{"id":6457,"date":"2024-10-11T00:41:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T18:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=6457"},"modified":"2024-10-11T00:41:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T18:41:07","slug":"why-did-i-buy-this-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=6457","title":{"rendered":"WHY DID I BUY THIS CD?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0 The title of this blahg is not a rhetorical question.\"Scott<\/a> I would really like an answer to this question.\u00a0 A couple of days ago I received a package in the mail from Amazon and it was a product I don’t remember ordering.\u00a0 Inside was a CD by an artist of whom I had no knowledge and it caused me to question why I purchased the product.\u00a0 Read on.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The CD in question “Dakota Staton \u2013 Five Classic Albums”.\u00a0 \"Dakota<\/a>Who the heck is Dakota Staton and why did I buy this CD?\u00a0 I don’t know or rather I don’t remember.\u00a0 I went back to my Amazon account and I did indeed order the CD but I can’t recall why.\u00a0 I thought maybe I had read about her or I saw the album somewhere but nothing springs to mind.\u00a0 I checked my phone to see if I took a picture of an LP I had seen in a thrift store to see if it might be something I’d like.\u00a0 I’ve done this before.\u00a0 Unfortunately, there was no corresponding photo on my phone.\u00a0 So today, I searched my browser history and here’s what I found as it relates to Dakota Staton:\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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You’ll have to click on the above image to get a larger view but the bottom one is the oldest listing and it says:\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

“dakota staton” time to swing – Google Search<\/em><\/h3>\n

After that, I viewed a YouTube video of the album “Time To Swing” and then went to Amazon and looked at Dakota Staton compact discs.\u00a0 Again, I have no recollection of any of that but at least it helps solve the mystery.\u00a0 I obviously saw “Dakota Staton \u2013 Five Classic Albums” as a good value and decided to order it.\u00a0 I just wish that any of this sounded familiar.\u00a0 I’m thinking I saw the album “Time To Swing” in a thrift store and then decided to research it.\u00a0 At least that’s what my browser history reveals.\u00a0 Here’s what the LP looks like:\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t remember looking at the YouTube video of the above album and I’ve only listened to about 14 songs off the CD. Before I get into offering up any samples of Dakota Staton’s singing, I want to post some information about her.\u00a0 Here’s what I researched today from Wikipedia:
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Dakota Staton (June 3, 1930 \u2013 April 10, 2007) was an American jazz vocalist who found international acclaim with the 1957 No. 4 hit “The Late, Late Show”. She was also known by the Muslim name Aliyah Rabia for a period due to her conversion to Islam as interpreted by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.<\/em><\/h4>\n

Born in the Homewood neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she attended George Westinghouse High School, and studied music at the Filion School of Music in Pittsburgh. Later she performed regularly in the Hill District, a jazz hotspot, as a vocalist with the Joe Westray Orchestra, a popular Pittsburgh orchestra. She next spent several years in the nightclub circuit in such cities as Detroit, Indianapolis, Cleveland and St. Louis. While in New York, she was noticed singing at a Harlem nightclub called the Baby Grand by Dave Cavanaugh, a producer for Capitol Records. She was signed and released several singles, her success leading her to win Down Beat magazine’s “Most Promising Newcomer” award in 1955. In 1958, Staton wed Talib Dawud, a black Antigua-born Ahmadi Muslim, a jazz trumpeter and noted critic of Elijah Muhammad. She subsequently converted to Islam and used the name Aliyah Rabia for some time. The marriage ultimately ended in divorce.<\/em><\/h4>\n

She released several critically acclaimed albums in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including: The Late, Late Show (1957), whose title track was her biggest hit, In the Night (1958), a collaboration with pianist George Shearing, Dynamic! (1958) and Dakota at Storyville (1962), a live album recorded at the Storyville jazz club in Boston. In the mid-1960s Staton moved to England, where she recorded the album Dakota \u203267. Returning to the US in the early 1970s, she continued to record semi-regularly, her recordings taking an increasingly strong gospel and blues influence. She suffered a stroke in 1999, after which her health deteriorated. Staton died in New York City aged 76 in 2007.<\/em><\/h4>\n

Very skimpy on details but it appears she had some fame and notoriety.\u00a0 Sometimes a singer becomes famous for more than just their singing through their actions or possibly acting in television or the movies.\u00a0 With Dakota Staton, the music is the thing.\u00a0 I’ve listened to the album “The Late Late Show” as it was the first twelve tracks on the first CD of this two CD set.\u00a0 The Wikipedia entry states she “found international acclaim with the 1957 No. 4 hit “The Late, Late Show.”\u00a0 That’s a good place to start.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n