Pamala Stanley

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Biography

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again -- There are no words to truly describe the phenomenal Pamala Stanley. Her unparalleled voice encompasses everything from the most intimate whisper to the soaring "bel canto" that is surely her trademark. And her vivacity and natural warmth allow her to connect with each and every person in audiences around the globe. Pamala has accomplished, and continues to accomplish, remarkable success in the music and entertainment industries.

By the age of ten, Pamala had recorded her first three singles, and by seventeen, she began her astounding solo career. After moving to New York in 1977, and finding additional success in national commercial work, Pamala landed a recording contract with EMI in Germany and began touring extensively. While recording in Berlin, Pamala wrote the album "This Is Hot" with Joachim Heider, her producer, and David Zippel [this recording also included songs from Lou Shere and Rhoda Roberts]. Eventually signing with EMI America, Pamala released "This Is Hot" in 1979. This single reached #13 on US Disco charts and received great acclaim in Europe, Mexico and South America.

In 1983, Pamala's remarkable single, "I Don't Want To Talk About it," written by her brother, James Lee Stanley, shot up to #13 on the Billboard Disco charts. This hit set the stage for tours throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada, and introduced Pamala to national television shows like Dance Fever. Her next single, "Coming Out of Hiding," was #4 on the 1984 Billbaord Disco charts. and the video received extensive worldwide airplay on networks, including MTV, Showtime,Top 40 Viseos and still being played. In 1986, Pamala's "If Looks Could Kill" single reached the top 20 in the Disco charts. Wide publicity followed with its inclusion in the Schwarzenegger film, "Raw Deal.

In 1992, Pamala stormed Las Vegas and blew away audiences at the Hilton, Sands and Riviera with her sensational voice and irrepressible style. While performing in Vegas, Pamala was offered a headlining spot at Evangeline’s in Ft. Lauderdale Beach and she formed the widely popular Pamala Stanley Band -- the hottest New Orleans Boogie Band in So. Florida. In 1996, responding to demand, the Pamala Stanley Band, with its Blues, Jazz and Boogie style, released "'Live and Cookin' ". This upbeat, live, outdoor concert CD wowed the critics and added fuel to Pamala's reputation for excellence. In late ‘97, Pamala made a critical career decision and left PSB to go solo. The break from The Pamala Stanley Band gave Pamala the time she had longed for to write originals, as well as the freedom to explore her multifaceted styles of singing and recording. Once again, responding to demand for her music, Pamala released "It's All In The Game", a recording filled to the brim with Jazz classics, which she recorded with the Eddie Higgins Quartet. She followed this recording with “This Is The Moment”, featuring her most requested and favorite Broadway tunes, and a compilation CD/DVD called “Looking Back: The Disco Years,” which included 15 songs spanning 1979-1989.

2003 brought a new adventure for Pamala when she began relationships with Norwegian, Celebrity and Royal Carribean Cruise Lines, as well as Atlantis events. Traveling extensively, she has cruised the Caribbean, South America, the Panama Canal, Hawaii, Alaska, across the Atlantic Ocean and throughout Europe, the Baltic and Iceland, touching people around the world with her sensational voice and her endless enthusiasm. Pamala’s popularity continues to grow beyond her wildest dreams and she feels so blessed by the friendship and support she receives from fans all over the world.

Pamala's new CD– Season’s of My Heart. An adult contemporary release filled with original songs, “Season’s Of My Heart” takes the listener on a journey through Pamala’s heart…where subtle shades of Blues, country and pop tell a story of love lost, love longed for and love found.

Stay tuned!! Pamala has lots of projects in the works, and she’s eagerly looking forward to everything the future has in store for her. We know one thing…whatever is around the corner, it’s going to be a blast, so you’d better keep up! Welcome to the non-stop, high energy world of Pamala Stanley!

