#dinah washington

[joeinct]

Dinah Washington, Newport, Photo by Herman Leonard, 1955

#dinah washington #herman leonard

[themoschinobraedits]

“She had a really strong sense of her own style,” -Naomi Parry on Amy Jade Winehouse

#amy jade winehouse #amy winehouse #camden town #camden #jazz #london #gimp #edit #my edit #dinah washington #ella fitzgerald #sarah vaughan #rap #hip hop #nas #mos def #frank sinatra #lady gaga #lana del rey #adele

[davidhudson]

Dinah Washington, August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963.

#dinah washington #music

[twixnmix]

Ads for Club Riviera in St. Louis

Luis Russell / Sister Rosetta Tharpe (January 1945)

Billie Holliday (January 21-28, 1950)

Cab Calloway (January 1, 1951)

Duke Ellington (January 12-19, 1952)

Louis Jordan (May 4-12, 1956) / Count Basie (May 18, 1956)

Dinah Washington (June 26-28, 1956) / Little Richard (July 20-21, 1956)

Ike Turner (May 25, 1957)

Little Willie John (June 20-22, 1957)

Ray Charles (January 10-11, 1958)

B.B. King (August 22-32, 1958)

Jackie Wilson (February 26-27, 1960)

Etta James & Elmore James ( April 30, 1960)

Bobby "Blue Bland / Little Jr. Parker (April 7, 1961)

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[vintage-every-day]

Dinah Washington's distinctive voice and versatile style made her a force to be reckoned with.

#vintage #music #dinah washington

[kemetic-dreams]

Dinah Washington was a beautiful singer during the 1950's and the early 1960's. My favorite was and is "What A Difference A Day Made." I am quite sure you all have favorites. Tragically, she passed away in the early 1960's.

#african #afrakan #kemetic dreams #africans #brownskin #brown skin #afrakans #african music #dinah washington #what a difference a day makes #1960 #1950 #jazz

[detroitlib]

Souvenir photograph folder from Frolic Show Bar in Detroit, Michigan. Cover depicts interior of nightclub, with tables, chairs and bar. Printed on front: "Frolic Show Bar, Detroit's show place, continuous top name entertainment. Photo souvenir. 4556 John R. St., Detroit, Mich., Phone TErrace 2-8553." Folder includes list of coming attractions and advertisement for Jimmy Simms, dealer for Kaiser and Frazer motor cars. Photograph is missing from folder.

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

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[pluckysidekick]

It’s Wednesday, my fellow Drewds! Going into the holidays I can’t help thinking about how our favorite Crew are celebrating the holidays. Can’t wait for all of the @secretsleuthexchange fics, gifsets, and fanvids we’re going to get!

In the meantime, I was inspired by a poll from @burningblake about which classic “standard” song best represents Nace (all excellent choices). I wound up making a Season 4 playlist of standards from the Great American Songbook, and a few other classic tracks, that represent their Season 4 journey for me. If you’re interested in this sort of thing, here we go!

I’ll be linking the Spotify tracks, but you should be able to find them all on Apple Music or YouTube. If you want a link to the full playlist, just hit me up here or on Discord.

1. The Nearness of You - This Hoagy Carmichael classic brings to mind Nancy and Ace’s inability to stay apart every time they’re near each other in Episode 401 🥺. I love the Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong duet, but I picked Norah Jones’ version from her 2002 debut album because it’s just so perfectly wistful.

2. Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby - this so so cool track was written by Louis Jordan, but I first heard it on Tom and Jerry (that’s the fighting cat and mouse cartoon in case you’re too young to remember them). I immediately envision the back and forth argument Nancy and Ace have throughout Episode 402 in the lyrics of this song. Ace just wants to know! I adore Joe Jackson’s version, but I went with Dinah Washington and Quincy Jones from 1956 because it is absolutely perfect.

3. Night and Day - I like to imagine that Nancy and Ace stayed up all night talking at the end of 402. This song perfectly embodies their relationship at this stage 🥹. It was written by Cole Porter for Fred Astaire to sing in the original ‘The Gay Divorce’ Broadway musical (catch the film, a classic Fred and Ginger madcap musical romcom with such amazing dancing🕺🏼). But I had to go with Frank Sinatra from 1957’s ‘A Swingin Affair’ because it’s such a classic swing tune.

