December 2017 – Page 7 – Motor City Radio Flashbacks

JAZZ CLUB LEGEND FOUND UNRESPONSIVE AT HER DETROIT HOME; DEAD AT 37

DETROIT — (Sunday, December 15) — In the jazz clubs they say that Dinah Washington merely stepped out of a hand-clapping church choir, dropped by the Brill Building to pick up some lyrics and began to wail.

The regulars in the Jazz clubs were wailing on Saturday.

Dinah — whom they considered the greatest blues singer since Bessie Smith — is dead at 37. (CONTINUES — please read the complete article below) . . . .

— DETROIT FREE PRESS

A MCRFB Note: Click HERE to view the very house where Dinah Washington lived at 4002 Buena Vista St., in Detroit, when the blues legend unexpectedly passed away on December 14, 1963.

Also: Click HERE to view the location of the Thompson Funeral Home, today, the funeral parlor where Dinah Washington was viewed by Detroiters, 1963. Location address, 7643 Dexter Avenue, Detroit.

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