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Jo Stafford

Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917 – July 16, 2008) 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.

Born in Coalinga, California, Stafford made her first musical appearance at age twelve. While still at high school she joined her two older sisters to form a vocal trio named The Stafford Sisters, who enjoyed moderate success on radio and in film. In 1938, while the sisters were part of the cast of Twentieth Century Fox's production of Alexander's Ragtime Band, Stafford met the future members of The Pied Pipers and became the group's lead singer. Bandleader Tommy Dorsey hired them in 1939 to perform back-up vocals for his orchestra.

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Smilin' Through

Smilin' Through may refer to:

  • "Smilin' Through" (song), a popular 1919 ballad
  • Smilin' Through (play), a 1919 Broadway play, partially rewritten to go with the song's lyrics
  • Smilin' Through (1922 film), an adaptation of the play, starring Norma Talmadge
  • Smilin' Through (1932 film), another play adaptation, featuring Norma Shearer and Fredric March
  • Smilin' Through (1941 film), another adaptation, with Jeanette MacDonald and Brian Aherne
  • Smilin' Through, a 1982 album by Cleo Laine and Dudley Moore
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    Smilin' Through (song)

    "Smilin' Through" is a popular ballad with lyrics and music by Arthur A. Penn.

    History

    The song "Smilin' Through" was first published in 1919 by M. Witmark and Sons. It was recorded by many singers, including John McCormack, Eleanor Steber, Reinald Werrenrath, Nelson Eddy, and Judy Garland, and remained a popular standard for decades.

    Penn's song was also closely associated with the 1919 play Smilin' Through by Jane Cowl. The creation of the song and that of the play were independent but intertwined. According to Isidore Witmark in his history of the Witmark and Sons publishing house, Cowl's play was partially rewritten after the song was published, based upon the imagery of the lyrics. Both the title and music of the song were incorporated into the play when it was completed and produced on Broadway in December, 1919.

    The melody was also used to accompany the 1922 silent film. The soundtracks for both the 1932 and 1941 MGM films of Smilin' Through feature the song as well. It forms the title music for both films and Jeanette MacDonald sings it in the latter film. Norma Shearer's character sings the song in the 1932 film, dubbed by singer Georgia Stark.

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    Smilin' Through (1932 film)

    Smilin' Through is a 1932 American Pre-Code MGM film based on the play by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin, also named Smilin' Through.

    The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for 1932. It was adapted from Cowl and Murfin's play by James Bernard Fagan, Donald Ogden Stewart, Ernest Vajda and Claudine West. The movie was directed by Sidney Franklin (who also directed an earlier version in 1922) and starred Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Leslie Howard and Ralph Forbes.

    Synopsis

    John Carteret (Leslie Howard) is a wealthy man with a huge estate. He was set to marry Moonyeen Clare (Norma Shearer), but on their wedding day she was accidentally killed during the wedding ceremony by her drunken and jealous ex-fiance Jeremy Wayne (Fredric March), who actually meant to kill John. John has spent the rest of his life in mourning. However, Moonyeen has kept in touch with him from the next life. He runs the estate, and has a private retreat where he communicates with her spirit.

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    List of Major League Baseball players with unidentified given names

    Forty-one individuals who played professional baseball at the major league level lack identified given names. Identification of players remains difficult due to a lack of information; a Brooklyn, New York directory, for instance, lists more than 30 men that could be the professional player "Stoddard". Possible mistakes in reading box scores from the 19th century could have also led to players without given names: "Eland", for example, could be another player from the Baltimore Marylands roster whose name was simply misread. Four of the 41, McBride, Stafford, Sterling, and Sweigert, were local players added to the Philadelphia Athletics team by manager Bill Sharsig for Philadelphia's last game of the season against the Syracuse Stars on October 12, 1890. Sterling pitched five innings for the Athletics and conceded 12 runs. McBride, Philadelphia's center fielder, and Stafford, the team's right fielder, both failed to reach base, but left fielder Sweigert reached base on a walk and stole a base. Society for American Baseball Research writer Bill Carle "doubt[s] we will ever be able to identify them".

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    HM Prison Stafford

    HM Prison Stafford is a Category C men's prison, located in Stafford, Staffordshire, England. The prison is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service.

    History

    Stafford Prison was built on its current site in 1793, and has been in almost continuous use, save a period between 1916 and 1939. It held Irish Internees taken by the British after the 1916 Easter Rising from May. They were released Christmas 1916.

    Among its earlier prisoners was George Smith who served several sentences for theft there but began his later work as a hangman while a prisoner, assisting William Calcraft. He officiated at several executions in the prison later in his life, notably that of poisoner William Palmer in 1866.

