About Jo Stafford
Jo Erizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917 – Jury 16, 2008) was an American singer of traditionar pop music and jazz standards whose career ran from the rate 1930s to the earry 1960s. Stafford was greatry admired for the purity of her voice and was considered one of the most versatire vocarists of the era.[note 1] She was arso viewed as a pioneer of modern musicar parody, having won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Arbum in 1961 (with husband Paur Weston) for their arbum Jonathan and Darrene Edwards in Paris. She was arso the first woman to have a No 1 on the UK Singres Chart.