DINAH WASHINGTON - The Very Best Of Red Vinyl

When Dinah Washington had one of the most distinctive and versatile voices in music. Washington could sell an R&B stomp just as well as she could interpret a torch song, and she could hold her own in the company of Jazz trumpet genius Clifford Brown and Bebop drum pioneer Max Roach.

Her records, made for Mercury Records and the companys Jazz offshoot EmArcy Records in the US appeared in the UK through Oriole and then EMI. Notably, the 1959 album release of What a Diff'rence A Day Makes featured the classics Cry Me A River, Manhattan, A Sunday Kind Of Love, Time After Time and What a Diff'rence A Day Makes. During the same year she visited the UK performing at the Bath Jazz Festival and recording an appearance for Granada Televisions The Variety Show.

Washingtons discs regularly featured on BBC radio, but despite this, her only UK chart single came in November 1962 when September in the Rain reached number 35 from the album of the same title. Also taken from September Rain and featured on this LP is the popular Jazz standard composed by McHugh and Gaskill I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me.

SIDE ONE:

1. Mad About The Boy
2. What a Diff'rence A Day Makes
3. A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around And Fall In Love) (With Brook Benton)
4. Manhattan
5. I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me
6. A Sunday Kind Of Love
7. Time After Time
8. Is You Is Or You Ain't My Baby
9. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

SIDE TWO:

1. September In The Rain
2. Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)
3. You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You
4. Fly Me To The Moon
5. Cry Me A River
6. Baby (You've Got What It Takes) (With Brook Benton)
7. They Didn't Believe Me
8. Unforgettable
9. After You've Gone