8035: I Want To Be Loved c/w Stairway To The Stars / Dinah Washington
| Label Type : | black/silver Mercury 78rpm type B w/ cartoon logo | |
| Matrix Number : | SIDE-A | 764-3 |
| SIDE-B | 763-3 | |
Comments
Side-A “I Want To Be Loved” was available only on this 78rpm, until “Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol.7” (Mercury [J] 18PJ-10223/26) was released in the 1980s. Furthermore, “I Want To Be Loved” (764-3) had been erroneously confused with “I Wanna Be Loved” (3409-3).
Side-B “Stairway To The Stars” also available on Mercury MG-25138 and MG-20119.
Track Listing
| SIDE-A | |||
| 764-3 | I Want To Be Loved (William Best) | - | |
| SIDE-B | |||
| 763-3 | Stairway To The Stars (Malneck - Signorelli - Parrish) | - | |
Personnel
Personnel/recorded date/master numbers confirmed with the Ruppli's discography.
(“The Mercury Labels - A Discography” by Ruppli and Novitsky, Greenwood Press, 1993)
Dinah Washington (vo) with:
Tony Aless (p),
Billy Bauer (g),
Chubby Jackson (b),
and others (unknown).
Recorded in New York City
on March 25 or April 15, 1947.
Labels
| Side A | Side B |
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![[8035 A]](img/8035A.png)
![[8035 B]](img/8035B.png)