The Complete Sessions

Deluxe 3CD collector’s edition featuring 73 tracks, including three complete albums. Comprehensive booklet with new and updated liner notes and memorabilia. This set presents, for the first time ever on a single edition, all existing sessions featuring the singing of Dinah Washington with bands conducted by Quincy Jones, who was also responsible for most of the arrangements on these dates. Ranging from 1955 to 1961, the sessions include the complete contents of the classic albums “For Those in Love” (Emarcy MG-36011), “I Wanna Be Loved” (Mercury SR-60729), and “The Swingin’ Miss “D”” (EmArcy MG-36104), along with various other tunes issued on singles. Contained here are her unforgettable renditions of “Mad About the Boy”, “Blue Gardenia” and “I’ll Close My Eyes” (the latter two were selected by Clint Eastwood for the soundtrack to his movie The Bridges of Madison County).

CD 1: I Could Write A Book / Make The Man Love Me / Blue Gardenia [1955 Version] / You Don’t Know What Love Is / My Old Flame / Easy Living / I Get A Kick Out Of You / This Can’t Be Love / If I Had You / I Diddle [version 1] / I Diddle [version 2] / Wasn’t It / No! (You Can’t Have Him) / Ask A Woman Who Knows / Relax, Max / Tears To Burn / The Kissing Way Home / I Know / I’ll Drown In My Tears / You Let My Love Grow Cold

CD 2: Somebody Loves Me / Perdido / Caravan / Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby? / They Didn’t Believe Me / But Not For Me / You’re Crying [1956 Version] / Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye / I’ll Close My Eyes / Makin’ Whoopee / Never Let Me Go / Bargain Day / Blues In The Night / Don’t Explain 2:34 / In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning / Blue Gardenia [1961 Version] / Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered / Am I Blue? / Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool / If I Should Lose You / Wake The Town And Tell The People / You Do Something To Me / So In Love / Secret Love / Mood Indigo / God Bless The Child

CD 3: I’m A Fool To Want You / A Stranger In Town / Sometimes I’m Happy / Let’s Fall In Love / I Just Found Out About Love / When Your Lover Has Gone / Tears And Laughter / I Can’t Face The Music / Since I Fell For You / Dream / Such A Night / Salty Papa Blues / It Don’t Hurt Anymore / Trust In Me / Tell Me Why / It Isn’t Fair / Time Out For Tears / Mad About The Boy [1961 Version] / Mixed Emotions / I Wanna Be Loved / Make Believe Dreams / If I Loved You / Stormy Weather / You’re Crying [1961 Version] / Teach Me Tonight / Invitation / Mad About The Boy [1952 Version]