Her Greatest Hits (Jo Stafford album)
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Her Greatest Hits is a 2008 compilation album of songs recorded by American artist Jo Stafford
Jo Stafford
Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards and occasional actress whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s...

. This album, released by JSP on January 8, 2008, features over 100 of Stafford's recordings.

Track listing

Disc #1
  1. Crazy Rhythm
  2. Piggy Wiggy Woo
  3. In a Little Spanish Town
  4. What Is This Thing Called Love
  5. What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry
  6. My! My!
  7. Funny Little Pedro
  8. You've Got Me This Way
  9. For You
  10. Yes, Indeed!
  11. Swingin' on Nothin
  12. It Isn't a Dream Anymore
  13. Embraceable You
    Embraceable You
    "Embraceable You" is a popular song, with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The song was originally written in 1928 for an unpublished operetta named East is West. It was eventually published in 1930 and included in the Broadway musical Girl Crazy. where it was performed by...

  14. The Night We Called It a Day
    The Night We Called It a Day (song)
    "The Night We Called It a Day" is a popular song and jazz standard.The music was written by Matt Dennis, the lyrics by Tom Adair. The song was published in 1941....

  15. Blues in the Night
    Blues in the Night
    "Blues in the Night" is a popular song which has become a pop standard and is generally considered to be part of the Great American Songbook. The music was written by Harold Arlen, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer, for a 1941 film begun with the working title Hot Nocturne, but finally released as Blues...

  16. Manhattan Serenade
    Manhattan Serenade
    "Manhattan Serenade" was composed by Louis Alter in 1928, with lyrics added years later by Harold Adamson. It was a hit record for swing era bandleaders Harry James and Tommy Dorsey .-Films:...

  17. Snooty Little Cutie
  18. Old Acquaintance
  19. Pistol Packin' Mama
  20. Jamboree Jones
  21. Long Ago (and Far Away)
    Long Ago (and Far Away)
    "Long Ago " is a popular song from the 1944 Technicolor film musical Cover Girl starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly and released by Columbia Pictures. The music was written by Jerome Kern, and the lyrics were written by Ira Gershwin...

  22. Mairzy Doats
    Mairzy Doats
    Mairzy Doats is a novelty song composed in 1943 by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston. It was first played on radio station WOR, New York, by Al Trace and his Silly Symphonists. The song made the pop charts several times, with a version by the Merry Macs reaching No. 1 in March 1944...

  23. The Trolley Song
    The Trolley Song
    "The Trolley Song" is a song written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane and made famous by Judy Garland in the 1944 film Meet Me in St. Louis...

  24. Tumbling Tumbleweeds
    Tumbling Tumbleweeds
    "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" is a song composed by Bob Nolan, one of the founding members of the Sons of the Pioneers. Although one of the most famous songs associated with cowboys, the song was composed by Nolan back in the 1930s while he was working as a caddy and living in Los Angeles...

  25. Converstation While Dancing


Disc #2
  1. Blue Moon
    Blue Moon (song)
    "Blue Moon"'s first crossover recording to rock and roll came from Elvis Presley in 1956. His cover version of the song was included on his self-titled debut album Elvis Presley....

  2. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
  3. Bakery Blues
  4. Carry Me Back to Old Virginia
    Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
    "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" is a song which was written by James A. Bland , an African American minstrel who wrote over 700 folk songs...

  5. I'll Be Seeing You
    I'll Be Seeing You (song)
    "I'll Be Seeing You" is a popular song, with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Irving Kahal. Published in 1938, the song was inserted into the Broadway musical Right This Way, which closed after fifteen performances. The song is a jazz standard, and has been covered by countless musicians.The...

  6. Alone Together
  7. When Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
  8. 3 Gee, It's Good to Hold You
  9. Haunted Heart
  10. Tallahassee
  11. Georgia on My Mind
    Georgia on My Mind
    "Georgia on My Mind" is a song written in 1930 by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell . It is the official state song of the U.S. state of Georgia. Gorrell wrote the lyrics for Hoagy's sister, Georgia Carmichael. However, the lyrics of the song are ambiguous enough to refer either to the state or...

  12. I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time
  13. Smilin' Through
  14. Smoke Dreams
  15. Tim-Tayshun
  16. Prisoner of Love Song
  17. Passing By
  18. Feudin' and A-Fightin
  19. Serenade of the Bells
    Serenade of the Bells
    "Serenade of the Bells" is a popular song written by Kay Twomey, Al Goodhart, and Al Urbano and published in 1947.The recording by the Sammy Kaye Orchestra was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-2372...

