Dinah! (album)
# Dinah! (album)

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| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | |

Dinah! is a fourth studio album by blues, R&B and jazz singer Dinah Washington released on the EmArcy label. The album includes a mix of jazz, popular and blues standards of the period, all selected to emphasize the vocalist's style.

## Reception

Allmusic details the album in its review as saying:

   Dinah! includes a very enjoyable mix of medium-tempo and after-hours vocal numbers. On a handful of cuts, Washington gets into the kind of smoldering and declamatory blues mode she excelled at.

The single "Make Me a Present of You" peaked at #27 on the Billboard Hot R&B Sides chart in 1958.

## Track listing

Additional tracks on later releases

* "What Is This Thing Called Love?"

      * Cole Porter (lyrics and music) – 6:45
* "The Show Must Go On"

      * Albert Frisch (music); Roy Alfred (words) – 2:27
* "The Birth of the Blues"

      * Ray Henderson (music); Buddy G. DeSylva, Lew Brown (lyrics) – 3:56

Notes

* – Recorded January 12, 1955 in New York.
* – November 10, 1955 in Los Angeles.
* – November 11, 1955 in Los Angeles.
* – November 12, 1955 in Los Angeles.

## Selected re-issues and compilations

Re-issues

Dinah!

* PolyGram (CD) (©1991)
* New program notes by James Isaacs (of WBUR-FM)
* OCLC 25107940

Compilations

The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury

* CD 2 of 3
* Vol. 4 of 7
* Tokyo: Manufactured and distributed by Nippon Phonogram Co.
* Remaster of Mercury 834683-2
* Kiyoshi Tokiwa (born 1936), digital remastering
* OCLC 21962968

## Personnel

Adapted from AllMusic.

* Georgie Auld – tenor saxophone
* Keter Betts – bass
* Jimmy Cobb – drums
* Maynard Ferguson – trumpet
* Tom Ferguson – trumpet
* Herb Geller – alto saxophone
* Conrad Gozzo – trumpet
* Al Hendrickson – guitar
* Arthur "Skeets" Herfurt – alto saxophone
* James Isaacs – liner notes
* Wynton Kelly – piano
* Tokiwa Kinoshita – digital remastering, remastering
* Manny Klein – trumpet
* Ray Linn – trumpet
* Hal Mooney – arranger, conductor
* Hal Mooney Orchestra – musician
* Ben Mundy – preparation for release
* Tom Pederson – trombone
* Cliff Preiss – preparation for release
* Frank Rosolino – trombone
* Babe Russin – tenor saxophone
* Bob Shad – producer
* Dinah Washington – vocals
* Si Zentner – trombone
