Dakota STATON – All In My Mind

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.

Track Listing

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