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Dinah Sings Bessie Smith
Dinah Sings Bessie Smith is a 1958 album by blues, R&B and jazz singer Dinah Washington released on the Emarcy label, and reissued by Verve Records in 1999 as The Bessie Smith Songbook. The album arrangements are headed by Robare Edmondson and Ernie Wilkins, and the songs are associated with American blues singer Bessie Smith. Allmusic details the album in its review as saying: "It was only natural that the "Queen of the Blues" should record songs associated with the "Empress of the Blues.
Sings Bessie Smith"
- Dinah Washington with Eddie Chamblee's Orchestra (1958), "Dinah Sings Bessie Smith"
- Dinah Washington (1958), "Newport '58" (recorded live at the Newport Jazz Festival)
- Dave Van Ronk (1959), "Dave Van Ronk Sings Ballads, Blues, and a Spiritual"
- Lightnin' Hopkins (1960), "Country Blues"
- Bob Dylan (1961), "Live in New York 1961"
- Sonny Terry and