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Dinah Washington: A Rockin' Good Way - Juke Box Pearls (CD)

1-CD Digipak with 36-page booklet, 29 tracks. Total playing time about 77 minutes.

• Dinah Washington was not only called 'The Queen', she simply was 'The Queen'.

• Her incredibly powerful voice, which is unparalleled, obliges us to include her in the 'Juke Box Pearls' series!

• With a total of 29 sound clips dating from 1947-1962 we show the complete stylistic range of this great artist!

• On this very personal selection - mostly up-tempo numbers and brilliantly arranged pop - you will find rarities and greatest hits.

• Among them her smash hits What A Diff'rence A Day Made (she sang makes instead of made), September In The Rain, Mad About The Boy as well as the two duets with Brook Benton: A Rockin' Good Way and Baby (You Got What It Takes)!

• Rarities such as the hard-to-find Mercury single Honky Tonky, which was released in 1958 under the pseudonym 'The Queen', are also included.

• With this 'Juke Box Pearls' edition of the great Dinah Washington we are erecting a small but fine memorial.

• The 36-page color booklet contains her biography, written by the famous Chicago music journalist Bill Dahl, as well as many photos and memorabilia, some of them rare!

A review of Dinah Washington's career

This compilation of 29 songs does not follow a chronological order, but it outlines the great career of the artist, who died far too early. It is impressive how her voice has developed over the course of two decades, from the jazz-soaked Rhythm & Blues of the late 1940s and early 1950s, when Dinah Washington was just one singer among many, to the great monumental pop arrangements and jazz standards of the later years with an enormous flexibility of her voice!

A Rockin' Good Way

Dinah Washington's greatest hits are all there, including the title song she sang with Brook Benton. Many will also remember A Rockin' Good Way in the cover version of Shakin' Stevens with Bonnie Tyler from the 1980s, as well as Mad About The Boy from Levi's Jeans TV commercial around the same time. Not only nostalgics and collectors will get their money's worth here, because if you're into powerful female voices, Dinah Washington is always the right choice - and young girls who dream of a singing career should also listen to this CD!

Included is a 36-page booklet in color with a Dinah Washington biography, written by the great Chicago music journalist Bill Dahl, and many photographs and illustrations, some of them rare!

Included are Dinah Washington's greatest hits such as the title song she recorded with Brook Benton. Many of you will also remember A Rockin' Good Way in the cover version of Shakin' Stevens and Bonnie Tyler in the 1980s as well as Mad About The Boy, which was used in a Levi's Jeans TV commercial at about the same time. Not only nostalgics and collectors get their money's worth here, because if you like powerful female voices, Dinah Washington is always right for you and young girls who dream of a singing career should also listen to this CD! Included is a 36-page booklet in color, with the Dinah Washington biography, written by the great music journalist Bill Dahl, as well as many rare photos and illustrations!

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Album titlle: A Rockin' Good Way - Juke Box Pearls (CD)
Genre R&B, Soul
Label Bear Family Records
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EAN: 5397102175206
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Washington, Dinah - A Rockin' Good Way - Juke Box Pearls (CD) CD 1
01	A Rockin' Good Way	Dinah Washington & Brook Benton
02	Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby	Dinah Washington
03	Baby, Get Lost	Dinah Washington
04	New Blowtop Blues	Dinah Washington
05	A Bad Case Of The Blues	Dinah Washington
06	Such A Night	Dinah Washington
07	T.V. Is The Thing (This Year)	Dinah Washington
08	Trouble In Mind	Dinah Washington
09	A Sunday Kind Of Love	Dinah Washington
10	Bad Luck	Dinah Washington
11	Honky Tonk	Dinah Washington as 'The Queen'
12	Smoke Gets In Your Eyes	Dinah Washington
13	What A Diff'rence A Day Makes	Dinah Washington
14	Baby, You've Got What It Takes	Dinah Washington & Brook Benton
15	Come On Home	Dinah Washington
16	Early Every Morning	Dinah Washington
17	Cry Me A River	Dinah Washington
18	I'm Thru With Love	Dinah Washington
19	Everybody Loves Somebody	Dinah Washington
20	I Don't Hurt Anymore	Dinah Washington
21	Mean And Evil Blues	Dinah Washington
22	Lingering	Dinah Washington
23	Ask A Woman Who Knows	Dinah Washington
24	Relax Max	Dinah Washington
25	September In The Rain	Dinah Washington
26	Mad About The Boy	Dinah Washington
27	Time After Time	Dinah Washington
28	The Song Is Ended	Dinah Washington
29	Unforgettable	Dinah Washington

