Jo Stafford began her career in the World War 11 era. Simply put, I think she was the finest female singers ever. One reason was that she was blessed with perfect pitch. You can pick it up, her vocals matched the notes of her selections. Jo Stafford was loved by the infantry, they called her GI Jo. The new CBS Records signed her then and she proceeded to sell 25 million records. No devices, DVD;s laptops then. The Duprees, a rock group later on had a hit with You Belongto Meone of Joe Stafford
The melody to this song is severely challenging to my sense of relative pitch; the pesky notes wander all over the place! Just when I think I can hum it, I find I can't remember exactly where it goes next. Oh, well, I guess I'll just have to listen to Jo Stafford sing it again (no hardship there!).
To appreciate any "art", music or performance you need consider opinions are opinions; preferences are preferences. Billie Holiday's voice was suited for bluesy, melodramatic type songs. Jo Stafford stands out on lighter serene tunes. Labeling artists as "better" is a moot point. Their style stands alone and is what it is. If a rose is better than a daisy, it depends on the eye of the beholder. To appreciate any art one must realize the only comparison is its affect on you, the beholder.
this song is so magnificent and jo stafford is a goddess , oh to have someone in front of a fireplace in the fall and to listen to this song . that would be heaven !!!! thank you !!!!
This is one of my favorite singers. They should be playing more of her songs. This is the way songs were meant to be sung. She had perfect breath control and a smooth silky voice. She could also sing more than just a few notes as most of the singers of today have just a few. Most of the singers of today just belt out songs and pay no attention to what they are singing.
being familiar with jo stafford, i was not aware of her range and delivery of a good song like autum in n.y or '' haunted heart'' this is waht made american music so rich i will miss her and her music , thank god for these captured memories on you-tube
Jo Stafford is the great aunt of Laurie Deane, who has a voice just like her Aunt Jo. If you ever get a chance to hear Laurie Deane in person, don't miss it!!! There are videos on YouTube of Laurie, but none of them have the sound quality that does her voice justice. Laurie is amazing, voice of an angel, her Aunt Jo.
This song reminds me of why I love a bygone era, an era I wish I could have grown up in. Jo Stafford was a tremendous talent who handled everything with a great deal of class. This song puts me in such a happy mood. It's so warm and romantic.
each rendition has its own special meaning. i love sarah vaughn's version though heavily embellished. this song is best with the least orchestration, i think, owing to the melody and obeisance to a special place
When I heard Jo Stafford growing up, I ignored her. She was white bread. She didn't rock-n-roll. Listening to the same songs all these years later, I realize what a great artist she was. Her material is simple and pure. Nothing fancy, but perfectly phrased. I can listen to her again and again. She was not jazz, but she was in a class with Billie and Dinah.
For god's sake, macintosser (what an appropriate name) leave Beyonce alone! If you don't like her singing, fine, but don't go saying that she can't sing- it makes you look like a fool.
Jo Stafford cut her teeth singing with big bands and harmonizing with the Pied Pipers and it shows. A very classy and professional singer who seemingly could make any song sound good. Nowadays, even the best singers seem to be only about showing off and vocal one-upsmanship. Jo just sang it beautifully and simply, the way the songwriter wrote it, while doing full justice to the lyrics. I love her voice and have great respect for the way she handled her career .
Hi Andy... I agree... but... not only are singers nowadays just basically all round of a very low calibre, the seem to have zilch star-quality and ability to capture an audience...
Can you imagine Beyoncé or Britney Speers on stage without dancers or big props or back-projections?
It would amount to nothing. They'd be LOST on a stage...
Even en very bad singer such as Marlene Dietrich, who always sounded like a drunk sailor, would command atttention... no movements... no danceroutines...
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Beyonce? Say what you will about the pomp and circumstance of her pop persona, but Beyonce is one of the greatest voices ever. To say she can sing is a grand understatement. She can do this and more.
Apart from Liz Fraser, singers who slide three notes up or down each vowel are really annoying. When they look like bedraggled prostitutes with skirts no longer than a thread is wide and one can practically read the words their labia are "mouthing", writhing and gyrating with spastic backingdancers, and each consonant triggers a pelvic thrust, I think any person like that warrants my loathing.
Beyoncé is not about artistry, she's about shifting units: a corporate whore, monetary superlatives.
Wow. You must be deaf on top of rude, because Beyonce can do what Jo Stafford did vocally, twofold. Just because this is 2009, and it's a different scene..anyway, you obviously have no knowledge of modern pop music. There is an artistry to a lot of it. Not all of it, a lot of it is pure garbage, but the likes of Beyonce=artistry. Just because your from a different era, apparentl, doesn't give you the right to insult anyone (i.e. whore) Sit down.
