Staton,Dakota All In My Mind CD

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.

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