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What A Diff'rence A Day Makes

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What A Diff'rence A Day Makes

(G“Dinah was the reason they wanted me to take over Mercury’s New York office,” said Clyde Otis. “They introduced me to her, and I said, 'I respect what you do so much, I'm afraid to even suggest a change in direction, but I have this idea for you to do “What A Diff'rence A Day Makes.” Have you ever heard it?' She said she had, and she asked me if I wrote it [Otis’ predilection for his own songs was legendary in the business]. I said I hadn't, but I told her if she recorded it, it could be very successful for her. She said, 'You do huh, motherfucker.' That was how she talked. She said, 'I'll give you one take, motherfucker.' I knew she meant one take, too. On the session, she was getting her shit together in the bathroom, and I told Belford Hendricks the arranger to get all the kinks out of the arrangement. She came back, she said. 'Ready?' One take, and we got it.

I went to a product meeting [at Mercury HQ] in Chicago, and played them ‘What A Diff'rence.’ They hated it. Meantime, Arnold Shaw [professional manager at the music publisher E.B. Marks] heard it and thought it was a monster. Arnold said, 'I'll take this song on the road, and I believe we can get the dee-jays to support it.' He went out three months, and when he came back it was a hit.” In his book, Honkers And Shouters, Shaw adds that he actually brought the song to Otis. “When I suggested to Mercury executives that Dinah could sell pop, they patted me on the head and told me not to waste my company’s promotional budget,” wrote Shaw. “I was so excited when Clyde Otis cut [the song] that even though field promotion was the province of other members of staff, I went on the road. I spent nine weeks visiting disc-jockeys. Not R&B, but pop.”

Dinah changed the song’s tense. Originally written in Spanish circa 1934 by Maria Grever as Cuando Vuelva A Tu Lado, it was rendered into English that year by veteran Broadway tunesmith Stanley Adams as What A Diff’rence A Day MADE. It hadn’t been an especially big hit in 1934, although it was interpolated into the 1955 Kirk Douglas movie, 'The Racer'. In 1959, it became Dinah’s first pop hit of the rock ‘n’ roll era, and it was, by any criterion, an exquisite performance. In 1975, Esther Phillips took what was essentially Dinah and Belford Hendricks’ arrangement of the song back into the pop Top 20. By then, Dinah was twelve years dead.

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From: Skinny Dinamo On: 15 Dec 2021

Das geht besser!

Für mich eine eher schwache Zusammenstellung. Es fehlen elementare Titel wie die Zweitversion von "Such A Night", die Originalversion von "Ring-A My Phone" sowie eine Reihe rhythmischer Aufnahmen die etwas Besonderes darstellen, eben weil Washington eine Balladensängerin gewesen ist, wären ihre rhythmusbetonten Lieder hier wünschenswert gewesen. Die hier veröffentlichten Aufnahmen finden sich auf x-beliebigen CDs und sind sicherlich nicht alle "Musikbox-Perlen".

Tipp: Vielleicht vor Veröffentlichung erst einmal die Kenner der Materie zu Rate ziehen!

From: Susanne On: 3 Jun 2020

Gute Klanqualität

From: Hans Böckler On: 28 May 2020

Toll!

Diese Zusammenstellung ist der Beweis dafür dass Dinah Washington eine wirkliche 'Jukebox Queen' war! Schön, das ihr auch farbige Künstler mit in die Serie aufnehmt! Danke Bear Family!

From: Anonymous On: 12 May 2020

Eine wunderbare CD. Kann man nur empfehlen.

From: Ronald Dziobecki On: 18 Apr 2020

Wonderful selections.

You get a lot of music for your money, and the tracks are a great representation of Miss Washington's career.The sound quality is superb.

From: Wolfman Gilles On: 8 Apr 2020

makes my day

what a great little package

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