The Queen of the Blues

~ Release by Dinah Washington (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Annotation

Label: Charly UK - Catalog #: 20 - Format: 4CD

Label: Charly UK - Catalog #: 20 - Format: 4CD

Label: Charly UK - Catalog #: 20 - Format: 4CD

Label: Charly UK - Catalog #: 20 - Format: 4CD

Annotation last modified on 2007-03-19 17:13 UTC.

Tracklist

▼ Medium 1: A Slick Chick (On the Mellow Side)
# Title Rating Length
1 Evil Gal Blues
2:55
2 Salty Papa Blues
3:04
3 Blow Top Blues
3:22
4 Wise Woman Blues
2:50
5 My Lovin' Papa
3:06
6 Rich Man's Blues
2:55
7 Blues for a Day
2:53
8 Pacific Coast Blues
2:41
9 When a Woman Loves a Man
2:57
10 Oo-Wee Walkie Talkie
2:42
11 A Slick Chick (On the Mellow Side)
2:42
12 Stairway to the Stars
3:01
13 I Want to Be Loved
2:54
14 You Satisfy
2:49
15 Since I Fell for You
2:40
16 West Side Baby
2:58
17 You Can Depend on Me
2:43
18 Walkin' and Talkin'
2:32
19 Ain't Misbehavin'
2:49
20 Am I Asking Too Much?
2:49
21 Resolution Blues
3:16
22 I Want to Cry
3:11
23 Long John Blues
3:10
24 It's Too Soon to Know
2:42
25 Good Daddy Blues
2:24
▼ Medium 2: Baby, Get Lost
# Title Rating Length
1 Baby, Get Lost
2:52
2 I Only Know
2:27
3 Fast Movin' Mama
2:14
4 It Isn't Fair
3:03
5 Big Deal
2:43
6 I'll Never Be Free
2:45
7 I Wanna Be Loved
2:51
8 Harbour Lights
3:03
9 Time Out for Tears
3:20
10 Please Send Me Someone to Love
3:02
11 My Heart Cries for You
2:43
12 I Apologize
3:20
13 I Won't Cry Anymore
3:23
14 Cold Cold Heart
3:21
15 New Blowtop Blues
2:39
16 Wheel of Fortune
2:15
17 Tell Me Why
2:59
18 Trouble in Mind
2:51
19 When the Sun Goes Down
2:17
20 Double Dealing Daddy
2:47
21 Half as Much
2:32
22 I Cried for You
2:29
23 Fat Daddy
2:28
24 T.V. Is the Thing
2:28
25 Am I Blue
3 3:13
▼ Medium 3: Jazz Time
# Title Rating Length
1 I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
6:59
2 Blue Skies
10:52
3 Dream
2:40
4 I Don't Hurt Anymore
3:09
5 Soft Winds
2:59
6 If It's the Last Thing I Do
3:02
7 I've Got You Under My Skin
5:17
8 Darn That Dream
5:05
9 Teach Me Tonight
2:43
10 That's All I Want From You
3:00
11 I Concentrate on You
3:00
12 I Could Write a Book
4:24
13 Make the Man Love Me
5:30
14 Blue Gardenia
5:16
15 Easy Livin'
4:58
16 You Might Have Told Me
2:46
17 I'm Lost Without You Tonight
2:37
18 Make Me a Present of You
3:40
▼ Medium 4: Diva
# Title Rating Length
1 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
3:28
2 Look to the Rainbow
2:50
3 If I Were a Bell
2:07
4 Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby
2:59
5 Every Time We Say Goodbye
2:30
6 I'll Close My Eyes
4:01
7 I've Got a Feelin' I'm Fallin'
2:28
8 Keepin' Out of Mischief Now
2:41
9 T'Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
3:29
10 Backwater Blues
4:43
11 What a Diff'rence a Day Makes
3 2:31
12 Cry Me a River
2:29
13 It Could Happen to You
2:21
14 Unforgettable
2:45
15 Baby (You've Got What It Takes)
2:48
16 Everybody Loves Somebody
2:28
17 This Bitter Earth
2:29
18 Love Walked In
2:11
19 A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall in Love)
2:29
20 We Have Love
2:20
21 Early Every Morning (Early Every Evening Too)
2:18
22 Stardust
3:40
23 September in the Rain
2:09
24 Our Love Is Here to Stay
2:32
25 Mad About the Boy
5 2:49

