The women's movement began with Dinah Washington's voice. If Billie Holiday sang about mistreatment and the blues, Ella Fitzgerald sang youthful swing and Sarah Vaughan elegantly covered jazz-pop, ...

The sides she sang — Evil Gal Blues and Salty Papa Blues— were re-workings of songs Feather had written with other artists in mind. But Washington's versions connected with audiences.

Dinah Washington’s first recording was this 1943 version of “Evil Gal Blues.” Modern-day blues fans, though, prefer to focus on the hard-edged, Delta-honed electric sound that captivated ...

Dinah Washington: Evil Gal: The Imperious Dinah Washington album review by Nic Jones, published on ... The result is singing for people who don't usually enjoy singers—and as such it's no mean ...

She was renamed Dinah Washington, ... No one could fling a song at you the way Dinah could. Think of "Evil Gal Blues": "I got drunk last night, and I took my man to his wife's front door." ...

They called her “Queen of the Blues,” a title Dinah Washington wore with pride and disdain. The way she saw it, Miss D could sing anything – and she did. Blues, country, schmaltzy… ...

Between 1948 and 1955, she racked up more than two dozen R&B top ten hits and by the end of the '50s, Washington had crossed over into the pop charts. It was no mean feat for a black woman at that ...

Dinah Washington packed several lifetimes into her 39years. In her book “Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington,” Nadine Cohodas captures the triumphs and tragedy of a singer who… ...

By Nancye Tuttle [email protected] LOWELL — At her peak in the ’50s and early ’60s, blues songstress Dinah Washington seemed to have it all — a commanding stage presence, a stunning ...

With technical mastery and endless style, Washington never sang the same song the same way twice. No singer since has had Washington's particular combination of talent, sass and pluck.