Jo Stafford

Do any of you guys remember the singer Jo Stafford. She was "the cat's meow!" singing pop songs from the late 1930s through the mid-195os. She was especially popular with G.I.s, and their girlfriends back home, during World War II when she was singing in a group called the Pied Pipers with the Tommy Dorsey band, then with the "new" singer Frank Sinatra, and finally as a soloist.

Jo's biggest hit was "You Belong to Me" ("See the pyramids along the Nile/Watch the sunrise on a tropic isle/Just remember darlin' all the while/You belong to me"). Others, especially during the 1940s, were the standard romantic ballads such as “I’ll Be Seeing You,” “Haunted Heart,” “All the Things You Are,” and “The Nearness of You.”

She was memorable. The old gal passed away yesterday at age 90. She was born in 1917, the same year as another lady, long gone, who was near and dear to many of us during her lifetime.