Diane Marie Jacobs (born 19 August 1943), known as Dinah Lee, is a New Zealand singer who performed 1960's pop and adult contemporary music. Her debut single from early 1964, "Don't You Know Yockomo?", achieved No. 1 chart success in New Zealand and in the Australian cities of Brisbane and Melbourne. It was followed in September by her cover version of Jackie Wilson's, "Reet Petite", which also reached No. 1 in New Zealand and peaked at No. 6 in Melbourne. The Australian release was a double A-sided single with "Do the Blue Beat".
On her early singles she was backed by fellow New Zealanders, Max Merritt & His Meteors. Lee appeared regularly on both New Zealand and Australian TV variety programs, including Johnny O'Keefe's Sing, Sing, Sing and Bandstand. She toured supporting Johnny O'Keefe, as well as Ray Columbus & the Invaders and P.J. Proby. According to Australian rock music journalist, Ed Nimmervoll, in the 1960's, "Lee was the most successful female singer in both her New Zealand homeland and Australia ... on stage and on record Dinah had all the adventure and exuberance for the time the boys had".
1 Don't You Know Yokomo
2 You Don't Talk About Love
3 Reet Petite
4 Yeh Yeh We Love 'Em All
5 Do The Blue Beat
6 Kansas City
7 Who Stole The Sugar
8 Rock Around The Clock
9 Johnny
10 Let Me In
11 I'll Forgive You Then Forget You
12 What Kind Of Love Is This?
13 The Birds And The Bees
14 He Can't Do The Blue Beat
15 Hey Chickie Baby
16 The Nitty Gritty
17 That's Right, I Quit
18 Pushing A Good Thing Too Far
19 He Don't Want Your Love Anymore
20 Don't You Just Know It
21 The Right Time
22 Summertime
23 Not In This Whole World
24 He's Sure The Boy I Love
25 98.6
26 Too Many People
27 I Keep Forgettin'
28 Chocolate Ice
29 Try To Understand
30 What Did He Say?
31 Is It True?
32 Hot Spot
33 I Can't Believe What You Say
34 New Orleans
Dinah Lee – The Viking Recordings
2 comments:
Thanks Marty, I saw her live in the very early 1960s when she was on tour in Australia with Ray Columbus & the Invaders. Interesting that later on she got out of music and into body building.
Hi Bob Mac, Wow!, that must have been a treat and a precious memory too. I was a bit young at that time but do remember seeing her on TV and on film clips supporting The Beatles on their tour.
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