Title:
Sincerely
Yours
Artist:
Jo
Stafford
Catalogue
No:
SEPIA
1068
Barcode:
5055122110682
Release
Date:
2
May
2006
The
lovely
voice
of
Jo
Stafford
reigned
over
airwaves
for
most
of
the
1940s
and
1950s
with
favourites
like
You
Belong
To
Me,
Whispering
Hope,
Shrimp
Boats,
Make
Love
To
Me,
Jambalaya,
all
million-sellers.
So
popular
was
she
that
Columbia
Records
gave
her
a
Diamond
Award
as
the
first
recording
artist
to
sell
25,000,000
records.
Her
hits
have
appeared
on
many
compilation
“Best
Of”
CDs,
but
a
huge
number
of
her
lesser
known
recordings
are
still
unavailable
and
the
main
purpose
of
this
CD
release
is
to
fill
a
few
of
those
gaps,
and
in
doing
so,
to
illustrate
just
what
a
wide
range
of
musical
styles
she
covered.
Many
of
the
30
tracks
here
are
making
their
first
re-appearance
since
their
initial
release
-
and
one
or
two
have
not
been
previously
available
in
the
UK
in
any
form
whatsoever.
Jo’s
famous
sense
of
humour
comes
over
extremely
well
in
the
madcap
follow-up
to
the
million-selling
Tim-Tay-Shun
when
she
again
duets,
in
the
disguise
of
Cinderella
G.
Stump,
with
Red
Ingle
on
Prisoner
Of
Love’s
Song,
and
she
adopts
a
similar
twang
on
The
Travelling
Salesman
Polka,
her
one
and
only
duet
with
country
singer
Tex
Williams.
Her
most
regular
singing
partner
was
Gordon
MacRae
and
the
two
tracks
they
share
here
(Juanita,
Sweet
And
Low)
have
been
neglected
for
far
too
long,
as
have
the
three
sacred
songs,
It
Is
Springtime,
Each
Step
Of
The
Way
and
The
Lord
Is
My
Shepherd.
Blue
Moon
has
cropped
up
on
many
Jo
Stafford
CDs
but
these
have
either
been
the
lengthy
V-Disc
version
or
that
recorded
for
Reader’s
Digest
so
its
good
to
hear
her
1952
effort
here
on
CD
for
the
first
time
along
with
Dancing
On
The
Ceiling
and
Blue
Skies.
We
have
also
included
the
rare
House
Party
“live”
recording
supposedly
made
at
the
home
of
Jo
and
Paul
Weston
where
we
get
to
hear
Jo
in
an
informal
setting
entertaining
guests
Frankie
Laine,
Liberace
and
Dave
Brubeck.
This
release,
including
as
it
does,
comedy,
country,
religious
material,
show
tunes,
pop
songs,
standards,
novelty
and
much
more,
is
proof
that
Jo
Stafford
definitely
deserves
the
description
“America’s
most
versatile
singing
star”.
