Monday, March 30, 2015

Dakota Staton - Congratulations To Someone

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:33
Size: 111.2 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[4:01] 1. Country Man
[6:24] 2. I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know
[3:26] 3. Girl Talk
[4:05] 4. Cry Me A River
[4:25] 5. Heartbreak
[4:59] 6. It's The Talk Of The Town
[4:26] 7. Make It Easy On Yourself
[4:15] 8. How Did He Look
[4:47] 9. Congratulations To Someone
[4:06] 10. Blues For Tasty
[3:36] 11. A Losing Battle

Dakota Staton (vocals); Cornell Dupree, Lloyd Davis (guitar); Eddie Daniels, Frank Wess (tenor saxophone); Pepper Adams (baritone saxophone); Joe Newman , Lew Soloff, Marvin Stamm, Burt Collins, Cecil Bridgewater (trumpet); Eddie Bert, Garnett Brown, Bill Watrous (trombone); Horace Ott (electric piano); Richard "Groove" Holmes (organ); Bernard "Pretty" Purdie (drums); Kwasi Jayourba (congas, bongos).

Dakota Staton was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 3, 1931. Although hers was not a musical family, Dakota claims to have known from early on that performing was her destiny. “When I was four years old, I started singing and dancing like Shirley Temple,” she recalled in an interview. Staton further developed these budding abilities at Pittsburgh’s Filion School of Music. “When I was sixteen, I was in a stage show called Fantastic Rhythm. From that show, I was chosen to be a vocalist with the top band in the Pittsburgh area, Joe Wespray and his orchestra. "I sang with him for two years. Then I went to Detroit, Michigan, and worked in all the show bars there…” While in Detroit, Staton made a particularly strong impression at The Flame Show Bar. From there, she followed a nightclub circuit that led as far afield as Toronto and Montreal in Canada before returning stateside and passing through Indianapolis; Minneapolis; Cleveland and St. Louis before eventually winding it’s way to New York. It was while singing in a Harlem nightclub called the Baby Grand that Staton was discovered by Capitol producer Dave Cavanaugh and signed to the label.

Congratulations To Someone 

3 comments:

  1. Thank you soo much, Mat! I was looking for this one! The line-up is insane
    and this is a real classic. Cheers!

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  2. Thanks very very much mat.tiggas for this other title from the great Miss Staton that i miss but...it's possible, also for this cd, restore the d-link?

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