Candi Staton

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pronounced

a) Stat-ton or
b) Stay-ton

everyone says (a) - this is know - but i'm sure i've read its (b)

anyone know for sure?

― Rich (Stinkin Rich), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Says (b) in the slkeeve notes to the Honest Jon compilation.

I just say Station.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Back in my day, when DJs actually announced what record they had played, they pronounced it Stay-ton.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

I generally hear American DJs pronounce it like "Statin' for the record" and British DJs pronounce it like "Staten Island."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

i've always pronounced it like staten island, but i don't think i've ever heard anyone say it aloud.

― Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 2 March 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

stayton

― Dr J Bowman (Dr J Bowman), Thursday, 2 March 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

I've heard it pronounced plenty of times, always as "Stayton." But that doesn't mean that that's correct, since none of the people who said it actually knew her.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 3 March 2006 06:04 (nineteen years ago)

I've always gone with Stayton too, probably because I was at school with a guy with the same surname and that's how he pronounced it.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 5 March 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

I will try to get answer to this burning question. I've always said it with a long "a." I am supposed to write something about her new record, produced in Nashville by Mark Nevers, sometime soon. I hope to talk to her. It's a really good record, too--in my book far better than most of the soul-revivalist shit I've heard over the last few years, really cleanly performed. I've been listening to her disco-era stuff, and to the self-titled Fame record she did in 'Bama back in the early '70s. she strikes me as a bit too male-identified, a little lacking in the tough-minded quality you get from Laura Lee or LaVette, but it's still pretty fine.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Sunday, 5 March 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

six years pass...

I just watched the Disco double-length episode of Unsung on TVOne last night. It's "Stay-ton".

Also, I want to thank that show for shining a whole new light on "Young Hearts Run Free" for me. I never realized the circumstances surrounding that song with regard to her irl struggles, which makes it mean a hell of a lot more.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 28 February 2013 21:06 (twelve years ago)

twelve years pass...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/arts/music/candi-staton-grammys.html?smid=url-share

Candi Staton still singing

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 February 2026 00:27 (eighteen hours ago)

what a voice. 'young hearts run free' is the ultimate crying in the supermarket jam.

― map, Wednesday, 11 February 2026 01:00 (seventeen hours ago)

“Rick wanted me to sing hoarse — he liked that gruff soul sound,” Staton said, “while Dave really allowed me to show what I could do with my voice.”

From that NY Times article- Staton comparing her earlier work with soul producer Rick Hall and her subsequent effort with producer Dave Crawford on "Young Hearts Run Free"

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 February 2026 03:18 (fifteen hours ago)

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