What a Diff'rence a Day Makes!

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What a Diff'rence a Day Makes!
Dinah Washington-What a Diff'rence a Day Makes! (album cover).jpg
Studio album by
Released1959
Recorded19 February 1959 – August 1959
Genre Vocal
Length31:48
Label Mercury
Producer Clyde Otis
Dinah Washington chronology
Newport '58
(1958)
What a Diff'rence a Day Makes!
(1959)
September in the Rain
(1961)
Singles from What a Diff'rence a Day Makes!
  1. "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes"
    Released: April 1959
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What a Diff'rence a Day Makes! is a tenth studio album by Dinah Washington, arranged by Belford Hendricks, featuring her hit single of the same name. [3]

Contents

The title track won Washington the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance at the 2nd Annual Grammy Awards held in November 1959.

Album was released on CD in 2000 on the Verve label with 3 bonus tracks.

Track listing

  1. "I Remember You" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) – 2:42
  2. "I Thought About You" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Mercer) – 2:28
  3. "That's All There Is to That" (Clyde Otis, Kelly Owens) – 2:15
  4. "I Won't Cry Anymore" (Al Frisch, Fred Wise) – 2:15
  5. "I'm Thru with Love" (Gus Kahn, Fud Livingston, Matty Malneck) – 2:23
  6. "Cry Me a River" (Arthur Hamilton) – 2:24
  7. "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes" (Stanley Adams, María Mendez Grever) – 2:35
  8. "Nothing in the World" (Brook Benton, Belford Hendricks, Clyde Otis) – 3:12
  9. "Manhattan" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 4:13
  10. "Time after Time" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 2:27
  11. "It's Magic" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 2:28
  12. "A Sunday Kind of Love" (Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Louis Prima, Stan Rhodes) – 2:26
  13. "Time after Time" (First Version) (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 2:15
  14. "Come On Home" (Bonus) (Juanita Hill, Dinah Washington) - 2:27
  15. "It Could Happen To You" (Bonus) (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) - 2:19

Personnel

Performance

Production

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References

  1. Bush, John (2011). "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes! [Original CD] - Dinah Washington | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
  2. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1467. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. What a Diff'rence a Day Makes! at AllMusic