Jo Stafford
American singer (1917-2008) · United States · On the map · Musicians · Died at 90 · Born 109 years ago today
Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American traditional pop singer, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s.
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Frank Sinatra Duets: Too Marvelous for Words (1937)
Bing Crosby Duets: Too Marvelous for Words (1937)
Doris Day Duets: Too Marvelous for Words (1937)
Ella Fitzgerald Duets: Too Marvelous for Words (1937)
Nat King Cole Duets: Too Marvelous for Words (1937)
Frankie Laine Duets: Hey, Good Lookin'
June Christy Duets: Too Marvelous for Words and Tampico
Fred Astaire Duets: Dancing in the Dark (1931)
Billie Holiday Duets: Too Marvelous for Words (1937)
Dave Brubeck Duets: I See Your Face Before Me (1937)
Peggy Lee Duets: I See Your Face Before Me (1937)
Dorothy Lamour Duets: It Could Happen to You (1943)
Artie Shaw Duets: Dancing in the Dark (1931)
Mary Martin Duets: I See Your Face Before Me (1937)
Carmen McRae Duets: I See Your Face Before Me (1937)
Stan Kenton Duets: Tampico (1945)
Ray Conniff Duets: Dancing in the Dark (1931)
Mildred Bailey Duets: I See Your Face Before Me (1937)
Johnny Hartman Duets: I See Your Face Before Me (1937)
Evelyn Laye Duets: I See Your Face Before Me (1937)
Bea Wain Duets: Dancing in the Dark (1931)
Andy Russell Duets: Too Marvelous for Words (1937)
Wilbur Evans Duets: I Love You (1944)
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The singing Stafford Sisters in 1941
The Pied Pipers in 1944: Pictured here are Charles Lowry, Jo Stafford, Clark Yocum, and John Huddleston.
Jo Stafford, 1946
Jo Stafford with Tibetan buddhist thangka art from Tibet in 1946 New York City
In 1954, James Conkling, president of Columbia Records, presented Stafford with a diamond-studded plaque to mark the sale of 25 million of her records.
Publicity photo for The Jo Stafford Show, 1954
Jo Stafford as Cinderella G. Stump with Red Ingle performing their 1947 song, "Tim-Tay-Shun", on Startime in 1960Awards
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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.