4. April in Paris - I’m not crying, you’re crying. Warning, there’s going to be a lot of crying in this playlist. Nancy telling Ace the story of her parents’ honeymoon in Paris in Episode 403, that shy smile when she tells him she always wanted to recreate it with someone, GAH. I had to pick the wonderful Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown on trumpet, simply exquisite. I’m going to have to take a break to sob quietly in the corner. “What have you done to my heart” indeed.

5. Fever - There was only one song, and only one version of this song, that matches the heat Nancy and Ace generated in the infamous Sigil scene. Peggy Lee burned the house down in 1958 with this track. “What a lovely way to burn” - Nancy can relate.

6. So in Love - Another genius Cole Porter song, written originally for Kiss Me Kate, but sung here by the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald (my personal hero). I had to pick it for THE KISS. They are just so in love 😭. A beautiful song and a beautiful rendition worthy of Nancy and Ace’s love. The fact that Kiss Me Kate is a musical about bickering exes who eventually find love again makes it even more perfect.

7. Crying - Roy Orbison, 1962. Need I say more? I may never recover from the final scene of 403. This song at least helps a little with the pain by naming it. Roy hits some insane notes in this song—the intensity matches both Nancy and Ace’s misery in that moment.

8. Good Morning, Heartache - More like Good Morning, Sorbet. In Episode 404, Nancy drowns her sorrows in her favorite frozen dessert to deal with the heartache of gaining and losing Ace. And no one does heartache like Billie Holiday, who recorded this song in 1946. Heartache haunts Nancy all throughout S4, and this track represents it perfectly.

9. I had two contenders for the Nace scenes in Episode 405, both from the early 60’s. I Fall to Pieces, released by Patsy Cline and The Jordanaires in 1961, was a country crossover and Patsy’s number one hit—an incredible track that embodies Nancy’s emotions on seeing Ace again. She can’t even look him the eye at the beginning of the episode. Which brings me to my other choice, Walk on By, written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach, and famously sung by Dionne Warwick in 1964. Nancy puts up a brave front for most of this episode, but inside she wants to break down and cry.

10. Episode 405’s speed dating montage is one of my favorite scenes of Season 4. Again I have two contenders—why should I have to choose? Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer’s One For My Baby (and One More for the Road), as sung by Ella Fitzgerald (again ‘cause she’s the best), is an ideal soundtrack for Nancy’s increasingly desperate descent as she spends every would-be speed date talking about Ace and THAT KISS. Equally appropriate is Billy Strayhorn’s Lush Life—velvet-voiced Johnny Hartman and saxophonist John Coltrane’s 1963 track positively drips with ennui, elegantly over cocktails, of course. If you’ve never heard this one, please give it a listen. There’s even a mention of a week in Paris 🥺.

11. Episode 406, with the infamous Spider Prom, is Ace’s episode IMO—we finally get to see how he’s dealing with the loss of the love of his life and his best friend. He so desperately wants to somehow get back to being friends with Nancy, he resorts to spending countless hours with the help of S4 MVP Nick trying to catch Chunky Velez for her. Can’t We Be Friends? is the perfect song for him in this episode, gorgeously sung by Ella and Louis. That is, until he spies Nancy and Tristan dancing, and realizes what he can never have. Etta James’ blistering track I’d Rather Go Blind captures Ace’s feelings in that moment. He may have been the one to halt their attempts to brake the curse, but he’s hurting just as much as Nancy is.

12. I’ve got two seminal songs to represent Episode 407. When Nancy realizes that Ace let Chunky go, and hears his admission that seeing her with Tristan hurt, it positively screams Cry Me a River. No, not the Justin Timberlake song 😅. This epic torch song was famously sung by Julie London in 1955, and expresses beautifully Nancy’s scorn at Ace’s hypocrisy even as she admits that he broke her heart.

