Audio:  A to Z

  • Long John
  • Dinah tells a Joke
  • Crazy He Calls Me
  • Dinah's sweet speaking voice
  • Dinah sauced in the studio (Cry Me a River)
  • If I Were a Bell, Make the Man Love Me, (a clinic in popular song)

Live performances (video) --- PROTECT CONTENT BEFORE RELEASE

All of Me
Jazz on a Summer's Day
1958

 

4-min. excerpt
Windows Media 8 • 355Kb/s

Footage of Dinah Washington singing "All of Me" (full-length audio version available on Mercury Dinah Washington: Compact Jazz).  This highly-acclaimed 84 min. film also features Mahalia Jackson, George Shearing, Louis Armstrong, Anita O'Day, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, others.

My Lean Baby
The Ladies Sing the Blues
(1988 compilation)

 

2-min. excerpt
Windows Media 8 • 355Kb/s

Footage of Dinah Washington singing "My Lean Baby."  Also features Lena Horne, Ethel Waters, Peggy Lee, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, others.

Only a Moment Ago
The Ladies Sing the Blues
(1988 compilation)

 

3-min. excerpt
Windows Media 8 • 355Kb/s

Footage of Dinah Washington singing "Only a Moment Ago." 

What a Difference a Day Makes / Makin' Whoopie
The Swingin' Singin' Years
(1960)

 

5-min. excerpt
Windows Media 8 • 355Kb/s

Includes footage of Dinah Washington singing "What a Difference a Day Makes" and "Makin' Whoopie."  Features Louis Jordan and his band; also: Ronald Reagan (as emcee).