I have seldom entertained without help from Dinah ... and seldom was I not asked about "that singer" we've been hearing.

"Music to dust by ... "  (everyone seems to want a compilation/keepsake of Dinah) ... many follow her footsteps -- as I once did -- deep into the genre that is jazz.  Such is the accessibility of a singer who bridged the old and the new ... the standards and the emerging world of R&B and soul.  For many, Dinah's an easy choice and satisfying affliction.

{some handy personal prejudice}

	partial to those which only she sung (Funny Thing, etc.) ... as if they could never be topped.
	secondly, similarly definitive renderings (dynamic, superlative arrangements) /// If I Were a Bell

Click to purchase	Title/Notes	In my (humble) opinion	Track listing
	Dinah Washington: Compact Jazz (Mercury/Polygram) 1990	The first and still finest single-disc compilation/reissue by Mercury/Verve/Polygram	What A Difference A Day Makes I Could Write A Book Make Me A Present Of You Smoke Gets In Your Eyes I Wanna Be Loved Manhattan I've Got You Under My Skin I Remember Clifford Unforgettable Easy Living Backwater Blues If I Were A Bell Teach Me Tonight Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now All Of Me This Bitter Earth
	Dinah Washington: Jazz Profiles no. 5 (Bluenote/Capitol/EMI) 1997	The final CD volume from Dinah's Roulette catalog reissued by Capitol/EMI	Destination Moon The Blues Ain't Nothin' Lover Man Don't Say Nothin' At All Coquette The Man That Got Away Funny Thing Just One More Chance Miss You To Forget About You A Handful Of Stars I'll Never Stop Loving You I Wanna Be Around A Stranger On Earth
	Dinah Jams (Mercury/Emarcy) 1954		Lover Come Back To Me Alone Together Summertime Come Rain Or Come Shine No More I've Got You Under My Skin There Is No Greater Love You Go To My Head Darn That Dream Crazy He Calls Me I'll Remember April
http://www.bestbuy.com/MandM/ProductInfo.asp?ST=10308306&m=254	In the Land of Hi-Fi (Mercury) 1956		Our Love Is Here To Stay Let Me Love You There'll Be A Jubilee My Ideal I've Got A Crush On You Let's Do It Nothing Ever Changes My Love For You What'll I Tell My Heart Sunny Side Of The Street Say It Isn't So Sometimes I'm Happy If I Were A Bell
	The Fats Waller Songbook (Emarcy/Mercury) 1957 NOTE: Out of print		Christopher Columbus T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do Jitterbug Waltz Somone's Rocking My Dreamboat Ain't Cha Glad Squeeze Me Ain't Misbehavin' Black and Blue Everybody Loves My Baby I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling Honeysuckle Rose Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now
Interesting compilations	http://www.bestbuy.com/MandM/ProductInfo.asp?ST=10245128&m=254
http://www.bestbuy.com/MandM/ProductInfo.asp?ST=11120486&m=254	Ballads (Roulette/Bluenote/Capitol)		Lover Man I Wanna Be Around I Didn't Know About You Funny Thing I'll Close My Eyes The Show Must Go On If It's The Last Thing I Do He's Gone Again These Foolish Things For All We Know What's New Baby Won't You Please Come Home A Stranger On Earth
	A nice alternative to Jazz Profile no. 5; also from the Roulette catalog

30 great performances/recordings

Embraceable You, 1946
I Wanna Be Loved, 1950
I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart, 1953
I Could Write a Book, 1954
Make the Man Love Me, 1954
Blue Gardenia, 1954
Look to the Rainbow, 1955
If I Had You, 1955
Make Me a Present of You, 1956
If I Were a Bell, 1956
What’ll I Tell My Heart, 1956
They Didn’t Believe Me, 1956
I’ll Close My Eyes, 1956
Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now, 1956
I Remember Clifford, 1957
Make Me a Present of You, 1957
Cry Me a River, 1958
Manhattan, 1959
Mad About the Boy, 1961
Mixed Emotions, 1961
I Wanna Be Loved, 1961
For All We Know, 1962
Destination Moon, 1962
I’ll Close My Eyes, 1963
If It’s the Last Thing I Do, 1963
My Devotion, 1963
A Stranger on Earth, 1963 (LP)
Icy Stone, 1963 (LP)
To Forget About You, 1963
Funny Thing, 1963

" best-of's/bach'set

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