Greatest Hits

by Jo Stafford

Overview

Jo Stafford walked the delicate line between jazz and pop as well as any singer in the immediate postwar period, and her smooth, elegant sense of melody always put the song she was singing first, so her vocals seem to glide as effortlessly as air through the arrangements, never drawing undue attention, but always there at the center of things. This set from her Capitol years in the 1940s and early '50s does have a couple of her biggest hits ("You Belong to Me," "Make Love to Me"), and duets with Gordon MacRae ("The Alphabet Song") and Johnny Mercer ("Candy"), as well as a wonderfully balanced and nuanced version of "Scarlet Ribbons," but it's really too brief a collection to be anything more than a teaser.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/15/1993
Label:	Curb Records
UPC:	0715187761926
catalogNumber:	77619
Rank:	95468

Tracks

1. You Belong to Me
2. Make Love to Me
3. Shrimp Boats
4. Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
5. "A" You're Adorable (The Alphabet Song)
6. Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair)
7. A Sunday Kind of Love
8. The Gentleman Is a Dope
9. Symphony
10. Candy

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Jo Stafford   Primary Artist,Vocals
Gordon MacRae   Track Performer

Technical Credits

Louis Prima   Composer
Ben Pollack   Composer
Georg Brunis   Composer
Pee Wee King   Composer
Redd Stewart   Composer
Buddy Kaye   Composer
Paul Mares   Composer
Leon Roppolo   Composer
Paul Weston & His Orchestra   Composer
Fred Wise   Composer
Alan Copeland   Composer
Don Ovens   Liner Notes
Mel Stitzel   Composer
Walter Melrose   Composer
Anita Leonard   Composer
Sidney Lippman   Composer
Stan Rhodes   Composer
Barbara Belle   Composer
Chilton Price   Composer
Paul Mason Howard   Composer
William Norvas   Composer