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"Dinah" is a popular song published in 1925 and introduced by Ethel Waters at the Plantation Club on Broadway. It was integrated into the show Kid Boots . [ 1 ] The music was written by Harry Akst and the lyrics by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young .
"Dinah, Dinah Show us your Leg" is an American bawdy song. The formula is a descending scale: "Rich girl [does something,] Poor girl [does something else], my girl don't [do whatever the other two do, usually with comic effect.]. The twentieth century versions are possibly the result of merging a minstrel song with "Coming Round the Mountain".
"This Bitter Earth" is a 1960 song made famous by rhythm and blues singer Dinah Washington. [1] Written and produced by Clyde Otis , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] it peaked to #1 on the U.S. R&B charts for the week of July 25, 1960, and also reached #24 on the U.S. pop charts.
Bobby Darin's version of the song is on his album Winners, released in 1964, although he recorded it in 1960. [14] Iris Chacon performed the English language version of the song in a musical number for the 1977 Spanish film "La mujer es un buen negocio". [15] Australian group The Black Sorrows released a version as their debut single in 1984.
The lyrics have been subjected to the folk process, and some versions have become examples of the "Ugly Girl" or "Dinah" song. [citation needed] Music historian Ken Emerson noted that controversy over free and slave states, as well as Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, were hotly debated topics at the time of the song's composition. According to ...
In 1960 the song was recorded as a pop and R&B duet by Dinah Washington and Brook Benton. The single was the second pairing for the singers and, like their first single together, it went to number 1 on the R&B chart and was a top ten pop single as well. [3] The song was written by Benton, Clyde Otis and Luchi de Jesus. [4]
Dinah Shore made the best-known version of this song, recording it twice. [6] She first introduced it in the Universal Studios film Follow the Boys (1944), taking it to the top of the charts (her first #1 hit) for four weeks and reaching number ten on The Harlem Hit Parade chart in 1944. [7] Shore later recorded the song in the early 1960s.
Like Someone in Love" is a popular song composed in 1944 by Jimmy Van Heusen, with lyrics by Johnny Burke. It was written (along with "Sleigh Ride in July") for the 1944 film, Belle of the Yukon, where it was sung by Dinah Shore. It was a hit for Bing Crosby in March 1945, reaching number 15 in the charts, [1] and has since become a jazz ...