Description
Release Date: 2022
Label: Jasmine
Track List
- 1 My Heart’s Delight
- 2 For the Rest of My Life
- 3 Don’t Leave Me Now
- 4 A Little You
- 5 Abracadabra
- 6 It Feels So Nice
- 7 A Dangerous Age
- 8 Weak for the Man
- 9 Don’t Mean Maybe
- 10 I Told You So
- 11 You Know I Do
- 12 The Late, Late Show
- 13 Invitation
- 14 The Party’s Over
- 15 Confessin’ the Blues
- 16 A Foggy Day
- 17 Avalon
- 18 Close Your Eyes
- 19 Congratulations to Someone
- 20 My Babe
- 21 Romance in the Dark
- 22 I Won’t Worry
- 23 All in My Mind
- 24 Hey Lawdy Mama
- 25 ‘Round Midnight
- 26 Knock Me a Kiss
- 27 Mean and Evil Blues
- 28 Porgy
- 29 You Better Go Now
- 30 Once There Lived a Fool
Notes
The hugely versatile Dakota Staton was equally comfortable handling R&B, Jazz, Blues and/or Soul, as her recorded legacy affirms. Once described by the New York Times as “a stylistic link between the earthiness of Dinah Washington and Big Maybelle, and Chaka Khan’s note-bending pop-funk iconoclasm”, her earliest releases were aimed squarely at the R&B market. Indeed, they made sufficient a stir that deejay Alan Freed featured Dakota’s discs on his daily R&R radio shows, and even featured her on the bills of a couple of his earliest R&R concerts. But once her record company, Capitol, got her cutting LPs, Staton moved easily into the Jazz field where she carved out a mighty reputation and proceeded to sell hundreds of thousands of albums. However, her LPs are freely available on CD elsewhere; this unique compilation concentrates on her singles releases between 1954-62, and includes a number of sides which never made it onto LP.
