Tears and Laughter (Dinah Washington album)

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Tears and Laughter
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Studio album by
Dinah Washington
Released1962 (1962)
Genre
Label Mercury
Dinah Washington chronology
I Wanna Be Loved
(1962)		Tears and Laughter
(1962)		 Drinking Again
(1962)

Tears and Laughter is a fourteenth studio album by Dinah Washington with Orchestra conducted by Quincy Jones, that was released on Mercury Records (in mono MG 20661 and stereo SR-60661). The orchestral arrangements, partly with strings for the jazz standard repertoire, were provided by Jones, Hal Mooney, Al Cohn, Ernie Wilkins and Billy Byers. [1] On the second half –the B-side– of the original LP release Washington is backed by the male doo-wop quintet The Dells, who toured with her as the opening act since 1960. [2] They are also featured without Washington on "Jeepers Creepers", and "Am I Blue?" is a duet with one of them. [3]

Contents

The album received a rating of three stars from AllMusic. [4]

All tracks from the album (except the Dinah-less "Jeepers Creepers") were included in the 1989 3-CD set The Complete Dinah Washington On Mercury Vol. 7: 1961 (Mercury Records 838 900-2); this collection included the previously unissued recording "So In Love" (Cole Porter) from the album sessions, and this track has been substituted for "Jeepers Creepers" in the download and streaming re-issue of this album by Verve Records on 4 October 2019. [5]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
New Record Mirror Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]

Track listing

  1. "Bewitched" (Rodgers and Hart) – 2:19
  2. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (David Mann, Bob Hilliard) – 2:13
  3. "Mood Indigo" (Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard, Irving Mills) – 2:25
  4. "Am I Blue?" (Harry Akst, Grant Clarke) – 2:52
  5. "I'm a Fool to Want You" (Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf, Joel Herron) – 3:00
  6. "Tears and Laughter" (Miriam Lewis) – 2:50
  7. "Secret Love" (Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:48
  8. "You Do Something to Me" (Cole Porter) – 2:20
  9. "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 2:43
  10. "Jeepers Creepers" (Harry Warren, Johnny Mercer) – 2:02
  11. "Wake the Town and Tell the People" (Jerry Livingston, Sammy Gallop) – 2:38
  12. "I Just Found Out About Love" (Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson) – 2:46

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Cf. entry in the Mercury Records catalog on Jazzdisco.org.
  2. ↑ Official website of The Dells.
  3. ↑ Album liner notes, cf. back cover images of Tears and Laughter at Discogs.
  4. 1 2 Tears and Laughter at AllMusic
  5. ↑ "Tears And Laughter by Dinah Washington on Amazon Music - Amazon.com". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  6. ↑ Larkin, Colin (1998). "Washington, Dinah". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7 (3rd ed.). New York: Muze UK Ltd. p. 5717. ISBN   0-333-74134-X.
  7. ↑ Watson, Jimmy (8 September 1962). "Dinah Washington: Tears And Laughter" (PDF). New Record Mirror . No. 78. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2022.


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