Question
A piano version of this standard opens Thelonious Monk’s album Solo Monk. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 1925 standard whose singer says of the title woman, “I would hop an ocean liner / just to be with” her. Fannye Rose Shore’s many performances of this song led her to be nicknamed for its title woman.
ANSWER: “Dinah” [accept Dinah Shore]
[10m] Ruth Lee Jones, the self-proclaimed “Queen of the Blues,” took a stage name with the first name Dinah and this last name. A saxophonist with this last name released the albums The Epic and Heaven and Earth and played on Kendrick Lamar’s album To Pimp a Butterfly.
ANSWER: Washington [accept Dinah Washington; accept Kamasi Washington]
[10e] A Katya Ermolaeva essay about the minstrel history of this folk song suggests its lyric “someone’s in the kitchen with Dinah” may refer to a generic slave woman. This song’s title is followed by the line “all the livelong day.”
ANSWER: “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” [or “The Levee Song”]
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Summary
| 2024 ESPN @ Brown | 04/06/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
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| The Aum-Wein Drinchard by Amogh Tutuola | 1.g4 Test Mixture | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |