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Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American traditional pop 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 ...
Jul 18, 2008 · Jo Stafford, the honey-voiced band singer who starred in radio and television and sold more than 25 million records with her ballads and folks songs, has died. She was 90. July 18, 2008, 8:18...
Jul 16, 2008 · Jo Stafford, “America’s Most Versatile Singer,” is one of America's most successful and celebrated vocalists. In the 1940’s and 1950’s she amassed 31 top-ten hits, was regarded as the favorite singer of the Armed Forces and was the first female artist to sell 25 million records.
This collection begins following Jo's departure from the Tommy Dorsey band and The Pied Pipers. In addition to the solo hits, you'll note that a fair number of her best-sellers were duet performances with the likes of Gordon MacRae, Frankie Laine, and others. The playlist is arranged alphabetically by song title, but with Holiday tunes grouped ...
Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American traditional pop 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.
Jul 18, 2008 · Jo Stafford, a singer of the big band era who was guided in her later solo career by Johnny Mercer, has died in Los Angeles. She was 90. Stafford died of congestive heart failure Wednesday at...
Jul 21, 2008 · Jo Stafford, the honey-voiced band singer who starred in radio and television and sold more than 25 million records with her ballads and folks songs, died July 16 of congestive heart failure in ...
