Dinah Washington's Finest Hour

Dinah Washington - Dinah Washington's Finest Hour

Dinah Washington's Finest Hour
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Artist: Dinah Washington
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-06-27
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Evil Gal Blues - Dinah Washington, Feather, Leonard
  2. Blow Top Blues - Dinah Washington, Feather, Leonard
  3. West Side Baby - Dinah Washington, Bartley, Dallas
  4. Long John Blues - Dinah Washington, Washington, Dinah
  5. Baby Get Lost - Dinah Washington, Feather, Leonard
  6. Trouble in Mind - Dinah Washington, Jones, Richard [1]
  7. Cold, Cold Heart - Dinah Washington, Williams, Hank [1]
  8. TV Is the Thing This Year - Dinah Washington, Medley, Philip E.
  9. I'll Remember April - Dinah Washington, DePaul, Gene
  10. Teach Me Tonight - Dinah Washington, DePaul, Gene
  11. I Just Couldn't Stand It No More - Dinah Washington, Kirkland, Eddie
  12. I Could Write a Book - Dinah Washington, Rodgers, Richard
  13. Blue Gardenia - Dinah Washington, Lee, Lester
  14. What a Diff'rence a Day Made - Dinah Washington, Adams, Stanley
  15. Unforgettable - Dinah Washington, Gordon, Irving
  16. Baby (You've Got What It Takes) - Dinah Washington, Benton, Brook
  17. This Bitter Earth - Dinah Washington, Otis, Clyde
  18. Mad About the Boy - Dinah Washington, Coward, Noel

Music reviews of Dinah Washington's Finest Hour

Music Review: Great CD
Rating: 4 Stars

If you like Ella, Sinatra, and Louis Armstrong you will definitely appreciate this album. This is the type of music you could expect to hear in a jazz club in Harlem in the 50s, it has that type of flavor. What a "Difference a Day Makes" will be a sure repeater.

I really enjoyed this CD as a newbie to Dinah Washington. My favorite and most listened to tracks begin after track nine, as tracks 10 on up have better sound quality and are her more popular songs. One song I found quite entertaining was the song in which she sang about a new invention called TV. This was especially funny, being that TV in America is as common as the air we breathe.

Description of Dinah Washington's Finest Hour

From the late 1940s until her death in 1963, Dinah Washington was a dominant presence among the women who sang R&B, with an unequalled emotional power and a voice that mingled highs and lows, rough and smooth, like raw silk. While she often sang R&B, though, her mastery of the idiom drew on her ability to sing all its constituent parts and musical relations--blues, jazz, and pop. This hourlong survey of her Mercury recordings covers all the bases that she touched in her career. Beginning with a 1947 session with backing from Lionel Hampton, Washington's Finest Hour extends to the pop sessions that brought her greater successes more than a decade later, both alone and with fellow singer Brook Benton. Washington the blues singer is equally effective on the bawdy "Long John Blues" and the traditional lament "Trouble in Mind," while her jazz-rooted mastery of standards is apparent on such songs as "I'll Remember April" and the profound "Blue Gardenia." She could even cover a country song like Hank Williams's "Cold, Cold Heart" or the light pop of "Teach Me Tonight" and make it convincingly her own, while her version of "Unforgettable" can stand comparison with Nat "King" Cole's. This is a terrific introduction to one of the essential singers, whatever genre claims her. --Stuart Broomer

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