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Dinah Washington ft Hal Mooney & His Orchestra - I Concentrate On You (Mercury Records 1955)

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Channel: RoundMidnightTV · 2017 · Music

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"I Concentrate on You" is a song written by Cole Porter for the 1940 film Broadway Melody of 1940, where it was introduced by Douglas McPhail.

Dinah Washington (born Ruth Lee Jones; August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963) was an American singer and pianist, who has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s". Primarily a jazz vocalist, she performed and recorded in a wide variety of styles including blues, R&B, and traditional pop music, and gave herself the title of "Queen of the Blues". She was a 1986 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.

Dinah's accompanied by Paul Quinichette (tenor sax); Wynton Kelly (piano); Keter Betts (bass); Jimmy Cobb (drums); and Hal Mooney (arranger, conductor).  Recorded in New York City, January 12, 1955 (Mercury Records).

Whenever skies look gray to me
And trouble begins to brew,
Whenever the Winter winds become too strong,
I concentrate on you.

When fortune cries "Nay! Nay!" to me
And people declare "You're through!",
Whenever the blues become my only song,
That's when I concentrate on you.

On your smile so sweet, so tender,
When at first my kiss you decline.
On the light in your eyes when you surrender,
And once again our arms intertwine

And so, when wise men say to me
That love's young dream never comes true,
To prove that even wise men can also be wrong,
I concentrate on you
I concentrate and I concentrate
Concentrate on you
And I may be wrong

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