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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Evil Gal Blues
2. Salty Papa Blues
3. Embraceable You
4. Slick Chick, A (On the Mellow Side)
5. Postman Blues
6. That's Why a Woman Loves a Heel
7. Walkin' and Talkin'
8. Record Ban Blues
9. After I Say I'm Sorry? (What Can I Say, Dear)
10. I'll Wait - (with Mitch Miller)
11. Good Daddy Blues
12. I Only Know
13. Baby Get Lost
14. It Isn't Fair
15. I'll Never Be Free
16. I Wanna Be Loved
17. Time Out For Tears
18. I Won't Cry Anymore
19. New Blowtop Blues
20. Wheel of Fortune
21. Trouble in Mind
22. I Cried For You
23. T.V. Is the Thing This Year
24. Am I Blue?
25. Blue Skies - (with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis)
DISC 2:
1. Love For Sale
2. I've Got You Under My Skin
3. I Don't Hurt Anymore
4. Crazy He Calls Me
5. Lover, Come Back to Me
6. Teach Me Tonight
7. Blue Gardenia
8. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
9. If I Had You
10. Sometimes I'm Happy
11. Keepin' Out of Mischief Now
12. Back Water Blues
13. All of Me
14. What a Diff'rence a Day Made
15. Unforgettable
16. Baby, You've Got What It Takes
17. Rockin' Good Way, A (To Mess Around and Fall in Love)
18. Bad Case of the Blues, A
19. This Bitter Earth
20. September in the Rain
21. Mad About the Boy
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Dinah Washington, Brook Benton (vocals); Cannonball Adderley (alto saxophone); Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (tenor saxophone); Maynard Ferguson, Clifford Brown, Doc Severinsen, Quincy Jones, Clark Terry (trumpets); Mitch Miller (oboe); Terry Gibbs (vibraphone); Lionel Hampton (vibraphone, drums); Wynton Kelly, Beryl Booker (piano); Jackie Davis (organ); George Morrow, Keter Betts (bass); Max Roach, Ed Thigpen (drums).
Producers include: Quincy Jones, Hal Mooney, Clyde Otis, Bob Shad, Leonard Feather.
Compilation producer: Chris Albertson.
FIRST ISSUE contains 46 tracks presented in roughly chronological order beginning with Dinah Washington's first recordings for Keynote with Lionel Hampton in 1944 and concluding with her Mercury tracks from 1961. This 2-CD set includes never-before-published photos by Chuck Stewart, plus liner notes and annotations by jazz historian Chris Albertson.
Industry Reviews
...Wisely emphasizing the jazz-oriented material and small-band settings that best suited her cynically sophisticated style, FIRST ISSUE is marred only by some really annoying surface noise... - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (07/16/1993)
...[FIRST ISSUE] neatly encapsulates [Dinah Washington's] achievements...every style is represented here, and her force-of-nature approach is seldom less than magical...
Musician (10/01/1993)
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