Dinah signed and personalized this album on the back cover. Dinah Washington (D. 1963) is consid-ered the first queen of R & B. She had several hit records and was the top selling black female vocal-ist during the 1950's. In 1963, at age thirty-nine, she died of an overdose of brandy and diet pills. She was found unconscious by Hall of Fame football player, Dick "Night Train" Lane, the last of her many husbands and live-in boyfriends. Condition of the cover is EX-MT; signature is near mint.