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Dinah Washington
Complete on Mercury 4
Genres: Blues, Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists

Track Listings (16) - Disc #1
1. Wishing Well
2. Teach Me Tonight
3. I Just Couldn't Stand It Anymore
4. Remember Me?
5. That's All I Want From You
6. You Stay On My Mind
7. A Cottage For Sale
8. I Concentrate On You
9. I Could Write A Book
10. Make The Man Love Me
11. Blue Gardinia
12. You Don't Know What Love Is
13. My Old Flame
14. Easy Living
15. I Get A Kick Out Of You
16. This Can't Be Love
Track Listings (23) - Disc #2
1. If I Had You
2. I Diddle
3. I Diddle
4. Wasn't It
5. No! (You Can't Have Him)
6. Ask A Woman Who Knows
7. I Hear Those Bells
8. Not Without You
9. Let's Get Busy
10. The Cheat
11. You Might Have Told Me
12. I'm Lost Without You Tonight
13. Let's Go Around Together
14. Dinah Tells A Joke
15. It's Hard To Be Good
16. Goodbye
17. The Show Must Go On
18. Smoke Get In Your Eyes
19. Look To The Rainbow
20. Birth Of The Blues
21. What Is This Thing Called Love
22. There'll Be Some Changes Made
23. I Could Have Told You
Track Listings (24) - Disc #3
1. More Than You Know
2. Make Me A Present Of You
3. Ill Wind
4. Willow Weep For Me
5. All Of Me
6. Accent On Youth
7. I Thought About You
8. Lingering
9. A Sunday Kind Of Love
10. Come On Home
11. Let's Do It
12. There'll Be A Jubilee
13. Sunny Side Of The Street
14. If I Were A Bell
15. I've Got A Crush On You
16. Our Love Is Here To Stay
17. Sometimes I'm Happy
18. Nothing Ever Changes My Love For You
19. What'll I Tell My Heart
20. Let Me Love You
21. Say It Isn't So
22. My Ideal
23. Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
24. The First Time

CD Details

All Artists: Dinah Washington
Title: Complete on Mercury 4
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Polygram Records
Original Release Date: 9/19/1988
Re-Release Date: 10/25/1990
Album Type: Box set
Genres: Blues, Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Vocal Blues, Traditional Blues, Traditional Jazz & Ragtime, Vocal Jazz, Oldies, Vocal Pop, Traditional Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 3
SwapaCD Credits: 3
UPC: 042283468320

CD Reviews

Definitely "Complete" with Great Sound Quality

KC | Northern CA | 09/16/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"One of the great singers of the 20th century. This series is definitely COMPLETE with excellent sound quality considering many of these tracks are over 40-60 years old.

It's a bit over-whelming with casual fans as each disc in the series has up to 70 tracks ... but she never phones any performance and offers her unique interpretation on each track, you'll find something to like in everything but they are slightly different.

VOLUME 4: Offers Dinah Washington more bluesy and jazz swing vocals.

VOLUME 5: More mainstream swing, some brilliant torch tracks and the beginning her ballads period.

VOLUME 6: Her ballads period including her standards-setting interpretation of MANHATTEN and WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES (of course, I could list another 20 :-)

VOLUME 7: A new phase in her career where they seem to add a lot of strings and backup singers but not necessarily making her recordings better. Of the recordings on these discs, some are remade with more strings and backup singers - softening them and making them a little more pop and a little less jazz. Whether you consider that an improvement or not is your call.

Personally, I believe Dinah Washington;'s strength are doing sparse ballads - her voice range, timber and her performances somewhere between Billie Holliday and Ella Fitzgerald ... she's not quite as haunted as Billie Holliday but without the range of Ella.

My personal favorite is Volume 6 with its mostly ballads and her standard setting vocals.

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