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Send Me To the 'Lectric Chair

Featuring the music of Dinah Washington
Duration: 3:27

The great jazz singer Dinah Washington sings "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair" from her Bessie Smith tribute album.
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Article: Album Review

Dinah Washington: Evil Gal: The Imperious Dinah Washington

Read "Evil Gal: The Imperious Dinah Washington" reviewed by Nic Jones


In these days of photogenic warblers putting out the standards with only a negligible grasp of individuality and little in the way of interpretive skill, Dinah Washington continues to put a smile on your face before she's even got through the first line of a song. Evil Gal is a trawl through the sides she cut ...

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Article: Album Review

Dinah Washington: Music for Lovers

Read "Music for Lovers" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Dinah Washington's biting, blues-smoked phrasing is often cited as the primordial ground from which singers such as Esther Phillips and Nancy Wilson blossomed, and through them, more contemporary vocalists like Chaka Khan and Patti Labelle subsequently bloomed. This new collection of ballads draws from Washington's 1962-63 recording prime, a fertile period when she released several albums ...

Album

The Very Best Of

Label: EmArcy
Released: 2006

Album

Music For Lovers

Label: EmArcy
Released: 2006

Album

I Wanna Be Loved

Label: EmArcy
Released: 2005

Album

The Complete Roulette Dinah Washington Sessions

Label: Mosaic Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 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 Believe Dreams; Something's Gotta Give; Coquette; You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You; Red Sails in the Sunset; A Handful of Stars; Miss You; I'll Never Stop Loving You; Me and My Gin; You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You; Drinking Again; Where Are You; Medley: Ill Wind / For All We Know / I Could Have Told You So / Smoke Gets in Your Eyes / Goodbye / Make the Man Love Me / Blue Gardenia / I Concentrate on You. Disc II: I'll Be Around; For All We Know; Just Friends; I'm Gonna Laugh You Out of My Life; Lover Man; Say It Isn't So; That Old Feeling; Love, I Found You Gone; On the Street of Regret; The Man That Got Away; Baby, Won't You Please Come Home; I Don't Know You Anymore; Someone Else is Taking My Place; He's Gone Again; I Didn't Know About You; There I Go; You're a Sweetheart; I'll Close my Eyes. Disc III: Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me; My Devotion; If It's the Last Thing I Do; Our Love; It's a Mean Old Man's World; Was It Like That?; Fly Me to the Moon; I Wouldn't Know What to Do; No Hard Feelings; Me and the One I Love; There Must Be a Way; Take Me in Your Arms; What's New; Love is the Sweetest Thing; These Foolish Things; That's My Desire; The More I See You; I Used to Love You (But it's All Over Now). Disc IV: Just One More Chance; Blue Gardenia; He's My Guy; I Ran Out of Reasons; No One Man; Let Me Be the First to Know; If I Never Get to Heaven; Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning; Don't Say Nothing At All; You've Been a Good Old Wagon; Me and My Gin; How Long, How Long Blues; Don't Come Runnin' Back to Me; Duck Before You Drown; The Blues Ain't Nothin' But a Woman Cryin' for Her Man; Key to the Highway; Romance in the Dark; If I Never Get to Heaven; Soulville. Disc V: The Show Must Go On; Why Was I Born; I Wanna Be Around; I Left My Heart in San Francisco; What Kind of Fool Am I; Make Someone Happy; Rags to Riches; I'm Glad for Your Sake; Bill; Drown in my Own Tears; That Sunday (That Summer); A Stranger on Earth; The Good Life; Funny Thing; To Forget About You; Icy Stone; Stars Over my Shoulder; Call Me Irresponsible; Lingering; Lord, You Made Us Human; They Said You'd Come Back Running.

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The Complete Roulette Dinah Washington Sessions

Read "The Complete Roulette Dinah Washington Sessions" reviewed by Jim Santella


Dinah Washington The Complete Roulette Dinah Washington Sessions Mosaic Records 2004 What a voice! 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 expressive way with a ...

Album

Blues For A Day

Label: EmArcy
Released: 2002

Album

Ballads

Label: EmArcy
Released: 2002


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