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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| Released | 1956 | |||
| Recorded | January 11 and November 11, 1955 in Los Angeles and New York City, United States | |||
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| Length | 53:25 | |||
| Label | EmArcy[1] | |||
| Producer | Bob Shad | |||
| Dinah Washington chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |  [3] |
Reception
editAllmusic 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.
— Stephen Cook, All Music Guide[2]
The single "Make Me a Present of You" peaked at #27 on the Billboard Hot R&B Sides chart in 1958.[4][1]
Track listing
edit| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Look to the Rainbow" | Yip Harburg | Burton Lane | 2:48 |
| 2. | "Ill Wind[d]" | Ted Koehler | Harold Arlen | 3:39 |
| 3. | "A Cottage for Sale[a]" | Larry Conley | Willard Robison | 3:18 |
| 4. | "All of Me[d]" | Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons | Marks, Simons | 3:45 |
| 5. | "More Than You Know[c]" | Billy Rose, Edward Eliscu | Vincent Youmans | 3:52 |
| 6. | "There'll Be Some Changes Made[c]" | Billy Higgins | Benton Overstreet | 3:02 |
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7. | "Goodbye[b]" | Gordon Jenkins | Jenkins | 3:21 |
| 8. | "Willow Weep for Me[d]" | Ann Ronell | Ronell | 3:28 |
| 9. | "Make Me a Present of You[c]" | Joe Greene | Greene | 3:46 |
| 10. | "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes[b]" | Otto Harbach | Jerome Kern | 3:24 |
| 11. | "I Could Have Told You[c]" | Carl Sigman | Jimmy Van Heusen | 3:14 |
| 12. | "Accent on Youth[d]" | Tot Seymour | Vee Lawnhurst | 3:20 |
Additional tracks on later releases
- Cole Porter (lyrics and music) – 6:45
- "The Show Must Go On"[b]
- Albert Frisch (music); Roy Alfred (words) – 2:27
- Ray Henderson (music); Buddy G. DeSylva, Lew Brown (lyrics) – 3:56
Notes
Selected re-issues and compilations
editRe-issues
Dinah!
Compilations
The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury[5]
Personnel
editAdapted from AllMusic.[6]
- Georgie Auld – tenor saxophone
- Keter Betts – bass
- Jimmy Cobb – drums
- Maynard Ferguson – trumpet
- Tom Ferguson – trumpet
- Herb Geller – alto saxophone
- Conrad Gozzo – trumpet
- Al Hendrickson – guitar
- Arthur "Skeets" Herfurt – alto saxophone
- James Isaacs – liner notes
- Wynton Kelly – piano
- Tokiwa Kinoshita – digital remastering, remastering
- Manny Klein – trumpet
- Ray Linn – trumpet
- Hal Mooney – arranger, conductor
- Hal Mooney Orchestra – musician
- Ben Mundy – preparation for release
- Tom Pederson – trombone
- Cliff Preiss – preparation for release
- Frank Rosolino – trombone
- Babe Russin – tenor saxophone
- Bob Shad – producer
- Dinah Washington – vocals
- Si Zentner – trombone
Notes
edit- ^ Nippon Phonogram Co., Ltd., was a Japanese record company that was founded June 1, 1970. It was a joint venture between Victor and Matsushita (owning 60%) and Philips Phonografische Industrie (owning 40%). The company mainly distributed the Phonogram labels Philips, Fontana, Mercury, Island, Vertigo and Charisma. Vinyl records were mastered and pressed by the Victor Company Of Japan, Ltd. pressing plant in Yokohama until 1988. Around 1995 the company was renamed to Mercury Music Entertainment Co. Ltd.
- ^ Kiyoshi Tokiwa (born 1936 Sakai, Japan) is a Japanese jazz producer, editor, radio DJ, and liner notes author. He was editor of the Japanese jazz magazine, Swing Journal (de) (ISSN 0039-744X), from 1962 to 1979 and from 1990 to 1993.
References
edit- ^ a b Dinah Washington, Dinah!, EmArcy MG 36065 (recorded 1955; released 1956); OCLC 10801888
- ^ a b Cook, Stephen. ""Dinah! — Review"". AllMusic. All Media Guide. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1467. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ "The Billboard Hot R & B Sides," Billboard, December 15, 1958, pg. 80
- ^ The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury
Vol. 1: 1946–1949 (3 CDs)
Vol. 2: 1950–1952 (3 CDs)
Vol. 3: 1952–1954 (3 CDs)
Vol. 4: 1954–1956 (3 CDs)
Vol. 5: 1956–1958 (3 CDs)
Vol. 6: 1958–1960 (3 CDs)
Vol. 7: 1961 (3 CDs) - ^ "Dinah! - Dinah Washington | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 January 2017.