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Dinah Washington

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Aliases
Dinah Washington - Orch. Cond. by Nat Goodman
Sextet with Dinah Washington
Real name
Ruth Lee Jones
Born
August 29, 1924
Died
December 14, 1963
Country
United States
IPI
00032539200 5 works
Affiliation
BMI
Comments
Often referred to as the "Queen of the Blues", Washington was a legendary blues, R&B and jazz singer. Jones was married eight times before her death at age 39 caused by drug use.
Family
Eddie Chamblee Husband (1957)
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Covers by Dinah Washington

Title Performer Release date Originally by
listen on Internet Archive March 1944 Hot Lips Page Trio
Covered by (33 artists)
  February 1946 Bob Hope PRF, Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Skinny Ennis REC
  1946 Ginger Rogers and Allen Kearns PRF, Majestic Dance Orchestra [Lou God] - Vocal Chorus Irving Kaufman REC
listen on Internet Archive 1946 Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Joey Nash
listen on Internet Archive September 1947 Floyd Hunt Quartette - Vocal by Gladys Palmer
listen on Internet Archive October 1947 Buddy Johnson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Ella Johnson
listen on Internet Archive October 1947 Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
November 1947 Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
1947 Savannah Churchill and The Sentimentalists
1947 Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra, Kay Kyser and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Harry Babbitt
January 1948 Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra, Bull Moose Jackson and His Buffalo Bearcats
April 1948 Chris Cross and His Orchestra
September 1948 The Orioles
1948 Margaret Simms & Paul Bass
1948 The Basin Street Boys
February 1949 Buddy Stewart and His Quartet
July 1949 The Four Jacks [US]
November 1949 Etta Jones with J. C. Heard and His Band
1949 (unknown)
March 1950 Isham Jones and His Orchestra
May 1950 Don Redman and His Orchestra
August 1950 Savannah Churchill and The Red Norvo Quintet
November 1950 Toni Arden - Orchestra under the direction of Percy Faith
November 1950 Savannah Churchill and The Four Tunes
listen on Internet Archive 1950 Roy Fox and His Orchestra (Vocal Refrain by Barry Gray)
1950 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Jack Fulton
listen on Internet Archive 1950 (unknown)
1950 Jan Clayton and John Raitt with Carousel Orchestra under direction of Joseph Littau
  January 1951 (unknown), Guy Mitchell - Orch. & Chorus under the direction of Mitch Miller REL, Dinah Shore with Henri René's Orchestra and Chorus REC
February 1951 Little Jimmy Scott
April 1951 Percy Mayfield
listen on Internet Archive June 1951 Billy Eckstine - Orchestra conducted by Russ Case
October 1951 Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
October 1951 Abe Lyman and His California Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive November 1951 Johnny Messner and His Music Box Band - Vocal Refrain by Jeanne D'Arcy, Johnny Messner and The Three Jacks
listen on Internet Archive November 1951 Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Kenneth Sargent
  January 1952 The Swallows REC, Four Aces featuring Al Alberts REL
January 1952 Al Costello with The Walter Scott Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive March 1952 Etta Jones with Barney Bigard and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive March 1952 Thelma La Vizzo
May 1952 Larry Clinton and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bea Wain
  May 1952 Joyce Barbour, Steffi Duna, Norah Howard and Doris Hare PRF, Ray Noble and His New Mayfair Orchestra REC,REL
  September 1952 Ken Marvin REC, Curley Williams and The Georgia Peach Pickers REL
September 1952 Johnny Ace with The Beale Streeters
October 1952 Ray Anthony and His Orchestra - Vocal by Tommy Mercer, Marcie Miller and The Ray Anthony Choir
  October 1952 Ethel Waters with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra PRF, Leo Reisman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Harold Arlen REC
listen on Internet Archive December 1952 The Boardwalk Orchestra (Ben Selvin)
June 1953 Billy May and His Orchestra
1953 Joseph Mohr, Franz Gruber, Haydn Quartet
Sampled by Chad Lawson & Dinah Washington [sampled]
1953 (unknown), John Charles Thomas
listen on Internet Archive   March 1954 Kathryn Crawford, June Shafer, Ida Pearson and Stella Friend PRF, Waring's Pennsylvanians - Vocal Refrain by The Three Waring Girls REC
