Jo Stafford - You Belong To Me (Original Remastered)

"You Belong To Me" was originally composed during WW2 by Chilton Price but was reworked and promoted by Pee Wee King and Redd Stewart afterwards so Chilton ceded some of the writing credit to them. The first popular recording of it was by Sue Thompson in the late 1940's followed by a cover from Patti Page, but it was this August, 1952 version by Jo Stafford that captured everyone's ear vaulting the song to #1 in both the US and UK.

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• Belong
• To
• Me

[helios1912]

Nocaro--you have peppered YouTube with beautiful vid productions. The slide show you present here is as well. JS's vocal chops really pour like honey on the remaster. It's a radio hit produced record by that mainstay label, Columbia (now Sony).

Your upload makes me appreciate this song, this performance, all over again.

[Nocaro]

@helios1912 What a kind remark! Thanks.

[michaejlt]

I was born in Oct of 1952. I never thought until now to look back in my birth year to see what was the song hits where...

[Nocaro]

@michaejlt It's interesting to do that especially since today there have been studies that show the effect of music heard by babies while still in the womb. There may be something to that since I do get this warm, fuzzy feeling whenever I hear Perry Como sing "Some Enchanted Evening" which was a hit near the time I was born in 1949.

[dogloverlcp]

Ah, when music was beautiful. Thank you, Mom and Dad, for helping me to appreciate it. This song was my mom's favorite and JS one of her favorite artists.

[waynebrasler]

...but between the Jo Stafford version, the quick Patti Page cover and a cover by Dean Martin Joni's version had no chance. Ironies: Patti Page next covered Joni's "Why Don't You Believe Me," Joni's first hit and a #1 record. Then seven years later Joni herself rerecorded "You Belong To Me" as a rock-a-ballad with a gigantic orchestra at Abbey Road Studios in London. For the flip she re-did "I Need You Now," a song Eddie Fisher had grabbed away before

M-G-M even had time to release it!

[waynebrasler]

The Sue Thompson recording was followed by a recording by JONI JAMES, who discovered the sheet music in the Woods Building music offices in the Chicago Loop. At her first recording session, for Sharp Records, she recorded it. When she was in Detroit for a club engagement, she lent a copy of the dub to someone and the next thing she knew on radio she was hearing the Jo Stafford version. The dub had been brought to Mitch Miller at Columbia. Joni's version was then released on M-G-M Records....

[scarletroseify]

Im 13...and I love this music. I really wish music like this would come back, because quite honestly, today's pop is no good. Especially compared to this...<3

[MinisterAilingTongue]

Gros Bisous! Merci.

[1953airman]

on par with dean martin i like them both

[onewink]

My mom passed away last weekend. My dad, 13 years ago. She missed him terribly. This was "their song." I'm looking at a photo of them and listening to this and just now realizing how very deeply in love they were........................

[theonearmedbandit1]

My God! I was born June 1950 - this song reminds me of my mum and dad dancing round round the ktchen table to this playing on the radio.  Happy days full of beautiful music.!