Dinah! is a fourth studio album by blues, R&B and jazz singer Dinah Washington released on the EmArcy label. The album includes a mix of jazz, popular and blues standards of the period, all selected to emphasize the vocalist's style.
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Reception
Allmusic details the album in its review as saying:
Dinah! includes a very enjoyable mix of medium-tempo and after-hours vocal numbers. On a handful of cuts, Washington gets into the kind of smoldering and declamatory blues mode she excelled at.
The single "Make Me a Present of You" peaked at #27 on the Billboard Hot R&B Sides chart in 1958.
Track listing
Additional tracks on later releases
"What Is This Thing Called Love?"[b]
Cole Porter (lyrics and music) – 6:45
"The Show Must Go On"[b]
Albert Frisch (music); Roy Alfred (words) – 2:27
"The Birth of the Blues"[b]
Ray Henderson (music); Buddy G. DeSylva, Lew Brown (lyrics) – 3:56
Notes
^[a] – Recorded January 12, 1955 in New York.
^[b] – November 10, 1955 in Los Angeles.
^[c] – November 11, 1955 in Los Angeles.
^[d] – November 12, 1955 in Los Angeles.
Selected re-issues and compilations
Re-issues
Dinah!
PolyGram (CD) (©1991)
New program notes by James Isaacs (of WBUR-FM)
OCLC 25107940
Compilations
The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury
CD 2 of 3
Vol. 4 of 7
Tokyo: Manufactured and distributed by Nippon Phonogram Co.
Remaster of Mercury 834683-2
Kiyoshi Tokiwa (born 1936), digital remastering
OCLC 21962968
Personnel
Adapted from AllMusic.