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Aretha Franklin: Unforgettable: A Tribute To Dinah Washington

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On February 18, 1964, “Columbia” label released “Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington”, the fifth Aretha Franklin studio album. It was recorded in February 1964, at “Columbia Recording Studios” in New York, and was produced by Robert Mersey.

Personnel:

  • Aretha Franklin – vocals, piano
  • Ernie Hayes – piano, organ
  • Paul Griffin – organ
  • George Duvivier – bass guitar
  • Gary Chester – drums
  • Buddy Lucas – tenor saxophone, harmonica
  • Teddy Charles – vibraphone
  • Ernie Royal – trumpet
  • Bob Asher – trombone
  • Robert Mersey – strings arrangements, conductor
  • Adam Block – legacy’s rhythm and soul series director  
  • Tony Sellari – art direction
  • C.M.O.N. – design
  • John Berg – jacket cover
  • Robert Constanzo – packaging manager

Track listing:

  1. Unforgettable – Irving Gordon
  2. Cold, Cold Heart – Hank Williams
  3. What a Diff’rence a Day Made – Stanley Adams, María Méndez Grever
  4. Drinking Again – Johnny Mercer, Doris Tauber
  5. Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning – Tom Delaney, Pearl Delaney
  6. Evil Gal Blues – Lionel Hampton, Leonard Feather
  7. Don’t Say You’re Sorry Again – Lee Pearl, Art Berman, Eugene West
  8. This Bitter Earth – Clyde Otis
  9. If I Should Lose You – Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin
  10. Soulville – Titus Turner, Morris Levy, Henry Glover, Dinah Washington

Dinah Washington: Back to the Blues

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In February 1963, “Roulette” label released “Back to the Blues”, the fifteenth Dinah Washington studio album. It was recorded in 1962, and was produced by Henry Glover.

Personnel:

  • Dinah Washington – vocals
  • Billy Butler – guitar
  • Eddie Chamblee – tenor saxophone
  • Illinois Jacquet – tenor saxophone
  • Fred Norman – arranger
  • Howard Nostrand – illustration
  • Moskof-Morrison Inc. – design

Track listing:

  1. The Blues Ain’t Nothin’ but a Woman Cryin’ for Her Man – J. Mayo Williams
  2. Romance in the Dark – Lil Green
  3. You’ve Been a Good Old Wagon – Perry Bradford
  4. Let Me Be the First to Know – Leroy Kirkland, Dinah Washington, P. Woods
  5. How Long, How Long Blues – Leroy Carr
  6. Don’t Come Running Back to Me – Johnson, Dinah Washington, P. Woods
  7. It’s a Mean Old Man’s World – Leroy Kirkland, Dinah Washington
  8. Key to the Highway – Big Bill Broonzy, Charlie Segar
  9. If I Never Get to Heaven – Napp, Dinah Washington
  10. Duck Before You Drown – Napp, Dinah Washington
  11. No Hard Feelings – Jacobs, Al Roberts
  12. Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning – Pearl Delaney, Tom Delaney