A Tornado in Heat

This CD gets better with every listen! Dinah recorded these songs just over a year before her untimely death (age 39!). Though her voice sounds rough around the edges on some selections here, it all works to her advantage because it only adds to the down-home, blues-beltin' mama that many listeners associate Dinah with. Arrangements are usually a large orchestra with occasional strings added in but it's very much Dinah's voice that takes center stage here. Dinah knew her critics were blasting her for leaving the blues world for pop a few years back, so this was her way to make peace with them. But the listeners are the ones who win out because her rich, knowing voice goes thru 15 songs here like a tornado in heat.

Diva of Diva's

I bought this CD (and Ultimate Dinah Washington CD - 16 songs) after the play, Dinah Was. I have approx. 100 CDs (different Artist/Music), but I do not have CDs as the above-mentioned -- 31 total songs -- there is not one song that you would not replay! She was the greatest.

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dinah washington is the voice of the decade!!!!. I can go shopping in grocery store & I'll hear that voice!!!

Everyone over 25 yrs of age have heard her voice they don't know who it is.,but they know they have heard her on commercials,pop stations their mothers have albums,grandma's too...I'm a fan .