Dinah is a popular 1925 jazz standard and pop tune with music by Harry Akst and lyrics by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young. It was introduced by Ethel Waters at the Plantation Club on Broadway and later integrated into the Broadway show Kid Boots. The song became a chart hit in 1926 with versions by Ethel Waters, The Revelers, Cliff Edwards, and Fletcher Henderson. A famous anecdote says Fanny Rose Shore was nicknamed Dinah Shore by DJ Martin Block because of the song, a name she used for the next fifty years. The tune has been recorded by many jazz greats including Louis Armstrong (1930), Bing Crosby & The Mills Brothers (1931-32) and Duke Ellington (1932), and later by Thelonious Monk (1964) and Django Reinhardt with Stephane Grappelli. It remains a staple of the jazz repertoire and is widely performed and recorded.