listen on Internet Archive   March 1954 Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Lew Sherwood REC, Bing Crosby BRD
March 1954 Clyde McPhatter and The Drifters
listen on Internet Archive November 1954 Janet Brace with Orchestra directed by Jack Pleis
  December 1954 Fred Astaire BRD, Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Bob Lytell REC
  December 1954 Belle Baker PRF, Imperial Dance Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Arthur Fields REC
December 1954 Fred Hamm and His Orchestra
December 1954 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
  1954 Benny Goodman and His Orch. - Vocal Chorus by Mildred Bailey REC, Maxine Sullivan, Louis Armstrong, Bill Bailey, The Dandridge Sisters, The Rhythmettes and The Deep River Boys PRF, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Anita Boyer REL
1954 Hank Snow, The Singing Ranger and The Rainbow Ranch Boys
January 1955 Leo Reisman and His Orchestra, Helen Jepson REL, Abbie Mitchell PRF, Abbie Mitchell under the direction of George Gershwin REC, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Sy Oliver REC, Ruby Hill, Harold Nicholas PRF
  January 1955 Virginia Bruce BRD, Frances Langford with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra REC
  January 1955 Evelyn Herbert PRF, Victor Arden-Phil Ohman and Their Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Male Quartet REC
January 1955 Billie Holiday with Orchestra directed by Camarata
January 1955 Jaye P. Morgan with Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra and Chorus
January 1955 Isham Jones' Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Woody Herman
January 1955 Larry Clinton and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bea Wain
  June 1955 Nat "King" Cole with Orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle REC,REL, Nat "King" Cole BRD
June 1955 Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday
  June 1955 Artie Shaw and His Orchestra REC,REL, Gene Kelly & Leila Ernst PRF
  June 1955 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain Ramona REC, William Gaxton & Ethel Merman PRF
June 1955 Marcia Van Dyke & Johnny Johnston
June 1955 Mae West with Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
  June 1955 Eddie Albert & Marcy Westcott PRF, Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Martha Tilton REC, Les Brown and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Miriam Shaw REL
  June 1955 Carol Bruce REC, Ella Fitzgerald REL
Daybreak Dinah Washington September 1955 Unverified
  September 1955 Douglas McPhail BRD, Les Brown and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Shirley Howard REC,REL
  1955 Ethel Waters BRD,REC,REL
1955 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Jack Leonard
  1955 Kenny Baker [US1] BRD, Abe Lyman and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Frank Parrish REC
July 3, 1956 Benny Goodman Sextet, Ernie Andrews
1956 Jan Garber and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Lee Bennett
1956 The Revelers [US1]
1956 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Mildred Bailey
1956 Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
1956 Frank Sinatra
  1956 Bing Crosby and Patty Andrews with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra REC,REL, Isabel Bigley PRF
1956 Harold Arlen - Piano Accompaniment by Arthur Schutt
  1956 Mary Hay and Clifton Webb PRF, Lee Wiley with Max Kaminsky's Orchestra REC,REL
1956 Mabel Mercer
  1956 Irving Aaronson and His Commanders REC, Irene Bordoni and Arthur Margetson PRF
1956 Russ Case and His Orchestra with Audrey Marsh and The Guild Choristers
1956 Ernie Andrews with Benny Carter Orchestra
  1956 Helen Morgan REC,REL, Mayo Methot PRF
  1956 Maurice Chevalier REC,BRD
1956 Nat "King" Cole with Orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle
  1956 Kenny Baker [US1] BRD, Abe Lyman and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Frank Parrish REC
1956 Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra
  1956 Tamara PRF, Gertrude Niesen with orchestral acc dir. by Ray Sinatra REC
1956 The Six Hottentots - Vocal Chorus Irving Kaufman
  1956 Harry Richman PRF, Ted Lewis and His Band REC
1956 Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra
1956 Ethel Waters and The Jazz Masters
1956 Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy - Vocal Chorus by Pha Terrell
1956 Ted Fiorito & His Orchestra
  August 1957 Eddie Quillan and Arline Judge REC,BRD, Ginger Rogers and Willie Howard PRF
