. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
02. Mad About The Boy
03. What A Difference A Day Made
04. Teach Me Tonight
05. Cry Me A River
06. Baby, You’ve Got What It Takes
07. It's Magic
08. This Bitter Earth
09. Mean And Evil Blues
10. Love Letters
11. Squeeze Me
12. Surprise Party
13. Let Me Love You
14. As Long As I'm In Your Arms
15. September In The Rain
16. Sometimes I'm Happy
17. There'll Be A Jubilee
18. If I Were A Bell
19. Since My Man Has Gone And Went
20. A Stranger In Town
21. There Is No Greater Love
22. That's All There Is to That
23. Perdido (Reimagined)
24. Forgotten
25. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
26. My Ideal
27. I Won't Cry Anymore
28. Not One Step Behind
29. Aw Come On Kiss Me
30. Congratulations To Someone
31. Wheel Of Fortune
32. Bewitched
33. Never, Never
34. When Your Lover Has Gone
35. Mean And Evil
36. Let's Fall In Love
37. Lean Baby
38. A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around And Fall In Love)
39. Shuckin' And Jivin'
40. Pennies From Heaven
41. Love For Sale
42. Am I The Fool
43. While We're Young
44. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
45. Everybody's Somebody's Fool
46. Three Coins In The Fountain
47. Silent Night (Edit)
48. Set Me Free
49. Alone
50. I'll Never Kiss You Goodbye
51. A Man Only Does (What A Woman Makes Him Do)
52. But Not For Me
53. What A Difference (Reimagined)
54. Someone To Believe In
55. Softly (Baby)
56. I Wish I Didn't Love You So
57. Our Love Is Here To Stay
58. Everybody Loves Somebody
59. A Sunday Kind Of Love
60. Six Bridges To Cross
61. I'm Thru With Love
62. I Was Telling Him About You
63. I'll Come Back For More
64. Dream
65. Because Of Everything
66. Time After Time
67. This Heart Of Mine
68. Go Pretty Daddy
69. Sunny Side Of The Street
70. I Cried For You
71. You Do Something To Me
72. You Didn't Want Me Then
73. I Wish I Knew The Name Of The Boy
74. Good Daddy Blues
75. Makin' Whoopee
76. TV Is The Thing (This Year)
77. Fat Daddy
78. Such A Night
79. One Arabian Night
80. Don't Explain
81. I Understand
82. Hurt
83. Since I Fell For You
84. Stormy Weather
85. I Thought About You
86. Give Me Back My Tears
87. You Taught Me
88. Harbor Lights
89. This Love Of Mine
90. Fool That I Am
91. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying
92. Out Of Sight Out Of Mind
93. Crazy Love
94. When I Fall In Love
95. Don't Go To Strangers
96. Show Me The Way
97. No Caviar
98. Misery
99. T.V. Is The Thing This Year
100. I Remember Clifford
101. I Wanna Be Loved
102. Let's Do It
103. Wake The Town And Tell The People
104. Somebody Loves Me
105. A Bad Case Of The Blues
106. The Sun Forgot To Shine This Morning
107. You Stay On My Mind
108. New Blowtop Blues
109. Salty Papa Blues
110. An Affair To Remember
111. Old Man's Darlin'
112. Nothing Ever Changes My Love For You
113. I Ain't Goin' To Cry No More
114. What A Great Sensation
115. Blue Skies
116. Daybreak
117. Caravan
118. Tell Love Hello
119. God Bless The Child
120. Tears And Laughter
121. Good Morning Heartache
122. Wee Small Hours
123. If I Should Lose You
124. Ain't Misbehavin'
125. It Shouldn't Happen To A Dream
126. I Remember You
127. Easy Living
128. Trouble In Mind
129. Don't Hold It Against Me
130. Double Dealing Daddy
131. Never Let Me Go
132. Baby Get Lost
133. Say It Isn't So
134. Make Me A Present Of You
135. I'm Afraid Of You
136. Just One More Chance
137. Look To The Rainbow
138. Unforgettable
139. I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me
140. I Don't Know Whether To Laugh Or Cry Over You
141. Secret Love
142. I Concentrate On You
143. Bargain Day
144. I Just Found Out About Love
145. A Slick Chick On The Mellow Side
146. Homeward Bound
147. Christopher Columbus
Dinah Washington was one of the most beloved and versatile singers of the mid-20th century, at home in all kinds of music, be it R&B, blues, jazz, gospel, and pop. Hers was a gritty voice, marked by absolute clarity of diction and clipped, bluesy phrasing. Washington's personal life was turbulent and her interpretations showed it, for she displayed a tough, totally unsentimental, yet still gripping hold on the universal subject of lost love. From the 1940s onwards, she scored numerous Top Ten singles on the R&B charts before crossing over to the pop charts with 1959's What a Diff'rence a Day Makes!, which also won her Grammy for Best R&B Performance. Although she died young in 1963, she has had a huge influence on R&B and jazz singers who have followed in her wake, notably Nancy Wilson, Esther Phillips, and Diane Schuur. Her music as been collected on several large-volume series, including The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury and The Complete Roulette Dinah Washington Sessions.