  20. The Gentleman Is a Dope
  21. He's Gone Away
  22. Autumn in New York
    Autumn in New York (song)
    "Autumn in New York" is a jazz standard composed by Vernon Duke in 1934 for the Broadway musical Thumbs Up! which opened on December 27, 1934, performed by J. Harold Murray...

  23. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
    Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
    "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" is a show tune written by American composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harbach for their 1933 operetta Roberta. It was originally recorded by Gertrude Niesen, on 13 October 1933 on the Victor label 24454. It was performed by Irene Dunne for the 1935 film adaptation,...

  24. Say Something Sweet to Your Sweetheart
  25. Girls Were Made to Take Care of Boys
  26. Tea for Two
    Tea for Two (song)
    "Tea for Two" is a song from the 1925 musical No, No, Nanette with music by Vincent Youmans and lyrics by Irving Caesar. It is a duet sung by Nanette and Tom in Act II as they imagine their future.-Analysis:...



Disc #3
  1. Smiles
  2. Whispering Hope
  3. Simple Melody
  4. Goodnight Irene
  5. Autumn Leaves
    Autumn Leaves (song)
    "Autumn Leaves" is a much-recorded popular song. Originally it was a 1945 French song "Les Feuilles mortes" with music by Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet Jacques Prévert. Yves Montand introduced "Les feuilles mortes" in 1946 in the film Les Portes de la Nuit...

  6. La Vie en Rose
    La vie en rose
    "La Vie en Rose" was the signature song of French singer Édith Piaf.-Signature song of Édith Piaf:Édith Piaf first popularized La Vie en Rose in 1946. The lyrics were written by Piaf and the melody of the song by "Louiguy" . Initially, Piaf's peers and her songwriting team did not think the song...

  7. No Other Love
    No Other Love (1950 song)
    "No Other Love" is a popular song.The words were written by Bob Russell. The music is credited to Paul Weston but is actually derived from Frédéric Chopin's Étude No. 3 in E, Op. 10...

  8. The Handsome Stranger
  9. A Friend of Johnny's
  10. It is No Secret
    It is No Secret
    It Is No Secret is a Southern Gospel song composed by Stuart Carl Hamblen in the 1950s.A version was also recorded by Jo Stafford for her 1954 album Garden of Prayer.- The Elvis Presley version :...

  11. Tennessee Waltz
    The Tennessee Waltz
    "Tennessee Waltz" is a popular/country music song with lyrics by Redd Stewart and music by Pee Wee King written in 1946 and first released in December 1947 as a single by Cowboy Copas that same year...

  12. My Heart Cries for You
    My Heart Cries for You
    "My Heart Cries for You" is a popular song, adapted by Carl Sigman and Percy Faith from an 18th century French melody.The music is from an old French song attributed to Marie Antoinette " La jardinière du Roi"...

  13. San Antonio Rose
  14. With These Hands
    With These Hands
    With These Hands is a 1950 documentary film directed by Jack Arnold. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Produced by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, the film used actors to recreate the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and compare working conditions...

  15. Pretty Eyed Baby
  16. Allentown Jail
    Allentown Jail
    "Allentown Jail" is a folk song. Written by Irving Gordon, it tells the story of a man who is caught stealing a diamond for his girlfriend and ends up in the Allentown jail....

  17. Star of Hope
  18. Shrimp Boats
    Shrimp Boats
    "Shrimp Boats" was a popular song in the 1950s.It was written by Paul Mason Howard and Paul Weston and published in 1951.Charting versions were recorded by Jo Stafford and Dolores Gray. It was also recorded by Claude Gray in 1963, and by Pete Fountain, Abdullah Ibrahim, The Orioles, and Buddy Tate...

  19. Kissin' Bug Boogie
  20. Heaven Drops Her Curtain Down
  21. There's a Small Hotel
    There's a Small Hotel
    "There's a Small Hotel" is a 1936 popular song composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Lorenz Hart originally written for but dropped from the musical "Billy Rose's Jumbo" , then used in On Your Toes , where it was introduced by Ray Bolger and Doris Carson and also interpolated in the film...

  22. A-Round the Corner
  23. As You Desire Me
  24. Hawaiian War Chant
    Hawaiian War Chant
    "Hawaiian War Chant" was an American popular song whose original melody and lyrics were written in the 1860s by Prince Leleiohoku. The original title of the song was Kaua I Ka Huahua`i or "We Two in the Spray." It was not written as a chant, and the Hawaiian lyrics describe a clandestine meeting...