Credits

Medium 1: A Slick Chick (On the Mellow Side)

composer:
Leonard Feather (track 1)
Buddy Johnson (track 15)
Matty Malneck (track 12)
Harry Pirone (track 22)
Frank Signorelli (track 12)
Tommy George (track 23)
Harry Brooks (jazz pianist & songwriter) (1929) (track 19)
Fats Waller (1929) (track 19)
Bernie Hanighen (1938) (track 9)
Gordon Jenkins (1938) (track 9)
lyricist:
Buddy Johnson (track 15)
Tommy George (track 23)
Lionel Hampton (track 1)
Mitchell Parish (track 12)
Lille Randall (track 22)
Andy Razaf (1929) (track 19)
Johnny Mercer (1938) (track 9)
orchestra:
Chubby Jackson and his Orchestra (track 12)
vocals:
Dinah Washington (1947) (track 12)
Dinah Washington (1948) (track 23)
Dinah Washington (1949) (track 21)
writer:
Leonard Feather (track 3)
Leonard Swain (track 21)
Dinah Washington (track 21)
publisher:
Anne-Rachel Music Corp. (track 9)
BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. (not for release label use! file releases under its imprint "BMG Chrysalis") (track 19)
EMI Music (do not use as release label! this is a music publisher) (track 19)
EMI United Partnership Ltd. (track 12)
Redwood Music (track 19)
Redwood Music Ltd. (Carlin) (track 19)
cover recording of:
Ain’t Misbehavin’ (track 19)
Since I Fell for You (track 15)
Stairway to the Stars (track 12)
When a Woman Loves a Man (track 9)
later translated parody versions:
A' da ligeglad (Ain't misbehavin') (track 19)
later translated versions:
Jag hålls på mattan (track 19)
recording of:
Blow Top Blues (track 3)
Evil Gal Blues (track 1)
I Want to Cry (track 22)
Long John Blues (track 23)
Resolution Blues (track 21)
referred to in medleys:
Sleeptime Down South Medley (track 19)

Medium 2: Baby, Get Lost

composer:
Harry Akst (track 25)
Grant Clarke (track 25)
Al Frisch (track 13)
Richard M. Jones (track 18)
Percy Mayfield (– 1950) (track 10)
lyricist:
Grant Clarke (track 25)
Richard M. Jones (track 18)
Fred Wise (track 13)
Percy Mayfield (– 1950) (track 10)
orchestra:
Teddy Stewart Orchestra (track 1)
vocals:
Dinah Washington (1950) (track 5)
Dinah Washington (1951) (track 12)
writer:
Bennie Benjamin (track 6)
Leonard Feather (track 1)
Al Goodhart (track 12)
Al Hoffman (track 12)
Billy Moore, Jr. (40s US composer/arranger) (track 1)
Ed G. Nelson (track 12)
Teddy Stewart (track 5)
Dinah Washington (track 5)
George David Weiss (track 6)
publisher:
EMI Music Publishing (do not use as a release label!) (track 25)
cover recording of:
I’ll Never Be Free (track 6)
Please Send Me Someone to Love (track 10)
Trouble in Mind (track 18)
Am I Blue? (1953-06-17) (track 25)
later translated versions:
Zu vü Gfühl (track 10)
recording of:
Baby Get Lost (track 1)
Big Deal (track 5)
I Apologize (track 12)
I Won’t Cry Anymore (track 13)

Medium 3: Jazz Time

arranger:
Chris Walden (track 9)
composer:
Gene de Paul (track 9)
Richard Rodgers (track 12)
Irving Berlin (1926) (track 2)
Johnny Mercer (1944) (track 3)
lyricist:
Sammy Cahn (track 9)
Lorenz Hart (track 12)
Irving Berlin (1926) (track 2)
Johnny Mercer (1944) (track 3)
vocals:
Dinah Washington (1954) (track 9)
writer:
Dorothy Fields (US Tin Pan Alley librettist and lyricist) (track 13)
Don Robertson (Songwriter with hit "Happy Whistler") (track 4)
Jack Rollins (track 4)
Arthur Schwartz (track 13)
publisher:
Cahn Music Company (track 9)
Capitol Songs Inc. (track 3)
Hub Music Co Inc (track 9)
Irving Berlin Music Company (track 2)
Michael H. Goldsen Inc. (track 3)
WB Music Corp. (ASCAP) (track 3)
Warner Music Corp. (track 3)
Williamson Music Company (track 2)
cover recording of:
Blue Skies (track 2)
Dream (track 3)
I Could Write a Book (track 12)
I Don't Hurt Anymore (track 4)
Make the Man Love Me (track 13)
Teach Me Tonight (track 9)
later versions:
All Day Long (Blue Skies) (track 2)
part of:
Pal Joey (track 12)
referred to in medleys:
Bing Crosby Medley (track 2)

