Five CDs and 94 tracks from her 1962-63 recording sessions give this complete Dinah Washington collection from Mosaic ample opportunities for extended listening. Five hours of Ms. Washington's ...

Only slightly less exciting are “Dinah ’62” (CDP 8183122) and “Dinah ’63” (7945762). Too bad she didn’t live to make “Dinah ’64” – or even “Dinah ’04.” I hope someday soon Blue Note or Mosaic will do ...

[NB also on Volume 1 of Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury set.] Greatest Hits 1946-53. Fabulous. FACD 2000 CD1. Dinah Washington with the Dave Young Orchestra. Am I Asking Too Much.

In 1993, Washington was inducted into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame in the "early influences" category. And yet, no modern singer has had Washington's particular combination of talent, sass and pluck.

She was renamed Dinah Washington, and Hamp took her on the road. "Queen," a vibrant new book by Nadine Cohodas, brings out in vivid Technicolor the woman many of us know only from her records.

Did Dinah Washington really lose it when she attended one of Aretha Franklin’s shows and heard Franklin sing one of Washington’s songs — as depicted in the new movie “Respect”? Not quite ...

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… ...

Brash, bold and, later, sometimes blonde Dinah Washington packed heat, gobbled diet pills, and was a taskmaster both in the studio and on the bandstand. If it was a gut-bucket blues or a highly ...

Dinah Washington: A Queen in Turmoil Before her death at 39 in 1963, singer Dinah Washington battled her seven husbands, her weight and even her fans. But when she sang, nothing else mattered.

Dinah Washington. Label: Mosaic Records Released: 2004 Views: 2,571. Tracks. Disc I: Drinking Again; Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?;Destination Moon; Take Your Shoes Off, Baby; Where Are You; Make ...