Washington had a spectacular career and her hits — one after another — were ... and her name an unspoken word in the titles — (Dinah's) Bitter Earth, Cry (Dinah) a River, Teach (Dinah ...

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

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 ... to open with her big hit, ‘Unforgettable.’ ...

Dinah Washington rode her voice from her gospel roots through the blues, jazz and into lushly orchestrated pop ballads. It was this latter form that brought her biggest crossover hits and she ...

Some accounts figure she had 45 hits in the span between 1948 and ... In 1964, Aretha Franklin cut the album "Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington," and in 1993, the U.S. Postal Service ...

With Adderley, Zawinul wrote several important songs, primarily the slow and funky hit "Mercy, Mercy ... to the US in 1959 where he played with Maynard Ferguson and the great Dinah Washington before ...

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 ... to open with her big hit, ‘Unforgettable.’ ...

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 ...