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Sunday, June 16, 2024

Dinah Lee – The Viking Recordings 1964-1967

 


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

3 comments:

Bob Mac said...

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.

Marty said...

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.

Oldcapellon said...

great tunes, thanks a lot !