50 Greatest Hits (2000)

About this title: For most artists, a collection named "50 Greatest Hits" on a Portuguese label would be suspect at best. In the case of Dinah Washington and this collection, it's actually a pity that a package of this quality wasn't released stateside. For starters, it's large. While this could have been some compiler's subjective list of favorites or a ripoff artist's compendium of a few classics with a ton of filler, it's about as far from either of those scenarios as you are likely to get. For starters, all but one of the 50 tracks spread over these two CDs charted in the Top 100. And the one that didn't ... read more

Tracks:

1. Ain't Misbehavin' [Brooks/Razaf/Waller]
2. West Side Baby [Bartley/Cameron]
3. Resolution Blues [Swain/Washington]
4. Walkin' and Talkin' [Hickman]
5. I Want to Cry [Piron/Randell]
6. Am I Asking Too Much? [Miller/Whitman]
7. It's Too Soon to Know [Chessler]
8. You Satisfy [Baxter]
9. Baby, Get Lost [Feather]
10. Long John Blues [Washington]
11. Good Daddy Blues [Spencer/Washington]
12. I Only Know [Johnson/Washington]
13. It Isn't Fair [Himber/Warshauer/Sp]
14. I Wanna Be Loved [Rose/Heyman/Green]
15. I'll Never Be Free [Benjamin/Weiss]
16. Time Out for Tears [Berman/Schiff]
17. Mad About the Boy [Coward]
18. Harbor Lights [Kennedy/Wiliams]
19. My Heart Cries for You [Sigman/Faith]
20. I Won't Cry Anymore [Frisch/Wise]
21. Cold, Cold Heart [Williams]
22. Wheel of Fortune [Benjamin/Weiss]
23. Tell Me Why [Alberts/Gold]
24. Trouble in Mind [Jones]
25. New Blowtop Blues [Feather/Feather]
26. TV Is the Thing This Year [Medley/Sanford]
27. Fat Daddy [Medley/Sanford]
28. I Don't Hurt Anymore [Robertson/Rollins]
29. Dream [Mercer]
30. Teach Me Tonight [Cahn/DePaul]
31. That's All I Want from You [Rotter]
32. If It's the Last Thing I Do [Cahn/Chaplin]
33. I Concentrate on You [Porter]
34. I'm Lost Without You Tonight [Daniels/Greene]
35. You Might Have Told Me [Bluett]
36. Soft Winds [Goodman/Royal]
37. Make Me a Present of You [Greene]
38. What a Diff'rence a Day Made [Adams/Grever]
39. Unforgettable [Gordon]
40. Baby (You've Got What It Takes) [Benton/Otis/Stein]
41. A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall in Love) [Benton/DeJesus/Otis]
42. This Bitter Earth [Otis]
43. Love Walked In [Gershwin/Gershwin]
44. It Could Happen to You [Burke/VanHeusen]
45. We Have Love [Higgins/Washington]
46. September in the Rain [Dubin/Warren]
47. Early Every Morning [Bartley/Hickman/Jor]
48. Love Is Here to Stay [Gershwin/Gershwin]
49. Tears and Laughter [Lewis]
50. If I Loved You [Hammerstein/Rodgers]

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