Dinah Washington - I Wanna Be Loved (MG-20729)

Artist: Dinah Washington
Title: I Wanna Be Loved
Catalog #: MG-20729
Label: Mercury Records
Year: 1962
Format: LP
Condition: VG+

Dinah Washington was one of the most gifted and versatile vocalists of the 20th century — equally commanding in blues, jazz, gospel, and pop, with a delivery so assured and emotionally direct that she made every genre her own. I Wanna Be Loved on Mercury captures her in her element: intimate, unhurried, and utterly in control of the material. The MG-20729 pressing is a Mono Mercury release from her final productive period before her untimely death in 1963. This VG+ copy plays cleanly — a deeply rewarding find for the jazz vocal, blues, or classic R&B collector.