This essay is one in a series celebrating women whose major contributions in recording occurred before the time frame of NPR Music's list of 150 Greatest ... who knew Dinah Washington could ...

Five CDs and 94 tracks from her 1962-63 recording sessions give this complete Dinah Washington collection ... Butler brought a hearty blues guitar voice to Washington's performances. Disc V features ...

The versatile vocalist Dinah Washington was born Ruth Lee Jones in Tuscaloosa ... During her stay with Mercury she recorded a number of top ten hits in a multitude of genres including blues, R&B, pop, ...

Brash, bold and, later, sometimes blonde Dinah Washington packed heat ... she racked up more than two dozen R&B top ten hits and by the end of the '50s, Washington had crossed over into the ...

Did Dinah Washington really lose it when she attended one of Aretha Franklin’s shows and heard Franklin sing one of Washington’s songs — as depicted in the new movie “Respect”?

Dinah Washington was one of the greatest song stylists of the 20th century ... and "Queen of the Juke Boxes" -- and several enduring hits, including "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes" and "This ...

Did Dinah Washington really lose it when she attended one of Aretha Franklin’s shows and heard Franklin sing one of Washington’s songs — as depicted in the new movie “Respect”?

August 10, 2017 • With technical mastery and endless style, Washington never sang the same song the same way twice. No singer since has had Washington's particular combination of talent ...