Jo Elizabeth Stafford, the third of four sisters, was born November 12, 1917 on a tract of land known as "Lease 35" in Coalinga,California. Her mother, Anna York Stafford,a distant cousin of World War ...

Jo Stafford, the honey-voiced band singer who starred in radio and television and sold more than 25 million records with her ballads and folks songs, died July 16 of congestive heart failure in Los ...

One night last week, Songstress Jo Stafford walked quietly on to the stage of a Hollywood recording studio, said hello to the band musicians, gave her husband—Bandleader Paul Weston—a quick kiss and ...

Jo Stafford, the honey-voiced band singer who starred in radio and television and sold more than 25 million records with her ballads and folks songs, died July 16 of congestive heart failure in Los ...

This week, our spotlight is on one of the finest and most underrated female vocalists from the war years, Jo Stafford. Stafford had one of the purest vocal sounds of any of the great songbook singers, ...

The Jo Stafford Show is a 15-minute musical variety program which aired on CBS in prime time in the 1954–1955 television season. Jo Stafford began her solo singing career after success with the big ...

There was a time in the late-1940s and early '50s when Jo Stafford was America's most popular female singer, eventually matched only by Ella Fitzgerald. The maternal warmth of Stafford's voice, her ...

Jo Stafford, the honey-voiced band singer who starred in radio and television and sold more than 25 million records with her ballads and folks songs, has died. She was 90. By The Associated Press Jo ...