Friday, July 18, 2008

Jo Stafford 1917 - 2008

Now that I'm officially older than dirt, the folks I remember from my childhood are all moving on.

LATimes

Stafford's solo career began with an inextricable link to the war. A favorite of American soldiers, she was told by a veteran of the Pacific that "the Japanese used to play your records on loudspeakers across from our foxholes so that we'd get homesick and surrender." Not surprisingly, servicemen affectionately referred to her as "GI Jo."



She did a lot of comedy as well. Check this out. Pretty good slide show too.

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