Jo's Greatest Hits

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Jo's Greatest Hits
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Compilation album by
Jo Stafford
Released1958
Label Columbia
Jo Stafford chronology
Swingin' Down Broadway
(1958)
Jo's Greatest Hits
(1958)
Ballad of the Blues
(1959)
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Jo's Greatest Hits is an album by Jo Stafford, released in 1958 by Columbia Records and featuring, as the name implies, a compilation of the singer's greatest hits.

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Jambalaya" (#3, 1957 [2] )
  2. "Keep It a Secret" (#4, 1952)
  3. "Teach Me Tonight" (#15, 1954)
  4. "It Is No Secret" (#15, 1951)
  5. "Hawaiian War Chant" (1951)
  6. "Tennessee Waltz" (#7, 1951)
Side two
  1. "You Belong to Me" (#1, 1952)
  2. "Make Love to Me!" (#1, 1954)
  3. "Shrimp Boats" (#2, 1951)
  4. "Stardust" (1950)
  5. "If" (#8, 1951)
  6. "If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time" (#14, 1950)

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