Jo Stafford - But Not For Me 1956

But Not For Me by Jo Stafford with the Art Van Damme Quintet
Recorded September 30, 1956 released in 1957. Columbia CL 968
B side of A Foggy Day


Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917 July 16, 2008) was an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards whose career spanned the late 1930s through 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.

Married Band Leader Paul Weston in 1952

In 1966, Stafford went into semi-retirement, retiring completely from the music business in 1975. Except for the 1977 Jonathan and Darlene Edwards version of "Stayin' Alive," Stafford wouldn't perform again until 1990, at a ceremony honoring Frank Sinatra.
Stafford won a breach-of-contract lawsuit against her former record label in the early 1990s, which won her the rights to all of her old recordings, including the Jonathan and Darlene recordings. Following the lawsuit, Stafford, along with son Tim, reactivated the Corinthian Record label which began life as a religious label the deeply religious Paul Weston had started. With Paul Weston's help, she compiled a pair of Best of Jonathan and Darlene albums, which were released in 1993. In 1996, Paul Weston died of natural causes. Stafford continued to operate Corinthian Records. In 2006, she donated her library and her husband's to the University of Arizona.
She died in Century City, California of congestive heart failure on July 16, 2008 at the age of 90.



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[Rooob2541]

What?!!!! A Jo Stafford posting with less than 5 stars? Waaaz up with that? Simply rendered and typical purity of voice.

[Corrie121]

Jo Stafford sing this great Gershwin song is the "tops". Can't get better.

Thanks for sharing.

[HOUNDDAWG]

@rallful Very good and thank you.

[rallful]

@HOUNDDAWG This is from the album 'Once Over Lightly'. I have been looking for a CD of it for years but I only have a scratchy second hand vinyl, from the US, courtesy of Amazon. There is no producer credit on the sleeve or the disc.

[HOUNDDAWG]

@Jazzwayze "Less corny", huh? That's an astute observation because Mitch Miller was probably the producer/arranger for Jo Stafford during this session (and many others) and he was criticized severely by the likes of Frank Sinatra for that very thing-corny studio session ideas.

[sanoubartha]

Een unieke stem zoals velen in de laatste 60 jaar.

dit komt nooit meer terug.mooie nostalgie.einde van een era.!

ollie.

[Patrickphx11]

So very nice.when Hearing this with a Lover in ones Arms on a cold Night...

[birdflew377]

I love Jo Stafford, she put her soul in her music. Very popular during during WW11, known as GI JO. Alot of our fallen Hero's loved her, she brought a taste of home to them. Dorned their lockers, as their pin up gal, love ya Jo!!!!