Jo Stafford, 90, recorded with Nelson Eddy in 1951, listen to mp3s here!

Jo Stafford

Singer Jo Stafford passed away on July 16, 2008.

As a young girl, she wanted to be an opera singer but during the Depression years, she sang with her sisters in a pop group – “The Stafford Sisters.” She later sang with The Pied Pipers. Song of the stars she worked with included Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra, Frankie Lane, Johnny Mercer, Gordon MacRae and – Nelson Eddy!

On February 12, 1951, Nelson Eddy and Jo Stafford recorded “I Love You Truly.”

On February 23, 1951, they recorded three more songs: “Till We Meet Again,” “With These Hands,” and “When I Grow Too Old to Dream.”

Click on the links of the February 23 recordings to listen to or download mp3s of these songs.