Medium 4: Diva

drums:
Panama Francis (tracks 11–12)
flute:
Jerome Richardson (tracks 11–12)
guitar:
Kenny Burrell (tracks 11–12)
double bass:
Milt Hinton (tracks 11–12)
piano:
Joe Zawinul (tracks 11–12)
baritone saxophone:
Charles Davis (saxophone player) (tracks 11–12)
arranger:
Belford Hendricks (tracks 11–12)
composer:
María Grever (track 11)
Arthur Hamilton (track 12)
Jerome Kern (track 1)
Harry Link (track 7)
Clyde Otis (American songwriter and record producer) (track 17)
Everett Robbins (track 9)
Jimmy Van Heusen (track 13)
Fats Waller (tracks 7–8)
Noël Coward (track 25)
Porter Grainger (track 9)
Hoagy Carmichael (1927) (track 22)
George Gershwin (composer) (1930) (track 18)
Harry Warren (US composer and lyricist) (1937) (track 23)
Cole Porter (1944) (track 5)
conductor:
Belford Hendricks (tracks 11–12)
lead vocals:
Dinah Washington (tracks 11–12)
lyricist:
Arthur Hamilton (track 12)
Clyde Otis (American songwriter and record producer) (track 17)
Stanley Adams (US lyricist & songwriter) (track 11)
Johnny Burke (American lyricist, 1908-1964) (track 13)
Noël Coward (track 25)
Porter Grainger (track 9)
Otto Harbach (track 1)
Andy Razaf (track 8)
Billy Rose (track 7)
Mitchell Parish (1929) (track 22)
Al Dubin (1937) (track 23)
Ira Gershwin (1937) (track 18)
Cole Porter (1944) (track 5)
performer:
Belford Hendricks' Orchestra (track 11)
Brook Benton (track 15)
producer:
Clyde Otis (American songwriter and record producer) (tracks 11–12)
vocals:
Dinah Washington (1956) (track 4)
Dinah Washington (1957) (tracks 7–9)
Dinah Washington (1959) (track 17)
Brook Benton (1960) (track 19)
Dinah Washington (1960) (tracks 19, 22–23)
writer:
Brook Benton (tracks 15, 19)
Luchi de Jesus (track 19)
Clyde Otis (American songwriter and record producer) (tracks 15, 19)
Murray Stein (track 15)
Bill Austin (1944) (track 4)
Louis Jordan (American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician and songwriter) (1944) (track 4)
publisher:
Chappell & Co. (tracks 1, 5, 13)
Chappell & Co., Inc. (tracks 5, 12)
Chappell Music Co. Inc. (tracks 5, 12)
Chappell Music Ltd. (track 25)
EMI Music Publishing (do not use as a release label!) (track 11)
Harmony Grace Publishing (track 12)
Hoagy Publishing Co. (track 22)
Lawrence Wright Music Co., Ltd. (track 22)
MCA Music (not for release label use! this is a music publisher, ASCAP-affiliated) (track 9)
MCA Music Publishing (renamed since c. 1996 as Universal Music Publishing Group) (track 9)
Maurice Music (track 11)
Mills Music, Inc. (track 22)
Saunders Publications Inc. (track 12)
Sony/ATV Harmony (track 13)
Sony/ATV Harmony UK (track 13)
Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC (track 13)
Stanley Adams Music (track 11)
T.B. Harms (US sheet music publisher 1875 sold to Warner Brothers 1929 sold to Welk Music 1970) (track 1)
Universal Music - Z Tunes LLC (track 11)
Universal PolyGram International Publishing, Inc. (existed only since ca. 1998) (track 1)
Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (tracks 5, 18)
Warner/Chappell North America Limited (track 12)
Henrees Music co. (1937) (track 23)
peermusic UK (UK publisher) (1937) (track 23)
Gershwin Publishing Corp (1938) (track 18)
arrangements:
Dym (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes) (for two violins and piano, Frolov) (track 1)
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye (for choir, Bennett) (track 5)
Love Walked In (for solo piano, transcr. by Grainger) (track 18)
Mad About the Boy (arr Paul Campbell) (track 25)
cover recording of:
A Rockin' Good Way (track 19)
Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye (track 5)
It Could Happen to You (track 13)
I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling (track 7)
Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now (track 8)
Love Walked In (track 18)
Mad About the Boy (track 25)
September in the Rain (track 23)
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (track 1)
Stardust (the jazz standard) (track 22)
T’ain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do (track 9)
Cry Me a River (1959-06 – 1959-08) (track 12)
What a Diff’rence a Day Made (1959-06 – 1959-08) (track 11)
is the basis for:
Fried Bananas (jazz interpretation of "It Could Happen to You") (track 13)
later parody versions:
It Could Happen to You (Sinatra parody) (track 13)
later translated versions:
Då e’ de’ härligt att va’ me’ (track 9)
En septembre sous la pluie (track 23)
Fumo negli occhi (track 1)
Joet tulvimaan itke (track 12)
Noir est ta couleur (Cry Me a River) (track 12)
Pleure (track 12)
Pleurer des rivières (track 12)
Polvere di stelle (track 22)
Toda vez que eu digo adeus (track 5)
part of:
Roberta (track 1)
The Goldwyn Follies (track 18)
recording of:
Baby, (You've Got What It Takes) (track 15)
Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby? (track 4)
This Bitter Earth (track 17)
referred to in medleys:
Arenature (track 12)
Love Medley (track 18)
Septemberly (jazz instrumental medley of "Tenderly" and "September in the Rain") (track 23)
Medley: Tea for Two / September in the Rain (track 23)
translated version of:
Cuando vuelva a tu lado (track 11)

Release

ASIN: UK: B00005RRHV [info]