Jo Stafford Videos
Jo Stafford - Merry Christmas - 1956
One of the most beautiful Christmas songs I have ever heard. Enjoy!
Author: leewileyandfriends; Tags: jo stafford christmas carol
Smilin Through - Jo Stafford
Smilin' Through - by the late Jo Stafford - A Beautiful Song from the World War 2 Era
Author: nipsterstang; Tags: Jo Stafford Music
"Les feuilles mortes" ("Autumn Leaves") A French Love Song" Poem animation song French
-recorded popular song. Originally a 1945 French song "Les feuilles mortes" (literally "The Dead Leaves") with music by Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet Jacques Prévert, the American songwriter Johnny Mercer wrote English lyrics in 1947. Jo Stafford was among the first to perform this version. Autumn Leaves became a pop standard and a jazz standard in both languages, both as an instrumental and with a singer. Yves Montand introduced "Les feuilles mortes" in 1946 for the film Les Portes de la ...
Author: poetryanimations; Tags: poem animation Prévert baudelaie rimbaud victor hugo lamartine verlaine rilke voltaire poetry posie poeme poet
Jo Stafford - 'It Happened in Sun Valley'.wmv (1955/56)
My thanks to Dennis Degen (whose father Vince Degen was a member of the group) for providing the correct Starlighters photos... Jo Elizabeth Stafford (Born November 12, 1917 Died July 16, 2008[1]) was an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s. Stafford was greatly admired for the purity of her voice and was considered one of the most versatile vocalists of the era.[note 1] She was also viewed as a pioneer of modern ...
Author: trooper7h; Tags: Jo Stafford Paul Weston the Starlighters Happy Holidays Ski Trails Seasonal Songs Film Soundtrack Glen Miller
Jo Stafford & Tommy Dorsey Orchestra - Blues In The Night - 1942
By the time she joined the then recently-established Capitol label in 1943, Jo Stafford had already achieved considerable success with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, both as a solo vocalist and as a member of the Pied Pipers. Even earlier, shed been one third of the Stafford Sisters, working regularly with her two elder siblings in radio and supplying vocal tracks for various Hollywood movies. They even got to appear on screen in a couple of Gene Autry westerns, one of which, "Goldmine In The Sky"...
Author: kmisdarktemptation; Tags: jo stafford tommy dorsey blues in the night
