Jo Stafford by Claudia Sonea

“I'll be seeing you in all the old familiar places” is ringing in the head of millions of fans of Jo Stafford and her family. She passed away on the 16th of July leaving behind her mourning family, her son Tim Weston of Topanga, her daughter Amy Wells of Calabasas and four grandchildren. At the beautiful age of 90 Jo was stolen from this world by a congestive heart failure, but not without leaving her mark, so that she shall enter in eternity. selling over 25 million records with her ballads and folks songs.
Stafford's life was that of a shinning star and that is what she continues to be even after her death. She was a unique musician who entered the elite group of people able to have a perfect pitch (to identify a note without looking at the instrument that played it). Starting as an opera singer due to economical reasons she turned to another type of music by joining her sister in a popular vocal group called “The Stafford Sisters”. This was the beginning of the wonderful career during which she recorded over 800 songs, hosted TV and radio shows.
Jo Stafford was exactly like her songs romantic, shy and full of humor. She sang with a male group the Pied Pipers (from 1939 to 1944) in ballrooms and majors hotels, but she was striving to reach to radio and she eventually did by joining Tommmy Dorsey band where she met Frank Sinatra who admired her voice. Her solo career was started thanks to Dorsey who gave her "Little Man With a Candy Cigar", a hit record. Than Mercer one of the founder of Capitol Records took care of her by offering her hits like "Candy," "Serenade of the Bells" and "That's for Me". In 1952 she married Paul Weston, the co-founder of Capitol and later her agent, with whom she made the comedy album Jonathan and Darlene Edwards. A second similar album brought them a Grammy in 1960.
"I'll Be Seeing You" is the song who makes me remember her and the lyrics can describe how people feel when they lose someone they love deeply. May God rest her soul!


related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080718/ap_en_ot/obit_stafford;_ylt=AomKAYxpfqxwu8zF.iCUIcSs0NUE

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