This CD is dedicated with appreciation and love to the first teacher who encouraged my talent as a singer: my husband Don Cox (Big Don) - R.I.H. I love you and I miss you. Not only was Don a great husband and dad, he was a consummate professional entertainer who has been displaying his diverse musical skill since the tender age of 13 when he made his professional debut. Don’s first recording in 1963 resulted in the release of “Just Can’t Win” and “What Can You Do For Me” on Chess Records with his group, The Carpets. Big Don performed with such luminaries as Jay McShann, Claude “Fiddler” Williams, Jimmy Witherspoon, Stanley Turrentine, and Eartha Kitt, just to name a few. Don studied arranging and orchestration under Willie Rice and wrote vocal arrangements for The Sincerest who later became Motown recording artist Blood Stone. His arranging skills are evident on this new CD release, Don Cox & The Princess: Touching You With Class, Ain’t That Loving You. Thanks to the following people for helping put this project together: Don Hatfield, Lee Watkins, Ram Swamenathin, Joseph Straws Jr, and Eugene Smiley Patricia Lyons Cox - vocal Don Cox - piano, keyboard, synthesizer, guitar Joseph Straws Jr. - bass Ram Swaminathan - drums Horace Washington - tenor saxophone, flute Don Hatfield - alto, tenor and bari saxophones Lee Watkins - trumpet, flugelhorn Arrangements by Don Cox and Patricia Lyons Cox Horn arrangements by Don Hatfield and Lee Watkins Produced by Don Cox and The Princess Engineered, mixed and mastered by Andy Oxman at Sound Works Studio, Blue Springs, Mo. Photography by Jerry Lockett Design by Keith Kavanaugh, BauWau Design