Talk:Sharon Jones

A news item involving Sharon Jones was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 22 November 2016.

Wikipedia

Biography: Musicians

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by WikiProject Musicians (assessed as Low-importance).

R&B and Soul Music Low‑importance

	R&B and Soul Music portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject R&B and Soul Music, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of R&B and Soul Music articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.R&B and Soul MusicWikipedia:WikiProject R&B and Soul MusicTemplate:WikiProject R&B and Soul MusicR&B and Soul Music articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

African diaspora Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject African diaspora, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of African diaspora on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.African diasporaWikipedia:WikiProject African diasporaTemplate:WikiProject African diasporaAfrican diaspora articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Women

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of women on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.WomenWikipedia:WikiProject WomenTemplate:WikiProject WomenWikiProject Women articles

Georgia (U.S. state) Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state), a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the U.S. state of Georgia on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Georgia (U.S. state)Wikipedia:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)Template:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)Georgia (U.S. state) articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

This article lacks sufficient references and/or adequate inline citations.

WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state) To-do:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Crooked Creek (Georgia), Ed Defore Sports Complex, Audery Mill Creek, More (Georgia)... More (U.S.)...
Assess : Rate articles from Unassessed Georgia (U.S. state) articles and Unknown-importance Georgia (U.S. state) articles.
Citing sources : Unreferenced Georgia (U.S. state) articles
Cleanup : Cleanup listing for this project is available. See also the list by category.
Geographical coordinates : more Georgia (U.S. state) articles missing geocoordinate data
Infobox : Georgia (U.S. state) articles without infoboxes
Map : Wikipedia requested maps in Georgia (U.S. state)
Photo : Wikipedia requested photographs in Georgia (U.S. state)
Stubs : Work on stubs in articles in Georgia (U.S. state) stubs, Georgia (U.S. state) radio station stubs, Georgia (U.S. state) road stubs and Georgia (U.S. state) geography stubs.
Other : *Deletion sorting: Please see the collection of discussions on the deletion of articles related to Georgia (U.S. state) - compiled by WikiProject Deletion sorting
- Help out with articles placed in Category:Georgia (U.S. state) articles needing attention
- Notability: Articles with notability concerns, listed at WikiProject Notability
- Tag the talk pages of Georgia (U.S. state)-related articles with the {{WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)}} banner.
- Get Georgia (U.S. state) to a featured article quality standard

Women in Music

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women in Music, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Women in music on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Women in MusicWikipedia:WikiProject Women in MusicTemplate:WikiProject Women in MusicWomen in music articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Discography?[edit]

Anyone know/be willing to add the discography? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pfflyer56 (talk • contribs) 19:17, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

First, someone needs to clean up the article! Especially since it needs wikification, rewording, references, and before all else, needs checking to see that it isn't just copyright violation, given that it has one reference.--Leahtwosaints (talk) 22:08, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The 1999 single I'm Gonna Get Ya! is by another Sharon Jones. According to Discogs she is a Singer from Detroit.

According to the article the Soul Providers was originally released as Soul Tequila in 1996 featuring Sharon Jones on Switchblade and The Landlord.

Sharon Jones appears in the 2013 film Queen City and performs on the soundtrack album the song Belle Fleuve.

2021 album - The Daptone Super Soul Revue Live! At The Apollo, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings perform nine songs. Recorded Dec 4-6, 2014.

2020 compilation album Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In)

2008 compilation album The Dynamic Sound Of Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings

2016 Miss Sharon Jones! (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2007 The Great Debaters (Music From & Recorded For The Motion Picture). Sharon Jones performs on six songs.

Sept 2023 new single reissue New Shoes backed with previously unreleased Dap Kings instrumental version. Last Bastion Records in association with Detour Records Magoorocks (talk) 01:44, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Added a photo[edit]

I placed a photo in the infobox. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 22:08, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Rafi RS Rafi Islam (talk) 08:56, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Reassessed as B class article[edit]

This article has been reassessed as a B-class article. Capitalistroadster (talk) 02:19, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 30 March 2017[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Moved. I've preserved the dab page at Sharon Jones (disambiguation). If anyone wants to turn this into a redirect I wouldn't object. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:38, 7 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sharon Jones (singer) → Sharon Jones – Only two items at the dab Sharon Jones. Just move this and make a hatnote. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:15, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. The singer get over 99% of pageviews.[1] - Station1 (talk) 05:33, 31 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support seems like a no-brainer given traffic stats cited above. --Krelnik (talk) 13:41, 31 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.