Dakota Staton - Time to Swing '1959 [2009]

Tracks list

Dakota Staton was a classy Sarah-influenced vocalist who easily straddled the
worlds of jazz and supper club pop. Her biggest success, 1957s The Late, Late
Show, had a sort of novelty-value sing-song quality, almost a pre-requisite for
a jazz side to hit the pop charts in the 50s. TIME TO SWING is a short and
breezy Capitol LP from 1959, the mood uptempo though there are some ballad
treatments here, like You Dont Know What Love Is and Until The Real Thing Comes
Along. The clean, lightly- scored arrangments are by Sid Feller, a Capitol
house-arranger at the time. As stated, the album is a short one; all the tracks
clock in under 2:50 and a few are under 2:00! The reissue label DRG (which has
been licensing neglected Capitol LPs as of late) includes five bonus cuts to
make up the shortfall, including a fine version of Youve Changed, which Billie
Holiday memorably introduced on her 1958 LADY IN SATIN.



Tracks:

01. When Lights Are Low (Carter-Williams) - 1:56
02. Willow Weep for Me (Ronell) - 2:31
03. But Not for Me (Gershwin-Gershwin) - 1:55
04. You Dont Know What Love Is (DePaul-Raye) - 2:28
05. The Best Thing for You (Berlin) - 1:46
06. The Song Is You (Kern-Hammerstein) - 2:13
07. Avalon (Rose-DeSylva-Jolson) - 2:03
08. Baby, Dont You Cry (Johnson) - 2:35
09. Let Me Know (Hendricks-Jones) - 2:35
10. (It Will Have to Do) Until the Real Thing Comes Along
(Freeman-Holiner-Nichols-Chaplin-Cahn) - 2:37
11. If I Should Lose You (Rainger-Robin) - 2:49
12. Gone with the Wind (Wrubel-Magidson) - 1:43
13. Youve Changed (Fischer-Carey) - 2:51
14. All in My Mind (Kirkland-Johnson-Brown) - 2:27
15. Detour Ahead (Carter-Ellis-Frigo) - 3:04
16. Once There Lived a Fool (Robinson) - 2:28
17. Youd Better Go Now (Reichner-Graham) - 2:30

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