August 1957 Barney Bigard and His Jazzopaters, Valaida & Lulle Ellboys orkester
  August 1957 Nan Wynn PRF, Benny Goodman Quintet - Vocal Chorus by Peggy Mann REC
August 1957 Dorothy Squires with Orchestra directed by Billy Reid
August 1957 Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
  August 1957 Eddie Cantor REC,REL,PRF
August 1957 Nat "King" Cole with the Music of Nelson Riddle
August 1957 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra, Sarah Vaughan - Orchestra under the direction of Norman Leyden
  August 1957 Winnie Lightner PRF, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra REL
August 1957 Julia Sanderson and Donald Brian
  1957 Ernie Holst and His Hotel Lexington Orchestra REL, Isham Jones and His Orchestra REC
1957 Margaret Simms & Paul Bass
  1957 Edith Wilson PRF, Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra REC,REL
1957 Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy
1957 Aileen Stanley
1957 Bert Stock and His Orchestra
1957 (unknown)
1957 Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
1957 Four Tones and Eddie Beal Trio
  1957 Clarence Williams' Blue Five - Vocal Chorus by Eva Taylor REL, William Bailey REC
1957 Tennessee Ten (Original Memphis Five), Anna Meyers and Original Memphis Five
1957 "Fats" Waller and His Rhythm
Covered by (4 artists)
April 1958 Campbell and Burr
April 1958 (unknown)
April 1958 Eva Taylor, Accomp. by Clarence Williams Blue Five
April 1958 Bessie Smith - Irving Johns at the Piano
April 1958 Bessie Smith
April 1958 Bessie Smith and Her Blue Boys
April 1958 Bessie Smith
April 1958 Bessie Smith and Her Blue Boys
April 1958 Bessie Smith
Honky Tonk The Queen (Dinah Washington) 1958 Unverified
April 1959 Pedro Via y su orquesta, Jimmie Ague
September 1959 Nat "King" Cole with Orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle
September 1959 Nat King Cole
November 1959 Julie London
November 1959 Henry Busse and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Richard Barry
  November 1959 Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Bob Eberly REC, Dorothy Lamour, Bob Eberly, Helen O'Connell and Chorus with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra BRD
  November 1959 Doris Day - Orchestra under the direction of George Siravo REL, Doris Day and Nestor Amaral REC
November 1959 Little Jimmy Scott
  November 1959 Sterling Holloway - June Cochran PRF, The Knickerbockers [Ben Selvin] REC
November 1959 Dinah Shore with Harry Zimmerman and His Orchestra
  November 1959 Frank Sinatra BRD, Margaret Whiting with Frank De Vol and His Orchestra REC
1959 Claude Thornhill and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Fran Warren
Back Water Blues Dinah Washington 1959 Unverified
1959 Don Byrd - Gigi Gryce
Covered by (30 artists)
1959 Dinah Shore with Orchestra
January 1960 Dorothy Pay
  February 1960 Jo Stafford with Paul Weston and His Orchestra REC, Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra REL, Fred MacMurray & Dorothy Lamour BRD
  May 1960 Kitty Carlisle & Allan Jones BRD, Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Maxine Grey REC,REL
May 1960 Priscilla Bowman
  May 1960 Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour and His Orchestra REC, Frank Sinatra – Orchestra under the direction of Axel Stordahl REL
  May 1960 Jane Froman with Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Sid Feller REC, Jane Froman BRD
May 1960 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Frank Sinatra and The Pied Pipers
May 1960 Victor Young, Jeri Southern with Victor Young and His Orchestra
June 1960 Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
  July 1960 Vera Lynn REC,REL, Ida Lupino BRD
July 1960 Isham Jones and His Orchestra
  September 1960 Jan Garber and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Russ Brown REC, Kenny Baker [US1] BRD
1960 Billie Holiday
  1960 Ivie Anderson PRF, Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Ivie Anderson REL
1960 Sam Lanin and His Troubadours
1960 Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians
April 1961 Tony Bennett with Percy Faith and His Orch. & Chorus
  April 1961 Kenny Baker [US1] BRD, Abe Lyman and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Frank Parrish REC
August 1961 Dolores Valesco
August 1961 Dick Powell & Alice Faye
August 1961 Al Hibbler
  August 1961 Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Bobby Goday REC, The Warner Brothers Studio Orchestra BRD
  August 1961 Fred Astaire BRD, Louis Prima and His Orchestra - Vocal by Lilyann Carol REC,REL
