[Q] Obviously, you're a fan of great unique female voices. Dionne Warwick, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald each have numerous albums on your website reviewed with high recommendations. So I'm curious why you've never reviewed any Peggy Lee or Dinah Washington albums. Surely there must be an album by each of them that you'd unequivocally recommend. Both crossed over from pop to jazz effortlessly and always sounded original and fabulous. My own favorites would be Peggy Lee's Black Coffee and Beauty and the Beat, and Dinah's Dinah Washington Sings the Fats Waller Songbook. You would love them all. -- Ted Ravern, Astoria, New York

[A] First of all, I don't put Warwick in Holiday's or Fitzgerald's class—take a look at my reviews and note that the Warwick picks are basically redundant greatest-hits albums I assume without doing the research were reviewed at different times. Second, I'd almost certainly add Dolly Parton to this short list, exactly how I won't figure out for free. Third, I was just mentioning Dinah Washington as a Subject for Further Research in a recent Xgau Sez and take this note as seconding that emotion. Fourth, checked my CD shelves and found a 2004 reissue of Black Coffee, the only Peggy Lee there though I bet a few are I've tucked away in my vinyl. Promise to play it at breakfast or dinner soon.

>>126746213 (OP)
Warwick as he said himself was nothing without David and Bacharach. I did always assume he would have liked Dinah Washington and just never got around to reviewing any of her comps. Not Nina Simone though, lol.

>>126746375
>I did always assume he would have liked Dinah Washington and just never got around to reviewing any of her comps
she had some good songs including the arguably best version of Teach Me Tonight but maybe it was for the best that she died when she did because i don't see how she would have remained relevant in the post-1963 cultural climate and she was already almost 40 by then

Better is to list all the black singers he had a beef with like Della Reese, Carmen McRae, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughan, Roberta Flack etc.

>>126746213 (OP)
>Obviously, you're a fan of great unique female voices. Dionne Warwick, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald each have numerous albums on your website reviewed with high recommendations.

Not Teresa Brewer though, lol but he did kind of give Doris Day commendations on that Nellie McKay covers album.

>>126746503
not R&B enough for him, huh?

>>126746213 (OP)
>pay me a sufficient sum and i might tell you why i 'mire Dolly Parton

>>126746935
that's why he's the dean and you're just some asshole on 4chan giving out your opinions for free