Greatest Hits

by Jo Stafford

Overview

Jo Stafford walked the delicate line between jazz and pop as well as any singer in the immediate postwar period, and her smooth, elegant sense of melody always put the song she was singing first, so her vocals seem to glide as effortlessly as air through the arrangements, never drawing undue attention, but always there at the center of things. This set from her Capitol years in the 1940s and early '50s does have a couple of her biggest hits ("You Belong to Me," "Make Love to Me"), and duets with Gordon MacRae ("The Alphabet Song") and Johnny Mercer ("Candy"), as well as a wonderfully balanced and nuanced version of "Scarlet Ribbons," but it's really too brief a collection to be anything more than a teaser. ~ Steve Leggett

Product Details

Release Date:	02/04/1993
Label:	Corinthian
UPC:	0783121210649

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Jo Stafford   Primary Artist,Vocals
Gordon MacRae   Primary Artist
Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers   Primary Artist
Johnny Mercer   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Alan Copeland   Composer
Paul Mason Howard   Composer
Sidney Lippman   Composer
Chilton Price   Composer
Jack Segal   Composer
Georg Brunis   Composer
Oscar Hammerstein II   Composer
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Stan Rhodes   Composer
Gordon MacRae   Performer
Paul Mares   Composer
Paul Weston   Composer
Jack Lawrence   Composer
Evelyn Danzig   Composer
Joan Whitney   Composer
Ben Pollack   Composer
Barbara Belle   Composer
Fred Wise   Composer
Mack David   Composer
Leon Roppolo   Composer
Walter Melrose   Composer
Pee Wee King   Composer
Louis Prima   Composer
Redd Stewart   Composer
Buddy Kaye   Composer
Hank Williams   Composer
Anita Leonard   Composer
Alex Alstone   Composer
Alex Kramer   Composer
Mel Stitzel   Composer
Andre Tabet   Composer
Don Ovens   Liner Notes
Roger Bernstein   Composer
William Norvas   Composer