Oh dear... as well as having poor taste, you also seem to lack the ability to read. Though somehow, you do write a lot. But so did Barbara Cartland.
As for sitting down, I usually do when at my lovely 17" matte screen Mac Book Pro to write replies to naff amoeba.
And no matter how many units Beyoncé shifts, I can't help but lament the fact she was not in that plane with that other slutty singer, Aaliyah or in Lisa Lopez' car when it crashed, preferably with Mariah Carey and Jennifer Hopeless.
I don't know why you resorted to that. To mock another's death is sub-human. Good day. Oh, and I came looking for Jo Stafford, so poor taste? Ok.. Good day.
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What is it with you, sad c•nt... always telling others what to do? I mean, I don't tell you to go and suck a dog's c*ck, now, do I? Oops... I have now.
This reminds me of when my mother had the radio on when she was doing her iroining, at our apartment in Astoria at 33-10 33rd Street. Back around 1946-1948. Lovely sounds from the radio. How happy I am still alive to listen to this classic!
My parents met when they worked at Pilot Radio in Queens, New York where they made the radios. In the late 1930s. I was born in 1943 and I remember the old radios with the tubes and the old dials. Listened to those wonderful sounds coming from the radio.
Not the same anymore. Frankieheartsful is right, You were forced to use your imagination. And life was simpler then.
No need to compare Stafford to Holiday. They are different interpretations, and both versions are superb. However, if pressed to make a choice it's the incomparable Stafford masterpiece I will choose every time. Somehow, the smoke gets in my eyes every time I listen to it.
The great Jo Stafford. She was the favorite of the GIs far from home. It's almost as if she's not singing. It's as if she just opens her mouth and releases that beautiful voice.
what a song when - we did not have to lock our doors, or worrie about crime on the streets. geez if only we could go back to this music and those days.
Have heard many versions of this song. Jo Staffords is absolutely brillant, just love it, like I heard this song for the first time. Thank you for posting this masterpiece.
Stafford's rendition is probabally more beautiful and romantically rendered. But be warned, don't listen to Holiday's version at 2 am after a bad break up with whiskey in you.
yes, there's no question that billie holiday's autumn in new york is a masterpiece. i still dig jo stafford's work though especially her versions of "haunted heart" and "you belong to me".
While Jo Stafford's rendition is beautifully rendered, IMHO Billie Holiday's version with Oscar Peterson is superior. At times the fragility and tenderness of her voice is almost too painful to listen to. That being said, Stafford's rendition of "Your Belong to Me" is like no other!
Jo Stafford singing straight out of her heart about the greatest city in the world. What more could you ask? Her voice is peaches and cream and filled with sadness and longing. What a ineffably sweet interpretation!
@doctorcropcircles Blasphemy? Are you serious? You're so politically correct you can't say you prefer Jo Stafford over Billie Holiday just because Holiday is.....black!?! I NEVER could stand Billie Holiday. I don't like the sound of her voice or her style. Yuk!
@anearforbaby Oh please.....how old are you....seven? What is it about the phrase "politically correct" that you don't understand? Go listen to the Billie Holiday version of this song and if you can get through the whole song, you get two stars for the day. Now listen to the Jo Stafford version. OK, now will you please tell me how it could possibly be considered "blasphemy" to prefer the Stafford version over the Holiday version?
BTW, since you are apparently unaware of the meaning of "politically correct", let me enlighten you on the meaning of blasphemy...."Blasphemous language expressing disrespect for God or for something sacred." Billie Holiday is certainly NOT God and her "singing" is anything but sacred. So where would "doctorcropcircles" get the idea that preferring a version other than Billie Holiday's was blasphemy? Come on, think for yourself, don't make me have to explain it to you.
@rek550 I still have no idea why you said "You're so politically correct you can't say you prefer Jo Stafford over Billie Holiday just because Holiday is.....black!?!" All doctorcropcircles was doing was acknowledging that he/she believes Billie Holiday to be extremely well liked and considered by many to be one of the best. Sure blasphemy is probably an overstatement, but either way it has literally nothing to do with race, which is all my comment was saying.
wow! makes me nostaligic for the place I was born.
morna45 1 month ago
Jo Stafford began her career in the World War 11 era. Simply put, I think she was the finest female singers ever. One reason was that she was blessed with perfect pitch. You can pick it up, her vocals matched the notes of her selections. Jo Stafford was loved by the infantry, they called her GI Jo. The new CBS Records signed her then and she proceeded to sell 25 million records. No devices, DVD;s laptops then. The Duprees, a rock group later on had a hit with You Belongto Meone of Joe Stafford
JayAdlerComment 1 month ago
The melody to this song is severely challenging to my sense of relative pitch; the pesky notes wander all over the place! Just when I think I can hum it, I find I can't remember exactly where it goes next. Oh, well, I guess I'll just have to listen to Jo Stafford sing it again (no hardship there!).