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Instrumentation

Piano & voice

Discography

ALBUMS

This Is Hot
EMI Europe 1979

This is Hot
EMI America 1979

Coming Out Of Hiding -The Sequel
Capitol/Beachwood 1990

'Live and Cookin'
Shaker Records 1996

It's All In The Game
Pamala Stanley Ent. 2002

This Is The Moment
Pamala Stanley Ent. 2006

Looking Back-The Disco Years
Pamala Stanley Ent. 2006

Seasons of My Heart
Pamala Stanley Ent. 2007

SINGLES
This is Hot
EMI America 1979

Only You Can Reach Me
EMI America 1980

I Don't Want To Talk About It
Kommander Records 1983

Coming Out of Hiding
TSR Records 1984

If Looks Could Kill
Atlantic Records 1986

Rhiannon
Beachwood/Chameleon 1989

Audio

• Survive
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• Seasons
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• When I Get My Name In Lights
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• Lovin' a lounge singer [+ Show ]
  

  Broward Palm Beach New Times Calibrations Lovin' a lounge singer By David Pulizzi Print Ar...Broward Palm Beach New Times
  Calibrations
  Lovin' a lounge singer
  By David Pulizzi
  
  
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  Nov 4, 1999
  Well, the Calibrator has gone and done it now. He's fallen wildly in love with the married, 47-year-old lounge singer at the Grill Room in the Riverside Hotel in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Surely the news will hit Mrs. Calibrator like a ton of falling bricks. Mrs. C., as every man in Pittsburgh knows so intimately, is an exceptionally fine woman of superior breeding, but really, how much disappointment can she be expected to bear from someone as perpetually lustful and uncivilized as her lowly husband? What's to say? Blooming love knows not why it blooms; there is no logical justification for an unexpected eruption of wanton passion other than that we are all humans and our hearts are full of lasciviousness and sometimes plain, inexplicable evil. That's the C-man's excuse, anyhow.
  But enough of this wimpish floundering -- some things between a sinful measuring tool and his wife should be kept private -- let's cut to the chase. Pamala Stanley is a strange, ravishing creature. And friends, let me tell ya, she's been there and definitely done that. Cue up Whitney's "The Greatest Love of All" and read on. But don't go gettin' any funny ideas… the Calibrator is a proprietary gauging device with a dangerous past. He once armed himself with a fully loaded Super Soaker and shot a skinny, crippled man in Reno just to watch him get really pissed off. Now then…
  In 1978 a record producer caught my new love's act in a gay piano bar on West 46th Street in New York City and decided, as Stanley recalls, that "he wanted to make a white Donna Summer out of me." Stanley had no problem with the idea. Donna Summer was something special: rich, sexy, adored by millions. Stanley signed on for the ride. A year later she had her first hit on the disco charts with "This Is Hot." Sadly, "Disco Is Dead" headlines began to appear in news rags around the globe later that year. The Disco Sucks crowd rejoiced. Disco culture itself -- along with its many roundly ridiculed adherents -- oozed back into the seedy, drug-riddled underground urban asylums from whence it sprang a few years earlier. Ever the trooper, Stanley stuck around for disco's drawn-out demise.
  "I have played every leather gay bar you can imagine," she recalls with sultry forthrightness, her smoldering hazel eyes eliciting nothing but tender sympathy from the Calibrator. "I've played every disco from Studio 54 to the Limelight in Atlanta. I've played on beer boxes in front of DJ booths. I've sang on plywood on top of pool tables. I've done it all."
  She had three more dance hits in the early '80s. One of them, 1983's "Coming Out of Hiding," remains a gay anthem, at least among those gays who find themselves still wanting for an anthem. She appeared on Dance Fever a few times, performed overseas, and along the way, made a tidy pile of money. Photos from those years show a striking young kitten in various formfitting outfits, her hair always well spirited, her heavy makeup applied with the touch of da Vinci. The woman was a masterpiece of shallow self-indulgence. "From 1979 to 1989," she says with unabated pride, "I was a disco diva." The Calibrator begins to swell with his own modest pride… if you catch my drift.
  And now, a decade later, Stanley finds herself behind a piano at the Grill Room. The restaurant is nearly full on a recent Saturday night with a decidedly privileged clientele. Mostly there are older folks who dress well, converse politely, and look like they haven't been properly laid since the fall of Saigon -- or perhaps the Roman Empire. The wait staff wears crimson servants' jackets, tuxedo shirts, and black bow ties. The maitre d', an affable fellow by the name of Monroe, is decked out splendidly in white. With perfect, professional gentility, Monroe shows the Calibrator to a large, round table next to Stanley and her piano.
  Tonight she is wearing a sleeveless, silver-and-blue-sequined, floor-length party gown. Stanley calls it her "mermaid's dress." A bottle of Evian sits near her. Later she'll indulge in a little white wine. She laughs between songs and chats with diners, all of whom apparently adore her, though none of them so adamantly as the Calibrator, whose only wish at the moment is to spend the rest of his miserable life basking in the life-affirming glow of her radiance. A delicate, crystal tip jar sits atop the piano. Presently it's about half full of bills, and still the jar is undoubtedly more valuable than all the money in it. The lady is a class act all the way.
  And let's be clear on this point: Pamala Stanley can sing like a freakin' bird of paradise. Listen, the Calibrator doesn't just fall for every warbling lounge babe he encounters. But in this golden-throated enchantress, he hears the voice of a pure and perfect angel, the very voice of heaven itself, he thinks. When she sings a cover of Shania Twain's "From This Moment On," the Calibrator senses salvation close at hand. When he requests "Downtown," the Petula Clark hit, and Stanley cuts right into a spotless rendition, he feels the sins of the world rising from his shoulders. And finally when a friend of hers -- some guy from England named David -- takes a guest turn on the 88s and Stanley climbs aboard the piano top to sing a soul-stirring version of Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On"… well, there's really no earthly way to describe the Calibrator's sense of deep spiritual release.
  All too soon the evening ends and Stanley returns to her husband, a sublimely fortunate fellow whom the Calibrator has never met but can only imagine is a god among men. For his part the Calibrator returns to his lonely abode in Hollywood, where the screaming loon across the street is just getting started and true love is nowhere to be found.
  

