Dinah Washington
vocals
Blues, jazz and rhythm and blues singer of the 1940s and 1950s whose records Barry and his friends played at the house parties of his youth.
- mentions
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- recordings
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- Barry speaking
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What Barry says
Asked about Dinah Washington, Barry remembers that they would have her records at house parties. They loved house parties, he says, because that was where their fun was.
Barry Harris, Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program ¶222Barry Harris, Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program ¶223
At those parties, he adds, they listened to music, danced and felt good.
In his own words
Dinah Washington? Oh, yeah. Her, we go – we’d have her records at house parties. We loved house parties.
Every mention
1 moments in the recordings, 0 of them Barry speaking. Each says who is talking.
Detroit Jazz: Ancient to the Future
- 2:46
Someone else
The narrator of a 1981 Detroit PBS programme lists Dinah Washington among jazz singers, with Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald.
In the interviews and notes
While Barry is recalling the dances of his teenage years, Aaron Graves asks him about Dinah Washington. Barry remembers her records at the house parties he and his friends loved, where they listened to music and danced.
Barry Harris, Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program ¶222Barry Harris, Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program ¶223Barry Harris, Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program ¶225