GuinnevereB 1 month ago
One of the loveliest recordings Jo ever made
scotnick59 3 months ago
ﾄﾐｰ･ﾄﾞｰｼｰ楽団の歌姫、ｼﾞｮｰ･ｽﾀｯﾌｫｰﾄﾞ"ﾆｭｰﾖｰｸの秋”～美しいヴｪﾙﾍﾞｯﾄ･ﾉﾝ･ヴｨﾌﾞﾗｰﾄ #jazzm
blackandtanful 4 months ago
Dreamy song...wonderful Manhattan in the 50...miss you.
minotauresse 5 months ago
She had perfect pitch
pattigee1 5 months ago
To appreciate any "art", music or performance you need consider opinions are opinions; preferences are preferences. Billie Holiday's voice was suited for bluesy, melodramatic type songs. Jo Stafford stands out on lighter serene tunes. Labeling artists as "better" is a moot point. Their style stands alone and is what it is. If a rose is better than a daisy, it depends on the eye of the beholder. To appreciate any art one must realize the only comparison is its affect on you, the beholder.
kweju3 7 months ago
this song is so magnificent and jo stafford is a goddess , oh to have someone in front of a fireplace in the fall and to listen to this song . that would be heaven !!!! thank you !!!!
bearcub410 11 months ago 2
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL RECORDING...
moodindigo22 1 year ago
Is the only song that she recorded both as Jo Stafford and as Darlene Edwards?
MrRicksStudio 1 year ago
She makes my heart beat faster. What an amazing voice. I need to find some of the original stuff by Jonathan and Darlene Edwards.
martinaxman 1 year ago
anybody ever mixed up this song with "Moonlight in Vermont" ?
ftjax 1 year ago
Bellissima!!!!!!!
PABLOPABLO76 1 year ago
Ich mag Frank Sinatra's Leid aber ich lieber diesen Song.
SnowBlind853 1 year ago
Jo can really do no wrong can she?
SnowBlind853 1 year ago 2
Jo Stafford had such a lovely rich voice.
operalover41 1 year ago
This is one of my favorite singers. They should be playing more of her songs. This is the way songs were meant to be sung. She had perfect breath control and a smooth silky voice. She could also sing more than just a few notes as most of the singers of today have just a few. Most of the singers of today just belt out songs and pay no attention to what they are singing.
063637981 1 year ago 2
Just lovely! Like New York City itself this song is sweet, urbane, sophisticated, and romantic.
buddmar 1 year ago 4
being familiar with jo stafford, i was not aware of her range and delivery of a good song like autum in n.y or '' haunted heart'' this is waht made american music so rich i will miss her and her music , thank god for these captured memories on you-tube
jvmoley 1 year ago
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Jo Stafford is the great aunt of Laurie Deane, who has a voice just like her Aunt Jo. If you ever get a chance to hear Laurie Deane in person, don't miss it!!! There are videos on YouTube of Laurie, but none of them have the sound quality that does her voice justice. Laurie is amazing, voice of an angel, her Aunt Jo.
AskDrJo 1 year ago
This song reminds me of why I love a bygone era, an era I wish I could have grown up in. Jo Stafford was a tremendous talent who handled everything with a great deal of class. This song puts me in such a happy mood. It's so warm and romantic.
jazzandmint 1 year ago
each rendition has its own special meaning. i love sarah vaughn's version though heavily embellished. this song is best with the least orchestration, i think, owing to the melody and obeisance to a special place
bogohoboho 1 year ago
When I heard Jo Stafford growing up, I ignored her. She was white bread. She didn't rock-n-roll. Listening to the same songs all these years later, I realize what a great artist she was. Her material is simple and pure. Nothing fancy, but perfectly phrased. I can listen to her again and again. She was not jazz, but she was in a class with Billie and Dinah.
MROSEN62 1 year ago
Elegant ... eloquent ... satin smooth .... perfect vocal control . All hallmarks of my FAVORITE female singer of all time !
Thanks for posting !
Cheers !
Dave
bud21s 1 year ago 2
Wow, I've never heard of this lady before, but this is wonderful!
1joker88 1 year ago
For god's sake, macintosser (what an appropriate name) leave Beyonce alone! If you don't like her singing, fine, but don't go saying that she can't sing- it makes you look like a fool.
