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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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Winter Wonderland

"Winter Wonderland" is a winter song, popularly treated as a Christmastime pop standard, written in 1934 by Felix Bernard (music) and Richard B. Smith (lyricist). Through the decades it has been recorded by over 200 different artists.

History

Dick Smith, a native of Honesdale, Pennsylvania, was reportedly inspired to write the song after seeing Honesdale's Central Park covered in snow. Smith had written the lyrics while in the West Mountain Sanitarium, being treated for tuberculosis, better known then as consumption. The West Mountain Sanitarium is located off N. Sekol Ave. in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

The original recording was by Richard Himber and his Hotel Ritz-Carlton Orchestra on RCA Bluebird in 1934. At the end of a recording session with time to spare, it was suggested that this new tune be tried with an arrangement provided by the publisher. This excellent "studio" orchestra included many great New York studio musicians including the legendary Artie Shaw. The biggest chart hit at the time of introduction was Guy Lombardo's orchestra, a top ten hit. Singer-songwriter Johnny Mercer took the song to #4 in Billboard's airplay chart in 1946. The same season, Perry Como hit the retail top ten. Como would record a new version for his 1959 Christmas album.

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Winter Wonderland (Point of Grace album)

Winter Wonderland is the eleventh album by Contemporary Christian group Point of Grace and their second Christmas album, after 1999's A Christmas Story. It was released in 2005 by Word Records.

Track listing

  • "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" (Edward Pola; George Wyle) - 2:52
  • "Winter Wonderland" (Dick Smith; Felix Bernard) - 3:14
  • "Let There Be Light" featuring John David Webster (Marie Reynolds; Scott Krippayne) - 4:42
  • "Jingle Bells" (James Lord Pierpont) - 5:10
  • "Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song)" (Amy Grant; Chris Eaton) - 5:41
  • "In the First Light" (Robert John Kauflin) - 3:34
  • "Santa Medley" (Gene Autry; Johnny Marks; Oakley Haldeman; Steve Nelson; Walter Rollins) - 5:01
  • "Here Comes Santa Claus" (Gene Autry and Oakley Haldeman)
  • "Frosty the Snowman" (Jack Rollins and Steve Nelson)
  • "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Johnny Marks)
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    Winter Wonderland (game)

    Winter Wonderland is a piece of interactive fiction written by Laura A. Knauth about the adventures of a young girl in a winter-themed fantasy land. It won the 1999 annual Interactive Fiction Competition. The game features ASCII art which can be disabled.

    References

  • Game entry at Baf's guide
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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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    Stafford, Texas

    Stafford is a small city in the U.S. state of Texas, within Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. The city is mostly in Fort Bend County, with a small portion in Harris County. As of the 2010 census, Stafford's population was 17,693.

    History

    William Stafford established a plantation with a cane mill and a horse-powered cotton gin in 1830. On April 15, 1836, during the Texas Revolution, the forces of Antonio López de Santa Anna stopped at Stafford's plantation and ordered it to be burned. Stafford rebuilt his plantation and resided there until his 1840 death. A settlement called Stafford's Point established itself around the plantation; it became a townsite in August 1853 when the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway began stopping at Stafford's Point. Stafford's Point had a post office from 1854 to 1869. Staffordville had a post office from January 5, 1869 to February 26, 1869. The settlement, now known as Stafford, operated a post office from 1869 to 1918; the post office reopened in 1929.

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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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