Jo Stafford

Jo Stafford – Starring Jo Stafford (1953/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:14 minutes | 555 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Finest Recordings

Starring Jo Stafford is a 1953 album by Jo Stafford, with Paul Weston and His Orchestra and accompaniment by The Starlighters and The Pied Pipers. In 1997, EMI issued it on a CD along with 1950’s Autumn in New York.

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Jo Stafford – Portrait of Jo: Songs of America Now And Then (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:13:07 minutes | 507 MB | Genre: Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jube Legends

Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917 – July 16, 2008) was an American traditional pop music singer, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice, she originally underwent classical training to become an opera singer before following a career in popular music, and by 1955 had achieved more worldwide record sales than any other female artist. Her 1952 song “You Belong to Me” topped the charts in the United States and United Kingdom, becoming the second single to top the UK Singles Chart, and the first by a female artist to do so.

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Jo Stafford – Ski Trails (1956/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:05 minutes | 568 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Ski Trails is a 1956 album by Jo Stafford, with accompaniment by Paul Weston and His Orchestra, The Starlighters, and the Norman Luboff Choir. Most of its songs have a winter theme.

Originally released on Columbia Records, the album was reissued in the 1970s on Stafford and Weston’s Corinthian Records label.

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Jo Stafford – It Had To Be You: Lost Radio Recordings (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:42 minutes | 515 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Real Gone Music

Jo Stafford was one of the Greatest and most popular Female Vocalists of the Pre-Rock and Roll era and beyond. Perfect diction, immaculate phrasing, and a tone as clear as a bell were Jo’s calling cards during a five-decade career. “It Had to Be You: Lost Radio Recordings” presents a treasure trove of 24 1950-1951 performances from The Carnation Contented Hour. Completely unreleased recordings featuring Jo interpreting songs, like “Ain’t Misbehavin’”, “Dream a Little Dream of Me”, and “I’ve Got the World on a String”, that were big hits for other artists. These tracks come from tape sources, not transcription discs, and therefore are Studio Quality.
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Jo Stafford – Happy Holiday: A Winter Wonderland (1955/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:44 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Happy Holiday is a 1955 Christmas album of Christmas songs and carols by Jo Stafford, accompanied by her husband Paul Weston and his orchestra. The entire family participated in the creation of this album; young Tim Weston is the small boy on the cover. Stafford is also joined by The Starlighters for vocal background, just as she was after her version of The Chesterfield Supper Club moved to Hollywood.
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