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Dinah Shore was born on March 1, 1917 in Winchester, Tennessee and first came to national prominence with Xavier Cugat & His Waldorf Astoria Orchestra in 1940/41, being the vocalist on his hits The Breeze And I (# 13 in August 1940) and its flipside, When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano, Whatever Happened To You (# 22 in October 1940) and its B-side, The Rhumba-Cardi (# 19), and Quierme Mucho (Yours), which had been recorded in June 1939 but not released until late 1941 (# 16) - all for the Victor label.

But she had already branched out on her own in 1940, scoring her first hit with the Bluebird label in September in a duet with Dick Todd, backed by the Leonard Joy orchestra, on You Can't Brush Me Off from the Broadway musical Louisiana Purchase (# 24). That's not here, but both sides of her next hit are, led by a great rendition of Maybe that made it to # 17 in October on Bluebird 10793 b/w The Nearness Of You with the backing of the Paul Wetstein orchestra (later Paul Weston). Late that year the wonderful Yes, My Darling Daughter, again with the Joy orchestra, started its climb to # 10 on Bluebird 10920 early in 1941.

Her next hit included in this volume is Jim, a # 5 in the fall of 1941 on Bluebird 11204, followed by arguably the best version of Blues In The Night, which had 6 different hit versions in 1942, Dinah's reaching # 4 in the spring of 1942 on Bluebird 11436. Another 1942 hit coming in March was I Don't Want To Walk Without You, a # 12 on Bluebird 11423 from the film Sweater Girl. The volume then jumps to early 1943 when the great wartime hit, You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To, from the film Something To Shout About, became her best hit to date, reaching # 3 in February on RCA Victor 1519 b/w Manhattan Serenade, once again with Paul Weston & His Orchestra.

The wartime hits continue with the poignant You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To, also from the film Something To Shout About and the Weston orchestra, a # 18 in May 1943 as the flip of the # 5 Murder, He Says on RCA Victor 1525. Unfortunately that side is not here. But her first # 1 is, the wonderful I'll Walk Alone from the film Follow The Boys which, backed by a mixed chorus, hit the top spot in the summer of 1944 on RCA Victor 1586.

Jumping to 1946, and now with Columbia, you get Shoo Fly Pie And Apple Pan Dowdy, a # 6 in March on Columbia 36943 with the Sonny Burke orchestra. The remainder may not have become hits for Dinah at the time, but each is every bit as good as those that did, delivered in that unmistakably silky voice that would go on to entertain us through one generation after another, right on into the Rocking Fifties. For Bluebird these are: I Thought About You (Bluebird 10473 in 1939); Imagination (Bluebird 10668 in 1940); Honeysuckle Rose (Bluebird 11191 in 1941 - also RCA Victor 20-1544); I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good Bluebird 11367 in 1941); Ev'rything I Love (Bluebird 11413 in 1941); for Victor/RCA Victor: Dinah's Blues (Victor 27303 in 1940); Now I Know (RCA Victor 20-1562 in 1942); Sleighride In July (RCA Victor 20-1617 in 1944).

When cancer claimed Dinah on February 24, 1994 it took away one of the finest entertainers ever to grace the record, movie, and television fields. But she lives on in magnificent CDs like this, with excellent digitally-remastered sound and a full page of informative liner notes written by David Shrimpton.

Dinah Shore was born on March 1, 1917 in Winchester, Tennessee and first came to national prominence with Xavier Cugat & His Waldorf Astoria Orchestra in 1940/41, being the vocalist on his hits The Breeze And I (# 13 in August 1940) and its flipside, When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano, Whatever Happened To You (# 22 in October 1940) and its B-side, The Rhumba-Cardi (# 19), and Quierme Mucho (Yours), which had been recorded in June 1939 but not released until late 1941 (# 16) - all for the Victor label.

But she had already branched out on her own in 1940, scoring her first hit with the Bluebird label in September in a duet with Dick Todd, backed by the Leonard Joy orchestra, on You Can't Brush Me Off from the Broadway musical Louisiana Purchase (# 24). That's not here, but both sides of her next hit are, led by a great rendition of Maybe that made it to # 17 in October on Bluebird 10793 b/w The Nearness Of You with the backing of the Paul Wetstein orchestra (later Paul Weston). Late that year the wonderful Yes, My Darling Daughter, again with the Joy orchestra, started its climb to # 10 on Bluebird 10920 early in 1941.

Her next hit included in this volume is Jim, a # 5 in the fall of 1941 on Bluebird 11204, followed by arguably the best version of Blues In The Night, which had 6 different hit versions in 1942, Dinah's reaching # 4 in the spring of 1942 on Bluebird 11436. Another 1942 hit coming in March was I Don't Want To Walk Without You, a # 12 on Bluebird 11423 from the film Sweater Girl. The volume then jumps to early 1943 when the great wartime hit, You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To, from the film Something To Shout About, became her best hit to date, reaching # 3 in February on RCA Victor 1519 b/w Manhattan Serenade, once again with Paul Weston & His Orchestra.

The wartime hits continue with the poignant You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To, also from the film Something To Shout About and the Weston orchestra, a # 18 in May 1943 as the flip of the # 5 Murder, He Says on RCA Victor 1525. Unfortunately that side is not here. But her first # 1 is, the wonderful I'll Walk Alone from the film Follow The Boys which, backed by a mixed chorus, hit the top spot in the summer of 1944 on RCA Victor 1586.

Jumping to 1946, and now with Columbia, you get Shoo Fly Pie And Apple Pan Dowdy, a # 6 in March on Columbia 36943 with the Sonny Burke orchestra. The remainder may not have become hits for Dinah at the time, but each is every bit as good as those that did, delivered in that unmistakably silky voice that would go on to entertain us through one generation after another, right on into the Rocking Fifties. For Bluebird these are: I Thought About You (Bluebird 10473 in 1939); Imagination (Bluebird 10668 in 1940); Honeysuckle Rose (Bluebird 11191 in 1941 - also RCA Victor 20-1544); I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good Bluebird 11367 in 1941); Ev'rything I Love (Bluebird 11413 in 1941); for Victor/RCA Victor: Dinah's Blues (Victor 27303 in 1940); Now I Know (RCA Victor 20-1562 in 1942); Sleighride In July (RCA Victor 20-1617 in 1944).

When cancer claimed Dinah on February 24, 1994 it took away one of the finest entertainers ever to grace the record, movie, and television fields. But she lives on in magnificent CDs like this, with excellent digitally-remastered sound and a full page of informative liner notes written by David Shrimpton.

I bought this cd cause it had "Shoo fly Pie" (the Lexus commercial) on it. This has to be one of the biggest bargains ever available. All tunes are done with Dinah's typical great style. For "old fogies" it's a must have.