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

35!!! Years Bear Family Records - various artists compilation

 

1-1 Truly Lover Trio– Bear The Pain 2:16

1-2 Richard Bennett– Big Bear Jubilee 2:35

1-3 Deke Dickerson– Bear Family Talkin' Blues 2:58

1-4 Fatboy– Bear Moon 2:13

1-5 Mike Sanchez– The Bear 3:08

1-6 Spampinato Bros.*– A Bear Is A Bear Is A Bear 3:13

1-7 Little Rachel & The Rhythm Busters– Hey Big Bear! 2:43

1-8 Ian Gomm & Jeb Loy Nichols– Running Bear 4:34

1-9 Alexander Durefelt– Grizzly 4:57

1-10 Jon Emery– Goldie Rocks And The Hillbilly Bears 5:19

1-11 Bill Lloyd – Bear With Me 2:54

1-12 Kim Lenz– What I Crave 2:10

1-13 Nancy Apple– Bears In Them Woods 3:17

1-14 Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders– Bear In Mind 3:24

1-15 Kent Norberg– Last Polar Bear 4:12

1-16 The Men – The Spiderbear 1:06

1-17 B.B. & The Blues Shacks– The Bear Is Back 2:51

1-18 Tom Stevens – Bear In The Woods 3:37

1-19 The Sprague Brothers– She's A Bearcat 2:59

1-20 Louie Ortega– I Can't Bear To See You Cry 3:32

1-21 Southern Skyline– Steady With Teddy 3:41

1-22 Elizabeth Cook – Teddy Bear 4:08

1-23 Hermann Lammers Meyer– Little Teddy Bear 3:25

2-1 Bela B*– Running Bear 3:09

2-2 The West Saugerties Ale & Quail Club– Grizzly Bear 2:18

2-3 Dave Schramm & The 2-Five-One Jug Band All Stars*– Bears 2:35

2-4 Martin Belmont– Battersea Bears 2:17

2-5 Hotel Rex– Tanz Bär Tanz 2:18

2-6 Sabrina Ascacibar– Ein Bär Wie Ein Mann 4:59

2-7 Ladi Geisler– Baby Bear's Birthday (Bärchens Geburstag) 4:23

2-8 The Crystalairs– Das Bärenbaby Boris 3:32

2-9 Gunter Gabriel– Schnapp Dir'n Bär (Und Lad Ihn Ein Zum 5-Uhr-Tee) 3:02

2-10 Ulrich Tukur & Die Rhythmus Boys– Kleiner Bär Von Berlin 2:44

2-11 Götz Alsmann– Ein Kleiner Bär Mit Großen Ohren 2:38

2-12 Amy Allison– Moonlight On The Mountains 5:09

2-13 Chip Taylor– Bearly Makin' It 3:11

2-14 Little Sparrow – The Hunted (A Bears Tale) 4:56

2-15 Jim Diamond – Bear Family 2:08

2-16 Hank Davis – Bearly Able 2:29

2-17 George Hamilton IV– The Preacher And The Bear 2:57

2-18 Ray Campi– Bear Me In Mind 2:02

2-19 Roland Heinrich– The Ballad Of Papa Bear And Mr. Possum 3:45

2-20 Johnny Bush– Beartooth 3:51

2-21 The Siekers– Bears In Texas 3:17

2-22 Riders In The Sky– Smokey The Bear 2:33

2-23 Peter Cooper – Nashville Bear Scare 3:40

3-1 Roland Heinrich– Sixteen Discs 2:57

3-2 Paul Burch– Ursula Major 3:13

3-3 Johnny Vallis & Johnny Preston– Running Bear 2:37

3-4 Björn Olsson– Björn Olsson 2:46

3-5 Gwil Owen– Honey Bear 3:29

3-6 Tim Carroll – Alley Oop 3:10

3-7 Mike Bell & The BellTones– Crazy Bear Rock 1:45

3-8 Velvetone– Fuzzy Brown 2:16

3-9 Ervin Travis– Grizzly Bear 2:21

3-10 The Twistaroos– The Grizzly Bear 2:38

3-11 Dennis Diken– Bear (In My Garden) 3:26

3-12 Hank Shizzoe– Beware Of The Bear 3:25

3-13 Freddie Steady Krc*– Like A Bear Loves Honey 2:58

3-14 Phil Lee – I Wanna Spend My Christmas Time With You 2:49

3-15 The Goo Men– The Bear 4:46

3-16 Mike & The Ravens– Once I Was A Dancing Bear 4:41

3-17 Tommy Womack– Luigi, The Lonely Christmas Bear 4:11

3-18 Tim Lee 3– Ursa Major (Airships) 2:28

3-19 Charlie Pickett & The Mothers Of Propriety– What I Like About Miami 2:30

3-20 Robert Johnson And Punchdrunks– Don't Touch That Bear Or I'll Mangle You 3:16

3-21 The Atomic Blast– The Amazing Hypno-Bear (On A Unicycle) 2:37

3-22 Jeff Bird– Somebody's Sleeping In My Bed 4:16

35!!! Years Bear Family Records