1940-1950 Yes Indeed!

Product Details

Artist : Jo Stafford
Format : Best of, Box set
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0604988993622
Label : Proper Box
Number of Discs : 4
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2007-12-20
UPC : 604988993622

ASIN : B00005TO19

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Jo Stafford
2. Little Man With a Candy Cigar - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Jo Stafford
3. For You - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Jo Stafford
4. Yes, Indeed! - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Jo Stafford
5. Swingin' on Nothing - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Jo Stafford
6. Let's Just Pretend - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Jo Stafford
7. Who Can I Turn To? - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Jo Stafford
8. It Isn't a Dream Anymore - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Jo Stafford
9. Embraceable You - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Jo Stafford
10. Blues in the Night - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Jo Stafford
11. Night We Called It a Day - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Jo Stafford
12. Manhattan Serenade - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Jo Stafford
13. You Can Depend on Me - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Jo Stafford
14. Old Acquaintance
15. How Sweet You Are
16. Too Marvelous for Words
17. I Remember You
18. It Could Happen to You
19. Long Ago (And Far Away)
20. I Love You
21. Trolley Song
22. Amor, Amor
23. Day After Forever
24. I Didn't Know About You

Disc-2
1. Tumbling Tumbleweeds
2. Conversation While Dancing
3. On the Sunny Side of the Street
4. Let's Take the Long Way Home
5. I'll Be Seeing You
6. Candy
7. There's No You
8. That's for Me
9. Symphony
10. Day by Day
11. Boy Next Door
12. Over the Rainbow
13. Walkin' My Baby Back Home
14. Sometimes I'm Happy
15. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
16. Ridin' on the Gravy Train
17. I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time
18. This Is Always
19. I've Never Forgotten
20. You Keep Coming Back Like a Song
21. Things We Did Last Summer
22. Fools Rush In
23. Sunday Kind of Love
24. Ivy
25. Temptation (Tim-Tayshun) - Red Ingle, , Jo Stafford

Disc-3
1. Almost Like Being in Love
2. Smoke Dreams - Jo Stafford, The Starlighters
3. I'm So Right Tonight
4. Love and the Weather
5. Feudin' and a Fightin' - Jo Stafford, The Starlighters, Paul Weston
6. When You Got a Man on Your Mind
7. Stanley Steamer
8. Serenade of the Bells
9. Gentleman Is a Dope
10. Sugar
11. Autumn in New York
12. He's Gone Away
13. Best Things in Life Are Free
14. I Never Loved Anyone
15. Once and for Always
16. Roses of Picardy
17. Just One of Those Things
18. Through the Years
19. In the Still of the Night
20. Haunted Heart
21. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
22. Better Luck Next Time
23. This Is the Moment
24. Congratulations
25. Make Believe

Disc-4
1. If I Loved You
2. Suspicion - Jo Stafford, The Starlighters, Paul Weston
3. Clabberin' up for Rain - Jo Stafford, The Starlighters, Paul Weston
4. Trouble in Mind
5. By the Way
6. My Darling, My Darling
7. Just Reminiscin'
8. On the Alamo
9. Always True to You in My Fashion
10. "A" You're Adorable (The Alphabet Song)
11. Why Can't You Behave?
12. Some Enchanted Evening
13. Whispering Hope
14. Last Mile Home
15. Ragtime Cowboy Joe
16. If I Ever Love Again
17. Red River Valley
18. Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair)
19. It's Great to Be Alive
20. Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
21. When April Comes Again
22. Simple Melody - Jo Stafford, The Starlighters, Paul Weston's Dixie Eight
23. No Other Love
24. Autumn Leaves - Harold Mooney, Jo Stafford
25. Vie en Rose - Harold Mooney, Jo Stafford

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Editorial Reviews

From Amazon.co.uk

Jo Stafford was another of those supremely talented popular singers who skirted the fringe of jazz for most of a very successful career. Yes Indeed!, concentrating as it does on her pre-50s recordings (1940-50, to be exact), focuses on an era when the rhythm of jazz and the harmonic and lyric language of the blues was hard to escape, a fact which suited Stafford's proclivities to a T. Like Crosby, Sinatra and just about every other star vocalist to emerge prior to World War II, Stafford came to prominence through an initial involvement in a vocal group: hers was the Pied Pipers, and it was attached to Tommy Dorsey's band. This was during the period that Sinatra was Dorsey's lead male vocalist, so the Pied Pipers were a fixture on the Dorsey-Sinatra records of that time. The Pipers left Dorsey soon after Frankie did, and Stafford went solo soon after that. Signing with Johnny Mercer's fledgling Capitol label in 1943, she launched a solo career that was soon the most successful of any female artist's in that decade. During World War II she became the No. 1 singing sweetheart for US forces overseas and her popularity was sustained right into the 1950s. By then she was married to pianist/arranger Paul Weston, with whom she made many memorable records. Stafford's greatest quality was her combination of a pure tone and perfect intonation. She was also blessed with a sense of rhythmic ease given to few singers in any generation while her general musicianship is second to none. The songs here are mostly deeply romantic and her unadorned interpretations allow the listener to make of them what they wish. This is first-rate popular music that improves with every listen, even if nostalgia (real or by proxy) may be many people's first reason to make its acquaintance. Don't be fooled by the wrapping: this music has a solid centre. --Keith Shadwick

Customer Reviews

Combination of great standards and fine singing (2003-01-04)

Although I understand those who appreciate the songs Ms Stafford made popular in the fifties, it is her singing of the great standards that I find immensely appealing - it is this combination that provides the reason this 4CD set is well worth the investment. In the forties, the "cool" style of female singing reached its apex I believe, along with the domination of the strong female roles in cinema often in FILM NOIR. Such singers as Ms Christy and Ms O'Day kept a distance from the material, even adopting an ironic stance to the lyrics. This "distancing" had its own appeal, and its own sexiness, as we knew that she knew that we knew it's just a song. Although, Ms Stafford is not a stylist of the same level as either of those two singers, she too maintains a distance but has also a "sweeter" voice tinged with a touch of melancholy. But in such songs as AMOR, AMOR and THE TROLLEY SONGthe songs seem written for her. With so many great songs, this collection is a bargain.

1940's pop music at it's best (2002-07-09)

Jo was one of the best singers of her generation, and this box clearly demonstrates that. All the 20 tracks available on the Capitol collectors series CD are included here, plus 79 other tracks, all mastered to the highest quality.

The set covers Jo's entire period with Capitol, so it starts with a few songs featuring Jo as lead singer of the Pied Pipers doing typical big band stuff, but the remaining tracks all feature Jo as solo singer, with an occasional duet. Besides including all the essential hits and a few lesser ones, there are many great covers of classic songs which Jo sings brilliantly. The track listing says it all.

If you enjoy this and you'd like more of Jo's music, I recommend the compilation Jo Stafford on Capitol, which has very little overlap with what's here, and which contains most of the lesser hits that were omitted from this set. I also recommend Jo's fifties music, for which the strongest compilation is Columbia hits collection. If you like the Pied Pipers tracks, there is a compilation just focusing on that music. Jo is well served by CD releases, although there are still some treasures yet to be released on CD.

If you haven't got any of Jo's music, I suggest starting with the Columbia hits collection, then you can decide how much of her forties music you want. If you only want the big hits, the Capitol collectors series will be enough, but if you enjoy it a lot, this is the one to buy - it's about double the price, but has nearly five times as many tracks.

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