Capitol Collectors Series (Jo Stafford album)

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Capitol Collectors Series
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Compilation album by Jo Stafford
Released March 18, 1991
Genre Traditional pop
Label Capitol

Capitol Collectors Series is a compilation album of songs by Jo Stafford. It was released on the Capitol Records label on March 18, 1991, and is a collection of her best known hits during the 1940s.

Jo Stafford American singer

Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American traditional pop music singer and occasional actress, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice, she originally underwent classical training to become an opera singer before following a career in popular music, and by 1955 had achieved more worldwide record sales than any other female artist. Her 1952 song "You Belong to Me" topped the charts in the United States and United Kingdom, the record becoming the first by a female artist to reach number one on the U.K. Singles Chart.

Capitol Records American record label

Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint. It was founded as the first West Coast-based record label in the United States in 1942 by Johnny Mercer, Buddy DeSylva, and Glenn E. Wallichs. Capitol was acquired by British music conglomerate EMI as its North American subsidiary in 1955. EMI was acquired by Universal Music Group in 2012 and was merged with the company a year later, making Capitol and the Capitol Music Group both a part of UMG. The label's circular headquarter building in Hollywood is a recognized landmark of California.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Old Acquaintance"
  2. "How Sweet You Are"
  3. "Long Ago (And Far Away)"
  4. "I Love You"
  5. "It Could Happen to You"
  6. "The Trolley Song"
  7. "There's No You"
  8. "That's for Me"
  9. "Symphony"
  10. "Ridin' on the Gravy Train"
  11. "This Is Always"
  12. "The Things We Did Last Summer"
  13. "Smoke Dreams"
  14. "Temptation [Tim-Tayshun]" (with Red Ingle)
  15. "I'm So Right Tonight"
  16. "Serenade of the Bells"
  17. "I Never Loved Anyone"
  18. "He's Gone Away"
  19. "Congratulations"
  20. "Once and for Always"
  21. "Some Enchanted Evening"
  22. "Whispering Hope" (with Gordon MacRae)
  23. "Ragtime Cowboy Joe"
  24. "Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair)"
  25. "It's Great to Be Alive" (with Johnny Mercer)
  26. "No Other Love"

Reception

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic calls the album "an exquisite collection of Stafford's most memorable love songs from the '40s". [1]

Stephen Thomas Erlewine American music journalist

Stephen Thomas Erlewine is an American music critic and senior editor for the online music database AllMusic. He is the author of many artist biographies and record reviews for AllMusic, as well as a freelance writer, occasionally contributing liner notes.

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References

  1. 1 2 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Jo Stafford: Capitol Collectors Series > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 24 July 2011.