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Wake The Town & Tell The People! Hits & Hot Shots 1957-1962
Artist:
Washington, Dinah
Format: CD
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1. September in the Rain
2. Love Walked in
3. Baby (You've Got What It Takes) - Dinah Washington and Brook Benton
4. Mad About the Boy
5. Relax Max
6. Cry Me a River
7. Make Me a Present of You
8. Honky Tonky - 'The Queen'
9. What a Difference a Day Made
10. Bad Luck
11. Nothing in the World (Could Make Me Love You More Than I Do)
12. This Bitter Earth
13. Ring-A My Phone
14. Looking Back
15. Early Every Morning
16. Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying
17. A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall in Love) - Dinah Washington and Brook Benton
18. Out of Sight, Out of Mind
19. Wake the Town and Tell the People
20. Such a Night
21. Hurt
22. We Have Love
23. Everybody Loves Somebody
24. Am I Blue - Dinah Washington and the Dells
25. Again
26. I Wouldn't Know (What to Do)
27. Drinking Again
28. It's a Mean Old Man's World
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Bessie Smith earned the right to bill herself as 'The Empress Of The Blues' in the 1920s - but from the mid-1940s until her untimely death in the early 60s, there is never any doubt as to who 'The Queen' was. From her first recording session onwards, Dinah Washington inspired the next generation of blues and R&B women from Esther Phillips through to her biggest fan Aretha Franklin. It's almost impossible to guess the direction that female R&B might have taken without Dinah at the roots. This new Jasmine collection supplements and complements our previous volume of her early work, picking up Dinah's audio story in 1956 and carrying it through to some of her final sessions in 1962. From pop to R&B to jazz, it shows just how true her oft-quoted statement 'I can sing anything' really was. All of Dinah's bigger later hits are here, including her two Pop and R&B Top 10 hit duets with Brook Benton alongside songs that will forever be 'hers' such as 'This Bitter Earth', 'September In The Rain' and 'What A Difference A Day Made'. The focus here is generally on Dinah's R&B-style material, and may thus hold great appeal for fans of 'early soul' who don't realise just how big an influence she was on those who followed in her wake. A better cross section of repertoire from this period of her long career you would be hard pressed to find anywhere. It shows why, more than 60 years after her passing, people are still 'Mad About The Girl'.Email Signup
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