And using expletives..? How old are you?
antoniodcz 2 years ago
Jo Stafford cut her teeth singing with big bands and harmonizing with the Pied Pipers and it shows. A very classy and professional singer who seemingly could make any song sound good. Nowadays, even the best singers seem to be only about showing off and vocal one-upsmanship. Jo just sang it beautifully and simply, the way the songwriter wrote it, while doing full justice to the lyrics. I love her voice and have great respect for the way she handled her career .
andyb2707 2 years ago 22
Hi Andy... I agree... but... not only are singers nowadays just basically all round of a very low calibre, the seem to have zilch star-quality and ability to capture an audience...
Can you imagine Beyoncé or Britney Speers on stage without dancers or big props or back-projections?
It would amount to nothing. They'd be LOST on a stage...
Even en very bad singer such as Marlene Dietrich, who always sounded like a drunk sailor, would command atttention... no movements... no danceroutines...
macintosser 2 years ago
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Beyonce? Say what you will about the pomp and circumstance of her pop persona, but Beyonce is one of the greatest voices ever. To say she can sing is a grand understatement. She can do this and more.
raaliyahent01 2 years ago
Apart from Liz Fraser, singers who slide three notes up or down each vowel are really annoying. When they look like bedraggled prostitutes with skirts no longer than a thread is wide and one can practically read the words their labia are "mouthing", writhing and gyrating with spastic backingdancers, and each consonant triggers a pelvic thrust, I think any person like that warrants my loathing.
Beyoncé is not about artistry, she's about shifting units: a corporate whore, monetary superlatives.
macintosser 2 years ago
Wow. You must be deaf on top of rude, because Beyonce can do what Jo Stafford did vocally, twofold. Just because this is 2009, and it's a different scene..anyway, you obviously have no knowledge of modern pop music. There is an artistry to a lot of it. Not all of it, a lot of it is pure garbage, but the likes of Beyonce=artistry. Just because your from a different era, apparentl, doesn't give you the right to insult anyone (i.e. whore) Sit down.
raaliyahent01 2 years ago
Oh dear... as well as having poor taste, you also seem to lack the ability to read. Though somehow, you do write a lot. But so did Barbara Cartland.
As for sitting down, I usually do when at my lovely 17" matte screen Mac Book Pro to write replies to naff amoeba.
And no matter how many units Beyoncé shifts, I can't help but lament the fact she was not in that plane with that other slutty singer, Aaliyah or in Lisa Lopez' car when it crashed, preferably with Mariah Carey and Jennifer Hopeless.
macintosser 2 years ago
I don't know why you resorted to that. To mock another's death is sub-human. Good day. Oh, and I came looking for Jo Stafford, so poor taste? Ok.. Good day.
raaliyahent01 2 years ago
*Yawn*
macintosser 2 years ago
Grow up.
raaliyahent01 2 years ago
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What is it with you, sad c•nt... always telling others what to do? I mean, I don't tell you to go and suck a dog's c*ck, now, do I? Oops... I have now.
macintosser 2 years ago
@macintosser
Who on earth is this macintosser individual who is trying so hard to make a fool of himself?
02stv 1 year ago
@macintosser
I agree about Liz Fraser, she's a craftsperson, whereas folks like Christina Aguilera are... athletes?
beowulven 1 year ago
@macintosser I think you are so right with out the voice altering they would sound like crap
shelly05 2 years ago
the city has its ups and downs but this is one of the reasons we live here. remember wnew the greatest ny radio station that ever was.
neweast1 2 years ago 3
This reminds me of when my mother had the radio on when she was doing her iroining, at our apartment in Astoria at 33-10 33rd Street. Back around 1946-1948. Lovely sounds from the radio. How happy I am still alive to listen to this classic!
janicesoprano 2 years ago
Wasn't radio great? You were forced to use your imagination which was so invigorating. TV is for lazy minds.
frankieheartsful 2 years ago
My parents met when they worked at Pilot Radio in Queens, New York where they made the radios. In the late 1930s. I was born in 1943 and I remember the old radios with the tubes and the old dials. Listened to those wonderful sounds coming from the radio.
Not the same anymore. Frankieheartsful is right, You were forced to use your imagination. And life was simpler then.
janicesoprano 2 years ago
Remember the 'Jack Benny Show," "I Remember Mama," "Life With Luigi," and many more. I agree that life was much simpler then.
frankieheartsful 2 years ago
Boy what a dame!;>
iuliusCamillus 2 years ago 3
It's as though GOD himself had reserved this song for her. Such purity of sound. Like watching Secretariat run.
frankieheartsful 2 years ago
No need to compare Stafford to Holiday. They are different interpretations, and both versions are superb. However, if pressed to make a choice it's the incomparable Stafford masterpiece I will choose every time. Somehow, the smoke gets in my eyes every time I listen to it.
