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Dinah Washington
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Even though Dinah's wildly diverse talents enabled her to inhabit the worlds of jazz, pop, and R&B with equal aplomb, the Alabama-born, Chicago-bred songbird had deep roots in the blues. In 1949, still early in her stellar stint at Mercury Records, she [i]and[/i] her band got good and brassy on the classic kiss-off "Baby Get Lost," going all the way to #1. A decade-and-a-half later, Miss D showed she still had that feeling way down in her soul, on a song with the ultimate in self-explanatory titles — "The Blues Ain't Nothin' but a Woman Cryin' for Her Man." And even though she shrugged off the Queen of the Blues title often applied to her, claiming it belonged only to her heroine Bessie Smith, Dinah made a convincing case for the passing of the baton while tackling the Smith smash "Careless Love."