Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Best of Dinah Washington (1999)

About this title: Dinah Washington could sing any song and make it sound like everybody's life depended on it. An awe-inspiring jazz vocalist with roots in the R&B scene of the 1940s, she gradually evolved into a pop star during the '50s and would have matured marvelously were it not for an accidental prescription drug overdose that took her out at the age of 39 on December 14, 1963. In 1999, the Recall reissue label came out with Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, a 40-track best-of anthology devoted to Dinah Washington's mature works involving both small and large jazz bands, the soulful organ combo and the occasional ... read more

Tracks:

1. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes [Kern/Harbach]
2. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye [Porter]
3. All of Me [Simons/Marks]
4. I Get a Kick Out of You [Porter]
5. Mad About the Boy [Coward]
6. Manhattan [Rodgers/Hart]
7. Everybody Loves My Baby [Palmer/Williams]
8. Unforgettable [Gordon]
9. Love Letters [Heyman/Young]
10. Stardust [Carmichael/Parish]
11. Cry Me a River [Hamilton]
12. September in the Rain [Dubin/Warren]
13. Love Is Here to Stay [Gershwin/Gershwin]
14. Blue Skies [Berlin]
15. Ain't Misbehavin' [Brooks/Razaf/Waller]
16. Come Rain or Come Shine [Arlen/Mercer]
17. It Could Happen to You [Burke/VanHeusen]
18. Dream [Mercer]
19. What a Diff'rence a Day Made [Adams/Grever]
20. Love for Sale [Porter]
21. Stairway to the Stars [Malneck/Parish/Sign]
22. I Wanna Be Loved [Heyman/Green/Rose]
23. Am I Blue? [Akst/Clarke]
24. My Old Flame [Johnston/Coslow]
25. Easy Living [Robin/Rainger]
26. I Thought About You [Mercer/VanHeusen]
27. You Don't Know What Love Is [Raye/DePaul]
28. Love Is Here to Stay [Gershwin/Gershwin]
29. Make the Man Love Me [Fields/Schwartz]
30. If I Had You [Campbell/Connelly]
31. When I Fall in Love [Young/Heyman]
32. Look to the Rainbow [Harburg/Lane]
33. Willow Weep for Me [Ronell]
34. I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling [Waller/Link/Rose]
35. Never Let Me Go [Livingston/Evans]
36. Good Morning Heartache [Drake/Fisher/Higgin]
37. It Shouldn't Happen to a Dream [George/Ellington/Ho]
38. It's Magic [Cahn/Styne]
39. More Than You Know [Rose/Eliscu/Youmans]
40. I'll Close My Eyes [Kaye/Reid]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.