1 	–Jo Stafford - I Believe In You
2 	–Jo Stafford - As Time Goes By 	
3 	–Jo Stafford - Corcovado 	
4 	–Jo Stafford - I'll Be Seeing You 	
5 	–Jo Stafford - September In The Rain 	
6 	–Jo Stafford - Somwhere My Love (Lara's Theme) 	
7 	–Jo Stafford - People 	
8 	–Jo Stafford - A Ghost Of A Chance 	
9 	–Jo Stafford - Stormy Weather 	
10 	–Jo Stafford - Try To Remember 	
11 	–Jo Stafford - What The World Needs Now Is Love
12 	–Jo Stafford - Silver Threads Among The Gold 	
13 	–Jo Stafford - The Party's Over

Arranged By – Glenn Osser, Billy VerPlanck, Paul Weston
Trombone, Vocals – Warren Covington (tracks: 1, 11)
The Pied Pipers (tracks: 1, 2, 9, 11)
The Gaslight Singers (tracks: 12)
Vocals - Jo Stafford

Jo Staffordis one of the top singers in the 20th century American popular music history. Her pre-war fame came with the choral group the Pied Pipers she formed in 1938 and the group's work with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra from 1939 until 1942. As a solo singer, Stafford made many hit records for Capitol Records.

The 13 tunes contained in this CD were recorded for Reader's Digest between 1967 and 1970. Sold through mail order, the original records were soon forgotten and faded into obscurity, until the good people at the Japanese label SSJ Records uncovered them and released them on CD for the first time.

Stafford is heard here with The Pied Pipers (Track 1, 2, 9, 11), The Gaslight Singers (Track 12) and Warren Covington (trombone and vocals on Track 1 and 11). Arrangements are provided by her husband Paul Weston (Track 2-10, 12, 13), Glenn Osser (Track 1) and Billy VerPlanck (Track 11). The program consists of old and new standards, and Stafford sings and swings with deeply felt emotion with her consistently crystalline voice.

A rare gem for collectors and a must-have CD for fans of Jo Stafford! Recorded in 1967, 1969 and 1970. DSD remastered in 2011. Japanese, paper sleeve (mini LP) limited edition. ---eastwindimport.com

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1. Something to Remember You By
2. It Never Entered My Mind'
3. They Say It's Wonderful
4. I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
5. Make the Man Love Me
6. Happiness is a Thing Called Joe
7. Dancing in the Dark
8. September Song
9. Spring Is Here
10. If I Were a Bell
11. Mountain High, Valley Low
12. How High the Moon
13. I'm Your Girl
14. Night and Day

Jo Stafford – vocals
Paul Weston & His Orchestra

Paul Weston has always been widely praised for his arrangements of Jo Stafford albums. (They were husband and wife, after all!) He knows just how to complement her uniquely haunting voice with the perfect arrangement, never overpowering. We sense and feel the longing in her voice, which is very rich and warm, deemphasizing vibrato, and sounds very human to me. (I don't hear the coldness some people mention -- it's just her unique timbre.) This album contains mostly ballads, for which Jo has a natural affinity, and all great standards, but she also demonstrates her great swinging style on If I Were a Bell.

The documentation for Corinthian's CDs is poor, but I assume that the last three tracks are from the Jo + Broadway album. To my ears, they are not quite up to the rest. Corinthian could really do us all a favor by letting us know information such as recording dates. Also, a misleading aspect of their packaging lies in the retitling of some of Stafford's albums, such as I'll Be Seeing You -- to G.I. Jo, leading me to originally believe this album was from the 1940s instead of the 50s. The Big Band Sound CD contains practically no documentation.