Born Ruth Lee Jones, she moved to Chicago at age three and was raised in a world of gospel, playing the piano and directing her church choir. At 15, after winning an amateur contest at the Regal Theater, she began performing in nightclubs as a pianist and singer, opening at the Garrick Stage Bar in 1942. Talent manager Joe Glaser heard her there and recommended her to Lionel Hampton, who asked her to join his band. Hampton says that it was he who gave Ruth Jones the name Dinah Washington, although other sources claim it was Glaser or the manager of the Garrick Stage Bar. In any case, she stayed with Hampton from 1943 to 1946 and made her recording debut for Keynote at the end of 1943 in a blues session organized by Leonard Feather with a sextet drawn from the Hampton band. With Feather's "Evil Gal Blues" as her first hit, the records took off, and by the time she left Hampton to go solo, Washington was already an R&B headliner.
Signing with the young Mercury label, Washington produced an enviable string of Top Ten hits on the R&B charts from 1948 to 1955, singing blues, standards, novelties, pop covers, and even Hank Williams' "Cold, Cold Heart." She also recorded many straight jazz sessions with big bands and small combos, most memorably with Clifford Brown on Dinah Jams but also with Cannonball Adderley, Clark Terry, Ben Webster, Wynton Kelly, and the young Joe Zawinul (who was her regular accompanist for a couple of years).
In 1959, Washington made a sudden breakthrough into the mainstream pop market with What a Diff'rence a Day Makes! The album featured a revival of composer María Grever's 1930s composition (also previously a hit for the Dorsey Brothers) set to a Latin American bolero rhythm. It was a Top Ten Hot 100 hit and won the Grammy for Best R&B Performance. For the rest of her career, she would largely concentrate on singing ballads backed by lush orchestrations for Mercury and Roulette, a formula similar to that of another R&B-based singer at that time, Ray Charles. Included among these are gems like her 1961 rendition of Billie Holiday's "Don't Explain," which has a beautiful, bluesy Ernie Wilkins chart conducted by Quincy Jones. Tragically, Washington died of an accidental overdose of diet and sleeping pills mixed with alcohol at the early age of 39, still in peak voice, still singing the blues in an L.A. club only two weeks before the end. © Richard S. Ginell
Born Ruth Lee Jones, she moved to Chicago at age three and was raised in a world of gospel, playing the piano and directing her church choir. At 15, after winning an amateur contest at the Regal Theater, she began performing in nightclubs as a pianist and singer, opening at the Garrick Stage Bar in 1942. Talent manager Joe Glaser heard her there and recommended her to Lionel Hampton, who asked her to join his band. Hampton says that it was he who gave Ruth Jones the name Dinah Washington, although other sources claim it was Glaser or the manager of the Garrick Stage Bar. In any case, she stayed with Hampton from 1943 to 1946 and made her recording debut for Keynote at the end of 1943 in a blues session organized by Leonard Feather with a sextet drawn from the Hampton band. With Feather's "Evil Gal Blues" as her first hit, the records took off, and by the time she left Hampton to go solo, Washington was already an R&B headliner.
Signing with the young Mercury label, Washington produced an enviable string of Top Ten hits on the R&B charts from 1948 to 1955, singing blues, standards, novelties, pop covers, and even Hank Williams' "Cold, Cold Heart." She also recorded many straight jazz sessions with big bands and small combos, most memorably with Clifford Brown on Dinah Jams but also with Cannonball Adderley, Clark Terry, Ben Webster, Wynton Kelly, and the young Joe Zawinul (who was her regular accompanist for a couple of years).
In 1959, Washington made a sudden breakthrough into the mainstream pop market with What a Diff'rence a Day Makes! The album featured a revival of composer María Grever's 1930s composition (also previously a hit for the Dorsey Brothers) set to a Latin American bolero rhythm. It was a Top Ten Hot 100 hit and won the Grammy for Best R&B Performance. For the rest of her career, she would largely concentrate on singing ballads backed by lush orchestrations for Mercury and Roulette, a formula similar to that of another R&B-based singer at that time, Ray Charles. Included among these are gems like her 1961 rendition of Billie Holiday's "Don't Explain," which has a beautiful, bluesy Ernie Wilkins chart conducted by Quincy Jones. Tragically, Washington died of an accidental overdose of diet and sleeping pills mixed with alcohol at the early age of 39, still in peak voice, still singing the blues in an L.A. club only two weeks before the end. © Richard S. Ginell
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