  25. Raminay!
  26. You Belong to Me
    You Belong to Me (1952 song)
    "You Belong to Me" is a pop music ballad from the 1950s. The singer reminds his/her lover that, whatever exotic locales and sights he/she experiences, "you belong to me." It is credited to three writers: Pee Wee King, Chilton Price, and Redd Stewart...

  27. Early Autumn
    Early Autumn (song)
    "Early Autumn" is a song composed by Ralph Burns and Woody Herman with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was a hit for Woody Herman in the year it was written.-Notable recordings:...

  28. Jambalaya
    Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
    "Jambalaya " is the title of a song written and recorded by American country music singer Hank Williams that was first released in July 1952...

  29. Without My Lover


Disc #4
  1. Smoking My Sad Cigarette
  2. If I Were a Bell
    If I Were a Bell
    "If I Were a Bell" is a song composed by Frank Loesser for his 1950 musical Guys and Dolls.-Guys and Dolls:In the show Guys and Dolls, it is sung by the character Sister Sarah, originally performed by Isabel Bigley on Broadway, and memorialized on the original cast album. On a bet, Sky Masterson...

  3. Just Another Polka
  4. Basin Street Blues
    Basin Street Blues
    "Basin Street Blues" is a song often performed by Dixieland jazz bands, written by Spencer Williams. The song was published in 1926 and made famous in a recording by Louis Armstrong in 1928...

  5. Make Love to Me
    Make Love to Me
    - Mann/Weiss/Gannon song :With music by Paul Mann and Stephan Weiss, and lyrics by Kim Gannon, it was recorded in 1942 by Helen Forrest with the Harry James Orchestra...

  6. Indiscretion
  7. One Love Forever
  8. The Temple of an Understand Heart
  9. Teach Me Tonight
    Teach Me Tonight
    "Teach Me Tonight" is a popular song. The music was written by Gene De Paul, the lyrics by Sammy Cahn. The song was published in 1953.Cahn wrote a new verse for Frank Sinatra's 1984 recording on L.A...

  10. Darling, Darling, Darling
  11. I Only Have Eyes for You
    I Only Have Eyes for You
    "I Only Have Eyes for You" is a popular song by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Al Dubin, written in 1934 for the film Dames where it was introduced by Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler....

  12. I Got a Sweetie
  13. Suddenly There's a Valley
    Suddenly There's a Valley
    "Suddenly There's a Valley" is a popular song written by Chuck Meyer and Biff Jones and published in 1955.The song was a major hit for Gogi Grant in 1955. Her recording was issued by Era Records as catalog number 1003 and reached Billboard magazine's Top 10...

  14. The Nearness of You
    The Nearness of You
    "The Nearness of You" is a popular song, written in 1938 by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics by Ned Washington.The biggest selling 1938 version was recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, with a vocal by Ray Eberle...

  15. Moonlight in Vermont
    Moonlight in Vermont (song)
    "Moonlight in Vermont" is a popular song about the U.S. state of Vermont, written by John Blackburn and Karl Suessdorf and published in 1943. The lyrics are unusual in that they do not rhyme...

  16. Big D
    Big D (song)
    "Big D" is a song about Dallas, Texas written by Frank Loesser in 1956 for the musical The Most Happy Fella. It repeatedly spells out the name of Dallas with the refrain: Big D, little A, double L, A, S....

  17. Warm All Over
  18. Wouldn't It Be Lovely
  19. With a Little Bit of Luck
    With a Little Bit of Luck
    "With a Little Bit of Luck" is a popular song by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, written for the 1956 Broadway play My Fair Lady.It was sung by Stanley Holloway in both the original stage and film versions....

  20. Flow Gently Sweet Afton
  21. Annie Laurie
    Annie Laurie
    Annie Laurie is an old Scottish song based on poem by William Douglas of Dumfries and Galloway. The words were modified and the tune was added by Alicia Scott in 1834/5. The song is also known as Maxwelton Braes.-William Douglas:...

  22. The Gypsy in My Soul
    The Gypsy in My Soul
    "The Gypsy in My Soul" is a popular song written for the 50th anniversary of the University of Pennsylvania Mask and Wig show in 1937 by two Penn graduates, Clay Boland and Moe Jaffe. Boland wrote the music and Jaffe the lyrics...

  23. But Not for Me
    But Not for Me (song)
    "But Not for Me" is a popular song, composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin.It was written for their musical Girl Crazy and introduced in the original production by Ginger Rogers. It is also in the 1992 musical based on Girl Crazy, Crazy for You...

  24. Bells Are Ringing
  25. On London Bridge
  26. The King of Paris
  27. Black out the Moon
  28. St. Louis Blues#
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