Dinah Shore Albums (11)
'Moments Like These'
Release Date 5/7/2002
Tracks 12
Label Japanese Import
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'Holding Hands at Midnight'
Release Date 5/22/1996
Tracks 12
Label BMG Japan
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What The Critics Say
In 1950 Dinah Shore signed to RCA for a reported deal worth $1,000,000. The nine years she spent with the label proved a disaster, approaching neither the commercial success of her previous Columbia singles nor the creative heights of her subsequent Nelson Riddle-arranged Capitol efforts. Holding Hands at Midnight is standard RCA fare -- there's no arranger credited, suggesting the album is little more than a hodgepodge of session scraps, and the result is something far less than the sum of its individual parts. But Shore nevertheless contributes some remarkable performances throughout the set -- for all the sweetness and light of her public persona, here she reaches deep to deliver poignant renditions of songs like "Once in a While" and "Yesterdays," anticipating the complexity and maturity of her Riddle sessions. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
'Dinah Sings Some Blues with Red'
Release Date 1/1/1960
Tracks 12
Label Capitol
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'Victor Showpiece Presents Dinah Shore in Gershwin Show Hits'
Release Date 1/1/1945
Tracks 4
Label RCA Victor
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What The Critics Say
While maintaining her status as a television star, Dinah Shore made a series of classy albums for Capitol Records between 1959 and 1962. On this, the fourth of her five LPs for the label, she again teamed with André Previn, who had arranged and conducted her earlier album, Somebody Loves Me. This time, Previn took to the piano, joined only by an occasional rhythm section for another set of ballads (or, as the sleeve note put it, "songs in a mid-night mood"). They included standards by the Gershwins, Rodgers & Hart and others, and Shore handled them with more than her usual warmth; she smoldered. The result was a concept album that ranks with some of Frank Sinatra's. Maybe sales were negligible because the Shore of this album was hard to reconcile with the grinning hostess on TV, but it probably had more to do with the overexposure TV gives any regular performer, causing the public to look for her on the small screen rather than on the record shelves. In any case, that made this album a lost gem. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
