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Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917 – July 16, 2008) 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 ...
Oct 29, 2020 · Hear the greatest hits of JO STAFFORD in this OFFICIAL playlist. Spread the classic jazz, and don't forget to share this playlist! Subscribe here: http://b...
Jul 19, 2008 · Jo Elizabeth Stafford was born on Nov. 12, 1917, in Coalinga, Calif., near Fresno and brought up in Long Beach. As a child she studied voice and hoped to become an opera singer, but because of ...
Jo Stafford. Soundtrack: Kill Your Darlings. Jo Stafford's early fame came as a vocalist with the big band of Tommy Dorsey, for which she sang both on her own and with her group, The Pied Pipers. After leaving Dorsey in 1944, Stafford went solo, eventually racking up no less than 93 hits over the next 13 years. Among them: chart-toppers like "Candy" (1945), "My Darling, My Darling" (1948 ...
Jul 18, 2008 · Jo Stafford was a favorite entertainer of soldiers during World War II. Stafford and her husband, pianist Paul Weston, also performed a bad cabaret act as their alter egos, Jonathan and Darlene ...
Jul 18, 2008 · Jo Elizabeth Stafford was born Nov. 12, 1917, in Coalinga, Calif., where her Tennessee father had come to work in the oil fields. When a new field was discovered in Long Beach, he moved his wife ...
Aug 12, 2008 · Jo Stafford R.I.P. August 12, 2008. The American traditional pop singer Jo Stafford died last week at the age of ninety. Stafford, one of the most respected and successful vocalists of the fifties ...
