Sort by Alternate Brain (Free subscription) - 07/18/2008 - YouTube
YOU BELONG TO ME Jo's biggest-selling hit (1952), over 2 million copies. Stayed #1 for 12 weeks! This is the 1963 Capitol Records stereo version. --AB...
Sort by Alternate Brain (Free subscription) - 07/18/2008
Now that I'm officially older than dirt, the folks I remember from my childhood are all moving on. LATimes Stafford's solo career began with an inextricable link to the war. A favorite of American soldiers, she was told by a veteran of the Pacific that "the Japanese used to play your records on loudspeakers across from our foxholes so that we'd get homesick and surrender." Not surprisingly, servicemen...
Sort by Maggie's Farm (Free subscription) - 07/18/2008
Jo Stafford died at 90. This from 1957:
Sort by BizofShowBiz (Free subscription) - 07/19/2008
Jo Stafford, popular singer of the big band era, died today of congestive heart failure at the age of 90. She got the nickname GI Jo from servicemen who gave her the honorary title after she touched them so deeply during the 2nd World War and the Korean War. Stafford, who had recorded over 800 songs, reached the charts with 26, and close to a dozen reached the top 10. Over the course of her career...
Sort by Books, Inq. (Free subscription) - 07/21/2008
... "You Belong to Me" as sung by Jo Stafford.
Sort by THIRDWAVEDAVE (Free subscription) - 07/22/2008
Singer Jo Stafford passed away last Wednesday. She lived 90 long years. I hope they were all happy ones. During World War II and Korea, Stafford took time to go overseas to make sure our GIs were entertained. She brought a little warmth and happiness to an otherwise bleak environment. In my book, that'll get you a front row seat in Heaven. Bless her soul. From the NYT: "A favorite of American servicemen,...
Sort by Saber Point (Free subscription) - 07/19/2008
I have always loved the music of Jo Stafford. Her song "You Belong to Me" was my favorite. Ms. Stafford died last Sunday at the age of 90. The Los Angeles Times has her story: Jo Stafford, a singer who was a favorite of GIs during World War II and whose recordings made the pop music charts dozens of times in the 1950s, died Sunday of congestive heart failure at her home in Century City. She was 90....
Sort by The Phil Nugent Experience (Free subscription) - 07/20/2008
One of my very favorite albums is Haunted Heart by Charlie Haden's Quartet West, which dropped into my life like an apple from the tree of life sixteen years ago this month. Haden, best known as a loyal Ornette Coleman disciple and for the angrily political music he has made with his Liberation Music Orchestra, put this record together in a spirit of pure pleasure--the nostalgic, romantic pleasures...
Sort by jeffreymark (Free subscription) - 07/19/2008
Few baby-boomers recognize the name, but Jo Stafford epitomized the sound of smooth. About Last Night, a website devoted to the arts in New York City, remembers: Jo Stafford, who died yesterday, is mostly forgotten now, save by those who...