I would buy almost anything Stafford/Weston from the 1950s, if I only knew what I was buying (I wasn't around back then.) --- Michael J. McVay, amazon.com

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Disc One:
1. On The Sunny Side of the Street
2. Over The Rainbow
3. Remember You
4. I Didn't Know About You
5. Walkin' My Baby Back Home
6. The Boy Next Door
7. It Was Just One of Those Things
8. In The Still of the Night
9. I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time
10. Fools Rush In
11. Sometimes I'm Happy
12. Sugar (That Sugar Baby O'Mine)
13. Haunted Heart
14. The Best Things In Life Are Free
15. Too Marvelous for Words

Disc Two:
1. It Could Happen To You
2. The Trolley Song
3. How Sweet You Are
4. That's For Me
5. I Love You
6. Old Acquaintance
7. I'm So Right Tonight
8. I Never Loved Anyone
9. Long Ago
10. He's Gone Away
11. This Is Always
12. Serenade of the Bells
13. The Things We Did Last Summer
14. Congratulations
15. There's No You
16. Once and for Always

The Great Vocalists of Jazz is a 31-track 2-disc compilation album of songs recorded by Jo Stafford. The album contains recordings made by Stafford between 1944 and 1947. It was released on the History label, and by Meridian Music in Germany in 2008.

One of the most technically gifted and popular vocalists of the immediate postwar period, Jo Stafford effortlessly walked the line between breezy pop and the more serious art of post-big-band jazz singing. With the help of her husband, top-flight arranger and Capitol A&R director Paul Weston, Stafford recorded throughout the '40s and '50s for Capitol and Columbia. She also contributed (with Weston) to one of the best pop novelty acts of the period, a hilariously inept and off-key satire that saw the couple billed as Jonathan & Darlene Edwards.

Born near Fresno, CA, Stafford sang from an early age and was classically trained, though she later joined her sisters in a country-tinged act (associated for a time with Joe "Country" Washburne). At the age of just 17, she became the first female voice in the seven-man vocal act known as the Pied Pipers. Soon after the group joined the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in 1939, however, it was pruned to a quartet (which also included Stafford's first husband, co-founder John Huddleston). The group appeared on several of the Dorsey band's hits of the early '40s, a few of which paired them with Frank Sinatra. Stafford gained her first solo spots on a pair of Dorsey band hits, "Yes, Indeed!" and "Manhattan Serenade." She finally left the Pied Pipers for a solo contract in 1944 (she was replaced by June Hutton), though the group provided backup for many of her initial solo hits.

Not only signed to Capitol but able to preview hit songs as the co-host of label founder Johnny Mercer's radio program, Stafford hit the charts with the mid-'40s songs "Long Ago (And Far Away)," "I Love You," and "Candy." The latter, a duet with Mercer and the Pied Pipers, became her first number one. In 1948, her duet with Gordon MacRae on "My Darling, My Darling" became her second. She later moved to Columbia and recorded the two biggest hits of her career, 1952's "You Belong to Me" and 1954's "Make Love to Me." Stafford gained her own television program during the mid-'50s, and also recorded the first LP by Jonathan & Darlene Edwards, American Popular Songs. (It wasn't the first time Stafford had used a pseudonym, however; in 1947, she billed herself as Cinderella G. Stump to record a cover of the cornpone single "Temptation [Tim-Tay-Shun].") Though she slipped from the charts in the late '50s and retired from performance, Stafford continued to record for many years and issued the LP Getting Sentimental Over Tommy Dorsey on Reprise in 1963. She also founded Corinthian Records, with Weston, to reissue the couple's various recordings. --- John Bush, allmusic.com

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1. Just squeeze me 
2. For you  
3. Midnight sun 
4. You’d be so nice to come home to 
5. The folks who live on the hill 
6. I didn’t know about you  
7. What can i say after i say i’m sorry?  
8. Dream of you  
9. Imagination  
10. S’posin’ 
11. Day dream 
12. I’ve got the world on a string

- Jo Stafford - vocals
- Don Fagerquist - trumpet
- Conte Candoli - trumpet
- Ray Nance - trumpet
- Lawrence Brown - trombone
- Johnny Hodges - alto sax
- Harry Carney - bass sax
- Ben Webster - tenor sax
- Jimmy Rowles - piano
- Russ Freeman - celeste
- Bob Gibbons - guitar
- Joe Mondragon - bass
- Mel Lewis - drums
- Shelly Manne - drums
- Johnny Mandel - arranger, conductor 