LazydogRex 2 years ago
The great Jo Stafford. She was the favorite of the GIs far from home. It's almost as if she's not singing. It's as if she just opens her mouth and releases that beautiful voice.
trajan75 2 years ago
My soul friend lives in NY!
donnahide 2 years ago
Thank you my friend...
looshous 2 years ago
What a time in America. Things were MUCH better back then. We will never return to these days again. What a shame
friscolobo 2 years ago 5
i only wish i lived in those great times. the sailor kissing that lady in times sq in sept 1945. that was america.
peteboy1113 2 years ago
what a song when - we did not have to lock our doors, or worrie about crime on the streets. geez if only we could go back to this music and those days.
peteboy1113 2 years ago
My favorite version of this great song-every song that Jo Stafford recorded is the BEST version of that song!! :-)
ukcatfan36 2 years ago
Have heard many versions of this song. Jo Staffords is absolutely brillant, just love it, like I heard this song for the first time. Thank you for posting this masterpiece.
ultimategamer789 2 years ago
Stafford's rendition is probabally more beautiful and romantically rendered. But be warned, don't listen to Holiday's version at 2 am after a bad break up with whiskey in you.
eecortese 2 years ago
I prefer this version over Holiday's. Very nice, thanks
davidaud777 2 years ago
yes, there's no question that billie holiday's autumn in new york is a masterpiece. i still dig jo stafford's work though especially her versions of "haunted heart" and "you belong to me".
branchwater7 2 years ago
While Jo Stafford's rendition is beautifully rendered, IMHO Billie Holiday's version with Oscar Peterson is superior. At times the fragility and tenderness of her voice is almost too painful to listen to. That being said, Stafford's rendition of "Your Belong to Me" is like no other!
eecortese 2 years ago
i love this song and jo stafford too, fantastic
bearcub410 2 years ago 3
Jo Stafford singing straight out of her heart about the greatest city in the world. What more could you ask? Her voice is peaches and cream and filled with sadness and longing. What a ineffably sweet interpretation!
Tomflute 3 years ago 2
I actually prefer this to Billie. i know this will seem like blasphemy to some, but I just think it's more romantic.
doctorcropcircles 3 years ago 18
I completely agree.
StainedGlassJewel 3 years ago 3
@doctorcropcircles :
Jo just too cool to be romantic. She was professional singer.
67maximov 1 year ago
@doctorcropcircles Blasphemy? Are you serious? You're so politically correct you can't say you prefer Jo Stafford over Billie Holiday just because Holiday is.....black!?! I NEVER could stand Billie Holiday. I don't like the sound of her voice or her style. Yuk!
rek550 1 year ago
@rek550 why the hell are you reading race into his comment?
anearforbaby 1 year ago
@anearforbaby Oh please.....how old are you....seven? What is it about the phrase "politically correct" that you don't understand? Go listen to the Billie Holiday version of this song and if you can get through the whole song, you get two stars for the day. Now listen to the Jo Stafford version. OK, now will you please tell me how it could possibly be considered "blasphemy" to prefer the Stafford version over the Holiday version?
rek550 1 year ago
BTW, since you are apparently unaware of the meaning of "politically correct", let me enlighten you on the meaning of blasphemy...."Blasphemous language expressing disrespect for God or for something sacred." Billie Holiday is certainly NOT God and her "singing" is anything but sacred. So where would "doctorcropcircles" get the idea that preferring a version other than Billie Holiday's was blasphemy? Come on, think for yourself, don't make me have to explain it to you.
rek550 1 year ago
@rek550 I still have no idea why you said "You're so politically correct you can't say you prefer Jo Stafford over Billie Holiday just because Holiday is.....black!?!" All doctorcropcircles was doing was acknowledging that he/she believes Billie Holiday to be extremely well liked and considered by many to be one of the best. Sure blasphemy is probably an overstatement, but either way it has literally nothing to do with race, which is all my comment was saying.
anearforbaby 1 year ago
@rek550 I like Billie but she just didn't have the pipes for this number.
AllBobsAllTheTime 5 months ago
One of her better tunes. I wonder who arranged this? Nice to hear this. Thanks.
scharwenka1850 3 years ago
I can't hear any of work without thinking what a great experience
stanwand 3 years ago
This is nice not as good as billie but its good
shelly05 3 years ago 2