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Portrait Edition [BOX SET]

Jo Stafford
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Product Details

  • Audio CD (August 30, 1994)
  • Original Release Date: August 30, 1994
  • Number of Discs: 3
  • Format: Box set
  • Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
  • Label: Sony
  • ASIN: B0000029IF
  • Also Available in: Audio Cassette
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #240,636 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc: 1
1. Little Man With a Candy Cigar - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Jo Stafford
2. Haunted Heart
3. If
4. In a Little Spanish Town ('Twas on a Night Like This) - The Pied Pipers, Jo Stafford
5. April and You
6. Where Are You?
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Disc: 2
1. You and Your Love - The Pied Pipers, Jo Stafford
2. As I Love You
3. Teach Me Tonight
4. When April Comes Again
5. St. Louis Blues
6. Good Nite - Vic Damone, Mellomen, Jo Stafford
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Disc: 3
1. All the Things You Are
2. If I Loved You
3. What Is This Thing Called Love? - The Pied Pipers, Jo Stafford
4. Come Rain or Come Shine - The Pied Pipers, Jo Stafford
5. With These Hands - Nelson Eddy, Jo Stafford
6. Use Your Imagination
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Too Marvellous for Words, February 10, 2002
By Nigel Bailey (Deltona Lakes, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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Jo Stafford has been in my Record/CD collection for 50 years. No one can sing as she can, pitch perfect, singing the the songs as WRITTEN, no note bending, and so on. Jo Stafford is the best and no other singer comes close.
I first heard Jo while passing a record store. The door opened and I heard "If". I rushed in and asked who that singer was, from that time I bought every record Jo ever made. Simply the finest singer ever. Now you can get nearly every song Jo recorded, there are a few missing like "Allentown Jail" and "Chantilly Lace" to name two.
I recently played "No other Love" to a friend, who promptly burst into tears, "The most beautiful song I ever heard, and so beautifully sung". Well of course the singer is Jo, and the music Chopin, what a combination!
This boxed set is a good start, a very well chosen set. Buy it, you will not regret it. 70 plus songs all well worth repeated listening, I cannot recomend this highly enough.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Get It If You Can, April 28, 2000
By Marc D. Thomas (Moab, UT United States) - See all my reviews
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It's a crime that this retrospective should be "out of stock" or unavailable. This is the best place to start your collection of recordings by the greatest American female pop singer of all time. I discovered her soothingly beautiful voice by accident, listening to her incredible rendition of "Haunted Heart" featured on the Charlie Haden jazz CD of the same name. Thank goodness, I was able to buy this box set a couple of years later. Only the novelty songs like "Stayin' Alive" and "I Am Woman" (where she purposely sings off-key) wear out their welcomes with repeated listenings. The rest are timeless.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Steller Performance, October 30, 1999
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Jo pulls off another triumph. Although this CD contains a different version (and not as good) version of her most famous hit "You Belong to Me," Jo shows she IS music.Two outstanding tracks are the Blues songs..."Every Night When The Sun Goes In" and "Blues In the Night." It is utterly amazing at how Jo sing with such detachment that it makes the pain coming across in the song all the more real. Talk about a paradox. Joe takes her music seriously. So seriously that in order to do comedy material she literally has to become a new singer. In this case Darlene. It is fantastic that as Darlene Edwards she warbles and off key tune like the BeeGee's "Stayin' Alive" and does it so well. I mean she remains off key throughout the whole song (for those who don't get it, it is supposed to be off key an funny). How does someone with so much talent play someone with so little. It is no doubt Bill Murray stole his lounge singer act from Darlene Edwards. Jo has done it again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars SIMPLY WONDERFUL!!
Smooth, Creamy, Crooning, like Soft Velvet!!

Shamefully, Sony has taken this box out of print. I am not sure what they're thinking. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Gregory E. Foster

5.0 out of 5 stars I am cow hear me moo...
Actually one of the funniest tracks on here is Stafford poking fun at women's lib, and bad singers(Helen Reddy), all at once in "I Am Woman Hear Me Roar," as her alter... Read more
Published on December 29, 2003 by Mad-Cow

5.0 out of 5 stars Must Have For Any Fan
This is a must have for any Jo Stafford Fan. To begin with on one of these CDs (there are three total) there are two songs "Blues In The Night" and "Every Night... Read more
Published on September 21, 2003 by Nick Clark

5.0 out of 5 stars Jo Stafford is an American Treasure!
I'm so happy I bought this retrospective of Jo Stafford's career before it went out of stock! Jo was one of the top singers of the 1940's and 1950's, starting out as one of the... Read more
Published on July 16, 1999

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