• The Always Dynamic, Pamala Stanley [+ Show ]
  

  Stanley's 2004 CD, "It's All in the Game", is a crooning standards collection of 12 classics. We are...Stanley's 2004 CD, "It's All in the Game", is a crooning standards collection of 12 classics. We are delighted by the versatility of the vocalist. "Bye Bye Blackbird" is the opening tune with production that puts Pamala's vocals upfront, dominant, and the center of attention where it should be. The style of music - nightclub jazz is a genre that allows the talent to ooze magically. Track 2, "Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans", was recorded before disaster hit, and is that more poignant as the performance conveys emotions that are there now for all music lovers. Track 4, "Someone to Watch Over Me" . .tremendous. In "Too Darn Hot", Stanley moves to fun moods ala her dance career surrounded by a bebop band. Nice. The title track, "It Had To Be You" is yet another great showcase of Stanley's vocal interval precise jumping and heart-felt performance. Of course, the music could not be performed without a bevy of talented musicians; Eddie Higgins, Piano; Phil Flanagan, bass; Danny Berger and Michael Dorfman, drums; and sax by Eric Allison, Paul Berman, and Rich Malfitano. The only credit we didn't see is the wonderful clarinet solo on Blackbird. Tremendous record and unleashed versatile format for the always dynamic, Pamala Stanley.

• Pamala Stanley - This Is The Moment [+ Show ]
  

  Pamala Stanley has a big voice that works well for some big Broadway songs. A 2002 album included s...Pamala Stanley has a big voice that works well for some big Broadway songs. A 2002 album included some show tunes, but, billed as a jazz set, it showcased her warm side, whereas This Is the Moment showcases the showy side. There are two numbers from Wicked: "Defying Gravity" and "For Good." Both are done confidently without ripping through them and raising the roof with histrionics. The title number, of course, is the one that may still be ringing in your ears from Jekyll and Hyde, a show that's also represented by a lusty and bravura "Bring On the Men."

Setlist

Pamala Stanley custom creates her set lists for each venue and audience.
She has a corporate 1 hour show with charts for an 8 piece band.
Her track act consists of songs from:
HER DISCO FROM THE 80'S PLUS MANY MORE FROM
OTHER ARTISIS OF THAT ERA
JAZZ CLASSICS
BROADWAY
HER ORIGINALS and also from other talented writers