August 1961 John Hundley & Lillian Taiz
August 1961 Lois Deppe & Russell Woodling's Jubilee Singers
1961 The Orioles - Sid Bass Orch.
1961 Ernie Andrews accompanied by Wilbert Baranco Trio
1961 Roy Hamilton
1961 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - Vocal by Albert Hibbler
1961 Betty Hutton with Joe Lilley and His Orchestra
1961 The Five Keys
1961 Hoagy Carmichael & His Pals, Chester Leighton & His Sophomores - Vocal Chorus by Chester Leighton
1961 Bing Crosby
  January 1962 Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Helen Forrest REC, Vivienne Segal PRF
January 1962 Gladys Swarthout & John Boles
January 1962 Nat "King" Cole with Orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle
January 1962 Billy Eckstine - Orchestra conducted by Russ Case
  January 1962 The Warner Brothers Studio Orchestra BRD, Ethel Waters with Edward Mallory and His Orchestra REC
January 1962 The Jungle Band [Duke Ellington]
  January 1962 Doris Day REC,REL,BRD
January 1962 Les Baxter His Chorus and Orchestra featuring The Notables
January 1962 William Gaxton & Genevieve Tobin
  April 1962 Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Ray Eberle REC,REL, Virginia Grey [dubbed by Elvida Rizzo] & Dan Dailey [dubbed by Morton Scott] BRD
April 1962 Broadway Bell-Hops
April 1962 Nat "King" Cole with Orchestra conducted by Neal Hefti
April 1962 Gloria Lynne with The Earl May Trio
April 1962 Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
April 1962 Rudy Vallée and His Connecticut Yankees - Vocal Refrain by Rudy Vallée
April 1962 Lew Stone and His Band
April 1962 Artie Shaw & His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by "Hot Lips" Page
  April 1962 Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra REL, Sterling Young and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Donna Lee REC
  April 1962 Nat "King" Cole REC, Russ Morgan and His Orchestra REL
  August 1962 Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Bob Allen REC, Morton Downey PRF
September 1962 Eva Taylor - Piano Accomp. by Clarence Williams
September 1962 Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
September 1962 Jackie Wilson
  September 1962 Mills Brothers REL, Cab Calloway and The Cabaliers REC
September 1962 Nat "King" Cole
September 1962 Red McKenzie & His Orchestra
September 1962 Billie Holiday
  September 1962 Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye - Narration by Sammy Kaye - Vocal Refrain by Tommy Ryan REL, Kate Smith – Orchestra under direction of Jack Miller REC
September 1962 Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra
  September 1962 Judy Garland REC,BRD, Jeri Southern with Orchestra conducted by Sonny Burke REL
October 1962 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra, Woody Herman and His Orchestra
  October 1962 Felicia Sanders PRF, Kaye Ballard REC,REL
  October 1962 Woody Herman and His Orchestra REC, Jo Stafford and The Pied Pipers with Paul Weston & His Orchestra REL
October 1962 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Jack Leonard
October 1962 Dorothy Squires with Orchestra directed by Billy Reid
  October 1962 Ray Noble and His New Mayfair Orchestra REC, Jack Payne & His Band BRD,REL
October 1962 (unknown)
October 1962 (unknown), Red Nichols and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bill Darnell
