His choral group, The Merrill Staton Choir, appeared on several 1960s Columbia Masterworks studio recordings of classic Broadway shows, such as "Show Boat" (1962) with John Raitt, Barbara Cook, Anita Darian and William Warfield, "The Student Prince" (1963) with Roberta Peters, Jan Peerce and Giorgio Tozzi, and "Oklahoma!" (1964), with Raitt, Florence Henderson and Phyllis Newman.