The closest Stafford ever came to being a jazz singer. This early '60s release had instrumental touches and a jazz tone, and Stafford sang with more energy and less gimmickry. ---Ron Wynn, Rovi

When remembering Jo Stafford, many musicians cite her purity. The term not only refers to Stafford’s clear voice, but to the musical mind that controlled it. Stafford’s advanced harmonic knowledge and precise intonation allowed her to sing passages that would defeat a lesser vocalist (and to hear her satirize lesser vocalists, check out the hilarious recordings she made under the names Cinderella G. Stump and Darlene Edwards). In one of his last interviews, Lester Young included her among his favorite singers, and while she never claimed to be a jazz vocalist, Stafford showed her affinity to jazz in her albums “Once Over Lightly” (with Art Van Damme), “Ballad of the Blues” and “Do I Hear A Waltz” (both with her husband, Paul Weston) and in a wonderful jam session with Ella Fitzgerald from Benny Goodman’s first “Swing Into Spring” television special.

However, Stafford’s finest jazz album was the 1960 Columbia LP, “Jo + Jazz”. Surrounded by an all-star band which combined stars from the Ellington band (Johnny Hodges, Ben Webster, Harry Carney, Lawrence Brown and Ray Nance) and the West Coast jazz scene (Jimmy Rowles, Don Fagerquist, Conte Candoli, Russ Freeman, Joe Mondragon, Shelly Manne and Mel Lewis), Stafford sings in a light, attractive tone, swinging gently, and creating definitive performances. The band was arranged and conducted by Johnny Mandel, and the play list includes three gems from the Ellington book (“Just Squeeze Me”, “Day Dream” and “I Didn’t Know About You”), big band era classics (“For You”, “Dream of You”, “S’posin’” and “What Can I Say After I Say I’m Sorry”), standards (“You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To”, “I’ve Got The World On A String” and “The Folks Who Live on the Hill”) and jazz-inspired songs (“Midnight Sun” and “Imagination”).

The joys of this album come in the small details: the way Stafford gently imitates Hodges’ scooping sound on “Just Squeeze Me”, the creamy sound of her voice on “Day Dream”, the sincerity as she sings the long lines of “For You”, her lazy, reflective rendition of “I Didn’t Know About You”, and her seemingly effortless reading of the descending chromatic line on “Midnight Sun”. One senses the respect Stafford has for her material. She can perform a song like “Folks Who Live on the Hill” with an elegant simplicity and let the message of the lyrics carry the listener along. On the other hand, she creates a soaring melodic variation on “What Can I Say” that represents a distinct improvement over the original. Webster played on several vocal albums during this period, and his big breathy sound is present on nearly every cut. Rowles and Fagerquist perform delightful solos as well, but my favorite touch is another small detail—the rumbling bass clarinet of Harry Carney that spices several of Mandel’s arrangements. (This might be the best place to note Tim Weston’s superb re-mixing of the album for the Corinthian CD release, which offers a better mix of instrumental colors and vocals than the original Columbia LP).

We could have had many more albums like “Jo + Jazz”. By the end of the 1960s, Stafford’s pitch was starting to fail her (no doubt exacerbated by her long addiction to cigarettes) and she effectively retired from singing. A few years later, Carl Jefferson of Concord Records offered Stafford a contract, but the singer decided not to accept it due to her personal dissatisfaction with her voice and her reluctance to tour again (the same offer was accepted by Rosemary Clooney). “Jo + Jazz” stands as one of the finest vocal jazz albums ever recorded. It is also a fascinating glimpse of what Jo Stafford might have been, but rarely was: a true jazz singer. ---Thomas Cunniffe, jazzhistoryonline.com

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A1 	Abide With Me
A2 	Lead Kindly Light
A3 	In The Garden
A4 	Nearer My God To Thee
B1 	Rock Of Ages
B2 	Battle Hymn Of The Republic
B3 	He Leadeth Me
B4 	The Old Rugged Cross

Vocals [Sung By] – Jo Stafford 
Accompanied By – Paul Weston, The Ravenscroft Quartet 

Jo Stafford 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.

Songs of Faith is a collection of hymns and inspirational songs.

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