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Lainie Cooke: Speaking to the Heart
by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
When Lainie Cooke sings, the heart sinks in poetry made music; air seems to stop to avoid interrupting the flowing of such a magical, beautiful voice. She fills the barely-noticeable silence between notes with a voice that caresses the heart. Her life has been a jazz-bound adventure inspired by an early need to entertain others, landing ...
It's the Economy, Man!
by Jack Bowers
Even though the present (and future) state of the economy here in the States is no laughing matter, there has been at least one tongue-in-cheek article about jazz musicians seeking bailout money from Congress and the Bush administration (still in power when it was written last December). It's presented as a straight “news" story, but musicians' ...
Jo Stafford, 90; Singer, Recording Artist Entertained GIs During World War II
Jo Stafford, a singer who was a favorite of GIs during World War II and whose recordings made the pop music charts dozens of times in the 1950s, died Sunday of congestive heart failure at her home in Century City. She was 90. According to her son, Tim Weston, she had been in ill health since ...
Jo Stafford, 90; Pop Singer Won a Grammy for Comedy
Jo Stafford, 90, an exceptionally versatile singer who worked with Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey and the Pied Pipers and shared a Grammy Award with her conductor-husband for their parody of a tone-deaf lounge act, died July 16 at her home in Century City, Calif. She had congestive heart failure. Singer Judy Collins once said Ms. Stafford's ...
Jo Stafford
By Jo Stafford
Label: Cocktail Hour
Released: 2001
Track listing: The Trolley Song; Long Ago and Far Away; Let's Just Pretend; You Took My Love; It Could Happen to You; I'll Be Seeing You; Who Can I Turn to?; Blue Moon; I Love You; Manhattan Serenade; It Isn't just a Dream Anymore; This Is Always; Blues in the Night#; In the Still of the Night; Little Man with the Candy Cigar; The Things We Did Last Summer; Too Marvelous for Words; Embraceable You; Candy#; What Is This Thing Called Love; I Remember You; The Night We Called It a Day; Day by Day; For You; Yes Indeed; Baby, Won't You Please Come Home; What'cha Know, Joe?; Sugar (That Sugar Baby O Mine)
Jo Stafford: Jo Stafford
by Dave Nathan
Allegro subsidiary, Cocktail Hour, has been releasing bargain priced two CD sets of some of the great singers of the American Popular Song. One of the more celebrated, Jo Stafford, is represented in that series with a compilation of songs she recorded for Capitol Records during the 1940s before moving over to Columbia where she scored ...
