Jo Stafford Tribute

Strangest thing:just realized that Jo came vividly to mind just after her birthday. Playing "You Belong To Me" on guitar and voice for her main demographic recently, it seemed desirable to obtain some of her recorded music, conspicuously wanting.

...went bananas and got mp3s of everything most craved:

"This Time"
"All Our Own"
(Superlative, exquisite!)
Select cuts from "Autumn in NY"
"If (They Made Me a Queen)"
"You Belong to Me"
"Teach Me Tonight"
"It Is No Secret"
Albums:
"Happy Holiday/I Love Winter Weather"
("Moonlight in Vermont"...oh dear Lord!)
"Once Over Lightly"
"I'll Be Seeing You"

That voice. The ideal manifestation of the feminine aspect of music. Tears and near-out-of-body experience at points.

A childhood favorite; mom's vinyls through a Columbia portable (? it was GIANT) phonograph enriched many a Sunday afternoon.

Blessed

Elliot
Bliss

I remember hearing Jo on the radio, short wave, of course, in India. Our family did not have a record player or any equipment to play records or listen to tapes. But we had a radio, and listened to the then 'Binaca Hit Parade', which was aired over by the only English station that we could hear on our short wave radio, Radio Ceylon, then broadcasting from the island of Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka. Being a Seventh Day Adventist, somebody told me that Jo was an SDA, but gave up that form of religion to become a singing star. I don't know if that is true. However, I still listen to her voice over the CDs that I have bought, especially the one that she sings the religious songs with Gordon MacCray, the best duet combination I have ever heard. She was the best voice that ever performed, regardless of religious or secular music.

A beautifully natural talent with an incredibly smooth voice for the ages. The best of her day & still unforgettable today. RIP Jo

I was born in 37, and heard her beautiful voice coming out of many radios and loudspeakers in the 40s, 50, and 60s. I have a big collection of her CDs and those of the Pied Pipers. She was so special. She will always be my favorite pop singer and one of my favorite musician singers, period, in any genre.
Oh, that "Haunted heart," and "In the Still of the Night" !!!!!
God Bless Jo Stafford.

They had an old fashion record player on the Destroyer,USS Buck that I was assigned to from '51 to '53. Her singing of "You belong to me" was among the most played. Almost 60 years ago. WOW, am I getting old!

i'm 48 yrs old. i remember that beautiful voice coming from ma's radio as i ate breakfast.........along with the smell of coffee brewing, it brings back so many memories..