Below is an alphabetical list of many of the songs not on her CD's she does in her solo piano act:
A NIGHTENGALE SANG IN BERKELY SQUARE
ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND
ALL I ASK OF YOU
ALL OF ME
ALL THAT JAZZ
ALL THE WAY
ALWAYS
AM I LOSING MY MIND
AMAZING GRACE
AND I LOVE HER
AND I LOVE HER SO
ANGEL
ANNIE'S SONG
ARTHUR'S THEME
AS IF WE NEVER SAID GOODBYE
AS LONG AS HE NEEDS ME
AS TIME GOES BY
ATLAST
AUTUMN LEAVES
BASIN STREET BLUES
BECAUSE YOU LOVED ME
BEGIN THE BEGUINE
BESO ME MUCHO
BEWITCHED BOTHERED AND BEWILDERED
BILL BAILEY
BLACKBIRD
BLUE BAYOU
BLUE MOON
BLUE SKIES
BLUEBERRY HILL
BOBBY MAGEE
BODY AND SOUL
BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY
BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS
BRING ON THE MEN
BUT NOT FOR ME
BYE BYE BLACKBIRD
CABARET
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN
CANDLE IN THE WIND
CAPE COD
CHANCES ARE
CHAPEL OF LOVE
CHATANOOGA CHOO CHOO
CHICAGO
CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN
COME IN FROM THE RAIN
COPACABANA
CORNER OF THE SKY
COULD I HAVE THIS DANCE
CRAZY
CRY
CRY ME A RIVER
CUANDO CALIENTA A SOL
DAMN YOUR EYES
DANCE TEN LOOKS THREE
DANCING IN THE STREETS
DANCING QUEEN
DANNY BOY
DEEP PURPLE
DEFYING GRAVITY
DESPERADO
DIDN'T WE
DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO MISS NEW ORLEANS
DON'T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA
DON'T GET AROUND MUCH ANYMORE
DON'T RAIN ON MY PARADE
DON'T THINK TWICE
DON'T YOU FEEL MY LEG
DOWN IN NEW ORLEANS
DOWNTOWN
DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME
EIDELWEISS
EMBRACEABLE YOU
ENDLESS LOVE
EVERGREEN
FEVER
FIELDS OF GOLD
FIRE AND RAIN
FLY ME TO THE MOON
FOR GOOD
FORTY SECOND STREET
GEORGIA
GET HERE
GIRL FROM IPANEMA
GOD BLESS THE CHILD
GOOD MORNING HEARTACHE
GREEN DOLPHIN STREET
HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY THAT I LOVE YOU
HEART OF THE MATTER
HERE THERE AND EVERWHERE
HERE'S THAT RAINY DAY
HERNANDO'S HIDEAWAY
HEY JUDE
HEY POCKEY WAY
HIP SHAKIN MAMA
HONESTY
HOW DO I LIVE WITHOUT YOU
HOW DO YOU KEEP THE MUSIC PLAYING
I AM WHAT I AM
I BELIEVE
I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW
I CAN'T MAKE YOU LOVE ME
I DREAMED A DREAM
I FEEL TH EARTH MOVE
I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU
I GOT A CRUSH ON YOU
I HAVE A DREAM
I HOPE YOU DANCE
I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU
I KNOW HIM SO WELL
I LEFT MY HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO
I LOVE YOU JUST THE WAY YOU ARE
I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU
I SAY A LITTLE ;PRAYER FOR YOU
I WANNA BE RICH FAMOUS AND POWERFUL
I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU
IF
IF EVER I WOULD LEAVE YOU
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND
IKO IKO
I'LL NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN
I'LL TAKE MANHATTAN
I'M IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE
I'M NOT THAT GIRL
I'M SINGING THIS SONG FOR YOU
IMAGINE
IN MY LIFE
IN THE MOOD
IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT
IS THERE A STRAIGHT MAN IN THE HOUSE
IT HAD TO BE YOU
IT NEVER ENTERED MY MIND
IT'S IMPOSSIBLE
IT'S RAINING MEN
IT'S TOO LATE
I'VE GOT A CRUSH ON YOU
I'VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN
JAMBALAYA
JUST LIKE LOVE
KILLING ME SOFTLY
LA TI DA
LA VIE EN ROSE
LADY IN RED
LANDSLIDE
LAURA
LAZY RIVER
LET IT BE
LET''S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF
LISTEN TO MY HEART
LONG AND WINDING ROAD
LOOKING THROUH THE EYES OF LOVE