October 1962 Russell Wooding and His Grand Central Red Caps
  October 1962 Tommy Dorsey & His Clambake Seven - Vocal Refrain by Edythe Wright REC, Alice Faye BRD
1962 Mel Tormé and His Mel-Tones
1962 Billie Holiday
1962 Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra
1962 Billie Holiday
1962 The MGM Studio Orchestra
1962 Don Redman and His Orchestra
  1962 Harold Arlen with Orchestral Acc. Dir. by Ray Sinatra REC, Art Jarrett BRD
1962 Gene Austin
February 1963 Ida Cox, Leroy Carr
February 1963 Charles Segar
February 1963 Margaret Johnson - Accomp. by Clarence Williams' Hamonizers
February 1963 Lil Green
September 1963 Mildred Fisher, Helen Morgan
September 1963 Sonny Thompson - Vocal by Lula Reed
September 1963 Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy - Vocal Chorus by Pha Terrell
  September 1963 Ceil Clayton REL, Claramae Turner PRF
September 1963 Wynona Carr
  September 1963 John Reardon & Nancy Dussault PRF, Perry Como REC,REL
September 1963 Tony Bennett with Percy Faith and His Orchestra
September 1963 Emil Roósz und sein Orchester v. Hotel Adlon, Berlin - Gesang: Austin Egen, Owen Fallon and His Californians - Vocal Chorus by Harlan Lattimore
September 1963 Johnnie Johnston with Paul Baron and His Orchestra
September 1963 Dakota Staton accompanied by The Norman Simmons Quartet
September 1963 Anthony Newley
  September 1963 Helen Morgan REC,REL,PRF
  November 1963 Frank Sinatra REL, Jackie Gleason BRD
November 1963 Tony Bennett with Percy Faith & His Orchestra
November 1963 Nat King Cole - With Orchestra conducted by Ralph Carmichael
1963 Sextet with Dinah Washington
  March 1964 Sammy Davis, Jr. - Orchestra directed by Sy Oliver REC, Fred Astaire BRD
  March 1964 Sacha Distel et son ensemble, Sergio Franchi, Orchestra conducted by Glenn Osser REL, Betty Carter REC
1964 Curtis Lewis and His Trio, Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra
1964 Harry James and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Helen Forrest
1964 Doris Day – Orchestra conducted by Percy Faith
1964 Orlando's Orchestra
1964 Russ Morgan and His Orchestra
1964 Virginia Verrill
  1964 Dorothy Dickson PRF, Turner Layton REC
1964 Bob Crosby and His Orchestra featuring Trumpet by Billy Butterfield, Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra
April 1967 Vic Damone with Percy Faith
April 1967 Ethel Waters and Dooley Wilson
  April 1967 (unknown performer) PRF, Don Cornell REC,REL
  April 1967 Dick Haymes BRD, Dick Haymes with Orchestra under direction of Victor Young REC
April 1967 Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
  April 1967 The Troubadours [Nathaniel Shilkret] – Vocal Refrain by Frank Munn REC,REL, Ramon Novarro BRD
  April 1967 Sammy Davis Jr. REC, Sammy Davis, Jr. - Orchestra directed by Joseph Gershenson REL
April 1967 Frank Sinatra with Orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle
1976 Stan Kenton and His Orchestra - Vocal by Anita O'Day
  September 5, 1987 The Ravens REC, The Cats and the Fiddle REL
1988 Elsie Carlisle
  1989 Harry James and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Buddy Di Vito REC, Dick Haymes BRD, Dick Haymes with Orchestra under direction of Victor Young REL
1990 Billie Holiday
1992 The Piccadilly Players [GB]
1997 Hot Lips Page Trio, Sextet with Dinah Washington