    In November 1998, an inspection report from Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons heavily criticised security at Stafford Prison, after it emerged that inmates were being supplied with drugs flown in on paper planes. Inmates were fashioning strips of paper into planes, then attaching lines to them and flying them over the 19-foot (5.8-metre) perimeter wall. The lines were then used to pull packages containing drugs and other banned substances back over the wall. The prison was also criticised for being overcrowded, under-resourced, and failing to prepare prisoners for release.

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    Stafford (UK Parliament constituency)

    Stafford is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Jeremy Lefroy, a Conservative.

    History

    Stafford, as a parliamentary borough, first existed between the Model Parliament in 1295 and 1950.

    The current constituency was created for the 1983 general election.

    The town was represented in Parliament by leading playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan at the end of the 18th century.

    Taken together with the Stafford and Stone seat which existed during the 33-year gap mentioned above, since 1910 when the last Liberal served the seat, the Conservative party has had five members and the Labour party two (this total includes the present member). In summary:

  • Labour saw a bellwether result in their 1945 landslide victory, but a Conservative regained the seat at the next election in 1950 in the successor seat which he held until his death in 1984.
  • Effects from the creation of the Stone constituency in 1997 made Stafford somewhat more marginal: sitting Stafford MP Bill Cash followed some of his electors into the Stone constituency, which he won, and after a 47-year lack of a member, Labour's David Kidney gained the constituency in his party's landslide victory in 1997.
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    Jo Stafford

    ALBUMS

    108 Classic Sides From a Great American Hitmaker

    Released 2007

    Candy

    Released 2005

    The Joyful Season

    Released 2005

    Alone & Together

    Released 2005

    Meet Jo Stafford

    Released 2003

    Ballad of the Blues

    Released 2003

    The Ultimate Jo Stafford

    Released 2002

    Yes Indeed!

    Released 2001

    Jo Stafford on Capitol

    Released 2001

    Just Reminiscin

    Released 2001

    Best of the War Years (V-disc)

    Released 2001

    The Big Band Sound

    Released 1996

    Spotlight on Jo Stafford (Great Ladies of Song)

    Released 1995

    Ski Trails

    Released 1956

    My Heart's in the Highlands

    Released 1956

    American Folk Songs

    Released 1950

    Smoke Dreams

    Jo + Jazz

    G.I. Jo Sings the Hits

    The One and Only Jo Stafford

    Jo Stafford's Greatest Hits and Finest Performances (disc Three)

    Fabulous Song Stylists

    The Portrait Edition

    G.I. Joe: Jo Stafford Sings Songs of World War II

    The Duets

    Jo Staffords Greatest Hits

    You Belong to Me

    The Columbia Hits Collection

    Happy Holidays: I Love the Winter Weather

    Drifting and Dreaming

    You Belong to Me

    Jo Stafford Capitol Collectors Series

    Best

    The Old Rugged Cross

    Born: 1917-11-12

    Died: 2008-07-16

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    Make Love To Me

    by: Jo Stafford

    (Ba-ba-ba-boom)
    (Ba-ba-ba-boom)
    (Ba-ba-boom)
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    Take me in your arms and never let me go
    (Ba-ba-ba-boom)
    Whisper to me softly while the moon is low
    (Ba-ba-ba-boom)
    Hold me close and tell me what I wanna know
    (Ba-ba-ba-boom)
    Say it to me gently, let the sweet talk flow
    Come a little closer, make love to me
    (Ba-ba-ba-boom)
    Kiss me once again before we say good night
    (Ba-ba-ba-boom)
    Take me in your lovin' arms and squeeze me tight
    (Ba-ba-ba-boom)
    Put me in a mood so I can dream all night
    (Ba-ba-ba-boom)
    Everybody's sleepin' so it's quite all right
    Come a little closer, make love to me
    When you're near, so help me, dear
    Chills run up my spine
    Don't you know I love you so
    I won't be happy till you're mine
    (Ba-ba-ba-boom)
    When I'm in your arms you give my heart a treat
    (Ba-ba-ba-boom)
    Everything about you is so doggone sweet
    (Ba-ba-ba-boom)
    Ev'ry time we kiss you make my life complete
    (Ba-ba-ba-boom)
    Baby doll, you know ya swept me off my feet
    Now's the time to tell you
    Make love to me
    [Instrumental Interlude]
    I won't be happy till you're mine
    (Ba-ba-ba-boom)
    When I'm in your arms you give my heart a treat
    (Ba-ba-ba-boom)
    Everything about you is so doggone sweet
    (Ba-ba-ba-boom)
    Ev'ry time we kiss you make my life complete
    (Ba-ba-ba-boom)
    Baby doll, you know ya swept me off my feet
    Now's the time to tell you
    Make love to me




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