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Tears and Laughter is a fourteenth studio album by Dinah Washington with Orchestra conducted by Quincy Jones, that was released on Mercury Records. The orchestral arrangements, partly with strings for the jazz standard repertoire, were provided by Jones, Hal Mooney, Al Cohn, Ernie Wilkins and Billy Byers. On the second half –the B-side– of the original LP release Washington is backed by the male doo-wop quintet The Dells, who toured with her as the opening act since 1960. They are also featured without Washington on "Jeepers Creepers", and "Am I Blue?" is a duet with one of them. The album received a rating of three stars from AllMusic. All tracks from the album were included in the 1989 3-CD set The Complete Dinah Washington On Mercury Vol. 7: 1961; this collection included the previously unissued recording "So In Love" from the album sessions, and this track has been substituted for "Jeepers Creepers" in the download and streaming re-issue of this album by Verve Records on 4 October 2019. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_a...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)