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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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