LOUISIANA 1927
LOVE CHANGES EVERYTHING
LOVE IS HERE TO STAY
LOVIN THAT MAN OF MINE
LULLABY OF BROADWAY
MACK THE KNIFE
MAKIN WHOOPEE
MAMA MIA
MANDY
MASQUERADE
MEDITATION
MEET ME WITH YOUR BLACK DRAWERS ON
MEMORIES
MERCEDES BENZ
MICHELLE
MIDNIGHT BLUE
MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO GEORGIA
MISS OTIS REGRETS
MISTY
MOBILE
MONEY MONEY
MOONDANCE
MOONLIGHT IN VERMONT
MOVIN OUT
MR. BOJANGLES
MUSIC OF THE NIGHT
MY BLUE HEAVEN
MY FUNNY VALENTINE
MY HEART WILL GO ON
MY KIND OF TOWN
MY MAN
MY ROMANCE
MY WAY
NAMESDROPPINGS
NEW YORK NEW YORK
NEW YORK STATE OF MIND
NIGHT AND DAY
NINE TO FIVE
NOBODY DOES IT BETTER
NOT THAT KIND OF WOMAN
OLD FRIEND
ON A CLEAR DAY
ON AND ON
ON MY OWN
ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET
ONE FOR THE ROAD
ONE GOOD MAN
OPEN ARMS
OVER MY HEAD
OVER THE RAINBOW
PEEL ME A GRAPE
PEOPLE
PIANO MAN
POPSICLE TOES
POPULAR
QUE SERA SERA
QUIET NIGHT AND QUIET STARS
RAZZLE DAZZLE
RECIPE OF LOVE
RED SAILS IN THE SUNSET
RIGHT KEY WRONG KEYHOLE
ROCK-A-BYE MY BABY
ROUTE 66
SATIN DOLL
SATURDAY NIGHT FISH FRY
SAVOY
SCOTCH AND SODA
SECOND HAND ROSE
SEND IN THE CLOWNS
SHE'S ALWAYS A WOMAN TO ME
SINCE I FELL FOR YOU
SING FOR YOUR SUPPER
SLIDE TROMBONE
SMILE
SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES
SMOOTH OPERATOR
SO MANY YEARS
SOME ENCHANTED EVENING
SOME ONE LIKE YOU
SOMEONE LIKE YOU
SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME
SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT
SOMETHING
SOMEWHERE
SOMEWHERE MY LOVE
SON OF A PREACHER MAN
SPANISH EYES
ST JAMES INFIRMARY
STAND BY YOUR MAN
STARDUST
STORMY WEATHER
STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT
SUMMERTIME
SUMMERWIND
SWEET CAROLINE
SWEET GEORGIA BROWN
S'WONDERFUL
TAKE THE A TRAIN
TEACH ME TONIGHT
TELL ME ON A SUNDAY
TENDERLY
THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC
THAT'S AMORE
THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM
THE LADY IS A TRAMP
THE LONGEST TIME
THE LOOK OF LOVE
THE MAN I LOVE
THE NEARNESS OF YOU
THE POWER OF LOVE
THE RIGHT THING TO DO
THE ROSE
THE SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE
THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU
THE WAVE
THE WAY WE WERE
THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT
THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL
THEMAN THAT GOT AWAY
THEY ALL LAUGHED
THEY CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY
THINK OF ME
THIS CAN'T BE LOVE
THIS IS MY LIFE
THIS IS THE MOMENT
TIME AFTER TIME
TIME AFTER TIME
TIME IN A BOTTLE
TIME TO SAY GOODBYE
TINY DANCER
TOO DARN HOT
TOO YOUNG
TRY TO REMEMBER
TWO IN THE BUSH
UNCHAINED MELODY
UNDER THE BOARDWALK
UNFORGETTABLE
UP A LAZY RIVER
UPTOWN GIRL
VINCENT
VOLARE
WALK ON BY
WALKIN AFTER MIDNIGHT
WALL STREET
WAY DOWN YONDER IN NEW ORLEANS
WE ARE IN LOVE
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
WHAT ARE YOU DOING THE REST OF YOUR LIFE
WHAT I DID FOR LOVE
WHAT'S A MATTA YOU
WHAT'S NEW
WHEN I FALL IN LOVE
WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING ON
WHEN YOU'RE GOOD TO MAMA
WHERE OR WHEN
WHERE THE BOYS ARE
WHY DON'T YOU DO RIGHT
WIND BENEATH MY WINGS
WITH A SONG IN MY HEART
YESTERDAY
YOU ARE THE SUNSHINE OF MY LIFE
YOU CAN LEAVE YOUR HAT ON
YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE A NATURAL WOMAN
YOU NEEDED ME
YOUNG AT HEART
YOUR SONG
YOU'RE SO VAIN
YOU'RE STILL THE ONE
YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND

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