Their fight, and Nancy’s subsequent dashed hopes that Ace would call her bluff and come back, makes me think of Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye. Another Cole Porter masterpiece sung by Ella. What can I say? You can’t top perfection:

Every time we say goodbye, I die a little Every time we say goodbye, I wonder why a little Why the gods above me, who must be in the know Think so little of me, they allow you to go

I dare you to listen to this track without weeping over the Nace of it all. Enjoy!

Well, Drewds, we’re just past the halfway mark of Season 4 and this post is already a novel, so I’m going to stop here for now. What did you think of my picks? Any you think I missed?

I’ll do a Part 2 as long as I get a few notes on this one 😂 . It will feature more classic songs that represent Nancy and Ace as they head into the back half of the season. I know it’s going to get rough ahead, but I promise the music will be sweet.

Update: Part 2 is here!

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[nicocota]

Dinah Washington on drums

#dinah washington

[thethirdman8]

#dinah washington #1959 #SoundCloud

[marvelettes]

#* #music poll #poll #polls #jazz #jazz music #Billie Holiday #Ella Fitzgerald #Nina Simone #Julie London #Etta Jones #Peggy Lee #Blossom Dearie #Sarah Vaughan #Dinah Washington

[smileysinmypocket]

#Dinah Washington #What A Difference A Day Makes #jazz #What a Diff'rence a Day Makes #50s #1959

[themoschinobraedits]

"She’d been clean for a long time. She got off drugs on her own, using willpower alone. She was an alcoholic, but if that was her only problem, or if she’d only had bulimia, maybe she’d have been OK. I believe it was the combination of the two that killed her, because of the extra pressure her eating disorder put on her body." - Naomi Parry on Amy Winehouse

#amy jade winehouse #amy winehouse #camden town #camden #jazz #london #gimp #edit #my edit #tony bennett #lady gaga #lana del rey #adele #frank sinatra #nas #mos def #sarah vaughan #dinah washington

[davidhudson]

Dinah Washington, August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963.

At the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958.

#dinah washington #jazz #music

[didierleclair]

A jazz lady with charisma and multiple talents. Dinah Washington was a jazz singer and pianist who could sing many genres, from blues to pop including gospel. She had a high pitched voice with varied intonations and extremely distinctive.

She had many hits, including "Ain't misbehavin'", the Fats Waller song. But everybody knows the pop and romantic song "What a difference a day made".

What characterized her greatness is her soulful way of singing. One of my favorite is "Cold, cold heart". She called herself "Queen of the blues" for a reason.

Une chanteuse de jazz avec du charisme et un talent multiple. Dinah Washington chantait plusieurs genres de musique, du blues au pop, en passant par le gospel. Sa voix était haute avec des intonations variées et très distincte. Elle a eu de nombreux succès comme "Ain't misbehavin'", le morceau de Fats Waller. Mais tout le monde connaît la chanson pop et romantique "What a difference a day made". Ce qui caractérise son talent est sa façon très "soul" de chanter. Une de mes préférées est "Cold, Cold heart". Elle s'est surnommée "La reine du blues" pour une raison.

#jazz #jazz music #dinah washington #didier leclair

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Dinah Washington: What Difference A Day Makes

Song of the Day - “What A Difference A Day Makes” Today marks the 65th anniversary of the recording of “What A Difference A Day Makes” by the incomparable Dinah Washington - February 19th, 1959. The song is an English adaptation of a popular Mexican song, "Cuando Yuelva a Tu Lado” by Maria Grever. This track was recorded at Mercury Sound Studios in New York, with Belford Hendricks' orchestra, with the great Panama Francis on drums, Joe Zawinul on keyboards and Kenny Burrell on guitar.. The entire album she recorded 65 years ago today is stellar - every single cut... her "Cry Me A River" is killer... as is "We'll Take Manhattan"... there is no voice quite like Dinah’s… But this track is the one. Dinah won a Grammy for this single, and though it would get covered by a handful of great singers, this is her song... hands down. In fact, it really is her signature song. Just custom made for her nasal-y voice..

[Mary Elaine LeBey]

#What a Difference A Day Makes #Mary Elaine LeBey #quotes #music #songs #Dinah Washington #Belford Hendricks' orchestra #my favorites #Youtube